Next Generation, Sub-14 nm (IC) Chips
Astrileux Corporation
Astrileux’s strategy is to design advanced technologies that enable high volume EUV manufacturing of next generation integrated circuits (IC) chips at 14 nm and smaller, with higher profitability, sustainability and global accessibility, but without high cost of ownership. Astrileux was the winner of the 2015 Semicon West Innovation Showcase, and voted one of San Diego’s coolest companies by the VC community. Astrileux is supported by NSF, and CASIS, Center of Advancement of Science in Space.
Team: Supriya Jaiswal, Jeremy Baumberg
Contact: Supriya Jaiswal, Astrileux Corporation
BetR‐blok Composite Construction Blocks
BetR-blok, LLC
BetR‐blok, LLC (pronounced “better block”) is a start‐up company manufacturing low‐cost, composite construction blocks made from recycled paper, cardboard and other cellulosic materials. BetR‐blok is light‐weight, load bearing, self‐insulating and highly energy efficient (R‐36). It requires no exterior or interior finish, is competitively priced and is an environmentally responsible substitute for wood –therefore saving trees. BetR‐blok enables home construction and improvements with fewer materials, resulting in lower cost and less environmental impact.
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Team: Barry Fuller, Chris Frettoloso
Contact: Chris Frettoloso, Arizona State University
MicroElectrode Array Stretching Stimulating und Recording Equipment (MEASSuRE)
BMSEED LLC
The human body is soft and round whereas current implanted electronic devices are hard and rigid. This mismatch in mechanical properties causes a rejection of the electrode, the electrodes can damage the tissue, or be damaged by it. BMSEED’s electrodes solve these problems by making electrodes that are mechanically equivalent to human tissue. We envision BMSEED to have three distinct product categories for our electrodes: in vitro, in the brain, and in the peripheral nerves.
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Team: Oliver Graudejus, Ruben Ponce Wong
Contact: Oliver Graudejus, BMSEED LLC | Arizona State University
Mobile: 609-532-9744
Breezing® Mobile Metabolism Tracker
Breezing Co.
Breezing® is the world’s first mobile metabolism tracker that synchronizes wirelessly to a mobile app and allows you to track your metabolism anytime, anywhere. The sensing technology in Breezing® is based on novel nanocomposite materials with unique selectivity for detection of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production rates from the person's breathing. In this way, Breezing® measures your metabolism based on indirect calorimetry recommended by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and other international institutions.
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Team: Erica Forzani, NJ Tao, Francis Tsow, Xiaojun Xian
Contact: Erica Forzani, Breezing Co.
Office: 480-629-5360 | Mobile: 480-330-1804
High Performance Stretchable Electronics
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Our technology is a new class of soft metallization based on biphasic (solid-liquid) thin metal films. The films combine low sheet resistance (down to 0.5 Ω/sq) and elasticity (up to 400 % elongation), are compatible with wafer-scale fabrication and photolithographic structuring, and can be stretched for a million cycles. We are able to interface with packaged chips to form multilayers soft circuits. Applications range from wearable electronics to large displacements sensors for the industry.
Team: Hadrien Michaud, Arthur Hirsch
Contact: Hadrien Michaud, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Office: (41) 21 693 67 35
Multifunctional Field Emission Electron Sources Based on UltraNanoCrystalline Diamond Films
Euclid TechLabs LLC
Euclid TechLabs LLC, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, will deliver a new planer field-emitter platform based on a nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond, (N)UNCD. The platform is (1) cost-competitive and scalable; (2) highly-emissive (obtained current densities are ≥10 mA/cm2); (3) robust (stable against high electric/thermal loads and air exposure/storage). Our targeted market is industrial and scientific linear accelerators, both normal-conducting and superconducting, for isotope production for radiopharmacy; X-/gamma-ray production for medicine, non-destructive evaluation, well-logging; materials processing; basic sciences.
