Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

• Community Energy - Chemically Engineered Process for Enhanced Carbon Mineralization Potential
• Adroit Materials - Ion Implantation-enabled Fabrication of AlN-based Schottky Diodes
• Adroit Materials - kV-class GaN-based Junction Barrier Schottky Diodes Using Ion Implantation
• Advanced Conductor Technologies - Lightweight, High-power Density, Self-protecting Superconducting Power Cables and Connectors for Electric Aircraft Applications
• Advanced Ionics - Simplified Steam Electrolysis: Hydrogen for Hard-to-Abate Industries
• Altex Technologies - Low Cost Feed Flexible Plastics Reuse (LCFFPR)
• Amphionic - Nanostructured Pd-Anf Composites for Controlled LENR Exploitation
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) - Selective Hydrogenolysis of Pre-Consumer Polyolefins to Premium Synthetic Lubricants
• Artimus Robotics - Low-cost Electronics for Pressure-Agnostic Actuators Driving Bio-Inspired Vehicles for Deep Sea Mining
• Arva Intelligence - Rice n’ Grits: Quantifying Environmental Benefits of Bioenergy Crops through Complete Carbon and Nitrogen Accounting
• AtmosZero - Heat Pump to Decarbonize Industrial Steam
• Big Blue Technologies (BBT) - Carbon Negative Magnesium Metal Production Using a Cyclic Batch High Temperature Condenser
• Blue Sky Measurements - Optical NIR Fixed-Position Passive Scanner for Methane Detection and Measurement
• Brimstone Energy - Co-Generation of Low-Energy, CO2-Free Hydrogen and Ordinary Portland Cement from Ca-Rich Basalts
• C-Crete Technologies - Colloidally Ultrastable, Highly Insulating, and Thermally Conductive Nanofluid for Large Power Transformers
• C-Crete Technologies - Irradiation, Heat, and Corrosion Resistant Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Cement Coating For Mitigating Aging and Irradiation Effects in Nuclear Power Plants
• C-Crete Technologies - High Performance Nanocomposite Kraft Papers to Improve Insulation and Lifetime of Large Power Transformers
• C-Zero - Molten-Salt Methane Pyrolysis Optimization Through in-situ Carbon Characterization and Reactor Design
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Development of an Off-Shore, Stand-Alone System for Efficient CO2 Removal from Oceanwater
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Transportable Thomson Scattering Diagnostic for Measuring Density and Temperature in Fusion-Relevant Magnetized Inertial Fusion Plasmas
• Calion Technologies - Zero-GWP Air Source Heat Pump Steam Generation Using Ionocalorics
• Cambridge Crops - Enabling Technology - Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Demands via Scaling Advanced 3D Culture Bioreactors
• Captura - Development of Thin Film Composite Hollow Fiber Membranes for Direct Ocean Capture
• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - Integrated Design of Chemical Admixture Systems For Ultradurable, Low Co2 Alternative Binder Chemistries Via Machine Learning
• Celadyne Technologies - Nanoionics Enabled Proton Conducting Ionomers
• Columbia University - Development of Biological and Electrochemical Technologies for the Clean Extraction of Copper and Critical Materials from Low Grade Ores
• Columbia University - Integrated CO2-facilitated Hydrometallurgical and Electrochemical Technology for Sustainable Mining and Recovery of Critical Elements from Wastes and Ashes
• Cornell University - Engineered Microorganisms for Enhanced Rare Earth Element Bio-Mining and Separations
• Creare - High-Efficiency, Low-Cost, Additive-Manufactured Air Contactor
• Deep Isolation - Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep Borehole Disposal (SAVANT)
• Deep Reach Technology - Improved Nodule Collector Design to Mitigate Sediment Plumes
• Designs by Natural Processes - Making Cement at Ambient Temperature Using 55% Municipal Solid Waste Ash
• Electrified Thermal Solutions - Firebrick Resistance-heated Energy Storage (FIRES)
• Enegis - Ambient Seismic Imaging Technology for Low Cost and Effective Geothermal Resource Exploration, Development, and Management
• Energetics Technology Center - CATHODE (CATHode scintillatOr Detector for Electrochemistry)
• Eva Technology - Nanoprotonic Devices for >240x Performance Analog AI Hardware
