MiTeGen LLC has launched the Sentinel™ Real-time Intensity Monitoring Beamstop System for X-ray beamlines based on a beamstop technology licensed from Berkeley Lab earlier this year. The device improves data collection from X-ray scattering experiments conducted by researchers seeking potential treatments for cancer, AIDS, Ebola, and other diseases. Earlier this summer, the … [Read more...] about Licensee Launches Lab-Developed Beamline Tool
Small Cleantech Businesses to Collaborate with Berkeley Lab
Eight cleantech businesses have been awarded small business vouchers ranging from $50,000 to $300,000 to access the unique expertise and facilities available at Berkeley Lab in Round 2 of DOE's Small Business Voucher (SBV) pilot program. The program is designed to speed entry of next-generation clean energy technologies. “Partnerships with entrepreneurs and small business … [Read more...] about Small Cleantech Businesses to Collaborate with Berkeley Lab
Redox-Active Supramolecular Binders for Lithium Sulfur Batteries 2016-080
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) rechargeable batteries for Consumer electronic devices (especially cellular devices) Electric Vehicles Grid storage Electric powered aviation ADVANTAGES: Highly reversible discharge capacity Stable and high rate battery cycling Redox active binder ABSTRACT: A team of researchers at Berkeley … [Read more...] about Redox-Active Supramolecular Binders for Lithium Sulfur Batteries 2016-080
2016 R&D 100 Awards – Berkeley Lab Finalists
Award winners will be announced in November 2016 Computing Sciences Nomination Managers: Jon Bashor, Kathy Kincade Shifter (Canon, Jacobsen) Customized software package for deploying containers and user-defined images in high performance computing systems Carbon Capture Simulation Toolkit (Agarwal and researchers at NETL, LLNL, LANL, PNNL, Carnegie Mellon … [Read more...] about 2016 R&D 100 Awards – Berkeley Lab Finalists
Modular Energy-discriminating Photon Counting Detectors for Multi-Energy X-Ray Imaging 2016-033
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Spectral CT for medical imaging Security imaging Fiber-optic communications ADVANTAGES: High spatial resolution, sensitivity, and count rates Yields cleaner CT images Enables lower dose imaging Functional imaging ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab’s Woon-Seng Choong has developed a new discriminating photon-counting detector … [Read more...] about Modular Energy-discriminating Photon Counting Detectors for Multi-Energy X-Ray Imaging 2016-033