The 2025 MIT Japan Conference will explore future research trends at MIT, highlighting breakthroughs in key areas such as Soft Materials and Mechanics, Biomedical Innovation, and the impact of Generative AI (GAI) on the Work of the Future. Additional sessions will focus on Quantum and Silicon Photonics, Nanotechnology in materials and additive manufacturing, and the latest Machine Learning and AI tools for chemical discovery. Advances in semiconductor technology, hydrogen innovation, and electrochemistry, as well as thermofluidic interfaces, will also be featured.
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Evonik would like to explore potential collaborations with startups working on new approaches and technologies that can help address innovation challenges in the specialty chemical industry. The selected startups will be invited to present to their executive team in-person on Thursday, June 29.
Turning CO2 into Carbon-Neutral Industrial Chemicals Evan Haas, Co-Founder & CEO, Helix Carbon Helix Carbon: https://helixcarbon.co/
Helix Carbon is decarbonizing heavy industry by transforming emitted CO2 into carbon-neutral fuels & chemicals including CO, ethylene, and syngas. Born from MIT innovations, these electrochemical systems use inexpensive catalysts with high stability to convert flue gas directly into these cost-competitive carbon feedstocks. Helix builds drop-in electrolyzers that integrate with existing direct reduced iron & petrochemical facilities to upcycle CO2 emissions into chemical feedstocks, enabling green steel, polycarbonate, polyurethane, and more.
Here at MIT, sustainability can mean many things. New materials for everything from electronics to infrastructure which are both functional and kind to the environment. “Green” government and corporate policies which regulate energy and greenhouse gas production. Innovative urban planning for a city of the future which is efficient, but also accessible and abundant. Whether stated in economic, environmental, social, or technological terms, sustainability is the capacity to endure – to consume, grow, and thrive – but not to be consumed and perish in the process. Join us for 2022 MIT Sustainability Conference: Technologies and Industry which explores how MIT and its community of researchers and corporate members are leading the way in sustainability research.
Early-stage backers of Rivian, JIMCO seeks MIT spin-off startups that are initiating or improving commercialization efforts across multiple industries - eg. energy, water, mobility.
How can P&G enable consumers to do radically more with radically less water and energy use? How can we make invisible use of water & energy visible, right at the point of use? How might we particularly address the triangle of tension that exists between improving sanitization, reducing water & energy, whilst keeping the feeling of abundance of using water?. From incremental evolution to product innovation, easy-retrofit water-infrastructure changes (taps, faucets, showerheads, etc.) and water appliances that aim at both reducing (hot) water and re-using/purifying/enriching (hot) water, we want to partner!