Rice’s Baker Institute and Baker Botts to host global energy summit Oct. 4-5
The Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies at Rice University and Baker Botts L.L.P. will co-host their seventh annual energy summit Oct. 4-5. The two-day conference at Rice’s James A. Baker III Hall will feature international and domestic perspectives through keynote addresses and discussions with energy experts in industry, government and academia.
Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum showcases transformative innovations
The Energy Tech Venture Forum, hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, named 10 energy companies "most promising" by energy investors, highlighting them for driving innovations that shift energy practices toward a more sustainable, reliable and lower carbon future.
HX Venture Fund hosted its third annual Venture Houston conference Sept. 7 in Rice’s Stude Concert Hall where entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business leaders convened to network and learn about the future of clean energy.
Second annual renewable energy leadership conference convenes at Rice Aug. 22
The Renewable Energy Alliance – Houston (REAL) will present its Second Annual Renewable Energy Leadership Conference at Rice University to explore the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed one year ago.
Device makes hydrogen from sunlight with record efficiency
Rice University engineers’ have created a device that turns sunlight into hydrogen with record-breaking efficiency by integrating next-generation halide perovskite semiconductors with electrocatalysts in a single, durable, cost-effective and scalable device.
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 3 ventures
Fifteen new energy ventures that are building technologies to accelerate the energy transition will work with the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator as part of the third cohort of the program.
Rice and Texas partners’ energy transition proposal named semifinalist for major NSF Engines grant
A coalition between Rice University, the Greater Houston Partnership’s Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) and four other leading Texas research universities has been named a semifinalist for the National Science Foundation Engines program.
ARPA-E announces $100 million funding initiative at Rice event
Rice welcomed more than 100 energy innovation leaders to campus June 8 for a first-of-its-kind event by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) where ARPA-E director Evelyn Wang announced $100 million in new commercialization funding for innovative energy technologies.
ARPA-E Director Evelyn Wang to make June 8 announcement at Rice
On June 8, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Director Evelyn N. Wang will visit Rice to make a commercialization announcement and host “ARPA-E on the Road: Houston” to spotlight local ARPA-E awardees and share information about work underway at ARPA-E.
New priming method improves battery life, efficiency
Rice University engineers have developed a readily scalable method to optimize a silicon anode priming method that increases lithium-ion battery performance by 22% to 44%.
Physicists discover ‘stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism’
Physicists from Rice and Ames National Laboratory have discovered “stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism” in layered helical magnetic materials.
Business leaders, strategists and technologists from the energy industry attended the first International Workshop on AI-Powered Renewable Energy April 17-18 at the Ion innovation hub.
Physicists find unusual waves in nickel-based magnet
Rice physicists and collaborators have discovered “spin exciton” excitations can ripple through a nickel-based magnet as a coherent wave.
Strong ultralight material could aid energy storage, carbon capture
Rice U. materials scientists and collaborators at the University of Maryland showed that fine-tuning interlayer interactions in a class of 2D polymers can determine the materials’ loss or retention of desirable mechanical properties in multilayer or bulk form.
James Chappell wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice bioscientist James Chappell has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop RNA programming methods that can improve human health and the environment.