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Team: Sergey Baryshev, Anirudha Sumant
Contact: Anirudha Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory
Office: 630-252-4854
Engineered Nanowire Networks as Transparent Conductors
FOM Institute AMOLF | Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
Metallic nanowire networks can simultaneously exceed TCOs in conductivity, transparency, and flexibility. However, existing fabrication methods cannot control the micro- and nano-scale network morphology over large areas. Researchers at the FOM Institute AMOLF have recently shown that substrate-conformal soft-imprint lithography (SCIL) enables wafer-scale fabrication of metallic nanowire networks on both flat and textured substrates, with nm-level precision. Applied to silicon heterojunction solar cells, these networks significantly enhance power conversion efficiencies relative to ITO (2.2% absolute).
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Team: Mark W. Knight, Jorik van de Groep, Paula C.P. Bronsveld, Wim C. Sinke, Albert Polman
Contact: Mark Knight, FOM Institute AMOLF | Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
Office: (31) 20 754 7170
Peptide Microarrays
HealthTell, Inc.
HealthTell, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company pioneering ImmunoSignature™ technology, a comprehensive measurement of the molecular recognition profile of circulating antibodies in the blood. Using peptide microarrays that are designed, developed, and manufactured at HealthTell. a signature for a particular disease is detected. HealthTell is committed to empowering the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics for complex immune-mediated diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders, and infectious disease.
Team: David Smith, Cynthia Hibbard
Contact: David Smith, HealthTell, Inc.
Office: 480-659-1564|Mobile: 857-998-8773
Ferrock Green Building Material
Iron Shell LLC
Iron Shell LLC is commercializing a new, green building material called Ferrock that is better, cheaper, and greener than Portland cement. Ferrock is better because scientific analysis shows that it is superior in several qualities including crack resistance. Ferrock is cheaper because its main ingredients are solid wastes that are not typically recycled. Ferrock is greener because it is carbon negative during the curing stage and captures CO2.
Team: David Stone, Sumanta Das
Contact: David Stone, Iron Shell LLC
Mobile: 520-288-0911
LATscan Laser Ablation Tomography Technology
L4iS
L4iS is a technology company based in State College, Pennsylvania offering its patent-pending Laser Ablation Tomography ("LATscan") technology. LATscan is a 3D imaging technology utilizing a high powered laser to rapidly slice and vaporize specimens, combined with a proprietary imaging system to acquire high resolution, naturally-colored, highly-contrasted 3D imagery of entire specimens, including internal structure. LATscan offers greater resolution, greater contrast, and rapid sample processing speeds compared to competing imaging and microscopy techniques. LATscan offers the ability to conduct high-throughput analysis of a multitude of features, including structural, statistical, volumetric, and chemical composition.
Team: Benjamin Hall, Josh Blosenski, Asheesh Lanba
Contact: Josh Blosenski, L4iS
Mobile: 610-742-9291
Hiji Band
Movement Interactive, LLC
Movement Interactive develops the Hiji BandTM, which is a wearable system that consists of an impact-detecting sensor that fit comfortably inside a custom athletic garment. The Hiji BandTM sensor is capable of tracking key factors from a head impact, namely direction, location, and speed. Current solutions presented in this space are very expensive and have focused on helmeted sports. The Hiji BandTM is applicable to detecting head impacts in wrestling, soccer, basketball, boxing, and during military operations.
Team: Eric L. Luster
Contact: Eric L. Luster, Movement Interactive, LLC
Office: 520-226-5977 | Mobile: 520-226-5977
eLOCOS Metallization Technology
NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC (Supported by NSF)
NANO3D's controlled expansion alloy films plated using revolutionary eLOCOS technology enable high density and fine-pitch 3D & area array interconnections with coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE's) tuned to match substrates and chips CTE's in order to fabricate stress-free 3D assembles of electronic devices with improved joint reliability. NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC supply customers with proprietary plating solutions to electroplate controlled expansion alloy films with superior properties for customer applications as well as provide controlled-expansion alloy pinhole free foils and films on variety of substrates for various applications in semiconductor, optical, sensor, display and clean energy technologies.
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Team: Val Dubin
Contact: Val Dubin, NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC
Office: 971-327-4055|Mobile: 503-927-4766
Night Vision Compatible Quantum Dot Optic
Navillum Nanotechnologies (Supported by NSF)
Navillum is developing a night vision compatible-quantum dot (QD) display optics for use in avionics and other display applications. Our Night Vision Compatible QD Optic "thick film" is a unique, rugged, low-cost form factor that is a perfect drop-in fit for modern High Definition night vision compatible avionics displays and can be easily modified to fit other display applications. Our current military avionics application is also suitable for the growing commercial aircraft night vision market.
