# Ryan DuChanois

> Ryan DuChanois is the co-founder and CEO of Solidec, a Houston climate-tech startup that spun out of Rice University in 2024. Solidec builds modular reactors that pull molecules from air and water and, using only electricity, make industrial chemicals like hydrogen peroxide on-site - no centralized plants, no long supply chains, no carbon-heavy inputs. A Gates Cambridge Scholar with a Yale PhD and 20 peer-reviewed papers in membrane science, DuChanois traded the academic bench for the factory floor, aiming to abate over a gigaton of carbon emissions a year by reinventing how the world's chemicals are made.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Solidec
- **Organizations:** Solidec, Rice University, Activate, Greentown Labs
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Master's in Sustainability (Gates Cambridge Scholar), University of Cambridge, Ph.D. in Engineering, Yale University, Postdoctoral training (Haotian Wang lab), Rice University
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of Solidec, Gates Cambridge Scholarship recipient, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient

## Career timeline

- **2024** — Co-founded Solidec, a spinout from Professor Haotian Wang's lab at Rice University, with Haotian Wang and Yang Xia
- **2024** — Named a Houston Innovator to Know by InnovationMap
- **2025** — Won first place ($25,000) at the TEX-E startup pitch competition at CERAWeek by S&P Global
- **2025** — Spoke at CERAWeek Agora 2025
- **2025** — Closed an oversubscribed $2M+ pre-seed round led by New Climate Ventures
- **2025** — Scaled reactor production capacity 750x; partnered with Lynas Rare Earths for an on-site hydrogen peroxide pilot in Australia

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of Solidec
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship recipient
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient
- Published 20 peer-reviewed articles; ~3,125 citations, h-index 17 (Google Scholar)
- First-author research in Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Sustainability on membrane science
- Activate Fellow
- Won CERAWeek TEX-E pitch competition ($25,000)
- Raised oversubscribed $2M+ pre-seed for Solidec
- Scaled Solidec's reactor output 750x and signed a pilot with Lynas Rare Earths

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Solidec partnered with Lynas Rare Earths to pilot on-site hydrogen peroxide generators for critical mineral processing in Australia
- **2025-08** — Closed an oversubscribed $2M+ pre-seed round led by New Climate Ventures
- **2025-03** — Spoke at CERAWeek Agora 2025 and won the TEX-E startup pitch competition

## Links

- Website: https://solidec.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanduchanois/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ryan_duchanois

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