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Reflections year2024 Resilience Relationships Renewal
As the CEO of RoCo, a small research company focused on ionic liquids of just four dedicated individuals, this holiday season offers the perfect moment to pause and reflect on a year that has been as challenging as it has been rewarding. When 2024 began, I truly believed that RoCo might not survive. Broken equipment, […]
Structured Liquids (Ionic Liquids): Applications from Polymer Recycling to Corrosion Prevention (Part 1)
Ionic liquids have transformative potential across industries, particularly in green solvents and liquid electrolytes development. Our advances in polymer composites and ionic liquids have been…
Unlocking the Potential of Recycled Mattresses as High-Performance Battery Electrodes
If you develop battery technology, the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC), together with RoCo®, is looking for battery researchers and manufacturers interested in decreasing their carbon footprint in energy storage devices and incorporating state-of-the-art electrolytes and battery salts.
Enhancing the Li2S/S Reaction in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation energy storage systems due to their high specific energy capacity and energy density. However, challenges such as sulfur’s insulating nature and the large volume change of S/Li2S during discharge/charge processes hinder the full utilization of sulfur in Li-S batteries.
RoCo® Sells Groundbreaking DAC Technology to Carbon Blade.
Carbon Blade to Develop Renewable Energy-Powered, Zero-Waste CO2 Removal Systems utilizing RoCo® IP. Dateline: PITTSBURGH, PA, November 6, 2023 RoCo®, an advanced materials company, has recently sold its innovative Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to Carbon Blade, a California-based firm. The revolutionary DAC technology allows solvent regeneration without heat, which fosters the creation of smaller, [...]
The ABCs of Ionic Liquids
The ABCs of Ionic Liquids
Rethinking Power: The Rise of Sodium and Potassium Batteries and the Need for U.S. Engagement
Lithium-ion batteries have long been the standard for energy storage, powering a vast array of devices from smartphones to electric vehicles and the electric grid. However, lithium’s limited availability and exorbitant cost are causing significant concerns in the supply chain.
Role of Polymers in Packaging: Ensuring Sustainability for the Future
Packaging materials are essential to our daily lives, from the plastic bags we use at the grocery store to the tetra packs that hold our favorite drinks. The development of polymers has revolutionized packaging materials, making it possible for food to have a longer shelf life and enabling us to handle and store necessary and unnecessary items efficiently.
Polymer Upcycling is a Solution to Circular Economy
The concept of a circular economy involves designing products and systems to minimize waste and maximize the use of resources, to create a closed-loop system in which waste is eliminated or repurposed into new products.
Plastic recycling and upcycling
For decades, we have been hearing about recycling, especially plastics. Education on recycling for most of us in our 40s started in elementary school, with programs, ads, etc., promoting its benefits and how you can help mitigate the effects of climate change.
Environmental Benefits of Low viscosity Water-Lean Carbon Capture Technology
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity. The global implications are already becoming clear with an increase in wildfires in the Northwest United States..
Application of Ionic Liquids as wearable sensors
Use of ionic liquids in skin sensor applications.
Direct Air Capture (Draining the bathtub)
Team Carbon Blade is pioneering carbon capture and storage solution that provides stand-alone, small-footprint “Blade” (Direct Air Capture (DAC)) modules that combine wind-powered electrodialysis with bipolar membrane separation (EDBM) to remove…
Application of Ionic Liquids in Corrosion Protection
According to the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, the global cost of corrosion is estimated to be 3.4% (or $2.5 trillion) of global GDP. These costs typically exclude aspects such as individual safety or environmental consequences. Typical corrosion protection coatings are sacrificial (coating with a second metal, e.g., zinc) or barrier polymer coating,..
Water-Lean Low Viscosity Solvent for Carbon Capture
Carbon abatement is needed to mitigate the threat of climate change. It is a new area for innovation and investment for future economic development. Scientists, corporations, and governments around the world are stepping up to develop and support technologies which reduce the cost of decarbonizing the economy.
For a sustainable and vibrant future RoCo Global joins REMADE Institute
RoCo is now part of REMADE institute. RoCo Global is proud to announce that it has joined the REMADE Institute. RoCo Global is a small, Pittsburgh-based company with specific goals toward helping the world transition to a Circular Economy, increasing the efficiency of resources used in manufacturing, reducing emissions, conserving resources, and creating and sustaining [...]
Ionic Liquids: Textile recycling
ionic liquid use in recycling of textiles
Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide (CDR)
The climate of our planet has always changed and fluctuated. However, industrialization has expelled copious amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering climate change and global warming. This warming has resulted in a dramatic rise in Earth’s temperature over a short period of time. If left unchecked, we will certainly face disaster.
RoCo and IoLiTec Ionic Liquids Technologies GmbH Sign North American Distribution Agreement
RoCo now offers IoLiTec ionic liquids on its e-store bringing significant value to North American customers. RoCo, an advanced materials company based in Pittsburgh, announced an agreement with IOLITEC to distribute their ionic liquids (ILs) in North America. The addition of IOLITEC’s ionic liquid products expands RoCo’s portfolio in their new online store and gives scientists [...]
Viscosity and molecular structure
Viscosity is resistance to flow in liquids. Factors affecting viscosity are the temperature and shape of the molecule. Higher temperatures correspond to higher average kinetic energies and faster-moving molecules which leads to lower viscosity.
Cryomilling
RoCo® houses state-of-the-art cryomilling equipment which allows milling of organics…
Film Extrusion
Our extrusion film caster allows couples with our compounder and allows you to cast sheets…
Polymer Processing and Extrusion
RoCo® is equipped with multiple compounding and polymer processing equipment including…
Gas chromatography (GC)
GC is a versatile technique to evaluate the purify as well as evaluate various gas streams…
(FTIR) Fourier Transformation Infrared Spectrometer with Diamond ATR
The Nicolet Is-5 FTIR is equipped with a Smart Diamond ATR accessory. Working in the…
Rheology
Rheology reals with the deformation of materials and how those materials flow under strain…
Density measurements for liquids
The Density Meter measures liquid samples with an accuracy of up to 6 decimal places…
Liquid Viscosity Measurements
MicroVISC-m only requires small sample size. This unit has microfluidic sensors which…
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
The TA Instruments Q100 DSC is a high-throughput, versatile instrument and is…
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
The TA Instruments Thermo-Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA) measures the change in mass…
Phosphazene High Polymers and Models with Cyclic Aliphatic Side Groups: New Structure–Property Relationships
Poly(dichlorophosphazene) is a versatile precursor material for accessing new polymeric materials via the introduction of various side groups by chlorine…
Synthesis of Poly(ionic liquid)s by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization with ppm of Cu Catalyst
Well-defined poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) were synthesized by activators regenerated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerization (ARGET ATRP).
Molecular Simulation and Experimental Study of CO2 Absorption in Ionic Liquid Reverse Micelle
The structure and dynamics for CO2 absorption in ionic liquid reverse micelle (ILRM) were studied using molecular simulations.
Modular polymerized ionic liquid block copolymer membranes for CO2/N2 separation
The continuing discovery of broad classes of materials, such as ionic liquids, zeolites, metal–organic frameworks, and block copolymers, presents…
Interactions in 1-ethyl-3-methyl imidazolium tetracyanoborate ion pair: Spectroscopic and density functional study
Density Functional Theory is used to investigate a weakly coordinating room-temperature ionic liquid,1-ethyl-3-methyl imidazolium…