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Brewery wastewater finds new use as fuel cell material
In Colorado, researchers have developed a process for using brewery wastewater to create carbon-based fuel cell materials. The breakthrough could help brewers reduce the need for costly wastewater treatment. The University of Colorado Boulder researchers cultivated the fast-growing fungus Neurospora crassa in sugar-rich brewery wastewater and were able to dictate the fungus’s chemical and physical properties to create naturally-derived lithium-ion battery electrodes. Read More
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A Battery Made from Beer
Well not quite, although some home brewers might find the idea of a battery made from beer appealing. ACS Publications reports researchers at University of Colorado Boulder have found a way to convert wastewater from the brewing process into green electrodes. Read More
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From Beer to Battery –Turning Brewery Wastewater Into Energy
What do beer breweries and batteries have in common? If you’re an engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, both represent an opportunity for an innovative bio-manufacturing process to create more efficient and sustainable energy storage cells — i.e. batteries. Read More
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Brewery wastewater transformed into energy storage
Colorado-based engineers, who competed at the Chain Reaction Innovations finals, have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. This unique pairing of breweries and batteries could set… Read More
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Beery wastewater gets an electrifying new life
According to the University of Colorado Boulder, breweries go through about seven barrels of water for every barrel of beer produced. All that leftover wastewater can't just be dumped in the sewer – it has to be filtered first, which can be expensive. Now, however, the university says that there may be a new use for the water. It could be used to grow a fungus that's in turn made into "green" battery electrodes. Read More
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Turning brewery wastewater into battery power
CU Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. Read More
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Innovation Crossroads: ORNL Energy-startup accelerator aborning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches a new accelerator for clean-energy entrepreneurs. This follows on the heels of the launch of Argonne National Laboratory’s program Chain Reaction Innovations. … Read More
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John Carpenter on why real estate developers should choose dupage
Choose DuPage outlines plan to boost economic growth and development in the region. No. 1 on the list is working with Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory to commercialize innovative technologies. Read more. Read More
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Argonne launching first technology incubator for clean energy ideas
Ideas for the clean energy of the future could find a launchpad at a new program at Argonne National Laboratory near Darien. Chain Reaction Innovators is seeking science-minded entrepreneurs with ideas who want to connect with expert researchers, world-class technology and mentorship at the… Read More
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Software Ate Cleantech: Now What?
A look at the past, present and future state of investment in cleantech. Public funding and access to cleantech accelerators and incubators, such as Chain Reaction Innovations, are key components for the success of future cleantech startups. Read more. Read More
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Semi-finalists Chosen for CRI's Cohort 8
Twenty-eight individuals with a wide range of startup technologies were chosen to advance to the semi-finals and compete to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI) Cohort 8. A broad range of innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy generation and distribution, bioremediation, anti-fouling, mineralization,… Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations wins a 2023 Chicago Innovation Award
Chain Reaction Innovations has been recognized for solving unmet needs, creating jobs and generating new funding in the Chicago metro area. Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, has been recognized with a Chicago Innovation Award. (Image by Chicago Innovation.) Chain… Read More
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne opens applications for startups
Chain Reaction Innovations seeks innovators to join Cohort 8 OCTOBER 26, 2023 Develop your clean energy or climate technology with the support of Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program. Application deadline is 5 p.m. CST, Nov. 30. Through Chain Reaction Innovations, early-stage… Read More
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New startups Join Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program
Chain Reaction Innovations announces new cohort Clean energy startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that hold promise for helping mitigate climate change. Four startups joined Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne, to develop clean-energy technologies over two years. Four new… Read More
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Demo Day Showcased Innovators at Four National Labs
Argonne hosted Demo Day in downtown Chicago, an event celebrating innovation at four laboratory-embedded entrepreneurship programs. Resilience of innovators recognized at gathering of national lab-based technology incubators. Getting an invention or new breakthrough from the laboratory into the broader world requires more than just a… Read More