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Jordan Cannon, a 2024 Innovation Crossroads cohort participant from Circular Biosciences, smiles in a professional headshot. The background features the Innovation Crossroads logo and the text 'Cohort 2024.' Partner logos of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy’s LEEP (Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program), and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are displayed at the bottom.

Jordan Cannon: Engineering enzymes to enable sustainable bioplastics

Plastic pollution negatively impacts human and animal health as well as the stability of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Also,…

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Electron microscopy measurements are usually performed by collecting all points in a 2D grid. Here, using deep learning in real time, only sites of interest are measured (colored circles), allowing experiments to be conducted on a much larger variety of materials, even those that change under the beam. Credit: Kevin Roccapriore and Scott Gibson/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

New technique could unlock potential of quantum materials

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to…

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DOE Awards $270K to Advance National Laboratory IP Towards Commercialization

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) has announced nine Phase 2 winners for the Making Advanced…

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Enhancing biodegradability is the focus of Circular Biosciences

Imagine embedding an enzyme inside a product so that it can biodegrade much faster than it normally would. Well, that is the focus…

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A large industrial air quality system is loaded onto a flatbed trailer, secured with yellow straps. The equipment includes a series of motors, fans, and ducts, with wood piles and green trees visible in the background, indicating an outdoor setting. The equipment appears to be part of an emissions control or filtration unit, ready for transport.

Captis Aire launches two-phase project after securing $2.5 million

One of the first observations we made when we first met Kim Tutin of …

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