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Yan Wang
  • Industry

    Cleantech

  • Location

    Westborough

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Yan Wang

Tech Power Players 50 | 2024 | Ranked #22

Cofounder and chief scientist, Ascend Elements

BIOGRAPHY

Why a Tech Power Player? For building cleaner and better batteries.

Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has cofounded two companies based on innovations from his lab. Westborough-based Ascend Elements recaptures precious metals in lithium-ion car batteries, while AM Batteries in Billerica uses a dry powder rather than toxic liquids to make battery electrodes. Now Wang is leading a federally-funded effort to design better ways to recycle the metals in solar panels.  

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2024

Ascend Elements signed deal to build recycling plant in Poland.

2024

AM Batteries named one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies by Time magazine.

2023

Ascend Elements opened plant in Georgia.

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Tech Power Players 50 | 2024 | Ranked #22

Yan Wang

Cofounder and chief scientist, Ascend Elements

Yan Wang
  • Industry

    Cleantech

  • Location

    Westborough

  • Social Media

BIOGRAPHY

Why a Tech Power Player? For building cleaner and better batteries.

Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has cofounded two companies based on innovations from his lab. Westborough-based Ascend Elements recaptures precious metals in lithium-ion car batteries, while AM Batteries in Billerica uses a dry powder rather than toxic liquids to make battery electrodes. Now Wang is leading a federally-funded effort to design better ways to recycle the metals in solar panels.  

CAREER MILESTONES

2024

Ascend Elements signed deal to build recycling plant in Poland.

2024

AM Batteries named one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies by Time magazine.

2023

Ascend Elements opened plant in Georgia.

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The climate tech sector in Mass. is on the upswing. Here’s how we keep it that way.

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