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| | Same-Point, Inc. | Mark Kingsley | President & CEO |
Small Business
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| Office of Electricity, AOI 1: T&D digital twins / load interconnection support | Same-Point lets existing, already-interconnected solar farms host firm AI compute, starting with cooling, using the land and grid connection already in place, so the utility can approve large new load with no new interconnect. Seeking a national lab partner on load-interconnection support and field validation at an operating PV site. Small business; cost share available. |
| TX |
| | Critical Materials Technologies LLC | Nathan Lude | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| CMEI AOI 6: Advanced Technologies for Domestic Critical Mineral Extraction, Midstream Processing, and Recycling – antimony or tungsten | Critical Materials Technologies LLC (CMT) is developing commercialisation opportunities in antimony and tungsten extraction, purification and recovery for U.S. critical-material supply chains. CMT is progressing licensing discussions with Rice University relating to antimony extraction and subsequent electrodeposition and coating developments, and is exploring a tungsten research programme.
CMT seeks a DOE National Laboratory partner with existing laboratory-developed technology meeting CLIMR eligibility and readiness requirements that could complement this work. We envisage a focused project addressing one defined mineral feedstock and target intermediate, with measurable recovery, purity, impurity control, reagent recycling and process-economic objectives.
Potential contributions include commercialisation planning, customer and offtaker engagement, product-specification development and coordination of feedstock access. Representative U.S. tungsten material could potentially be sourced through AM74, subject to agreement and characterisation. Rice and AM74 participation would require separate agreement; no laboratory partnership is yet confirmed.
CMT welcomes discussions with laboratory investigators developing CLIMR concepts in critical-mineral processing. We are interested in assessing complementary technologies, technical validation and pathways to customer qualification and scale-up. Project scope, IP rights and any cost-share would be agreed with the project partners. |
| Western Australia |
| | Watchfuly Inc. | Nikhil Kriplani | CEO |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Office of Electricity, AOI 1, T&D Circuit Digital Twins for Preventive Maintenance and Load Interconnection Support. | Watchfuly, Inc. is a small business building Plexus, an always-on digital twin of utility distribution circuits. Plexus automatically identifies the binding component constraint on each feeder and delivers hosting capacity, large-load and DER interconnection screening, non-wires alternatives, and reliability analytics. We are extending it with condition-aware modeling that replaces nameplate ratings with asset-health-adjusted parameters, so the twin can flag equipment at risk before it fails. No neural surrogates are used, so results hold up for planning and regulatory use.
Interest (OE AOI 1, T&D Circuit Digital Twins): we want to serve as the commercialization partner for National Lab-developed grid modeling, digital twin, data synthesis, or T&D co-simulation technology. We bring a working platform to integrate lab IP into, direct relationships with electric cooperatives and mid-sized utilities for field validation, and a path to market through pilots and subscriptions. We are especially interested in lab work on unified transmission-distribution power flow, building feeder models from incomplete utility data, and asset-health-aware load interconnection studies. As a small business, we qualify a partner lab for the reduced cost-share subtopic (b). |
| NC |
| | Inventra Technologies LLC | Hassan Amini | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| | Inventra Technologies LLC (d/b/a Intel-E-Waste) is a Pennsylvania-based small business developing and commercializing technologies for recovering critical and valuable materials from end-of-life electronics and solar panels. Our process platform combines selective liberation, mechanical and physical separation, concentration, and targeted recovery to produce higher-value material streams including copper, aluminum, silver, silicon, precious metals, and rare-earth-bearing materials.
Inventra is interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories to advance and commercialize technologies related to critical-material recovery from secondary feedstocks, material upcycling and refining, process optimization, and scale-up.
We can contribute representative e-scrap and solar-panel feedstocks, pilot-scale processing and testing, flowsheet development and process integration, and techno-economic, industry validation, and connections with recycling, equipment, smelting/refining, and downstream partners.
Our technologies are currently advancing through pilot-scale validation toward commercial deployment. Inventra has received support and recognition through the DOE E-SCRAP Prize, NSF I-Corps, NSF STTR Phase I, and the NSF Tech Metal Transformation Challenge.
