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TechAdvance, an early-stage technology development fund, provides grants of up to $100,000 to advance Rutgers research projects toward commercialization. Recently, Rutgers inventors G. Charles Dismukes; Martha Greenblatt; Anders Laursen; Karin Calvinho were awarded for their project "A New Catalyst for Generation of Carbon Feedstocks & Fuels from Carbon Dioxide".

Summary: This project focuses on transition metal phosphide catalysts used to selectively generate valuable hydrocarbons for fuel or chemical feedstocks for production from CO₂. Using renewable electricity for power, the process can be fully sustainable and a carbon neutral technology.

Market Applications:

• Renewable feedstocks and fuels
• Methane and ethylene production for the chemical industry
• CO₂ gas to solids via polymeric [CH₂O]n (3>n>100), CO₂ emissions recycling/mitigation, electrical energy storage;