• Fervo Energy - SOLVE EGS: Surface Orbital Vibrator for Evaluation of Enhanced Geothermal Systems
• Foundation Alloy Technology Explorations - Enabling Resilient and Secure Domestic Supply Chains for Critical Reactor Components with Novel Materials andAdditive Manufacturing
• Frost Methane Labs - Design of Smart Micro-Flare Fleet to Mitigate Distributed Methane Emissions
• GaNify - High-Performance and Manufacturable Medium Voltage Power Diodes
• GaNify - 50-kV/1-A Sub-Microsecond Power Switch for Gyrotron Modulation
• Gencores - Digital and Cost-Efficient Production of Hybrid Polymethacrylimide Foam Cores for Radical Lightweighting of Light-Duty Vehicles
• General Electric (GE) Global Research - Megawatt Any-Altitude Gas Insulated Cable System for Aircraft Power Distribution (MAAGIC)
• General Electric (GE) Global Research - Ultra-high-Performance nano-Liquid Insulation for upgrading Large Power Transformers (UPLIfT)
• General Electric (GE) Global Research - Engine-informed Prediction of Aviation Induced Cirrus Trails-EPIC-Trails
• General Electric (GE) Grid Solutions - Development of an Eco-friendly Outdoor HVAC Power Circuit Breaker to Reduce Dependence on SF6 Technology in the U.S. Electrical Grid
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) - Characterization and Recovery of Critical Metals from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Ashes
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) - Development of an Advanced Ultrasonic Phased Array For The Characterization of Thick, Reinforced Concrete Components
• Georgia Tech Research Corporation - TESLA: Tough and Ecological Supercritical Line Breaker for AC
• Georgia Tech Research Corporation - Wind-Driven Direct Air Capture System Using 3D Printed, Passive, Amine-Loaded Contactors
• Giner - Direct Air Capture Utilizing Hydrogen-Assisted Carbonate Electrolysis
• Glass WRX SC - Industrial-scale Upcycling of Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash into Engineered Cellular Magmatics
• Heirloom - A Transformative Low-Cost Approach for Direct Air Mineralization of CO2 via Repeated Cycles of Ambient Weathering of Metal Oxides
• High Temperature Superconductors - High Throughput and High Quality, Lower Cost Coated Conductors
• HighT-Tech - Advanced Catalyst Manufacturing Enabled by Direct Joule Heating
• Hyper Tech Research - Power Transmission Cable for Electric Aircraft using Bio LNG for Cooling and Thermal Management
• HyperJet Fusion - Plasma Guns for Magnetized Fuel Targets for PJMIF
• Idaho National Laboratory (INL) - Next-Generation Metal Fuel
• Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) - Superconducting Momentary Circuit Interrupter: Fault Protection with Ultralow Loss and Ultrafast Response for Future Electric Aviation
• Inlyte Energy - The Salt and Iron Path to Renewables Integration
• InventWood - Wood Honeycombs for Lightweight, Energy Efficient Structural Applications
• Invizyne Technologies - Simplifying Reactor Setup for Cell-Free Biofuel Production
• Johns Hopkins University - Electrothermal Conversion of Methane into Hydrogen and High-Value Carbon Fibers
• Johns Hopkins University - High-Entropy Glass-Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Immobilization
• Johns Hopkins University - Hydrocracking Plastic Mixtures into Xylene
• Johns Hopkins University - Enantioselective Electrosynthesis of Amino Acids
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Quantifying Nuclear Reactions in Metal Hydrides at Low Energies
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - CARBON STANDARD: Carbon Accounting to Redefine Biofeedstock Operation Normality using Sensing Technology Assisted by Numerical and Data Analytics for Reliable Detection
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - Absolute Neutron Rate Measurement and Non-thermal/Thermonuclear Fusion Differentiation
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - Next Generation High-temperature Optical Fibers
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - A Portable Optical Thomson Scattering System
• Lectrolyst - Transformation of Carbon Emissions to High-Value Products through a Two-Step Electrochemical Platform
• Living Carbon - Increasing Carbon Drawdown and Retention in Terrestrial Biomass using Bioengineered Trees
