New program funds 5 Clemson technologies for commercialization
October 03, 2014The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) announced Thursday that it has awarded funding to five Clemson researchers to further develop their Clemson technologies through a newly established program, the CURF Technology Maturation Fund.
"The CURF Technology Maturation Fund is unlike any other source of funding available to Clemson faculty," said Casey Porto, executive director of CURF. "This funding supports the last critical step that will significantly increase the likelihood of commercialization of Clemson intellectual property."
Only Clemson faculty members are eligible for the fund while postdoctoral research associates, graduate students and undergraduate students may participate as co-investigators
Winning projects ranged from approximately $20,000 to $36,000 each.
- Kendall Kirk, the precision agriculture engineer at Clemson's Edisto Research and Education Center, will work with a commercial partner on extensive field testing of the impact plate peanut-yield monitor.
- Apparao Rao, R.A. Bowen professor of physics and the director of Clemson's Nanomaterials Research Laboratory, will optimize his roll-to-roll process for carbon nanotube electrode production to make it viable for industrial manufacturing. His team will identify ideal electrolytes, separators and assemble and test prototype devices in collaboration with a commercial partner.
- Alexey Vertegel, associate professor of bioengineering, has developed a new technology for manufacturing cost-effective natural antioxidants. This patented Clemson technology will be used in a scale-up study to produce two to three tons of antioxidant that can be tested by potential customers to accelerate commercialization.
- Modi Wetzler, research assistant professor of chemistry, will demonstrate the improved properties of peptides by incorporating his team's patented pre-PEGylated amino acids and scale-up the synthesis so that there is enough material to distribute to at least 10 collaborators who will, in turn, perform research and publish, thus demonstrating the research market for these new PEGylated amino acids.
- Guigen Zhang, professor of bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering and director of the Institute for Biological Interfaces of Engineering, will be formulating a process to form unique nanostructures using tantalum in a Clemson-patented process toward super-capacitors.
"We congratulate the Clemson researchers who received funding in the first round of the CURF Technology Maturation Fund," said CURF board chair Frank Landgraff. "We are excited to support innovation and investment in Clemson research, enabling more Clemson ideas to move from the lab to the marketplace."
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