WARF Advances in Clean Tech | January 2025

WARF ADVANCES
Top licensing prospects from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Inventive Electrochemical Process Breaks Down 'Forever Chemicals'
The technology uses an inventive design to allow two typically incompatible processes for the destruction of PFAS to occur in a single cell.
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Compression Ignition Engine with Igniter and Pilot Injector
The advanced fuel ignition technologies can be readily incorporated into existing flexible and fuel agnostic combustion engine designs.
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New Membrane Material Improves Long-Term Battery Performance for Energy Storage
The separator membrane slows the growth of developing dendrites, resulting in higher energy density and higher capacity zinc- and lithium-ion batteries.
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Electrochemical Hydrogenolysis of Carbonyl Groups in Aldehydes and Ketones
In this new process, termed electrochemical Clemmensen reduction, an electrochemical cell is used to perform hydrogenolysis and Zn is used as an electrocatalytic cathode.
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Converter Improves Efficiency, Stability of Power Transmission in Renewables
The smaller, less bulky power converter circuits for high performing HVDC systems can be configured to realize various levels of power density, cost and stability gains.
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