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| | Cortix Tech | Valmor F. de Almeida | Technical Lead |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Cortix Tech is an R&D company that provides technical support, integration, and simulation on top of the Cortix platform. We model complex systems, run scalable studies, and provide AI-ready scientific data for training and user consumption.
Areas of interest:
Nuclear chemical engineering (nuclear materials productions, reprocessing, milling, purification, conversion)
Social sciences
Training and Certification |
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| | BW&CO | Robert Wegner | CRO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| BW&CO Consulting helps emerging technology companies secure and execute non-dilutive funding from federal agencies, state programs, foundations, and strategic public-sector partners. BW&CO supports clients across the full funding lifecycle, including opportunity identification, funding strategy, proposal development, stakeholder outreach, submission support, and post-award positioning.
BW&CO brings a systematic, data-informed approach. Rather than relying only on individual consultant experience, BW&CO applies lessons learned from 3,000+ funded proposals representing $3B+ in awards. This gives clients pattern recognition across agencies, technical domains, review criteria, and award pathways.
Services include identifying and prioritizing funding opportunities; proposal writing, review, and editing; technical and commercialization positioning; budget and milestone support; stakeholder outreach strategy; and monitoring across funding sources.
Key Differentiators
1. Unmatched Funding Experience
BW&CO applies lessons learned from 3,000+ funded proposals and $3B+ awarded to every engagement. While traditional consultants often rely on limited individual experience, BW&CO brings insight from thousands of successful funding efforts. One client with former senior defense leaders relies on BW&CO because the firm provides funding intelligence and competitive positioning they cannot replicate.
2. Front Door + Back Door Approach
Traditional consultants often focus only on the published solicitation. BW&CO also analyzes underlying funding dynamics, including agency priorities, stakeholder interests, direct outreach opportunities, and non-obvious pathways to award. This helped one client uncover a non-public fast-track pathway.
3. Broad Opportunity Coverage
Many firms focus narrowly on one funding stream. BW&CO monitors hundreds of opportunities daily and identifies pathways across agencies, programs, and strategic partners. This helped one client find an opportunity they did not know existed, leading to their first federal defense contract. |
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| | Allosterix, LLC | Przemyslaw G. Czyryca | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Innovative enrichment technology - isotopic fractionation, albeit minuscule, commonly accompanies phase partition. Therefore, a chromatographic process, specifically designed to have multiple theoretical plates (not all variants of chromatography do!), will also execute multiple, sequential isotopic fractionation equilibria, i.e. will act as an isotopic enrichment cascade within a single chromatographic column, combining these small fractionation events into a larger net enrichment.
The process is uniquely simple, inexpensive and fast to develop and deploy as a variant of preparative-scale gas chromatography. Allosterix has revived this previously dormant (due to its dual-use potential and regulatory burden) project in response to the 2024 embargo and acute deficit of U.S. domestic enrichment capacity, and secured the relevant IP. The project was previously submitted to DOE under DE-FOA-0003487, but the entire R&D topic area was subsequently cancelled. DOE peer review expressly termed the technology "disruptive" - Allosterix will be happy to share that review with potential partners. It is a separate question why this property of chromatography has not been identified before - arguably due to the prior focus on the capture-regeneration variants of chromatography.
