Press Coverage
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U of C to invest $25 million in startups
University of Chicago is increasing its efforts to spin out more startups with a commitment to invest $25 million from its endowment to fund new companies launched by faculty, staff, students or alumni. Read More
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Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program
LEEP programs, including Chain Reaction Innovations, take top entrepreneurial scientists and engineers and embeds them within the U.S. national laboratories to perform applied research and development (R&D) with the express goal of launching a clean energy business. Read More
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Could Beer Power Your Electric Car?
Justin Whiteley and Tyler Huggins, entrepreneurs who competed in the CRI pitch competition finals in Oct. 2016, explain how their innovation could turn brewery waste water into an efficient source of porous carbon to make batteries. Read More
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An investor lemon starts to squeeze some lemonade
By trial and error and sheer necessity, the clean-tech industry is starting to develop an alternative ecosystem for developing, proving and commercializing clean-tech hardware. National laboratories have launched accelerators that mimic Cyclotron Road's playbook. Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago started its accelerator in May and is selecting its first cohort. Oak Ridge National Laboratory outside of Knoxville, Tenn., announced its version, called Innovation Crossroads, in September. On Oct. 26, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a similar effort, focused on several fields including energy. Each will rely on its strengths: Argonne is one of the world's top developers of battery technology, while Oak Ridge is particularly strong in advanced manufacturing. "One thing that sets us aside that we're Oak Ridge, and you can do things you can't necessarily do at Berkeley or Argonne," said Tom Rogers, Oak Ridge's director of industrial partnerships and economic development. Read More
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Turning Brewery Wastewater into Battery Power
University of Colorado, Boulder engineers have developed a 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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Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations –Overcoming the World’s Energy and Science Challenges
The Defense Systems Information Analytics Center highlights new opportunities with CRI. Read more. Read More
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Meet the Maker of a Jet-Engine Plasma Fuel Injector
Meet our innovator: CWRU junior Felipe Gomez del Campo Read More
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Brewing a Better Battery: Researchers Pulling Power from Brewery Wastewater
Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder (CUB) have developed a 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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Engineers drink to new energy storage material
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder 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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Colorado Scientists Convert Brewery Wastewater Into Renewable Battery
As part of a new research, scientists have stumbled upon a hitherto-unknown major supercluster in the Vela constellation. Currently being called the Vela supercluster, this massive concentration of galaxies comes with a large gravitational force that, astronomers believe, might have a substantial effect on the motion of the 54 galaxies in the Local Group, including the Milky Way. 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