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| | TechScale Solutions, LLC | George Roberts | Founder / President |
Small Business
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Topic 1 – Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) | TechScale Solutions is an engineering and commercialization consulting firm that helps move advanced energy technologies from laboratory development toward manufacturable, field-deployable products and systems. The firm specializes in the stage where technical feasibility has been demonstrated but significant work remains to reduce risk, define system requirements, scale hardware, develop supply chains, establish manufacturing approaches, validate economics, and prepare for commercial deployment. Capabilities include systems engineering, technology readiness and risk assessment, prototype and pilot-scale design, balance-of-plant integration, design-for-manufacture, vendor and supply-chain development, techno-economic analysis, test planning, commercialization strategy, and technical program management.
TechScale is interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on TCF/CLIMR projects where an experienced small-business industry partner can help translate laboratory-developed technology into a commercially relevant product, process, or demonstration. The strongest alignment is with CMEI technology areas involving manufacturing and scale-up for energy applications, industrial competitiveness, critical-mineral processing and recycling, energy generation and power management, advanced transportation and fuels, and battery technologies. TechScale also has relevant experience in hydrogen and fuel-cell systems, electrolyzers, energy storage, flow batteries, carbon capture and conversion, advanced materials, recycling, microgrids, and complex electromechanical systems.
TechScale can contribute an independent industry perspective focused on practical deployment: defining customer and product requirements, identifying scale-up and integration risks, developing commercialization and manufacturing roadmaps, evaluating cost and market drivers, engaging suppliers and potential partners, and supporting prototype, pilot, or field demonstration activities. The objective is to help National Lab teams close the engineering and commercialization gaps between successful laboratory technology and a product that industry can manufacture, finance, deploy, and support. |
| CT |
| | Destructable, Inc. | Cynthia Perez | Facilities Coordinator |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation | Destructable, Inc. is a U.S. based renewable energy decommissioning and materials recovery company with processing operations in Amarillo, TX and Dexter, IA. Destructable mechanically processes end-of-life wind turbine blades and other renewable energy components and converts glassfiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites into recycled material feedstocks for potential use in concrete, composites, additive manufacturing, and other industrial applications.
Destructable is seeking partnerships with DOE National Laboratories to commercialize, scale, demonstrate, and validate qualifying National Lab developed technologies at TRL 4 or above. Areas of particular interest include composite recycling; recovered fiber-upgrading and separation; recycled material processing and characterization; advanced materials and manufacturing; process optimization and automation; and technologies that enable higher-value reuse of end-of-life fiber-reinforced composites.
Destructable can provide commercial quantities of end-of-life wind turbine blade feedstock, industrial preprocessing and size reduction capabilities, operating facilities for pilot demonstration activities, material handling and sample preparation, production of controlled recycled material grades, operational data, and commercialization support. Destructable is also developing downstream pathways for recycled GFRP in concrete, infrastructure, composites, and advanced manufacturing and can support technology validation with prospective end users, research institutions, and commercial partners.
We are particularly interested in serving as an industry commercialization and demonstration partner for National Lab technologies that require representative feedstock, industrial-scale validation, integration into an operating recycling process, product qualification, or a pathway to commercial adoption. |
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| | C&O PROJECTS LLC | MARCO DAVID CARRASCO | PROJECT MANAGER |
Individual
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| Lab and Pilot Testing Research – Biomass Conversion and Nutrient Recovery | Chemical and Environmental Engineer with extensive experience in industrial project development, alternative fuels and raw materials, energy efficiency, and decarbonization. Founder and President of C&O Projects LLC, a U.S.-based technical advisory company.
Interested in the development of biomass and renewable fuel projects, particularly the use of agricultural, forestry, and industrial residues as alternatives to fossil fuels in energy-intensive industries.
Capabilities include biomass resource and feedstock assessment; sampling and characterization programs; laboratory testing coordination; evaluation of moisture, heating value, ash and chemical composition; biomass preprocessing and handling; supply-chain assessment; mass and energy balances; process integration; technology evaluation; conceptual and feasibility studies; CAPEX/OPEX estimation; financial evaluation; and assessment of COâ‚‚ emissions reduction.
Experience also includes developing industrial decarbonization projects and evaluating alternative materials and fuels from technical, environmental, and economic perspectives. Interested in partnerships with biomass suppliers, technology providers, laboratories, engineering companies, industrial operators, and investors to develop projects from initial assessment through feasibility and implementation. |
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| | Bridge Effect LLC | Mickey Swortzel | President |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | Bridge Effect works with emerging technology companies and technical teams to move promising technologies toward commercial adoption. We help teams identify the strongest market opportunities, understand customer needs, validate the value proposition, develop commercialization and go-to-market strategies, and determine the technical and commercial milestones needed to attract customers, partners and capital.
