Radical
innovation
in metals
processing
one platform technology
60+ metals
world-wide reach
60+ metals
world-wide reach
The High-Temperature Electrolysis process dramatically lowers capital intensity, deployment time, and emissions to convert feedstock into metal. A platform that is modular, scalable, cost effective.
Invented by Professor Sadoway at MIT, this BOLD IDEA has become a sustainable solution that will redefine how the world uses energy and minerals.
Sadoway High-Temperature Electrolysis is the only commercial process that converts the full spectrum of critical minerals into metals at commercial scale.
High-Temperature Electrolysis is poised to disrupt the metals and mining industries worldwide.
They call it "the missing midstream," the challenges of establishing a robust domestic processing base in the United States. Addressing this challenge has generated bi-partisan support in congress, both in efforts to diversify global supply chains and for increased investment to build up domestic processing capacity.
Exporting ore-to-metal processing not only exposes profound structural vulnerabilities in western supply chains but also transfers the technical know-how and control over critical minerals for defense and industry.
Addressing this bottleneck has become a national priority across the West. Developing smelting capacity seizes control of the most consequential supply chains of the next century.
Developer of disruptive technology.
Sadoway Incorporated commercializes the breakthrough inventions of Professor Donald Sadoway. Industry seeks new approaches to our relationship with energy and minerals. The Sadoway technologies represent radical innovation and solutions to the some of the world’s most pressing problems.
The Sadoway style: cost-informed discovery starting with the periodic table, respecting thermodynamics, inventing processes that can scale, and designing chemistry in service of society.
Professor Sadoway’s research directly addresses the need for alternatives that are safer, cheaper, longer lived, and less dependent on scarce or geopolitically constrained materials. Industrial decarbonization requires technologies that can scale without creating new safety, supply chain, or environmental burdens.
His impact on industry is also unusually strong. His inventions have moved beyond the laboratory into serious commercial development, including technologies associated with liquid metal batteries, aluminum sulfur batteries, lithium metal batteries, and electrochemical metals production.
His ideas have attracted industrial attention because they are conceived from the outset with scale, manufacturability, resource availability, and cost in mind. Professor Sadoway’s impact on academia has been equally profound. At MIT for 44 years, he has educated generations of students to think rigorously and boldly about chemistry, materials, and energy. His teaching is widely admired because it presents science not merely as a body of knowledge, but as a creative and consequential human enterprise.
He earned his PhD in chemical metallurgy from the University of Toronto.
Donald Sadoway has been called “A one man patent office” by one of the senior partners at WSGR, the legendary firm that worked closely with Steve Jobs. With 43 US patents issued in his name, nine of Sadoway’s patents relate to high-temperature electrolysis of metal. Sadoway’s other patents apply to battery technology, carbon abatement, and specialized polymers.
For Sadoway Incorporated, each target metal will likely generate new IP, resulting in a revenue stream via licensing and royalty payments.
With many target metals in our sight—such as titanium, antimony, uranium, neodymium, scandium — new processes will be followed by new patent applications. The company IP, and each new patent, drives the corporate valuation, competitive advantage, and strategic growth.
