Press Coverage
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CWRU engineering grad student chosen to take part in Energy Department's new Chain Reaction Innovations program
Felipe Gomez del Campo, a graduate student in aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University, is one of five people chosen to take part in a two-year entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. Read More
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These Are the First Four Startups in Argonne's Chain Reaction Innovations
Over the past six months, over 100 applicants from 22 states applied to be a part of the incubator. On Tuesday, Argonne, along with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin announced the first four startups that will kick off Chain Reactions Innovations. Read More
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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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2024 Startup Milestones
About CRI Startup founders and the CRI team work together to advance cutting-edge technologies that offer science solutions that benefit America and the world. CRI support allows science startups to bring their deep tech to market more quickly. The combined total of follow-on funding raised… Read More
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Pivot, not Panic: Chain Reaction Innovations is Driving Startup Success
By focusing on the needs of founders, Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations program provides startups with funding, expertise and laboratory resources to turn innovative clean-energy technologies into market-changing companies. As a result of his work at Argonne, Gary Ong, founder and CEO of Celadyne Technologies, is… Read More
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Director's Letter
Dear Friends of CRI, Welcome to the Summer 2024 issue of the CRI newsletter. In it, you’ll see the breadth of our spring and summer activities. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to CRI’s newest cohort. Welcoming a new cohort is… Read More
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LEEP Demo Day 2024
In May, the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program’s (LEEP) Demo Day featured graduating cohorts from the four LEEP nodes including Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory, Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, West Gate at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Cyclotron Road at Lawrence… Read More
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CRI Seeks Applicants for Next Cohort
Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), a Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will begin accepting applications for Cohort 2025 on September 4th, the program’s ninth group of early-stage startups. Innovators with emerging science and energy… Read More