Fuel manufacturers interested in owning the entire supply chain will be the preferred partners. |
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| | Purdue University | Xiaoliang Wei | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My research is rooted in electrochemical energy conversion and storage with a primary focus on redox flow batteries. My expertise spans over a wide range from organic and inorganic electro-active materials, aqueous and nonaqueous electrolytes, membranes, electrodes, electrocatalysis, multi-cell stacks, electrochemical reactor design, and techno-economic analysis. My interest in advanced reactor fuels is in the separation of lithium isotopes that are essentially important for both fission- and fusion- based nuclear reactors. Among the two isotopes, 7Li has served as a pH controller or a molten salt coolant in fission reactors that require >99.9% isotopic purity; and 6Li with >30% enriched abundance can be used to produce tritium fuel in fusion reactors via neutron bombardment. Considering their natural abundance of 7.5% 6Li and 92.5% 7Li, separation of the two isotopes to reach the favored enrichment levels is required for these applications. Currently, the only industrial scale isotope separation method is the lithium amalgam process (COLEX), which is based on the stronger affinity of 6Li than 7Li with elemental mercury. Despite the good separation factor, the COLEX method has severe technical and environmental concerns such as high energy consumption, decomposition of the amalgam, and generation of toxic mercury vapors and wastes. Herein, we have achieved a proof-of-concept demonstration of a redox flow battery-based electrochemical method to separate these two isotopes. Using electrons to drive the isotope separation, we have obtained good separation factors under lab-scale room temperature cell operations. The preliminary results indicate exceptional advantages of energy efficiency, fast rate, cost-effectiveness, and environmentally friendliness. |
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| | UC Berkeley | Massimiliano Fratoni | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Extensive experience in the design and development of advanced reactors, including molten salt reactors, pebble bed reactors, liquid-metal-cooled fast reactors, and micro-reactors. Extensive work on the back end of the fuel cycle going at different fuel cycle options as well disposal pathways. Neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and uncertainty quantification capabilities. |
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| | Sandia National Labortories | Matthew Christian | Staff Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| MELCOR is a fully integrated, engineering-scale severe accident analysis code developed and maintained by Sandia National Laboratories. While MELCOR is not a fuel fabrication of qualification tool, it provides uniquely valuable system-level capabilities relevant to the development and deployment of advanced transuranic (TRU) fuels. MELCOR's strengths lie in evaluating plant accident progression under beyond-design-basis conditions. These capabilities can help project teams assess how TRU fuel concepts may influence reactor safety margins and source term behavior. MELCOR can support this need through risk-informed analysis across candidate fuel and reactor system designs, enabling a domestic TRU fuel supply chain and accelerating qualification and acceptance. |
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| | Eva Garland Consulting | Dr. Eva Garland | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Eva Garland Consulting (EGC) was established by Dr. Eva Garland in 2013 with a mission to advance science. Over the past decade, EGC has emerged as a global leader in securing non-dilutive funding and providing comprehensive accounting, compliance, tax, and advisory services.
EGC has successfully assisted clients in securing and managing hundreds of grants and contracts, including large DOE awards, totaling over $2 billion. EGC’s 3,000+ clients, spanning 50 states and 5 continents, include universities, startups, large companies, and government agencies. EGC is proud to have supported our clients in progressing technologies from concept to commercialization, contributing new tools to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Built on our principle of Excellence, EGC adopts a tailored and thorough strategy to assist every client in achieving their fundraising objectives.
Through our Proposal Support Services, clients collaborate directly with EGC’s Scientific Grants Experts, all of whom hold Ph.D.s and have deep experience securing funding from numerous government agencies and private foundations. Our services include:
• Writing and submitting proposals
• Support with registrations and budget preparation
• Critical scientific review and editing
• Strategies to increase the competitiveness of the grant applications
Our Experts also craft Strategic Non-Dilutive Funding Plans to meet the specific needs of each of our clients, which include:
• Identification and prioritization of non-dilutive funding opportunities
• Gantt chart of proposal preparation, submission, and funding timelines
• Resources required to support grant submissions
• Strategies to increase competitiveness of grant submissions
Our team’s expertise spans over 100 federal and state agencies and private foundations, which collectively provide over $1 trillion in funding opportunities each year |
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| | University of South Carolina | Theodore M. Besmann | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Extensive experience in measurement of thermal properties and thermochemical modeling of complex nuclear materials and waste forms. Experimental capabilities include high-temperature material synthesis, two low oxygen and moisture gloveboxes, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, and compositional analysis via ICP-OES and inert gas fusion capable of analyzing, all available for low-level radioactive samples, including uranium-bearing materials. Available in 2026-7 will be a 750 ft2 laboratory for performing research with transuranic elements including plutonium and neptunium. The group under Besmann has expertise in using a variety of software for thermochemical analysis and modeling, with complementary first principles calculational capability. |
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| | Baseline Fission Inc | Dr. Chandrashekhar Sonwane, PE | CTO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| We are interested in partnering.
