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Solidion Chairman and CEO Jaymes Winters said the new DOE award highlights the strength of the company’s innovation and IP portfolio.

Department of Energy Backs Solidion’s Push to Develop U.S.-Made Battery Graphite

by | Dec 8, 2025
The federal ARPA-E award adds to the Dallas-based company’s momentum as it advances next-generation battery materials and builds out new power tech for AI data centers.
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A balloon dog—but sturdier. UT Dallas researchers 3D-printed this foam figure to demonstrate the material’s strength, recyclability, and potential for shaping complex, customizable designs.
UT Dallas Chemists Create Self‑Repairing, 3D-Printed Foam That’s Made to Flex and Last
by | Jun 17, 2025
The lightweight, recyclable material can be printed into complex shapes—including a balloon dog—and shows potential for use in helmets, insulation, and more. The research explores a method still largely untapped in commercial manufacturing.
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‘Egg Beater’ Solution for Deep-Ocean Wind Turbines: UTD Team Advances New Design With Nearly $8M From DOE
by | Feb 27, 2025
Ultimately, the offshore turbine designed by UTD Professor Dr. Todd Griffith could reached the stunning height of 900 feet—as tall as a 72-story skyscraper—generating electricity from winds over the deep ocean "miles from the coast and out of view from land."
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Momentum Technologies Opens New HQ and R&D Lab in North Texas
by | Oct 23, 2024
The lithium-ion battery recycling company has opened its new HQ and R&D laboratory in Carrollton, with a goal of "advancing critical metals recovery in a way that's both economically sustainable and environmentally responsible." The company is doing that through the use of its proprietary Membrane Solvent Extraction technology.
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Over $58M Awarded to Advance Fort Worth Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing Plant

by | Apr 1, 2024
Las Vegas-based MP Materials—which began building the plant in 2022 at Hillwood's AllianceTexas—plans to produce ""precursor materials" at the facility this summer, and "finished magnets" by late 2025. The critically needed products will be delivered to General Motors to power EVs—and help "bring the supply chain home" to the U.S.
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Plano-Based Toyota Partners with the DOE on a $6.5M Megawatt-Scale Fuel Cell Project
by | Aug 24, 2022
Fuel cells for cars? Think bigger—because Toyota sure is. After developing hydrogen fuel cell technology for over 25 years, mostly aimed at carbon-zero vehicles, the company is scaling up the tech for uses far beyond cars. Now it's working with the U.S. government to build a system that can add energy to the grid, power things like data centers, and more.
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Dallas-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Startup Gets $20M From Tailwater Capital’s Freestone
by | Dec 15, 2021
Founded in 2016, Momentum—whose CEO is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list—is a lithium-ion battery recycling company. It's developed a patented battery recycling technology in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab and Halliburton Labs.

The investment will help Momentum build its first two battery recycling plants.
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Hunt Perovskite Technologies Gets $2.5M in Funding from the Department of Energy
by | Apr 14, 2021
Dallas-based Hunt Perovskite Technologies, part of Hunt Consolidated Inc, is one of the 22 selected for a new program from the DOE dedicated to making perovskite photovoltaic devices commercially available. If validated, the tech could make solar cells more efficient at a lower cost—but first, the projects have to overcome the issue of it being too unstable to commercially use.
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