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    ORNL receives six Federal Lab Consortium awards for Technology Transfer Excellence

    The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards recognize outstanding achievements in the successful transfer of technology from laboratory to industry. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was recently awarded six FLC awards, including the 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, for technology commercialized by Element3 that enables the extraction of lithium from oil and gas wastewater. Lithium

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  • Ateios Systems Closes $7.25M Series A to Scale Next-Generation Battery Electrode Manufacturing featured image

    Ateios Systems Closes $7.25M Series A to Scale Next-Generation Battery Electrode Manufacturing

    Ateios Systems has closed $7.25 million in Series A funding to scale production of its next-generation lithium-ion battery electrodes and expand supply to global battery manufacturers. The round was led by TitletownTech, with participation from existing investors Elevate Ventures, VisionTech Partners, Good Growth Capital, Lateral Capital, Techstars, and Keshif Ventures, as well as new investors JHH

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  • L to R: John Jovanovic, President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; Doug Burgum, United States Secretary of the Interior; Tomoya Murata, General Manager, Trafigura Japan; Megan O’Connor, Co-Founder and CEO, Nth Cycle.

    Nth Cycle Announces Landmark $1.1 Billion Offtake Agreement with Trafigura, Expands Operations in U.S. and Europe

    Nth Cycle, the revolutionary critical metals refining company, has signed a binding 10-year agreement with Trafigura, a market leader in the global commodities industry, valued at approximately $1.1 billion USD. The agreement was signed as the Trump Administration hosted government and business leaders in Tokyo to discuss energy security at the first Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial

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  • Daniel Lee, founder and CEO of Perseus Materials, presenting on stage during a pitch event. He gestures toward a screen behind him while speaking to an audience, highlighting his company’s innovative composite manufacturing technology.

    Perseus Materials closes strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures

    Perseus was also backed early by Roadrunner Fund and incubated by Roadrunner Venture Studios, the nation’s first venture studio focused on deep technology company creation. Perseus Materials has closed a strategic investment for an undisclosed amount from Lockheed Martin, one of the largest defense technology companies in the world. The announcement reinforces what the East Tennessee entrepreneurial

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  • Graphic featuring the Perseus Materials logo alongside the Lockheed Martin logo, set against a desert landscape with a prominent rock formation. Roadrunner Venture Studios logo appears in the lower corner, indicating the strategic investment announcement.

    Perseus Materials Closes Strategic Investment from Lockheed Martin

    Perseus Materials, a venture-backed startup building the world’s fastest large-scale manufacturing system for composite parts, today announced the closure of a strategic investment by Lockheed Martin. Founded in 2022 by Stanford researchers, Perseus will begin expanding its team, fulfill its first customer orders, and grow its physical footprint. “We’re not interested in making marginal improvements

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  • Rolls of Ateios’ lithium iron phosphate and graphite electrodes offer higher energy density and higher capacity retention at lower costs. Credit: Ateios Systems

    Ateios Systems leverages ORNL tech to strengthen US battery supply chain

    Batteries power everything from cellphones to medical devices to defense systems. In 2021, Ateios Systems licensed technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to make battery manufacturing faster and cheaper—an innovation that now underpins the nation’s only domestic battery electrode supply chain, strengthening both economic and national security. Ateios Systems has continued to build on ORNL’s initial innovation, establishing

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  • Portrait of a bald man wearing blue-framed glasses, a dark blazer, and a light blue striped shirt, standing with arms crossed against a dark blue studio background.

    Qubit Engineering debuts AI-powered tool to analyze the modern power grid

    Qubit Engineering, part of the 2023 Innovation Crossroads cohort at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, recently launched Neuro-Grid, a computational tool that uses artificial intelligence for real-time, high-accuracy analysis of the power grid to offer insights not available through classical computing. Qubit leveraged Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer housed at ORNL’s Oak Ridge

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