(Originally published on Innovation Crossroads)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory welcomed seven technology innovators to join the third cohort of Innovation Crossroads, the Southeast’s only entrepreneurial research and development program based at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) joined Innovation Crossroads as a program sponsor enabling a record number of innovators focused on energy-related and grid topics. Innovation Crossroads is also sponsored by DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO).
Selected through a merit-based process, these scientists and engineers will have the opportunity to advance their technologies by working with world-class science experts and unique capabilities at ORNL, such as Summit, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer; the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, DOE’s largest advanced manufacturing research center; and the Spallation Neutron Source, offering atomic-level insight into advanced materials. The innovators also will be partnered with a powerful network of mentoring organizations in the Southeast to help them develop business strategies to advance their breakthroughs to market.
The third cohort of Innovation Crossroads fellows and their projects include (video):
- Jesse Thornburg: Learning-Based Monitoring and Control for Optimizing Commercial Refrigeration Operations
- Alex Lewis: Microbial Electrolysis for Production of Renewable Hydrogen from Organic Waste
- Leila Safavi-Tehrani: Advanced Production of High Purity Radioisotopes for Nuclear Medicine
- Hicham Ghossein: Innovative Processing of Advanced Fiber Nonwoven Mats Through a Hydroentanglement System
- Trevor McQueen: Next-Generation Sample Preparation Device for Cryo-TEM Studies
- William Fitzhugh: Industrial Scale Production of Semiconducting Carbon-Nanotubes via Resonant-Dielectrophoresis
- Jesse Claypoole: Advanced Multi-Spectral Light Field Imaging Sensors
Read more here.