Materials/Manufacturing

Celadyne Ramps Up Membrane Technology with Investor Backing 

Celadyne Technologies has been awarded $1 million for further development of high-performing membranes for fuel cells and electrolyzers. From the DOE’s Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office and coordinated by its new Critical Materials Collaborative, the grant was announced December 10. It is part of a package of 14 awards spanning an assortment of areas including rare earths recycling, hydrogen fuel cells, magnetic technologies and materials processing to improve America’s domestic supply chain of critical materials. […]

Electromagnetics

National Fusion Facility Achieves Milestone 

The DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, home of the largest magnetic fusion research machine in the U.S., recently surpassed its 200,000th experimental cycle since it began operations, marking an important milestone in the development of clean fusion energy. Referred to as “shots,” each of these tests and discharges have advanced the U.S. fusion research program’s collective understanding of how to create, shape, and confine plasmas to support the development of fusion as a source of base-load energy in the future.  […]