Argonne selects five startup founders for energy and advanced-materials program
Argonne National Laboratory announced five startup founders for the 2026 cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations. The two-year program will embed the entrepreneurs full time at the laboratory with access to researchers, facilities and commercialization support.
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The cohort covers passive cooling coatings, photosynthetic biomanufacturing, electrochemical separation membranes, thermoelectric materials for electricity from data-center waste heat, and sodium-ion battery anodes. These are technologies to be developed; the announcement reports no completed commercial products or verified aggregate energy savings.
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Argonne selects five startup founders for energy and advanced-materials program
Argonne National Laboratory announced five startup founders for the 2026 cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations. The two-year program will embed the entrepreneurs full time at the laboratory with access to researchers, facilities and commercialization support.
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