Team: Kevin Jessing, Jacqueline Siy-Ronquillo
Contact: Kevin Jessing, Navillum Nanotechnologies
Mobile: 801-835-3994
Thermal Energy Harvesting for the Internet of Things
The Pennsylvania State University (Supported by NSF)
By 2025, few trillions of ‘things’ around homes, streets, industrial plants, energy grids etc., will wirelessly connect to create the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT). The question is, how are these ‘things’ going to be powered? Definitely not by wires or batteries. Energy harvesting can be a sustainable solution but current products are larger and costlier than the electronics itself and are ineffective at lower energy (temperature, light, vibration) levels. We will demonstrate a 1" x 1" prototype that can power a wireless sensor from only 100 F without any heat sink.
Team: Aman Haque, Kamrun Nahar (Impulse Technology LLC)
Contact: Aman Haque, The Pennsylvania State University
Office: 814-865-4248|Mobile: 814-769-6473
Ice Release Coatings
Polymer Exploration Group LLC (Supported by NSF)
PEG LLC has developed a novel ice-release coating technology that makes removal of ice easy, i.e. ER-Coat based on a new model and a fast throughput testing method. ER-Coat is a low-cost, robust, durable coating system using engineering materials offering superior ice-release performance on different substrates. ER-Coat and its derivatives will mitigate ice related problems that encountered in wind energy, oil industry, aerospace, telecommunications, power utilities, and marine activities in cold regions.
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Team: Wei Zhang, Kenneth Wynne, Cameron Brinn
Contact: Wei Zhang, Polymer Exploration Group LLC
Mobile: 540-239-2438
Composites as Electronics
Power Gold LLC
Composite materials are deployed to design, prototype and produce "paper-thin" electronics. See, touch, bend, fold, ultra-light weight, durable, better electronics. Greener film products will consume 50% to 99% less materials. Rolls of film electronics will be produced like newspapers.
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Team: James Wang
Contact: James Wang, Power Gold LLC
Mobile: 480-200-3311
Self-assembling Process for Fabricating Tailored Thin Films
Sandia National Laboratories
A self-assembled nanoparticle coating process is developed for optical, electrical, and magnetic films at near ambient conditions. The nanoparticles impart to the films collective, often nonlinear physical properties due to the properties of the individual nanoparticles and their coupled interactions. Resultant functionality is distinct from that of bulk materials or conventional composites. The coating process results in significant advantages of reduced costs, increased manufacturing freedom/producibility, improved logistics, and the incorporation of new technology solutions.
Team: Hongyou Fan
Contact: Hongyou Fan, Sandia National Laboratories
Office: 505-272-7128
TraceSorb
Serionix, Inc. (Supported by NSF)
TraceSorb is a disruptive, high-performance air filtration solution capable of rapid and efficient removal of toxic and odorous chemicals from air. Compared with traditional adsorbents, TraceSorb is low-cost, exceptionally effective towards trace toxins in air, maintaining excellent permeability, and more importantly, it will change colors when it expires. As an air filtration solution, TraceSorb targets markets ranging from consumer to high-end industrial application, including pet odor removal, military air protection, international space station, semiconductor cleanroom, fuel cells, etc. Our media have been successfully used in leading chip manufacturer, as well as residential consumers put out by the odor from their pets.
Team: Weihua Zheng
Contact: Weihua Zheng, Serionix, Inc.
Office: 217-819-0349 | Mobile: 217-819-0349
VitreOx Anti-Fog
SiO2 Nanotech
At SiO2 Nanotech, we developed VitreOxTM, an effective, long-lasting anti-fog that has outperformed every anti-fog product in the market, including a $100 M medical device company. Fogging is a daily, persistent problem in surgeries, protective eyewear, gauges, and lenses that ultimately leads to safety hazards. The VitreOxTM anti-fog is a liquid that is easily applied and cured on anything from glass to polycarbonate. The anti-fog is spread onto the lens, allowed to dry, and it is ready to use. The anti-fog can last from hours to years, depending on care. Unlike our competitors, we do not require awkward accessories, heat, evacuation, or reapplication to eliminate fogging. Further, we do not use hazardous, toxic compounds that may irritate the eyes and skin that cannot be disposed in the drain. Our VitreOx™ is biocompatible, biodegradable, and non-toxic. Despite being non-toxic, the VitreOx™ anti-fog also acts as a barrier against mold, bacteria, and virus, ideal for the medical and biological hazardous protective eyewear. The VitreOx™ anti-fog is an effective, long-lasting, non-toxic anti-fog that is now commercially available.
