Gold, with its high electrical conductivity and resistance to corrosion, is a critical metal used in solar panels, fuel cells, mobile phones, computers, circuit boards, medical devices, and more. Copper, too, is a critical metal used in electrical wiring, power cables, wind turbine and solar panel components, as well as for defense, consumer electronics, and other industry … [Read more...] about Sunchem: Extracting Gold and Copper from Waste Streams
Success Stories
Sepion: Manufacturing Nanoporous Battery Separators for Longer-lasting, Faster-charging, Safer Lithium-Metal Batteries
Berkeley Lab Startup Opened an Operational Prototype Facility in 2023 and has Announced Plans for a New Manufacturing Facility in Sacramento, Ca. Problem According to a recent McKinsey report, by 2030 the North American demand for battery separators will far outstrip domestic production, with 4.3 billion square meters of supply, less than half of expected demand of 10.2 … [Read more...] about Sepion: Manufacturing Nanoporous Battery Separators for Longer-lasting, Faster-charging, Safer Lithium-Metal Batteries
Phenix Software Accelerates Drug Discovery and the Study of Biological Systems
Problem: Crystallography (X-ray, neutron, electron) and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) are critical techniques used to study biological systems and develop new therapeutics. But for many decades analyzing and optimizing macromolecular structures from experimental data was a manual, time-intensive, and fraught process. In the late 1990s, Paul Adams, then a staff … [Read more...] about Phenix Software Accelerates Drug Discovery and the Study of Biological Systems
How Berkeley Lab Helped Develop One of the World’s Most Popular Open-Source Security Monitoring Platforms
A tool from the internet’s early days keeps Microsoft’s users secure while supporting the open-source paradigm. Read the story. … [Read more...] about How Berkeley Lab Helped Develop One of the World’s Most Popular Open-Source Security Monitoring Platforms
Gamma Reality, Inc. – A Game Changer for Radiation Detection
Gamma Reality, Inc (GRI) is an 11-person start-up based in the San Francisco Bay Area on a mission to make radiation detection safer and more efficient through real-time, 3D radiation mapping technologies. They have worked with industry leaders such as Boston Dynamics and Dominion Energy to deploy their technology at nuclear facilities and a variety of other environments. GRI … [Read more...] about Gamma Reality, Inc. – A Game Changer for Radiation Detection