We bring both an operating and investor perspective. Our experience includes scaling and exiting a technology company, evaluating early-stage companies for venture investment, and advising technical founders on commercialization and investment readiness. We have worked across advanced materials, manufacturing, electrification, embedded controls, AI, advanced mobility and other engineering-intensive technologies.
Bridge Effect is interested in partnering with National Labs and technical teams that need additional commercial expertise alongside their scientific and engineering capabilities. We can support market and customer discovery, commercialization strategy, business model development, industry and strategic partner identification, go-to-market planning, capital strategy and investment readiness. Our focus is helping teams connect technical capabilities with real customer needs and build a credible path from technology to market. |
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| | My Favorite Artist Headphones Inc | Anthony Palmer | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Connected mobility, AI-enabled audio, advanced manufacturing, vehicle integration, and technology commercialization | My Favorite Artist Headphones Inc. (MFAH) is a small technology business developing connected consumer products, AI-enabled audio and voice systems, digital mobility platforms, and commercialization pathways for advanced technologies.
MFAH’s capabilities and interests include consumer audio technology, connected hardware and software, AI-assisted voice experiences, product design and development, electronics manufacturing, advanced materials and components, technology licensing, prototyping, testing, demonstration, market deployment, and public-private commercialization partnerships.
MFAH Navigator is the company’s connected navigation and mobility platform. Its development areas include AI-assisted navigation and driver services, commercial fleet and Truck Mode tools, EV- and charging-aware mobility services, emergency and roadside information, parking and local discovery, real-time road intelligence, digital cockpit and infotainment integration, and integration with connected and software-defined vehicles.
MFAH seeks collaboration with DOE National Laboratories and other qualified partners for technology assessment, licensing, co-development, validation, prototyping, testing, demonstration, advanced manufacturing, vehicle and mobility integration, and commercialization. Areas of particular interest include connected transportation, vehicle electronics, energy-efficient mobility, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, sensors, human-machine interfaces, audio and voice systems, manufacturing processes, and resilient mobility infrastructure.
MFAH can contribute product concepts, commercialization planning, consumer-market and mobility use cases, platform-integration pathways, brand development, deployment planning, and potential pathways for incorporating laboratory technologies into connected consumer products, MFAH Navigator, and future vehicle platforms. |
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| | Ousia Labs | David Ross | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | I have designed, patented, and mass manufactured modular supercritical fluid brayton cycle systems. One application is connecting to heat source and using supercritical fluid phase changes and fluid control spins thousands of turbines to generate power which can be put directly back to offset or stored in battery for later use. Looking for funding to ramp up production and go to market. |
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| | Liberty Ion LLC | Evan M. Erickson | CEO & Founder |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | Let Liberty Ion handle your grant application for you! Liberty Ion helps applicants draft grant proposals 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 is a chemistry PhD that previously founded and funded a battery cathode manufacturing company as CEO through DOE and DOD grants & a Series A fundraise, leading the company for nearly five years, bringing direct experience in material production, scale-up, and commercialization. Today, Liberty Ion works with technology companies to secure nondilutive funding, strengthen market positioning, and move projects towards completion. We have fundamental technical experience in chemicals, fuel cells, electrocatalysis, lithium ion batteries, materials science along with the practicality of having founded and successfully exited a technology company, with a suite of proposal writers, project managers and technical experts to help get your proposal across the finish line in as painless way as possible. Let Liberty Ion take care of the annoying grant writing for you, so your team can focus on mission!
