Siluria Technologies is a Silicon Valley startup developing natural gas conversion technology. Our work is based on groundbreaking MIT material science research and backed by some of the world's leading venture capital firms.

Our target is direct conversion of natural gas, the world's most abundant petrochemical feedstock, into ethylene, the world's largest commodity chemical intermediate. Our success will reduce manufacturing costs throughout the petrochemical value chain, enabling a novel pathway to produce existing chemicals and fuels, and increasing strategic national security.

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Siluria was featured in the New York Times' Science Section on June 29th, 2010:

The search for more efficient, less expensive approaches to the production of ethylene has gone on for more than three decades, and although some progress has been made no new techniques have yet proved commercially viable.

Now a small group of researchers at Siluria Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup based here, are reporting progress in commercializing a nanoscience-based approach to ethylene production.

if they are successful in commercializing the new material, it will herald the arrival of a set of new technologies that represents a synthesis of molecular biology and industrial chemistry.

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