February 7, 2019 | 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Building 240
Through an annual call, four to six teams are selected to join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), a two-year program for innovators focused on energy and science technologies. Program participants will receive financial and technical support needed to mature technologies to the proof-of-concept level. CRI’s Cohort 3 will be embedded at Argonne from July 2019 through June 2021.
For Cohort 3, 122 applications were submitted. The semi-final pitch competition was held on January 10 with 19 teams that included 22 individual innovators. The final pitch competition will be held on Thursday, February 7, from 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Finals are open to the public.
AGENDA
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. | Welcome Remarks |
| 1:20 p.m. – 2:48 p.m. |
Session 1: Energy Materials 10-minute pitch, followed by 10-minute Q/A, and 2 minutes for panelists to record notes 1:20 p.m. — Kazi Sadman & Katie Kollhoff (Ultra-High-Performance Water Treatment Sorbents) 1:42 p.m. — Yu Kambe (Direct Optical Lithography of Functional Inorganic Nanomaterials) 2:04 p.m. — Ryan Pearson & Matthew Ryan (Heat Reflective Coatings for Efficient Windows) 2:26 p.m. –- Gary Ong (Nanocomposites for Elevated Temperature Hydrogen Technologies) |
| 2:48 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. | Break/Panel Discussion |
| 3:10 p.m. – 4:28 p.m. |
Session 2: Advanced Manufacturing 10-minute pitch, followed by 10-minute Q/A, and 2 minutes for panelists to record notes
3:10 p.m. — Anouck Champsaur & Thomas Sisto (Long-Lifetime Organic Flow Battery) 3:22 p.m. — Khalid Alam (Freeze-dried Biosensors for Water Quality and the Energy-Water Nexus) 3:44 p.m. — Andy Schroedermeier (Electronics for Wide Bandgap Motor Drives) 4:06 p.m. — Kevin O’Connor (Dielectric Materials for High Density Capacitive Energy Storage) |
| 4:28 p.m. | Conclude |