Schedule a free, no obligation meeting to discuss how Liberty Ion can help you:
https://calendly.com/d/cyhh-k3f-xw9/liberty-ion-introduction |
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| | RockeTruck Inc. dba Bandgap Technologies | Mike Simon | President & CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| Topic 1: Office of Critical Materials & Energy Innovation | RockeTruck, doing business as Bandgap Technologies, designs and manufactures next-generation power conversion products using wide bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN), which address the world's growing and increasingly complex electric power needs, including demands created by new AI data centers, electric vehicle charging facilities, and energy-intensive defense and aerospace systems. Our proprietary multi-use hardware/software platform enables a single architecture to serve as an inverter, rectifier, DC-DC converter, or solid-state transformer — dramatically reducing time-to-market and development cost while addressing a $45B power electronics market (2030 projection). The advantages of the wide bandgap semiconductors used in our products include higher breakdown voltage, faster switching speed, and greater thermal tolerance as compared with conventional silicon transistors. These attributes translate into numerous practical advantages such as ability to handle higher voltage applications, reduced size and weight, and lower overall cost of ownership. Specific products we require assistance in commercializing include half-bridge power modules using SiC and GaN, which use latest generation bare dies to achieve higher power density and/or operate at higher voltages than competing power module products. |
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| | Curio Solutions, LLC | Alex Wheeler | Prn Nuclear Engineer |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Curio is a pioneering nuclear innovation company tackling one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century: the management of nuclear waste. At the heart of our mission is NuCycle, an advanced nuclear recycling technology designed to significantly reduce the nation’s accumulated burden of used nuclear fuel. Beyond simply reducing waste, NuCycle offers the potential to unlock valuable new materials, including radioisotopes for vital applications like Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) and even advanced fuel forms for plutonium-bearing fuels (including in our molten chloride HOPE reactor), driving innovation and creating a circular economy within the nuclear industry. |
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| | ReVolt Battery Technology Corp | Jan Naidu | CTO |
Small Business
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Transportation Technologies
| Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) | **ReVolt Battery Technology Corporation (ReVolt)** is a technology company focused on developing innovative software and AI-enabled solutions for **energy-efficient transportation systems serving defense, government, and commercial markets**. ReVolt develops advanced **Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms** combining transportation analytics, energy modeling, artificial intelligence, optimization, and data-driven decision support to improve transportation efficiency, reliability, resilience, and operational performance.
ReVolt's technology capabilities span data integration, modeling and simulation, AI/ML development, optimization, SaaS engineering, validation, and deployment. Key areas include **vehicle and fleet energy optimization, transportation electrification, predictive analytics, intelligent routing and scheduling, charging optimization, energy-demand forecasting, and operational decision support**.
ReVolt develops transportation energy models integrating vehicle characteristics, roadway and route conditions, weather, operating schedules, and auxiliary energy requirements to model and optimize real-world energy consumption. These capabilities can support battery-electric, conventional, hybrid, and emerging vehicle technologies.
For **defense applications**, ReVolt is interested in energy-aware fleet operations, mission and logistics planning, vehicle readiness, resilient transportation, predictive maintenance, route optimization, and AI-enabled decision support. ReVolt's SaaS platform can provide the software and analytics layer through which technologies developed by national laboratories, universities, defense organizations, and industry can be integrated into operational solutions.
For **commercial and public-sector markets**, ReVolt develops scalable solutions for transit, freight, logistics, fleet management, and transportation agencies seeking to reduce energy consumption and operating costs while improving fleet utilization.
ReVolt seeks partnerships with **national laboratories, research institutions, defense organizations, universities, and industry** to combine emerging technologies with its transportation SaaS capabilities and transition research into **deployable products for defense and commercial markets**. |
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| | JIS Energy LLC | Jack Souweha | Founder & Principal Engineer |
Small Business
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| Technoeconomic analysis and dispatch optimization for CHP, thermal energy storage, battery storage, chillers, geothermal and microgrids; seeking lab partner for commercialization, validation and cost share. | JIS Energy LLC is a small business that develops and operates CogenS, a commercial technoeconomic analysis and optimization platform for distributed energy systems. We are seeking a National Laboratory partner for the FY26+FY27 TCF Technology Specific lab call, and can provide both cost share and a route to market for lab-developed technology.
WHAT THE PLATFORM DOES
CogenS sizes and dispatches multi-technology energy systems and returns full technical, economic and emissions results. Technologies covered: combined heat and power (CHP), battery energy storage (BESS), chillers and cooling towers, boilers, thermal energy storage (TES), geothermal and ground-source heat pumps, heat-pump and conventional water heating, EV charging, and islanded or grid-connected microgrids.
Sizing and dispatch are co-optimized in a single linear/mixed-integer program at 15, 20, 30 or 60-minute resolution, against real utility tariff structures: time-of-use energy, monthly demand charges, fixed charges, tiered rates, fuel and makeup-water costs, and CO2 pricing. Outputs include NPV, IRR, simple and discounted payback, benefit-cost ratio, total cost of ownership, levelized cost and emissions, plus Energy-as-a-Service structures (PPA, concession, tolling, shared savings).
WHAT WE BRING TO A LAB PARTNERSHIP
1. Commercialization route. CogenS is deployed today with paying customers. A lab-developed model, control method or optimization algorithm integrated into the platform reaches practicing engineers on release, rather than remaining a research artifact.
2. Cost share. We can contribute in-kind cost share as platform licenses, engineering labor, compute and validation datasets.
3. Validation. We maintain harnesses that benchmark our engines against EnergyPlus, SAM and other reference tools, and can validate lab methods against commercial baselines and measured project data.