We are particularly interested in National Laboratory technologies that can improve material recovery, product purity, throughput, energy efficiency, or process economics and can be integrated into scalable domestic recycling systems. |
| PA |
| | Clean Core Thorium Energy, Inc. | Said Roubi | Technical Consultant |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| CMEI AOI#6: Advanced Technologies for Domestic Critical Mineral Extraction, Midstream Processing, and Recycling; NE AOI#1: Reactor Concepts Research, Development and Demonstration; NE AOI#2: Fuel Cycle Research and Development (NE-FCR&D) | CCTE is a US-based nuclear fuel company developing a fuel platform (called ANEEL) positioned for the existing fleet and future advanced reactors. ANEEL is a flexibly designed fuel that can contribute to a resilient nuclear fuel supply chain by leveraging the advantages of a US-based thorium supply.
In a reactor, ANEEL can offer increased availability, enhanced safety, better economics, improved performance and proliferation resistance compared to conventional oxide fuels while leveraging the existing oxide supply chains.
CCTE has successfully conducted critical testing at Idaho National Laboratory and is partnering with INL to develop a thorium supply chain using ore from US mines. By developing these technologies and supply chains, CCTE will help strengthen US economic and industrial independence while securing our own material needs. |
| IL |
| | NewGenium Inc. | Casper Brady | Senior Scientist & Co-founder |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| Lithium extraction and brine processing | NewGenium is a California based startup company focused on commercializing a proprietary ion exchange based lithium extraction technology for producing lithium battery materials from domestic U.S. lithium bearing brines.
We are interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories in the scale up and commercialization of novel brine processing technologies. Our overall brine extraction process train relies on several proprietary processes developed in house. However, we also rely on several technically mature brine processing technologies. Novel technologies developed at the National Laboratories which concentrate brine or selectively remove certain components may be of interest for integration in to our overall process train and subsequent scale up and commercialization.
Our team has experience and capabilities in ion exchange material fabrication, brine characterization (ICP-OES and IC), lithium cathode material synthesis, and the scale up of brine processing technologies. We would welcome introductory conversations with National Laboratory teams interested in these or related fields. |
| CA |
| | Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation | Andre Sharon | Center Director |
Non-Profit
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| CMEI: Affordable, Next-Generation Buildings; Industrial Competitiveness; Manufacturing and Scale Up for Energy Applications | The Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation CMI is an established performer of applied R&D contracts for industry and government, with expertise in in developing and deploying custom turnkey industrial automation solutions for a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, materials, consumer products, construction, photonics, energy and biotechnology. Founded in 1995 and based on the Boston University campus, CMI has a worked with several government agencies, including: DOE, DoD, Massachusetts DOER, NSF and NYSERDA, as well as numerous companies including startups all the way to the largest multi-nationals. Examples industrial projects include a fully automated factory for plant-based pharmaceuticals production, a specialty rolling mill to produce bulk metallic glass substrates, metrology equipment for the production of fuel cells, and a laser-based gantry robotic system that images and modifies glass façades on high-rise buildings.
1. High-speed manufacturing techniques for processes such as forming, stamping, molding, sealing, joining, coating, and roll-to-roll processing
2. Best practices for material and component handling
3. Additive and automated manufacturing/assembly processes
4. Technologies for in-line diagnostics and quality control/quality assurance
5. Sensors and other technologies to reduce manufacturing defects in high-throughput production
6. Mechanical design
7. Product development
8. Hardware and software prototyping and testing
9. Industrial automation
10. Design for manufacture (DFM)
11. Distributed energy resources (DER) integration and value stacking
12. Field testing, monitoring, and evaluation
13. Flexible building load modeling and prediction
14. Multi-objective control optimization
15. Whole-building and equipment fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) algorithm and tool development |
| MA |
| | ADIN | Priyanka Desai | General Partner |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Nuclear Energy topics; CMEI AOI 6 (Domestic Critical Mineral Extraction, Midstream Processing, and Recycling); HGEO AOI 1 (Quantum Sensing for Subsurface Applications) | ADIN is an early-stage venture firm in Brooklyn, NY that invests $100K to $250K at pre-seed and seed. Our portfolio includes Diffraqtion, an MIT/UMD quantum imaging spinout with a DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase II award, and Terranox AI, which applies AI to uranium discovery. We review about 3,000 companies a year through about 1,200 scouts and software agents that track grant awards, arXiv, and university spinouts.
