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Massachusetts universities and companies have received a total of $22.1 million of the nationwide award of $106 million in a second round of energy research funding from U.S. Department of Energy.
Ginkgo BioWorks, a Boston-based biological engineering design firm, received the largest award in the state. The company got $6 million for a project that involves re-engineering E. coli bacteria and harnessing its electrical current as part of creating isooctane, an important component of gasoline.
The other Massachusetts awards went to universities – University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard Medical School and MIT.
The funding comes from the second round of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program, meant to “dramatically transform how we use energy in this country,” Vice President Joseph Biden said in a news release.
Waltham-based A123 Systems Inc. will take part in two new battery research projects through the funding. The lithium ion battery maker is a partner on a $4.9 million project with MIT and a $4.3 million project with California-based Applied Materials Inc.
The MIT project involves researching a new battery concept in which the best aspects of rechargeable batteries and fuel cells are combined, while the Applied Materials project involves researching a new manufacturing process for low-cost, high-energy lithium-ion batteries.
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