Small technology, big impact: MemPro Ceramics’ catalytic filters aim to clean up the energy and automotive industries

Small technology, big impact: MemPro Ceramics’ catalytic filters aim to clean up the energy and automotive industries

The next big cleantech innovation may, ironically, come from a company that thinks small. Nanotechnology, a multidisciplinary field of applied science that operates at the atomic or molecular level, is increasingly making the leap from the lab setting to the startup phase, with firms like MemPro Ceramics, a maker of catalytic filters, trying to blaze a new industry.

The company, founded in 2001 and based in Copper Mountain, Colo., uses a ceramic nanofiber filtration technology licensed… Continue Reading