For a lab team, we can help with: judging whether a lab technology can support a venture-backed company; finding or vetting founders and spinout teams; customer discovery through our portfolio and co-investor network; and introductions to co-investors for a spinout's first round. Co-investors in our portfolio include General Catalyst, Lockheed Martin Ventures, and Tim Draper.
Interest: nuclear energy (including AI for uranium exploration), domestic critical mineral extraction, processing, and recycling, and quantum sensing for subsurface applications. We do not provide cost-share unless agreed in writing for a specific project. |
| NY |
| | Mote, Inc. | Joshuah Stolaroff | Dr |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Advanced Technologies of Air Separation Unit (High Purity Oxygen) for Modular Gasification and Oxy-Combustion | Background
Mote, Inc. is developing modular biomass gasification platforms that convert waste biomass from wildfire mitigation programs and agricultural residues into valuable products while supporting the beneficial utilization of underused biomass resources. Our modular platforms integrate feedstock feeding, gasification, syngas cleanup, and downstream processing to produce high-purity streams of hydrogen (H₂) and carbon dioxide (CO₂).
Interest:
Mote is currently commissioning its Advanced Testing Center (ATC), a pilot-scale platform that provides an integrated environment for technology development, process optimization, and validation. The ATC will enable Mote to test and de-risk individual technologies within the complete process, evaluate process integration, and generate operating data to inform the design and deployment of our first commercial modules. Mote is progressing toward commercial deployment while continuing to develop and validate technologies that can improve system performance, efficiency, and cost.
Mote is interested in partnering with a National Laboratory under HGEO Area of Interest 4 “Advanced Technologies of Air Separation Unit (ASU)”, to bring new technologies toward commercialization within our modular biomass gasification platforms. High-purity oxygen is an important component of our gasification process, and integrating an advanced ASU technology could provide opportunities to improve the performance, efficiency, and economics of our commercial systems.
Capabilities:
Mote can provide a relevant pilot-scale platform and commercial pathway for technology validation and integration. Our ATC offers the opportunity to evaluate advanced ASU technologies under representative process conditions and assess their integration with biomass feeding, gasification, syngas cleanup, and downstream processing. Following successful validation, Mote has the capability to incorporate the final technology and system design into our commercial modular platforms.
We are seeking a National Laboratory partner with complementary expertise in advanced oxygen separation and ASU technologies to jointly evaluate, validate, and advance an integrated solution from pilot-scale demonstration toward commercial deployment. |
| CA |
| | Eslinger Biofuels | Jeremy Eslinger | CEO |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| Integrated biorefinery demonstration; alternative fuels and chemicals; feedstock pretreatment; separations; process integration; fuel storage and distribution | INTEGRATED COMMERCIALIZATION SITE: Eslinger Biofuels, a Fresno, California small business, offers DOE National Laboratory partners an integrated biorefinery and terminal with biodiesel nameplate capacity of 5 million gallons per year. Feedstock collection, pretreatment, processing, onsite analysis, blending, storage, and distribution are connected at one site, creating a practical pathway to evaluate laboratory-developed technologies in an industrial setting.
PROCESS INFRASTRUCTURE: Distillation, heat exchangers, a natural gas-fired boiler, steam utilities, and supporting balance of plant provide integration opportunities for feedstock conditioning, separations, thermal processing, and energy recovery. The site includes tank storage, truck loading, a truck scale, rail siding, and solar. Additional equipment space and existing utilities offer opportunities to integrate modular units and advanced-feedstock trials subject to engineering and permitting review.
INTEGRATED ANALYTICAL LABORATORY: Computerized feedstock analysis and measurement capabilities are supported by gas chromatography, centrifugation, Karl Fischer titration, and other onsite laboratory methods. Co-located processing and analysis can support iterative feedstock characterization, process sampling, moisture measurement, and product evaluation, linking trial results to operating decisions. Protocols would be defined with the lab partner.
PARTNERSHIP FOCUS: Pretreatment and contaminant removal; conversion and catalytic upgrading of waste-derived oils and advanced feedstocks; separations and purification; process controls; heat integration; and renewable fuels and value-added chemicals. Renewable diesel distribution is an existing activity; renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production are development pathways.
