Article: United States: Momentive wins $4.5m ARPA-E grant for solid-state lighting.

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Specialty materials firm Momentive Performance Materials Inc of Albany, NY, USA is to receive $4.5m in funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to continue the development of technology for low-cost production of LEDs used in solid-state lighting (SSL) as well as for increased LED light source performance. Although LED-based lighting can consume 75% less energy and have a longer lifetime than common lighting options, it is currently more expensive to produce than conventional lighting. Momentive will add about 20% of its own money to the DOE s funding for the project.

Momentive s proposal is one of only 37 research projects ...

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