Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley were selected as first cohort of the DOE national competition for their project on Recycling and energy storage industries: Reduce expensive wastewater treatment costs and create a cheaper manufacturing process for high-performance carbon products. This will be accomplished by using wastewater to grow fungus to create tunable carbon-based products, such as battery electrodes.
"In an event today with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Senator Dick Durbin (D-III) at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Midwest’s first entrepreneurship program to embed innovators in a national laboratory, announced the selection of its first members and mentor partners.
More than 100 innovators from 22 states applied for the opportunity to participate in the first cohort based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and funded through the DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office.
CRI is a new initiative at Argonne to accelerate the development of sustainable and energy-efficient technologies and drive manufacturing growth by helping startups and innovators reduce development costs and risks. " Read more...