VALUE TO LAB PARTNERS: Potential access to feedstocks, operator expertise, analytical support, process integration opportunities, and commercial market requirements. Joint work could quantify yield, product quality, contaminant tolerance, energy use, reliability, and processing cost, with techno-economic and life-cycle assessment. Our goal is to help bridge laboratory validation, industrial demonstration, licensing, and commercial deployment through existing processing and distribution infrastructure. We seek partners with eligible lab-developed technologies and commercialization goals. Site access, scope, IP, and cost share would be agreed separately. |
| CA |
| | Grid Catalyst | Nina Axelson | President |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | Grid Catalyst is a technology commercialization partner that helps innovators and startups move energy technologies from prototype to market adoption across TRL 4-8. We specialize in thermal and grid systems, energy storage, electrification, district energy, and building technologies. We have experience partnering with national labs on technology validation, industry research, and market development, and over 20 years of experience working with utilities and industry adopters. We have specialty expertise in TRL and ARL advancement, particularly in pilot pathways.
Market Evaluation and Technology Fit: Customer discovery, competitive and differentiation analysis, value proposition development, and identification of target segments and early adopters, giving proposals clear evidence of market need and commercial potential.
Commercialization Development: Commercialization plans, go-to-market and licensing strategy, business model and technoeconomic framing, and identification of licensees, CRADA partners, and follow-on investment.
Pilot Scoping and Pilot Readiness: Defining pilot objectives, host sites, success criteria, and performance metrics; assessing technical, operational, and procurement readiness; and connecting lab teams with utilities, building owners, district energy operators, and industrial end users to host demonstrations.
ARL and TRL Advancement: Structuring work plans around the Adoption Readiness Level framework, targeting high-risk ARL areas, and designing commercialization tasks and metrics (licenses, CRADAs, partnerships, private investment) that show measurable ARL gains during the project.
Partner and Cost-Share Facilitation: Helping labs recruit and align industry partners, cost-share contributors, and letters of commitment that strengthen merit review.
Relevant AOIs: CMEI AOI 1 (next-generation buildings, dual-fuel HVAC, controls), AOI 2 (industrial thermal processes, heat exchangers, thermal energy storage, data centers and large loads), AOI 5 (thermal energy systems, systems integration, power electronics), and AOI 7 (manufacturing scale-up for energy storage and grid hardware); OE AOI 1 (T&D digital twins) and AOI 3 (energy storage cost and safety); and HGEO AOI 10 (geothermal power generation and cooling systems).
Grid Catalyst can support lab teams from concept paper through full application and project execution, helping turn lab innovation into deployed, market-ready solutions. |
| MN |
| | Hearthion | Tony Calabro | VP Software Products and Partnerships |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Technologies for Affordable, Next-Generation Buildings | At Hearthion we're building a heat pump with an integrated battery. The battery is DC-coupled to the heat pump through a shared DC bus, with DC solar input, a bidirectional inverter, and a smart controller for demand response, VPP integration and peak-rate avoidance. We'd like to commercialize and scale lab technology in three areas:
- Advanced power electronics for DC-coupled, bidirectional, grid-supportive integration
- Energy optimization algorithms for heat pumps and storage working together
- Sodium-ion batteries for safe, low-cost storage inside the home |
| PA |
| | Frosch Advanced Technologies | Matthew Frosch | Founder |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | Advanced Manufacturing leveraging alternative feedstocks and bio-processes, closed loop design and alternative energy sources. Advancing capabilities in critical mineral and rare earth extraction via alternative feedstocks and waste processes. Performing development of bio-derived leaching capabilities. |
| AZ |
| | Activate | Daniel Recht | Chief Fellowship Officer |
Non-Profit
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Technology Commercialization
| | Founded in 2015, Activate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to build the community that drives science into impact. We accomplish this mission by:
-Growing the next generation of hard tech leaders;
-Creating demand for leaders who bridge science and business;
-Advocating for viable private investment and partnership models;
-Promoting consistent, impact-driven public sector support; and
-Strengthening academic cultures that prioritize value-driven innovation.
Activate’s flagship U.S. entrepreneurial fellowship originated at Cyclotron Road, a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and founding Activate partner, and is the gold-standard entrepreneurial fellowship tailored for scientists and engineers. Using a cohort-based, two-year program, Activate enables technical founders to bring their critical hard tech research to market, supporting them as they de-risk their technology, define first markets, build their teams, and secure follow-on investment from additional public and private sources. Since its inception, Activate has refined and leveraged this model to support 346 fellows in founding 274 category-leading companies that would otherwise not exist, including many across both Hydrogen and Fuel Cells and Bioenergy. Ninety-five percent of these companies are still in operation today, having thus far created nearly 4,000 jobs and raised $6.4B in follow-on funding.
