Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the Department of Energy worked on the state -of -the -art of science to develop new methods and equipment that faced many challenges of the world. But after searching, the researchers how can the researchers associate their new technology with a company that can develop it further?
Communication is important.
A postdorel Research Associate Nicholas Gregorich said, “The ability to explain his research to someone who does not have the same scientific background, when he has a great scientific background when he is very much when he is very much to make partnerships or to do research from the lab and research in the real world.” Important, “Nicholas Gregorich said, a postdotoral Research Associate in Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division.
Gregorich and Syed Islam, R&D Staff, Recently completed Kohrt 19 Energy I-Corps ProgramAn initiative of the DOE office office, or OTT, which provides teams of researchers and industry masters with two months of training to develop commercialization routes for laboratory-developed technologies.
Islam and Gregorich worked with the patron of the industry, Zamidi Ahmed, who was called R&D Manager in Genron, on his technology, Green Capture, which was funded by DOE Fossil Energy and Carbon Management OfficeThe membrane technology of the green capture, initially developed through the laboratory -directed research and development program of Ornl, was developed through funding, absorbing carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, such as power plant or cement or steel production. It is currently more effective, energy efficient and durable than technology on the market.
Islam said, “Our research is funded by energy efficiency and renewable energy office, which is interested in implemented research and thus in technology commercialization,” Islam said. “Industry partnership is required for commercialization.”
To know how to make that partnership better facilitated, Islam and Gregorich applied to the Energy I-CORPS program. Before the program started, he also participated in the inaugural corket SafariNow called catalyst, in ornl. The safari was funded by the OTT Pact program, which helps national laboratories in developing new ways to increase technology commercialization.
Through safari, Ornl collaborated with Angelic Adams Media Solutions, LLC, so that researchers developed and distribute an eight -week coaching workshop to equip their technologies effectively to communicate and marketing their technologies effectively to communicate and marketing their technologies effectively Can go “The program aims to empower and connect researchers from the entrepreneurship network through ORNL and other DOE programs,” said the engagement program manager at ORNL’s Participation Office.
“Being in the Safari program, I was given more equipment to someone who is not a chemical engineer to explain our technology better,” Gregorich said. “I learned to focus on the matrix that we are trying to achieve the target and what we are looking in a partner. Those devices were taken to I-Corps. ,
Islam said, “We see a lot of possibilities in our technology, but it cannot affect the world without industry participation, and without eye-corps, there will be no connection with industry. I-corps And helped identify the weaknesses, but it was stressed. And what they need. “
“It is given me a lot of confidence,” said Gregorich. “Through I-Corps, we conducted 75 interviews, and until the end, I knew that I could tell the story of my project to someone who could be interested in participation or investing in our work.”
Islam and Gregorich have applied More money From the Department of Energy, using connections developed during I-CORPS, to mature the technique of green capture and expand its effects.
UT-Battle manages the ORNL for the DOE’s science office, the biggest supporter of basic research in physics in the United States. Doe’s office science is working to solve some of the most challenges of our time. For more information, go enery.gov/science, ,Brian Downing
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