• Lixivia - Using Bio-inspired Lixiviants to Selectively Extract Valuable Metals from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - Portable Neutron and Soft X-Ray Diagnostics for Transformative Fusion-Energy Concepts
• Marathon Fusion - Advanced Metal Foil Pumps and Integrated Test Environment for the Fusion Fuel Cycle
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrochemical Mining of MSWI Ash
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Neutron Emission from Laser-Stimulated Metal Hydrides
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrochemically Modulated Co2 Removal from Ocean Waters
• Media and Process Technology (MPT) - Supercritical Fluid Based Wet Substrate Dewatering without Evaporation
• Metalx Biocycle - Synthetic Biology Approach to Critical Metal Extraction from Waste Electronic Components to Ensure a Robust Supply of Critical Materials for Clean Energy
• MetOx Technologies - MetOx Low Cost MOCVD
• Michigan Technological University (MTU) - In-Situ Bioleaching of Manganese by Dissimilatory Reduction
• Micro Nano Technologies (MNT) - Thermally Driven Industrial Semi-Open Absorption Heat Pump Dryer
• MOgene Green Chemicals - Photosynthetic Microorganism-based Consortia to Capture Carbon and Build Soil Organic Matter
• Molten Industries - Biogas to Renewable Fuels via Thermal Reforming
• Mosaic Materials - Integration of Ultrahigh Capacity Sorbents into Direct Air Capture Systems
• National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) - Distributed Nuclear Reactor Core Monitoring with Single-crystal Harsh-environment Optical Fibers
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Advanced Locomotive Technology and Rail Infrastructure Optimization System (ALTRIOS)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Multiscale Electricity Modeling for Evaluating Carbon Capture and Sequestration technologies (MEME-CCS)
• Nitricity - Non-Equilibrium Plasma for Energy-Efficient Nitrogen Fixation
• NK Labs - Active-target Muon Source for Muon-catalyzed Fusion
• NoMIS Power Group - 6.5 kV, 100 A SiC Power Module Technology to Meet 21st Century Energy Demands
• Noon Energy - Rechargeable Carbon-oxygen Battery: A New Class of Ultra Low-cost, Lightweight Energy Storage Technology
• North Carolina State University (NC State) - A Data-driven Approach to High Precision Construction and Reduced Overnight Cost and Schedule
• North Carolina State University (NC State) - Multi-Decadal Decarbonization Pathways for U.S. Freight Rail
• North Carolina State University (NC State) - HVPE Grown GaN Conductive Substrates for Power Electronics
• Northeastern University - Accelerating Electrocatalyst Innovation: High-Throughput Automated Microkinetic, Multiscale, and Techno-economic Modeling
• Northrop Grumman - Contrail Avoidance System
• Northwestern University - Inter Modal Analytics for Green Infrastructure Network Energy Decarbonization (IMAGINED)
• Northwestern University - LOwering CO2: Models to Optimize Train Infrastructure, Vehicles, and Energy Storage (LOCOMOTIVES)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - A Portable Diagnostic Package For Spectroscopic Measurement of Key Plasma Parameters In Transformative Fusion Energy Devices
• OCOchem - High Aspect Ratio CO2 Reduction Electrolyzer via Novel Gas Diffusion Electrode - Design
• Oklahoma State University (OSU) - Establishing Validation Sites for Field-Level Emissions Quantification from Grain Sorghum in Southern Great Plains
• Oregon State University (OSU) - Development of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Simulation Tools and Testing Procedures For Enhanced Durability of Concrete Containing Industrial By-Products
• Origen Hydrogen - Engineering of Scalable Platinum-free Electrodes for Pure-Water AEM Water Electrolysis
• Osmoses - Efficient Recovery of Dilute Helium Gas Using Molecular Sieve Membranes
• Otherlab - SeaSTAR: Selective Thalassic Ambulatory Retriever
• Pacific Industrial Development Corporation - Biomimetic CO2 to Fuel Enabled by Scalable Catalyst Development and Synthetic Electrochemistry
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) - Exploring Macroalgae as Critical Mineral Crops, E=(MC)2
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) - UNrealized Critical Lanthanide Extraction via Sea Algae Mining (UNCLE-SAM): Domestic production of critical minerals from seawater
• Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) - Synthesis of Consists as Rolling Energy micro-grids (SCORE)
• Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) - Cryogenic Solid-state Circuit Breaker
• Perseus Materials - Variable Cross-sectional Casting: New Composite Fabrication Process for Wind Turbine Blades
• pH Matter - Type V Vessel-Aided Electrochemical Compression for Ultra-High Pressure Electrolysis
• Phoenix Tailings - Novel Technique for Domestic Rare Earth Oxide Separation and Rare Earth Metal Reduction
• Phytodetectors - Functional Engineering of a Photosynthetic Desalination Pump Circuit
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) - A Portable Ion-Energy Diagnostic for Transformative ARPA-E Fusion Energy R&D
• Princeton University - Highly Efficient Charged Particle Beam Injection into Magnetically Confined Plasmas
• Princeton University - Electricity System Capacity Expansion and Operational Modeling for Evaluation and Optimization of Flexible Carbon Capture and Sequestration Systems
• Raytheon Technologies Research Center - Multi-Material Topology Optimization for High Performance Heat Exchangers
• RTX Technologies Research Center (RTRC) - CONFIRMMS: CONtrail Forecasting through In-situ Reliable Multisourced Modeling and Sensing
• Rutgers University - Waste-to-Energy (WTE)-Derived Low-Carbon-Footprint Concrete (LCFC)
• Sequoia Scientific - Real-time, In-situ Sensing of Sediment Properties for Environmental Monitoring of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Mining Real-time, In-situ Sensing of Sediment Properties for Environmental Monitoring of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Mining
• Siemens - Multi-Physics Topology Optimization for Dual Flow Heat Exchangers
• SiTration - Low-Cost Recycling of Lithium from Batteries via Conductive Membrane Nanofiltration
• Southern Research Institute - Machine Learning for Automated Maintenance of Future MSR
• Stanford University - Nuclear Product Detection from Deuterated Nanoparticles under Phonon Stimulation
• Stanford University - Co-Synthesis of Hydrogen and High-Value Carbon Products from Methane Pyrolysis
• Stoicheia - Discovery Platform for Low-Ir Anode Catalysts in PEM Electrolyzers
• Sublime Systems - Electrochemical Synthesis of Low-Carbon Cement
• Sylvatex - Breakthrough Process to Manufacture Very Low-cost LFP Cathode for Li-ion Batteries
• Texas Tech University - Advanced Materials Characterization and Nuclear Product Detection for LENR
• Texas Tech University - Development of Cubic Boron Nitride (c-BN) Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors
• The Boeing Company - Multidisciplinary Topology Optimization of Extreme Environment Heat Exchangers
• The Boeing Company - Contrail INformation for Collaborative Operations (CINCO)
• The City College of New York - Gypsum & Clay-Based Additives to MSW for Pre-Combustion Enhancement of Syngas and Solid Residue Improvement
• Tufts University - Living Filter Design for High-throughput, Low-cost Recovery of Critical Materials
• UHV Technologies - Highly Efficient Vacuum Smelting of Aluminum
• Ultra-low Loss Technologies - Space Division Multiplexing with Multi-Core Fiber for Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Networking Technologies
• Ultrasonic Technology Solutions - Extremely Fast and Efficient Direct Contact Ultrasonic Drying for Roll To Roll Manufacturing
• Umaro Foods - Marine Bio-Ore Mining of Rare Earth Elements
• Universities Space Research Association - Physics & Machine Learning Based Aviation Contrails Prediction and Observation System
• University of Alaska Fairbanks - Assessments of Geochemistry, Concentration, and Scalability of REEs Recovery from Seaweeds
• University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) - Ligand Facilitated Bioaccumulation: Biomining of Rare Earth and Other Critical Metals from Electronic Wastes
• University of California, Davis (UC Davis) - Electron Density Profile Measurements Using USPR
• University of California, Davis (UC Davis) - Carbon-Negative Buildings Assessment and Tool (CaNBAT)
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Low-Temperature Architected Cementation Agents (LAMINAE)