Activate’s core expertise is in recruiting, selecting, and developing technical founders with promising technologies into entrepreneurial leaders who can commercialize their breakthrough research. Our U.S. Fellowship serves up to 50 companies per year across four in-residence communities located in primary and emerging innovation hubs (the Bay Area, Boston, New York City, and Houston), as well as our virtual program (“Anywhere”), available to fellows nationwide. Activate is interested in partnering with national labs, early-stage technical founders from a wide range of educational and professional experiences or those intending to become founders, including PIs, researchers (Master's or above), and technical experts from industry. |
| CA |
| | HAMFOP Technologies LLC | Mudasir Ahmad | CEO |
Small Business
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Integrated Energy Systems
| | HAMFOP Technologies has developed a novel technology which has applications in multiple industries:
1. Transportation Technology: Advanced Motors, Powertrains, HVAC and Power Electronics
2. Thermal Energy Systems: Novel Desalination, Irrigation and Thermal Management
3. Battery Thermal Management: Novel thermal management of batteries to improve overall efficiency and lengthen lifetime
4. Next Generation Buildings: Advanced Window Technology to improve the efficiency, cost and scalability of tunable Windows across all geographies.
5. Other applications
The technology is patented and proofs-of-concept have been built. It needs to be adapted for commercialization in each of the listed areas. Key partnership discussions have already taken place with at least one National Lab with NDAs in place. We are excited about the opportunity to partner with National Labs to deliver unprecedented value by combining our technology with the expertize, capabilities and domain knowledge in multiple US National Labs.
Please reach out for a more detailed discussion. |
| CA |
| | Blauweiss E.D.V. | Ian Matejka | Founder / Technical Lead |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| AI-Enabled Subsurface Modeling and Reservoir Simulation | Blauweiss E.D.V. is developing CLARISSA, an agentic AI system for subsurface and reservoir simulation. CLARISSA translates engineering intent expressed in natural language into executable reservoir simulation models, supports model editing and repair, executes simulations, and applies deterministic engineering and physics-based validation before results are returned to the engineer.
The platform includes PetroScript, a typed simulator-authoring layer, and RIGOR, an execution-based benchmark for evaluating AI-generated reservoir models using simulator outputs and deterministic checks rather than relying solely on language-model judgment.
Blauweiss is interested in teaming with DOE National Laboratories, universities, technology developers, and industry partners on projects involving AI-enabled subsurface characterization, reservoir modeling, carbon storage/CCUS, geothermal systems, enhanced recovery, scientific AI, digital twins, model validation, and autonomous engineering workflows.
We are particularly interested in projects where CLARISSA can serve as an AI orchestration and simulation layer connecting subsurface data, engineering workflows, numerical simulators, and verification tools. Blauweiss can contribute agentic AI architecture, reservoir-engineering workflows, simulator integration, benchmark development, model validation, and rapid prototyping. |
| TX |
| | Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation CMI | Andre Sharon | Executive Director |
Non-Profit
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI) conducts applied R&D leading to the deployment of technological solutions that enhance the productivity and competitive position of our customers. Fraunhofer USA goes beyond the scope of traditional academic research by scaling up and deploying actual working technologies all the way to production. At CMI, we have more than 30 years of experience developing turnkey automation solutions for industrial customers needing to scale up manufacturing for new product introductions, or necessitating increased efficiency, higher yields, and lower skill level. The range of industries includes aerospace, automotive, materials processing, biotech/biomedical, consumer products, and fiber-optics/photonics. Our capabilities include development of high speed, flexible automation equipment, high-precision assembly and component handling, AI-based inspection, additive manufacturing, software development and design for manufacturing (DFM). Much of our research is driven by market-pull, in that we develop solutions for existing problems and needs, thereby almost always resulting in transition to operational deployment. We have deployed numerous next-generation automations systems, devices and instruments to a variety of industries, ranging from sub-micron, high-precision machinery for optoelectronics, biotech/biomedical, and semiconductor fabrication to laser-based processing machinery to high-speed assembly of consumer products. As an example, we have developed and deployed a very sophisticated automated fiber optic winder for the production of fiber optic gyroscopes to several defense contractors, including Honeywell, KVH, and Northrop Grumman. This winder is capable of winding coils for tactical, navigation and strategic-grade gyroscopes.