Our expertise:
Reaction Engineering
Reaction Kinetics
Chemistry
Reactor Design
Power Plant modeling
Cost |
| CA |
| | Thor Energy AS | Øystein Asphjell | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Thor Energy AS is a Norwegian nuclear fuel technology company with irradiation-tested thorium-plutonium fuel technology directly applicable to TRU fuel development. Our Th-MOX fuel (thorium-plutonium mixed oxide) was irradiated in the Halden Research Reactor under OECD/IFE oversight, producing one of the most comprehensive Western datasets on this fuel form. This existing data substantially de-risks the path to TRU fuel qualification within the program's seven-year target.
Th-MOX uses plutonium as the fissile driver in a thorium oxide matrix, compatible with existing oxide fuel fabrication infrastructure. Th-MOX offers key advantages as a TRU fuel pathway: a) enables higher initial load of Pu (than U-Mox) enabling faster disposition of Pu. b) will produce much higher amount of usable fissile material in SNF. c) greatly increased safety margins in operation. d) much improved accident scenario performance (in many ways the only Pu-based fuel that can claim true ATF attributes).
Thor Energy also developed ThAdditive (UO2 with ThO2), offering improved fuel performance in existing LWRs. Also irradiation-tested at Halden.
ROLE SOUGHT: Thor Energy contributes fuel design IP, neutronic and fuel performance data from Halden irradiations, and fuel cycle analysis expertise. We seek partners for: oxide pellet fabrication and NRC fuel licensing; irradiation testing, fuel performance modeling, and post-irradiation examination at a DOE national laboratory; a US utility to host a lead test assembly; and advanced reactor developers interested in U-233 as a future fuel source. |
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| | Virginia Commonwealth University | Lane Carasik | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering has significant capabilities in computational and experimental aspects of nuclear engineering relevant to advanced reactor fuels. For computational capabilities, we specialize in multiphysics analysis involving neutronics, thermal hydraulics, and structural mechanics using US DOE NEAMS (MOOSE, Nek5000/NekRS, System Analysis Module, etc) and associated tools. For experimental capabilities, we have an extensive number of scaled surrogate thermal hydraulic flow loops, advanced materials fabrication (cold spray, 3-D metallic printing, metal forming, coatings, etc), and surface characterization of novel materials.
We would love to collaborate with interested parties on this funding opportunity to development of transuranic (TRU) fuels. |
| VA |
| | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Najeb Abdul-Jabbar | Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Thermodynamics, kinetics, and physical properties of nuclear reactor fuels. Capabilities include structural characterization, material synthesis, and thermal analysis. |
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| | Texas A&M University | M M Faruque Hasan | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My expertise is in the areas of scientific machine learning and physics-constrained AI/ML for hybrid modeling, systems design optimization, and techno-economic analysis (TEA), and scale-up. |
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| | Liberty Ion | Evan Erickson | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Let Liberty Ion handle your grant application for you! Liberty Ion is seeking to collaborate on teams responding to ARPA-E’s potential NOFO on Advanced Reactor Fuels (RFI-0000094). The firm helps applicants from start to finish, including building the right team, shaping a strong project narrative, developing a credible and competitive budget, calculating fringe and indirect rates, aligning key personnel, and handling the required application paperwork.
The firm’s founder previously led a cathode manufacturing company as CEO for nearly five years, bringing direct experience in material production, scale-up, and commercialization. Today, Liberty Ion works with energy technology companies to secure nondilutive funding, strengthen market positioning, and move projects toward deployment. Our expertise in advanced energy manufacturing and deployment strategy translates well to emerging nuclear fuel ecosystems.