• University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) - Extremely Durable and Low-Cost Concrete: Ultralow Binder Content and Ultrahigh Tensile Ductility
• University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder) - Geopolymer Cements: Resistance-Engineered Sewer Infrastructure For Longevity Using Innovative, Energy-Efficient, Synthesis Techniques (RESILIENT)
• University of Connecticut - Detection and Fixation - A Lifecycle-management Framework Towards an SF6-Free Green Power Network
• University of Connecticut - Topology Optimization Of Additively Manufactured Heat-Exchanger Plates For Enhanced Performance (TOP-HEX)
• University of Florida - Boron Concrete For Active Formation of Lithium As Mitigation of Neutron-Induced Expansion and Passive Neutron Absorption
• University of Houston - Low-Cost, High-Rate Fabrication of High-Performance, Uniform, Long REBCO Conductors
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - Rapid AI-based Dissection of Ashes using Raman and XRF Spectroscopy (RADAR-X)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - Midwest Bioenergy Crop Landscape Laboratory (MBC-Lab): Capturing Spatio-temporal and Managerial Variations to Provide a Gold Standard Data and Platform for Validating Field-level Emission from Bioenergy Crops
• University of Kentucky - Belite Cement, and Concretes; Novel Low-Energy Approaches To Making Concrete Extremely Durable
• University of Michigan - Development of an Extremely Durable Concrete (EDC) - A Novel Approach Coupling Chemistry and Autogenous Crack Width Control
• University of Michigan - Systematic Evaluation of Claims Of Excess Heat Generation Form Deuteration Of Palladium-Nickel Nanocomposites
• University of Michigan - Ionizing Radiation Detection for Exploratory Experiments In Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
• University of Michigan - Electrochemical Direct Air Capture of CO2 Using Redox-Active Textiles
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) - Novel Commercial Farm-field Network to Quantify Emissions and Carbon Storage from Agricultural Bioenergy Feedstock Production
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) - Extrapolation Domains for Aggregating Environmental Outcomes from Local to Regional Levels
• University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (UND-EERC) - Hydrolytic Softening of Ocean Water for Carbon Dioxide Removal
• University of Notre Dame - GaN Core-shell Nanofin Vertical Transistor (CoNVerT): A New Direction for Power Electronics
• University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics - LLE Diagnostic Resource Team for the Advancement of Innovative Fusion Concepts
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) - Ultra-Light Tightly-Integrated Modular Aviation-Transportation Enabling Solid-State Circuit Breaker (ULTIMATE-SSCB)
• University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) - Nanotechnology-Enabled Transformer Life Extension
• University of Utah - Self-Sustaining Cementitious Systems in Roman Reactive Glass Concretes
• University of Washington (UW) - Parametric Open Data for Life Cycle Assessment
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) - Multi-Physics Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing for High-Temperature Heat Exchangers
• Verdox - Electro-swing Adsorption for High Efficiency Direct Air Capture
• Verne - Decoupling High-Density Hydrogen from the Liquid Hydrogen Infrastructure: Catalyst-Filled Heat Exchangers for Modular Cryo-Compressors
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) - High Power Density Cost-Effective MV DC Aircraft Cable
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) - Physical, Chemical, and Mineralogical Characterizations of MSWI Ash Product and Recommendations for Downstream Processing
• Washington State University (WSU) - Biopolymer Modified Cementitious Systems with Radically Superior Strength and Durability
• Western Research Institute - Polymer/Oil Co-processing to Yield Liquid Products (MEME-CCS)
• WH-Power - Low Cost All Temperature Zinc-pulp Battery for Stationary Storage
• XFlow Energy - Low-Cost Wind Energy Through Dense VAWT Arrays: Fatigue Loads and Power Performance Risk Mitigation
• Zephyr Innovations - Air Conditioning via Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification