Press Coverage
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Northwestern Researcher Awarded Department of Energy Tech-To-Market Fellowship at Argonne
Jung Woo “Ted” Seo accelerates lithium-ion battery performance for extreme conditions. Read More
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3 Startups That Are Defying The Odds And Bringing Breakthrough Discoveries To Market
Chain Reaction Innovations participant Atlas Energy is working to bring nuclear batteries to industry. Read More
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Meet 3 energy innovators getting a lift from Argonne National Laboratory
The national laboratory last month announced its second class of participants for a Midwest energy entrepreneurship program. Read More
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Public-Private Partnerships Fuel American Ingenuity
Q&A with John Carlisle, Director, Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory; Bernard Johnson, Co-founder and CEO, ClearFlame; Ian Hamilton, Founder and CEO, Atlas Energy Systems, LLC; and Justin Whiteley; Chief technology officer and co-founder, Emergy. Read More
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Olin Alumna Selected for Prestigious Tech Incubator at Argonne National Lab
Erika Boeing, a 2010 graduate of Olin College, has won a spot in a competitive national program to grow startup technologies at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Boeing will be among the second cohort to take part in the Chain Reaction Innovations program, one… Read More
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Energy Department Announces Second Cohort of Innovators in Midwest Entrepreneurship Program
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the second cohort of innovators to join Chain Reaction Innovations, the Midwest region’s first entrepreneurial research and development program based at Argonne National Laboratory, the nation’s first national laboratory. Six innovators were selected from a highly competitive pool of… Read More
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Organic battery researcher selected for innovation program at Argonne National Lab
Future alternative energy success is highly dependent on the ability to store that energy once captured. Tom Guarr, co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage Technologies LLC, and researcher at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Michigan, is pioneering new technology… Read More
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Tom Guarr Selected for DOE Chain Reaction Innovations Program
Future alternative energy success is highly dependent on the ability to store that energy once captured. Tom Guarr, co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage Technologies LLC, and researcher at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Michigan, is pioneering new technology for that purpose. After… Read More
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Argonne National Laboratory selects startups for Chain Reaction Innovations program
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory recently selected the second group of participants in Chain Reaction Innovations, a program that embeds postdoctoral researchers at the lab where they can work on developing their technologies. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations announces new crop of innovators
Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory is one of only three incubators in the country embedded at a national lab. How are they combining groundbreaking science with the business side of things?… Read More
Latest Updates
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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
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne Announces Newest Cohort
Five new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the award-winning program’s eighth cohort. The five will join the two-year program starting this… Read More
