{"id":193,"date":"2023-07-21T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/?p=193"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:05:19","slug":"2012-bu-alum-eric-gratz-cto-and-co-founder-of-ascend-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/2023\/07\/21\/2012-bu-alum-eric-gratz-cto-and-co-founder-of-ascend-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 BU Alum Eric Gratz, CTO and Co-founder of Ascend Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/best\/files\/2023\/07\/EricGratz-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-194 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/files\/2023\/07\/EricGratz-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/files\/2023\/07\/EricGratz-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/files\/2023\/07\/EricGratz.png 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Ascend Elements CTO Eric Gratz, Ph.D. was recently recognized by\u00a0<em>Business Insider<\/em>\u00a0as an EV industry \u201cPower Player.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ascend-elements-named-to-fast-companys-annual-list-of-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies-for-2023-301760021.html\">annual list<\/a> recognizes the 30 most influential leaders in the electric vehicle and Li-ion battery industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGratz helped cofound and invent Ascend\u2019s technological process for this potentially critical part of the\u00a0EV-battery supply chain. He has also played a role in Ascend developing a process to recover 98% of the critical raw materials in used lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap. His technology can minimize the need for mining, which is harmful to the environment and the communities in which it operates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ascend Elements was also Named to Fast Company&#8217;s Annual List of the World&#8217;s Most Innovative Companies for 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ascend Elements CTO Eric Gratz, Ph.D. was recently recognized by\u00a0Business Insider\u00a0as an EV industry \u201cPower Player.\u201d The annual list recognizes the 30 most influential leaders in the electric vehicle and Li-ion battery industries. \u201cGratz helped cofound and invent Ascend\u2019s technological process for this potentially critical part of the\u00a0EV-battery supply chain. He has also played a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/best\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}