Fuel cells and other types of electrochemical cells often rely on costly platinum cathodes to drive oxygen reduction. A team of UW-Madison researchers recently developed a cost-saving scheme to improv...
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Fuel cells hold promise for flexible, highly efficient power generation with low emissions. Two of the major issues hindering widespread adoption of fuel cells are the reliance on costly platinum cath...
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UW Madison researchers have designed a novel permanent magnet arrangement which can divert the magnetic field lines away from hot magnetically confined plasmas in open geometries such as mirrors and c...
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Wildfires occur naturally in many ecosystems worldwide; however, the frequency of wildfires has increased in recent years. The United States National Interagency Fire Center reports that the total bur...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new method for recovering NH4+ or K+ ions from manure wastewater. The method includes contacting a manure wastewater stream containing organic matter and salts ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method to synthesize a series of flavoring agents (a group of hexanoate esters) which possess odors such as fruity, grape, burnt wood, hay, pineapple, cranberry...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a technique for addressing the issue of crossover in flow batteries by dissolving water soluble Zwitterionic trapper molecules (ZITs) in the electrolyte with the ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a class of extremely robust yet inexpensive ion exchange membranes based on glassy organic frameworks. These membranes have shown promising performance for redox ...
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With recent increases in electricity prices and concerns about the climactic effect of burning fossil fuels, there is an increased interest in increasing nuclear power generation.
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an apparatus for transmutation of minor actinides using neutrons from an axisymmetric mirror fusion system. The separate neutron source allows simplified subcriti...
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The need for corrosion-resistant materials is present throughout automotive, aerospace, and electronics manufacturing as well as many other metal and polymer manufacturing industries. Electrodepositio...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new process, termed electrochemical Clemmensen reduction, in which an electrochemical cell is used to perform hydrogenolysis and Zn is used as an electrocatalyt...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed advanced fuel ignition technologies for use in flexible and fuel agnostic combustion engines. The technology employs a secondary "pilot" injector direct...
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In the U.S., coal plants produce around 50 million tons of waste each year that is rich in calcium, magnesium and other elements but is landfilled at a cost of $3-35/ton. Similarly, an estimated two b...
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The present invention from UW-Madison innovators is a CRISPRi system for studying the genetics of Z. mobilis and lac-regulated synthetic Z. mobilis promoters that are used in the CRISPRi system but al...
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UW researchers have identified a genetic mutation in a family of genes that removes a repressor of the shikimate pathway. Their work identified the suppressor of tyra2 (sota) as a target to deregulate...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an electrochemical system that can not only selectively remove phosphate from a phosphate containing solution but also recover it as H3PO4 without needing additio...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a flow reactor for lignin valorization. The flow-based reactor increases monomer production while limiting unwanted side/subsequent reactions. In particular, mate...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a process to recover the components of printed multilayer plastic films. As an example, a film composed of polyethylene (PE), ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH), and p...
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Recent global estimates project that over 125 million tons of dairy products are wasted or discarded due to spoilage each year. Roughly half of this waste occurs before the products even reach the con...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain capable of efficient fermentation of xylose to ethanol. The engineered yeast they developed builds upon a previously...
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The inventor discloses a new method and system for reductive electrochemical synthesis that uses H2 as the terminal reductant. Essentially, this invention will enable H2-integrated anodes and flow-rea...
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UW Madison researchers have developed an improved method for the electrochemical reductive coupling of lignin derived monomers (e.g., 4-carboxylic acid phenols) in the presence of Ni or Ni/Pd catalysi...
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UW-Madison researchers disclose a new method for recycling (upcycling) plastics that addresses the shortcomings of pyrolysis. In the first step, the feedstock (e.g., polymer, long-chained alkane, etc...
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The inventors have identified new interstitial oxygen diffusers. Included in this discovery is the identification of classes of materials that enable substitution of elements to yield related material...
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