Liberty Ion has authored and managed many awarded DOE proposals. That mix of grant experience, technical background and real operating experience makes the firm a strong fit for applicants that need both a compelling proposal and practical support navigating the federal process. |
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| | HybriMet LLC | Joe Hensel | Sr Program Mgr |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| HybriMet LLC’s goal is to reduce the risk in the development and commissioning of molten salt systems. HybriMet develops and provides metal matrix ceramic composite materials (MMC) and high temperature (720⁰C) capable, corrosion resistant and wear resistant parts for valves, pumps and tanks and other applications in extreme environments. |
| OH |
| | Texas A&M University | Lin Shao | Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| I am a nuclear materials physicist with extensive expertise in radiation effects, advanced materials development, and accelerator-based testing for nuclear energy systems. At Texas A&M University, I lead a nationally recognized accelerator laboratory that provides unique ion irradiation capabilities to simulate extreme radiation environments relevant to both fission and fusion systems.
My research focuses on understanding and controlling defect generation, transport, and microstructural evolution in materials under irradiation. I integrate experimental investigations with modeling to establish predictive relationships between irradiation conditions and material performance, including swelling, phase stability, and irradiation-induced degradation.
A central strength of my research program is the ability to perform well-controlled, multi-beam ion irradiation experiments, including heavy ion irradiation as well as helium and hydrogen implantation. These capabilities enable the simulation of coupled damage mechanisms, such as displacement damage and gas production, under precisely controlled conditions. |
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| | Numerical Advisory Solutions, LLC | Jacob Hader | Senior Consultant |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Numerical Advisory Solutions (NAS) provides trusted software tools, analysis and engineering for design and safe operation of facilities, with a focus on effective solutions, customer relationships, and long term value. We have been serving electric utilities, advanced reactor designers, research organizations, regulators, Architect/Engineers, fuel vendors and government agencies worldwide for over 45 years.
Numerical Advisory Solutions is interested in partnering with other organizations and contributing models and simulations, particularly in areas of fuel fabrication process modeling, criticality safety, shielding, source term and containment.
Our capabilities with examples can be found on our website (https://www.numerical.com/analysis/), but key capabilities for supporting this program could include:
- GOTHIC for multi-physics, including containment analysis, spent fuel modeling, and many other applications (https://www.numerical.com/software/gothic/modeling)
- RADTRAD-NAI for radionuclide transport, removal, and dose estimation (https://www.numerical.com/software/radtrad/background).
- MCNP for radiation transport / shielding and criticality analyses
- ORIGEN for radioactive decay and source term
Please feel free to contact us if there is interest in discussing our capabilities in more detail. |
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| | University of Tennessee Knoxville | Feng-Yuan Zhang | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Background
The NanoHELP research group focuses on electrochemical energy systems and transport phenomena in complex porous materials and systems. Our work integrates fluid mechanics, thermal transport, electrochemistry, materials science, and advanced diagnostics to understand how microstructure, interfaces, and transport processes govern system performance. The group has extensive experience in low-temperature electrolysis, electrode and catalyst development, and multiphase transport.
Interest
NanoHELP is interested in contributing to multidisciplinary efforts aimed at advancing transuranic (TRU) fuel technologies, particularly in areas where electrochemical science/technology, transport physics, and microstructure–performance relationships are critical. We are especially interested in collaborations related to electrochemical processing, transport and gas evolution in fuel microstructures, and advanced diagnostics or modeling approaches that can improve understanding of fuel behavior and performance.