As a DOE contractor, we have developed numerous innovative solutions at high TRL ranging from plug-and-play PV technology to dramatically accelerate PV approval process, to an AI-based automated system for scalable residential buildings retrofits, to advanced load management system for large industrial/commercial buildings, to a scalable automated system for physics-informed load control of individual homes or a community of homes. Our capabilities include distributed energy resources (DER) integration and value stacking, field testing, monitoring, and evaluation, flexible building load modeling and prediction, and multi-objective control optimization. |
| MA |
| | Firefly Energy Technologies LLC | Craig Lawton | President |
Incorporated Consortia
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Technology Commercialization
| DOE OE | As President and CEO of Firefly Energy Technologies, I have over 30 years working with national laboratories including 20+ years working on energy systems in the context of national security. At Firefly Energy Technologies, we are developing a suite of tools that offer advanced simulation, modeling and analysis of Data Centers combined with microgrids in order to evaluate energy needs and technologies to ensure a resilient energy future amid surging energy demands. Our capabilities use state of the art Machine Learning/Reinforcement learning, high fidelity simulation, and multi-objective optimization algorithms to identify optimal data center/energy system designs and operations. |
| NM |
| | Environmental Decontamination Limited | Hunter Anderson | Chief Strategy Officer |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| Mechanical Activation | Environmental Decontamination Ltd (EDL®) is a New Zealand-based deep-tech company specializing in high-energy milling and mechanochemical processing technologies. We have recently expanded and incorporated in the U.S. and have a treatability lab in San Antonio, TX.
At EDL, we design and fabricate proprietary milling systems capable of producing tightly controlled micronised powders while simultaneously inducing structural and surface modifications in materials. Our recent work includes:
-Processing printed circuit boards into fine powders to enhance precious metal comminution and downstream recovery.
-Fine grinding of volcanic pumices for performance-critical applications.
-Converting mussel shells into high-purity calcium carbonate powders via integrated milling and classification systems.
Beyond particle size reduction, our mechanochemical approach can enhance mineral liberation, increase reactive surface area, and modify mineral matrices in ways that may improve downstream extraction efficiency.
We would be interested in exploring whether EDL’s milling technologies could add value to the upfront processing of materials such as mine tailings, e-waste, etc.. where liberation efficiency, recovery performance, or energy optimization are key considerations. |
| TX |
| | University of North Dakota | Junior Nasah | Director - CEM Research Institute |
Academic
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Technology Commercialization
| AOI 6: Advanced Technologies for Domestic Critical Mineral Extraction, Midstream Processing and Recycling | A team led by the University of the North Dakota is preparing for a large demonstration of their technology for recovering critical materials from North Dakota lignite. The proposed technology produces a mixed rare earth concentrate ready for downstream separation into respective elements of interest. We are looking for complementary technologies that are compatible with our process such as novel separation solutions for our MREC product or improvements in the recovery of critical materials from the coal feedstock. |
| ND |
| | Iteron Labs, Inc. | Saeb Besarati | CEO and Co-founder |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| Advanced Technologies for Domestic Critical Mineral Extraction, Midstream Processing, and Recycling | Iteron Labs Inc. is a U.S. startup focused on solid sorbent technologies for critical mineral separation and recovery. Our initial focus is rare-earth recovery, with broader interest in other critical minerals and materials.
We seek partnerships with DOE National Laboratories developing solid sorbent technologies to help advance promising innovations from the lab to the field. Iteron brings expertise in technology scale-up, process and systems engineering, techno-economic assessment, and commercialization.
Our founding team combines experience in adsorption, computational materials discovery, and chemical engineering with leadership in sorbent-based technology development and scale-up. We are interested in collaborative development and commercialization partnerships that combine National Laboratory innovations with Iteron’s engineering expertise. |
| CA |
| | RM ENERGY CONSULTING | Richard McClain | Principal |
Small Business
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Office of Electricity (OE) — Transmission and Distribution Circuit Digital Twins for Preventive Maintenance and Load Interconnection Support | Since 2005, RM Energy Consulting has provided energy consulting focused on energy analysis, strategic program development, utility and market research, and commercialization support.