4. Deployment data and market pull. Live customer projects across commercial, institutional, industrial and district-energy settings - load profiles, tariffs, equipment selections - plus customers who can speak to market need.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Buildings and industrial decision support; grid-interactive and microgrid dispatch; thermal and electrical storage control; geothermal technoeconomics; and controls or optimization methods that need a commercial delivery vehicle.
Contact: Jack Souweha, P.E., Founder - jack@jisenergy.com - www.jisenergy.com |
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| | Helios X, LLC | Dallin Watts | Managing Partner |
Small Business
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Geothermal
| Topic 3 - Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office (HGEO): Geothermal exploration and characterization | Helios X, LLC is developing a geothermal resource on privately held, deeded ranchland in the eastern Great Basin (Nevada). The resource is USGS-identified and has been independently assessed at reconnaissance level; we treat it as unconfirmed until drilled. Springs and wells on the property are accessible for sampling, and landowner coordination is in hand.
Our need is an independent temperature and geochemical characterization: a structured review of the existing public record (federal and state geothermal assessments, historical water chemistry, geophysics), and advanced multicomponent geothermometry on newly collected fluid samples from on-property springs and wells to estimate deep reservoir temperature and last-equilibration conditions. A screen of the same fluids for critical-mineral and rare-earth content would strengthen the effort where consistent with scope.
We seek a national laboratory partner with demonstrated expertise in multicomponent geothermometry, geothermal fluid geochemistry, and Basin & Range resource characterization. The scope is sized to a single award, and the field program can execute in the fall 2026 sampling season. Private land, existing site access, and landowner coordination remove the siting friction that commonly delays field programs on federal ground. |
| NV |
| | Prometheus Critical Materials & Energy Technologies | Chandrashekhar Sonwane | CTO |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Reaction Engineering
Catalysis
Websites:
www.spaceer.org and Pcmet.org |
| CA |
| | Southwest Research Institute | Nadia Dinyarian | Engineer |
Non-Profit
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent non-profit research institute focusing on applied R&D. Founded in 1947, SwRI's 3,200 staff members perform science and engineering research for commercial clients and partners across many industries on a 1,500-acre facility with over 300 laboratories and office buildings. SwRI’s multidisciplinary approach spans the entire innovation process, from feasibility studies and economic analyses to component design, prototype development, and pilot-scale system fabrication and operation.
The Chemical Engineering Department has extensive experience developing and scaling chemical processes and advanced energy systems. Our work spans critical minerals, unconventional resources, bioenergy, power-sector applications, and alternative fuels and feedstock. This includes bioenergy and biomass-derived intermediates, unconventional and waste-derived feedstocks, and conversion pathways such as gasification and other thermochemical processes. As a technology agnostic organization, we provide comprehensive support in process simulation, technology development, techno-economic assessment, and pilot-scale process design and operation. SwRI is interested in participating as a partner to help advance lab-developed technologies toward large pilot-scale demonstration and positioning them for subsequent commercial deployment and market adoption. |
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| | SunVault Innovations | Mohamed Abdelrahman | Founder & Principal Consultant |
Small Business
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| Electrochemical testing, electrode and coating development, modeling, and TEA | SunVault Innovations is an electrochemical R&D and technical consulting firm in Lake Forest, California, spanning fuel cells, PEM and AEM water electrolysis, batteries, catalytic systems, coatings, and membranes. Our founder holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, is an inventor on 4 patents, and is published in prestigious international journals.
We run our own laboratory and have access to partner facilities.
Electrochemical testing: 6-channel PEM and 2-channel AEM water electrolysis test stands, 4 fuel cell test stands, high-current cell and module cycling, coin cell testing, and 9 potentiostats from 1 to 100 A. Diagnostics include electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, and accelerated stress testing.
Electrode, coating, and thin film fabrication: catalyst ink formulation and rheology, doctor blade and spray coating, spin coating, electrospinning and electrospraying, argon glovebox assembly, hot pressing, and die cutting. Membrane electrode assembly fabrication for PEM and AEM cells, and electrode preparation and coin cell build for lithium-ion research.
Prototyping and characterization: CO2 laser cutting, CNC machining of metals and graphite plates, SLA 3D printing, contact angle goniometry, conductivity, and contact resistance.
Modeling and analysis: multiphase pore network modeling, computational fluid dynamics, and machine learning workflows linking microstructure to device performance, plus techno-economic analysis covering cost to manufacture, cost to scale, and supply chain.
Experience includes leading multi-year demonstration programs with global automotive and industrial manufacturers, advancing a novel thin-film fabrication platform from laboratory proof of concept to industrial demonstration; delivering techno-economic analysis and U.S. market entry strategy for an international PEM water electrolysis developer; and performing independent technical due diligence on an energy storage technology for an investor.
