Eighteen individuals comprising 16 startups advanced to the Finals pitch competition to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ Cohort 7. A broad range of energy innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy storage and generation, decarbonization, circular economy, manufacturing, materials and vehicle technologies and materials.
The 16 startups will pitch their technology during the virtual final competition on March 29th at Argonne National Laboratory. The event is open to the public and registration information will be released soon.
Cohort 7 Finalists
David Brost, Human-Centered Machine Learning Algorithm for Utilities and Households
Terence Collier, Enabling CO2 Recycling to Hydrocarbons Fuels Using 3D Nanoparticles
Revanth Damerla, Grasp Robotics – Robotic Hand with Human Hand Capabilities
Tim Fairley-Wax, Biomembrane Filtration: Unlocking Energy Recovery from Waste Streams
Brittany Kendrick, Hydronomy Inc
Berk Diler Kovos, SynthBits: Illuminating Designer Quantum Bits for Sensing
John Krzeminski, REV force – Technology to Decarbonize and Reduce Engine Emissions
Julie Ming Liang, Bacterial Secretion for High Efficiency Protein Production
Alexis Noelli Pena & Lauren Blake, Man-Made Bioengineered Protein-Based Fibers to Replace Petroleum-Derived Textiles
Cory Perkins, Low-Cost Materials and Processes for Coating Glass Used in Solar Markets
Mason Rodriguez Rand & Kevin O’Sullivan, Recycling of Molten Salts in Pyroprocessing for Advanced Nuclear
Rawand Rasheed, Retrofit Dehumidifier for Substantial Air Conditioner Energy Reduction
Tim Ritter, High Entropy Materials for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries
Laura Stoy, Recycling of Coal Fly Ash for Rare Earths and Concrete
Patrick Sullivan, Safe, Sustainable, and Affordable Flux XII Flow Battery
Husam Wadi, Cognizance Operation At-The-Wire in Distributed Energy Resources
