Hea-tech catalyst is leading a new ARPA-E OPEN 2021 project with the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University to create scalable manufacturing processes of high-entropy alloy catalysts (HEA) for ammonia oxidation with enhanced catalytic activity, selectivity and stability.
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The catalysts can potentially reduce the use of precious metals, enhance energy efficiency, and improve the economic and environmental impact of chemical industries.
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7/2021, Nature
The Spinoff Prize 2021, a Nature Research Award has been awarded to Hea-tech catalysts for its next-generation discovery platform to address an important technical bottleneck in industrial catalyst development.
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Hea-tech catalysts proved itself as a company with world-class scientific foundations. The technique to use alloys addresses the technical and expensive bottleneck the sector currently faces, significantly reducing the risk of technological or commercial failure.
01/2021, Nature Catalysis
Denary oxide nanoparticles as highly stable catalysts for methane combustion
Our paper “Denary oxide nanoparticles as highly stable catalysts for methane combustion. (Nature Catalysis 2021,12, 62–70.)” led by the Co-Founders of Hea-tech Catalysts Inc. is selected as the cover image for Nature Catalysis.
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Through rapid synthesis and screening, we obtained a denary multi-element oxide catalyst showing high performance and superior stability for catalytic methane combustion over 100 hours due to the high-entropy design and stabilization. Our discovery provides a viable synthesis route with clear guidelines for multi-element oxide nanoparticles and enables materials design in the multi-element space towards highly stable catalysts.
09/2020, R&D WORLD
Our study on high entropy alloy catalysts (Science 2018) has won a prestigious 2020 R&D 100 Award in the Mechanical/Materials category.
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This renowned worldwide competition, now in its 58th year, received entries from 19 countries and regions. This year, the judging panel grew to include nearly 50 well-respected industry professionals across the globe, including new judges in places such as Australia, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom.
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05/2020, ARPA-E
Ammonia synthesis reactions, enabled by the Haber-Bosch process, account for approximately 3% of the world’s total energy use. Hea-tech catalysts propose a cascade reactor with a sequence of non-platinum group metals catalyst compositions tailored to a specific stage of the synthesis reaction.
Hea-tech catalysts' novel, direct joule (electric current) heating process enables synthesizing high entropy alloy nanoparticles with various catalyst compositions. This method will produce ammonia synthesis catalysts that deliver more ammonia per pass and require significantly less capital cost and energy to operate.
03/2020, PNAS
High-throughput, combinatorial synthesis of multimetallic nanoclusters for catalyst discover
Our paper “High-throughput, combinatorial synthesis of multimetallic nanoclusters. (PNAS 2020, 117(12), 6316–6322.)” led by the Co-Founders of Hea-tech Catalysts Inc. is published in the journal PNAS.
We develop a high-throughput technique for combinatorial compositional design and rapid synthesis (within seconds) of ultrafine multimetallic nanoclusters with a homogeneous alloy structure. The reported high-throughput approach establishes a facile and reliable pipeline to significantly accelerate material discovery in multimetallic nanomaterials.
03/2018, Science
Science Cover Article on High Temperature Thermal Shock Synthesis
Our paper “Carbothermal Shock Synthesis of High-Entropy-Alloy Nanoparticles. (Science 2018, 359, 1489–1494.)” led by the Co-Founders of Hea-tech catalysts Inc. is selected as the cover image for Science, which introduces a general route for alloying up to eight dissimilar elements into single-phase solid-solution nanoparticles, referred to as high-entropy-alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs).
