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Graphene-Based Material Takes Audio Tech to the Next Level

Graphene-Based Material Takes Audio Tech to the Next Level

August 26, 2021 Just as clunky cathode ray tube televisions were displaced in the 1980s by flat panel, vivid displays, today’s audio technology may soon be displaced by graphene-based audio tech.   In 2014, principal investigator Alex Zettl and postdoctoral researcher Qin Zhou of Berkeley Lab and the University of California …
Winners of 2021 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition Announced

Winners of 2021 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition Announced

On September 9, a handful of Berkeley Lab scientists participated in an annual pitch competition hosted by the Intellectual Property …
The Technology Commercialization Fund Awards: A Q&A with Nem Danilovic and Maxim Marchevsky

The Technology Commercialization Fund Awards: A Q&A with Nem Danilovic and Maxim Marchevsky

If you are working on A) research that involves Lab-developed intellectual property and B) you are working with or plan …
Developing a Strong Culture of Innovation: A Conversation with Berkeley Lab's Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

A Conversation about Innovation with Rachel Slaybaugh

Rachel Slaybaugh, director of Cyclotron Road and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley, recently spoke with IPO’s Gregg …
Notice Regarding Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA)

Notice Regarding Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA)

Notice regarding Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) as required by Contract 31, Clause H.31  The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of …
Developing a Strong Culture of Innovation: A Conversation with Berkeley Lab's Dr. Deepti Tanjore

A Conversation about Innovation with Deepti Tanjore

IPO’s Gregg Scharfstein interviews Dr. Deepti Tanjore, Director of The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU), about innovation.  …
Change in Publication Review Policy

Change in Publication Review Policy

Disclosing inventions and software is an important Department of Energy requirement, and helps protect the Lab’s intellectual property.  Previously, the …
Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive $2 Million in Technology Commercialization Funding Awards from Department of Energy

Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive $2 Million in Technology Commercialization Funding Awards from Department of Energy

June 25, 2021  Three Berkeley Lab projects were awarded more than $2 million from the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) …
Developing a Strong Culture of Innovation: A Conversation with Berkeley Lab's Ms. LaTonja Wright

A Conversation about Innovation with LaTonja Wright

Innovation happens in every corner of our national labs, from many different types of people, and it takes on many …
Aeroseal on a Hiring Surge (story from Dayton Business Journal)

Aeroseal on a Hiring Surge (story from Dayton Business Journal)

Aeroseal, a Miamisburg company that has licensed a Berkeley Lab’s duct-sealing technology developed by Mark Modera and Duo Wang, is …
Infant-Warming Device Proven Safe and Effective

Infant-Warming Device Proven Safe and Effective

A recent study found that an infant-warming device developed at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley is safe and effective at …