We are seeking to partner with National Laboratories as an industry validation and analysis partner, providing independent performance and durability testing, electrode and coating development, multi-physics modeling, and techno-economic and market readiness analysis. We are open to discussing in-kind laboratory time and personnel toward cost share. |
| CA |
| | Decycle Bio | Christopher Pirie | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | Decycle Bio has built a computational platform for the design of synthetic biochemical cascades, SynthomeAI. Using SynthomeAI we have designed a wide variety of cell-free enzyme processes towards the biomanufacturing of diverse chemicals from equally diverse feedstocks. Our designer cascades drive maximum theoretical yields, optimal cofactor utilization, and competitive unit economics. The platform integrates the latest tools in retrobiosynthesis, pathway characterization, reaction analysis, and enzyme design, then puts them all in an agentic sandbox for rapid, iterative prototyping. Within design campaigns, preliminary pathways and enzymes are characterized experimentally using cell-free protein synthesis and cell-free biocatalysis with the resulting data driving reinforcement learning with empirical feedback. This allows us to accelerate our enzyme/pathway optimization.
We're interested in collaborators already operating cell-free systems, pursuing a particular chemical target of interest, and/or operating pilot-scale capacity compatible with cell-free. |
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| | C&O PROJECTS LLC | MARCO CARRASCO | PROJECT MANAGER - CEO |
Individual
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| Critical Minerals Processing, Pilot Testing, Process Scale-Up, and Techno-Economic Assessment | C&O Projects LLC is a U.S.-based engineering and technical advisory company with experience in mining, critical minerals, mineral processing, cement, and industrial projects. Our background combines laboratory and pilot-scale testing, process development and engineering, feasibility studies, and techno-economic and financial evaluation.
Our capabilities include the definition, coordination, and technical evaluation of laboratory and pilot-scale test programs, including mineralogical and chemical characterization, comminution, beneficiation, leaching, separation, recovery, and other metallurgical and process testing. We work with specialized laboratories, technology providers, engineering firms, and project owners to define test objectives, evaluate results, identify technical gaps, establish process parameters and recoveries, and develop the engineering criteria required for scale-up.
C&O Projects also supports process flowsheet development and optimization, mass and water balances, process and technology selection, equipment evaluation, process integration, and engineering studies. We have experience translating laboratory and pilot-scale results into practical process design criteria and evaluating alternative technologies for implementation at commercial scale.
A key capability is integrating technical results with techno-economic and financial analysis. We develop and review CAPEX and OPEX estimates, production scenarios, cash-flow models, sensitivity and risk analyses, and project economics to assess commercial viability and support technology and investment decisions.
C&O Projects is particularly interested in collaborating with U.S. National Laboratories, universities, technology developers, and industrial partners on critical minerals and advanced mineral-processing technologies. We are interested in projects where our experience can help bridge the gap between laboratory research and commercial deployment through pilot-scale validation, process design and scale-up, feasibility studies, and techno-economic evaluation. |
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| | OliveBio | Yuliana Mihaylova | Cofounder, CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | OliveBio is a biomanufacturing startup company based in California. The company is focused on developing a process for high volume, consistent, and cost-effective production of materials and chemicals through AI guided cell-free biocatalysis. Capabilities span process development and optimization, molecular biology technology scale-up, biochemistry, AI and ML. |
| CA |
| | T5 Smackover Operating, LLC | Cole Fisher | President & Co-Founder |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| Topic 1 and Topic 3 | T5 Smackover Operating, LLC (T5 Smackover Partners) is a Texas-based energy and critical minerals development company advancing geothermal energy and mineral recovery from subsurface geothermal brines in the East Texas Smackover Formation. T5 controls approximately 10,000 contiguous prime acres in the Smackover Formation with some of the highest ground water temperatures and lithium concentration in North America, and is developing well and associated infrastructure that can provide a real-world environment for testing, validating, and demonstrating emerging technologies.
T5 is particularly interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on technologies related to geothermal energy and advanced critical mineral extraction, separation, and processing. Areas of interest include geothermal exploration and power generation; drilling, well, sensing, and subsurface technologies; direct lithium extraction; brine characterization and processing; and recovery of lithium and other valuable minerals from subsurface brines.
T5 can leverage its East Texas acreage, subsurface resources, well infrastructure, and ongoing commercial development activities as a potential field-scale test and demonstration platform for National Lab-developed technologies. T5 is interested in collaborations that advance promising technologies from laboratory validation toward field demonstration, scale-up, and commercial deployment. |
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