Capabilities
Design and study of electrochemical systems, including novel electrodes, catalysts, and electrochemical interfaces and systems
Expertise in low-temperature electrolysis technologies and electrochemical reactor concepts
Multiphase transport and pore-scale physics in complex porous materials
Modeling and simulation of coupled electrochemical, thermal, and mass transport processes
Operando multiscale diagnostics and high-speed visualization of gas evolution, reactions, and transport pathways in reactive systems |
| TN |
| | Sandia National Laboratories | Gretchen Gano | Systems Research and Analysis |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
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At Sandia National Laboratories, we have world-class capabilities to streamline transuranic (TRU) fuels qualification and pursue regulatory acceptance. We have expertise directly qualifying and supporting the qualification of nuclear weapons. We have a long history being directly involved in preparing for the regulatory acceptance of nuclear reactors and nuclear waste repositories as well as fuel design, reactor safety, safeguards/MC&A, secure by design methodology, and both physical and cyber security of nuclear facilities. Sandia can perform extensive modeling, experimental testing (thermal, thermal-hydraulic, mechanical, chemical), and irradiation testing to verify performance characteristics. Sandia is also a leader in nuclear waste management including TRU waste and has established, internationally recognized expertise in actinide chemistry. Additionally, our sociotechnical systems analysis capabilities can provide valuable insights in shaping requirements for program development and technology-to-market evaluations and developing tools to facilitate the transition from "first of a kind" implementation to market ready technologies, addressing stakeholder requirements and community engagement. |
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| | Georgia Institute of Technology | Chaitanya Deo | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Computational modeling of actinide materials including DFT, molecular dynamics simulations. Recent work also includes simulating Th-U alloys with first principles. Expertise includes multiscale modeling of radiation damage and corrosion processes in fuel and structural materials. |
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| | Curio Solutions, LLC | Alex Wheeler | Principal Nuclear Engieer |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Curio was founded as a nuclear technology innovation and development company with the vision of driving a Second Nuclear Era and this begins by closing the nuclear fuel cycle in the U.S. Central to Curio’s vision is the development of its patented NuCycle® recycling technology which presents a modular, integrated, and proliferation-hardened approach to the recycling of used nuclear fuel (UNF). NuCycle is designed to overcome the longstanding barriers that have historically prevented the adoption of nuclear fuel recycling in the U.S., namely concerns surrounding nuclear proliferation and the challenge of high-level waste (HLW) reduction.
Curio is also pursuing the HOmogeneous Plutonium Eliminating (HOPE®) reactor. The HOPE reactor is a molten salt reactor designed specifically to burn TRUfuel produced from the NuCycle. |
| DC |
| | Flibe Energy, Inc. | Kurt Harris | Chief of Staff |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Flibe Energy, Inc. (FEI) is a molten salt reactor developer in Huntsville, Alabama, interested in developing and deploying a closed and sustainable advanced reactor fuel cycle. FEI is interested in working with ARPA-E and technology developers to synthesize TRU-based fuels recycled from today's spent nuclear fuel, in both fluoride and chloride form, for two of its reactor concepts (a thermal breeder and a waste-converter). Please reach out if you are interested in partnering with an end-user like FEI for your submission to the Advanced Reactor Fuels program. |
| AL |
| | Savannah River National Laboratory | Corey Martin | Senior Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Team of experts at SRNL involved in all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle that are and can be adapted to TRU Fuels.
Expertise includes: Feedstock knowledge, processing technologies, backend management, waste treatment, shipping and storage packaging technologies, and nonproliferation related technologies.
Laboratory capabilities include: radiological hoods, radiological gloveboxes, shielded cells, radiological analytical and materials characterization, and access to a variety of nuclear materials including those likely in TRU fuels. |
| SC |
| | Nathe Management Consulting | Sara Mitran | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Our firm offers product development insights, customer requirements, subject matter expert insights, fundraising, and commercialization strategies. The founder has commercialized emerging technologies across multiple verticals for 25 years. Early in her professional career, she was tasked with commercializing open-source technologies in the high-tech sector. Her exposure to leveraging sophisticated channel marketing platforms to extend sales reach was instrumental in bringing these technologies to market and in establishing their enterprise-readiness. Her expertise led her to mentor startups and share her knowledge with cleantech and energy companies. For several years, she has supported emerging energy startups funded by federal grants to advance their product development efforts, better understand their target markets, and craft impactful, pragmatic commercialization strategies that gain significant traction. |
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| | University of South Carolina | H.-C. zur Loye | Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| molten salt synthesis of actinide and transuranic oxides and fluorides. Design of molten salt halide waste forms from halide waste products. |
| SC |