Pixelligent Technologies Receives $1.9 Million Grant from U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office

Bearing with PixClear ZrO2 in-situ coating

Program will help commercialization of PixClear® nanoparticles for next-generation lubricants for wind generators, EVs, and different industrial purposes

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Pixelligent Technologies (Pixelligent) at present introduced a $1.9M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) to fund a program titled “Rapid and Efficient Deposition of Metal Oxide Coatings for Bearings and Gears in Harsh Environments.” The grant follows an earlier award of $1.5M in 2020.

The funds will assist velocity commercialization of Pixelligent’s PixClear^® nanoparticles for next-generation lubricants. Engineered uniquely to face up to intense working circumstances in harsh environments, the PixClear^® answer goals to vastly enhance efficiency and vitality effectivity, whereas lowering put on and increasing helpful lifetime. Target purposes embrace wind-turbine gear containers, wheel bearings in electrical autos (EVs), marine elements, metal and aluminum rolling vegetation, space-related purposes, and others.

“The grant exemplifies the steady advocacy of U.S. science-based companies by agencies like the DOE,” stated Pixelligent’s CEO, Craig Bandes. “And now, that resolve to champion breakthrough U.S. technologies to strengthen the nation’s innovation leadership is reinforced by the landmark CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act. The new legislative priorities and associated resources will unleash a trove of visionary ideas from U.S.-based tech pioneers like Pixelligent. It’s an exciting time to be part of this ecosystem.”

The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense have supplied almost $6M of funded applications to this point, stated Pixelligent’s CTO, Serpil Gonen Williams. “The resources have enabled us and our partners to develop breakthroughs in lubricant additives to substantially boost the performance and efficiency of diverse clean-energy applications. Once again, our partners on this grant are the Carpick Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Argonne National Labs. In addition, we are proud to name ExxonMobil, Infineum, and Winergy-Flender as commercial testing partners to help accelerate adoption of these lubricants,” she stated.

“This cross-disciplinary partnership between industry, university, and national laboratory researchers has led to a new discovery: that nanoparticles can rapidly form robust protective coatings on surfaces. This is a game-changer for applications where harsh operating conditions can otherwise lead to component failure. This project will allow us to advance this discovery toward commercial implementation. We’re excited to see this benefit multiple applications including renewable energy applications,” stated Robert Carpick, a co-investigator on the proposal in Penn Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

PixClear is trademarked by Pixelligent

About Pixelligent

Pixelligent has reinvented the way in which composite supplies are made by synthetically replicating a broad set of metallic oxide supplies present in nature. Our PixClear^®, PixJet™, and PixNIL™ supplies ship a mixture of properties, working efficiencies, and never-before-seen efficiency for Extended Reality units driving the Metaverse, OLED/MicroLED shows, Optics, Sensors, Solid-state lighting, and Industrial purposes. Our proprietary product improvement and totally scaled manufacturing platform, the PixClearProcess^®, allows Pixelligent to engineer supplies that seamlessly combine into the commonest manufacturing processes, together with ink jet, nanoimprint, microimprint, spin coating, meting out, slot-dye and photolithography. Our PixClearProcess^® makes use of a fraction of the manufacturing footprint required by conventional chemical corporations, and our efficiency-enhancing PixClear^® supplies ship vitality efficiencies throughout show, solid- state lighting and industrial purposes. Please go to us at www.pixelligent.com and comply with us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Pixelligent.

About The Carpick Research Group on the University of Pennsylvania

The Carpick Research Group is housed within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on the University of Pennsylvania. The group works on the intersection of mechanics, supplies, and physics to conduct analysis into nanotribology (the atomic-scale origins of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and put on), nanomechanics, nanostructured supplies, and atomic pressure microscopy (AFM). Their main focus is on utilizing AFM and different floor science and materials characterization strategies to probe the elemental nature of supplies in touch, and to use the outcomes to sensible purposes. You can learn extra concerning the group at: https://carpick.seas.upenn.edu/.

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