We help organizations evaluate complex energy opportunities, identify technical and commercial constraints, assess program and market potential, develop strategic initiatives, and translate analysis into practical plans for utilities, energy companies, contractors, and infrastructure stakeholders.
RM Energy Consulting is interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on the analysis, commercialization, and strategic-program side of emerging energy technologies. Potential contributions include market and program analysis, strategic planning, utility and stakeholder research, commercialization strategy, pilot-program design, opportunity assessment, and development of pathways from technical innovation to practical industry adoption.
We are particularly interested in grid modernization, transmission and distribution systems, load interconnection, digital twins, energy efficiency, and other technologies where strong analysis and strategic program design can accelerate adoption.
We welcome conversations with National Laboratory teams seeking an experienced small-business partner for analysis, strategic programs, commercialization planning, and industry engagement. |
| UT |
| | RM-UCIE LLC | Chrystal Fabian | Founder |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Office of Electricity (OE) — Transmission and Distribution Circuit Digital Twins for Preventive Maintenance and Load Interconnection Support | RM-UCIE LLC is a Utah-based small business developing evidence-governed decision intelligence for complex infrastructure. RM-UCIE is designed to help organizations identify binding constraints, determine what evidence supports a conclusion, identify missing information, and evaluate which actions can legitimately change a system or decision state.
We are particularly interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on transmission and distribution digital twins, grid modeling, load interconnection, capacity constraints, and related commercialization efforts. RM-UCIE’s focus is complementary to underlying modeling and simulation technologies: helping translate technical outputs and supporting evidence into traceable utility decisions, infrastructure readiness assessments, and actionable workflows.
RM-UCIE is interested in contributing to commercialization planning, industry use-case development, decision-workflow integration, validation approaches, and pathways that help move National Laboratory technologies toward practical utility and industry adoption. We welcome conversations with National Laboratory teams developing concepts related to Office of Electricity grid modernization and digital-twin applications. |
| UT |
| | Jost Chemical Company | Douglas Jost | Chief Innovation Officer |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Processes using salts | I am interested in developing processes (hydrothermal, high frequency ultrasound, thermoacoustic, photochemical, etc) using optimally prepared salts (solid, molten, ionic liquid, plasma) for the following purposes:
- depolymerization of waste plastics (PE,PP,PVC,PTFE, etc) into useful hydrocarbons for fuel and polymer feedstock
-depolymerization of cellulose to glucose and oxidation of glucose to gluconic acid and saccharic acid
-environmentally friendly reactions for thrust for rockets and missiles to replace chlorates and perchlorates
-environmentally friendly formation of smoke screens for protection of military assets |
| MO |
| | Dharani Materials, Inc. | Ajit Pradhan | Founder and CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| Direct lithium extraction; critical mineral recovery from produced water and geothermal brines; sorbent commercialization | Dharani Materials, Inc. is an early-stage company commercializing DOE national laboratory sorbent technologies for domestic lithium and critical mineral recovery from low-grade brines, with a near-term focus on oil and gas produced water.
Interest: We seek to partner with DOE National Laboratories, and with companies offering complementary capabilities such as brine pretreatment, concentration, and water handling, to mature and commercialize high-capacity aluminum-based layered double hydroxide (LDH) sorbents for direct lithium extraction (DLE). Our focus is adapting these sorbents to the low lithium concentrations, high salinity, and organic content of produced water and geothermal brines, and integrating them into modular, capital-light recovery systems deployable at existing water-handling sites.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Ajit Pradhan, PhD (Chemistry), brings 21 years of Chevron R&D leadership, including leading Analytical Services and supporting upstream and downstream operations. He holds 24 patents and 34 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the Industry Advisory Board of DOE's Agile BioFoundry.
Technical: expertise in brine chemistry, sorbent characterization (including solid-state NMR), analytical method development, process integration and process and product commercialization.
Commercial: established relationships with oil and gas operators, produced-water and geothermal resource developers, and university research partners; techno-economic analysis capability through our advisory team.
Infrastructure: access to laboratory space and analytical facilities through Bakar Labs (UC Berkeley).
As a lab partner, Dharani can contribute market and customer insight, field feedstock access through operator relationships, techno-economic analysis, commercialization planning, and in-kind cost share, and serves as a committed commercialization pathway for laboratory-developed critical mineral technologies. |
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