With $15M new funding, Cyrium will fight Boeing and Emcore for the concentrating solar market
When we talk about concentrating photovoltaics (CPV), it’s the lenses, mirrors and tracking systems that focus sunlight onto solar cells that get all the attention. But why not the cells themselves? A little-discussed handicap in CPV is the near-monopoly two public companies, Boeing’s (BA) Spectrolab and Emcore (EMKR), enjoy on high-efficiency cells.
That’s starkly different from the other solar markets, in which dozens of startups are vying for attention. One reason the two companies reign uncontested… Continue Reading
Cnano raises $6M for carbon nanotubes
Cnano Technology, a developer of carbon nanotubes, raised $6 million. CMEA Ventures and Pangaea Ventures led the round, joined by WI Harper.
Cnano, which maintains offices in Menlo Park, Calif., and a manufacturing facility in China, aims to improve the quality and efficiency of nanotube manufacture. Nanotubes are tiny tubes, often only a few atoms wide, that are formed out of a single-atom-thick carbon mesh-like structure. The tubes exhibit tremendous tensile strength and have other unusual… Continue Reading