Team: Clarizza Watson
Contact: Clarizza Watson, SiO2 Nanotech
Office: 602-565-3447 | Mobile: 602-565-3447
Porous Materials
ThruPore Technologies, LLC (Supported by NSF)
ThruPore’s Founders have developed better performing heterogeneous catalysts by controlling the pore size of the support structure. This control enables ThruPore to have 50%+ more accessible surface area. With more surface area, the precious metal component of the catalyst can be better dispersed throughout the support. ThruPore has experience working with the most common support structures – carbon and silica, as well as several precious metals – palladium and platinum.
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Team: Franchessa Sayler, Martin Bakker, John Currie
Contact: Franchessa Sayler, ThruPore Technologies, LLC
Mobile: 205-657-0714
Nelumbo
UC Berkeley Design for Nanomanufacturing Lab
Nelumbo has developed OMNIPHOBE, a thin thermally conductive nanocoating with higher water and oil shedding performance than any current products or technologies. We utilize a dirt-cheap dip-coat process to apply OMNIPHOBE to any geometry on any scale, imparting anti-corrosive, anti-microbial and self-cleaning properties by maintaining a permanently dry surface. Our first target market is Air Conditioning, but this technology is also immediately applicable in the Energy and Chemical Processing industries.
Team: Liam Berryman, Lance Brockway
Contact: Liam Berryman, UC Berkeley Design for Nanomanufacturing Lab
Advanced Graphitic Anode
Urbix Resources, LLC
Urbix Resources, LLC is an emerging carbon processor based in Phoenix, Arizona. With a commercially accessible supply of large flake graphite, Urbix Resources develops proprietary graphitic anodes to supply the lithium-ion battery industry. Utilizing highly enriched graphite, Urbix anode materials possess above average energy charge rates, discharge rates, and mAh/g capacity. Focusing on innovations related to graphene, Urbix Resources is poised to supply the North American boom in renewable energy infrastructure, and energy storage. Located just 1,000 miles south of the Tesla Gigafactory, Urbix Resources will be a major contender for supplying the lithium-ion battery market.
Team: Adam Small, Nicolas Cuevas, Sergio Aguirre, Javier Ayala, Palash Gangopadhyay
Contact: Adam Small, Urbix Resources, LLC
Office: 480-205-9907
Nanofiber Chemical Detectors
Vaporsens
Vaporsens is commercializing chemical detectors based on nanofiber sensor technology for the defense, security, first-responder, environmental, and consumer products markets. Nanofiber sensors excel at detecting explosives, chemical warfare agents (CWA), toxic industrial chemicals (TIC), volatile organic compounds (VOC), illegal drugs, environmental contaminants, and much more. The major benefits of Vaporsens's nanofiber chemical detectors include sensitivity, selectivity, rapid response, small form factor, low power consumption, simple user interface, no calibration, and low cost.
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Team: Doug Later, Ben Bunes, Ling Zang
Contact: Doug Later, Vaporsens, Inc.
Mobile: 801-557-3557
STEP—A Size Tunable Enrichment Platform
ViroLock Technologies, Inc.
The product consists of a Virolock module coupled to a PCR system. Virolock will utilize disease specific disposable cartridges able to trap, isolate, and concentrate the desired viruses in clinical samples. PCR with Virolock technology will be 100 times more sensitive than any existing PCR technology alone. The Virolock module and cartridges will be able to process most of the viruses causing severe infectious diseases and will be 100% compatible with commercial PCR machines.
Team: Nestor Perea Lopez, Mauricio Terrones, Yin-Ting Yeh, Siyang Zheng
Contact: Mauricio Terrones, The Pennsylvania State University
Office: 814-867-2799