Some industry leaders believe Tennessee may be the perfect storm for a robust composites manufacturing scene. According to The Composites Institute (IACMI), the current epicenter for advanced composite manufacturing in the United States is Utah. So, what would we need to capitalize on in the Volunteer State to become a new hot spot?
Imagine a machine the size of a coal plant that, instead of pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, sucks the gas from the air and permanently stores it underground.This machine of the future now exists in Knoxville, thanks to a startup called Holocene, whose mission is nothing less than to reverse the tide of climate
“Before we built our pilot, Holocene was just a pitch deck,” Anca Timofte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Knoxville-based start-up, told a crowd that turned out Wednesday afternoon for the ribbon cutting on its inaugural device to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.
In April 2024, XPRIZE announced the Top 100 most promising carbon removal innovators competing in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal. The Top 100 is a collection of leading innovators from 25 countries, representing all carbon dioxide removal pathways: Air, Ocean, Land, Rocks. These teams have made incredible accomplishments since the launch of the competition in 2021
Being recognized with an Edison Award™ is one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business success. The Edison Awards honor excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation. We congratulate all of our winners for their accomplishment!
When Mitchell Ishmael earned his doctorate in 2017, he also gained the technical knowledge to understand surface chemistry, high-precision instruments and materials properties.But what he did not have was the know-how to start a high-tech company, raise venture capital, create business plans and launch a product that could change the future of thermal energy storage.
Three ORNL intellectual property projects with industry partners have advanced in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, Making Advanced Technology Commercialization Harmonized, or Lab MATCH, prize, which encourages entrepreneurs to find actionable pathways that bring lab-developed intellectual property, or IP, to market.
For the past three years, I’ve been a consultant with Innovation Crossroads, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). I work with the Fellows to develop their technologies, business models, and teams so they can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. We just completed this year’s Leadership Council meeting where we
When the Innovation Crossroads Leadership Council gathered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently, the members received updates from most of the participants in the 2022 and 2023 cohorts.Dan Miller, Director of the program, noted that the 38 start-ups that are either alumni or current participants have raised $176.1 million in outside funding and 14