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Berkeley Lab Technologies Honored With 7 R&D 100 Awards

Berkeley Lab Technologies Honored With 7 R&D 100 Awards

Innovative technologies from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to achieve higher energy efficiency in buildings, make lithium …
DOE Launches FY21 Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Solicitation

DOE Launches FY21 Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Solicitation

DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) has launched its FY21 Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Solicitation. The amount of …

The Technology Commercialization Fund Awards: A Q&A with Mike Tuck…

Call for proposals for the DOE OTT program is expected in early to mid-September A virtual webinar on …
Berkeley Lab Accepting Proposals for COVID-19 Technical Assistance Program

Berkeley Lab Accepting Proposals for COVID-19 Technical Assistance Pro…

The Intellectual Property Office and Strategic Partnerships Office of Berkeley Lab are accepting proposals from Lab scientists and …

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Success Story: Next-generation Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Success Story: Next-generation Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Invention: Boron Nitride Nanotube  Licensee: EPIC Advanced Materials The boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) is a breakthrough material for …
CinderBio Receives Funding to Commercialize Proteomics Enzymes

CinderBio Receives Funding to Commercialize Proteomics Enzymes

On April 2, the National Institutes of Health awarded CinderBio a $1.6M Phase II SBIR to commercialize its proteomics …
Steve Yannone, Jill Fuss and Adam Barnebey of CinderBio

CinderBio – Industrial Enzymes from Nature

The scientific concept that microbes living in extreme temperatures or toxic conditions could yield more effective industrial enzymes …