The Start-up Challenge

An opportunity to present innovative and impactful solutions to use materials smarter, less and longer. 

 

ALLIAGE TITANE QUEBEC (Quebec City, Canada)
Jean Pierre Fortin
Process to convert titanium scrap and post used components into high valuable powder to produce new parts with Additive Manufacturing

 

APPLIED NANO LAYERS (Delft, Netherlands)
Paul Hedges
Advanced manufacturing of “wafer scale” Graphene and 2D material for the semiconductor industry

 

BRIMSTONE ENERGY (Berkeley, California)
Cody Finke
Process to make ordinary Portland cement without emitting CO2 and while co generating low cost emission free hydrogen

 

 

COLD PAD (Paris, France)
Jean Philippe Court
Safe repair and fastening solutions allowing for life extension of existing infrastructures

 

COMPPAIR (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Amaël Cohades
Novel chemistry to produce healable composite materials while extending their lifetime

 

CYCLOPURE (Skokie, Illinois)
Frank Cassou
Turning corn into polymers for water purification

 

CYPRIS MATERIAL (Berkeley, California)
Ryan Pearson
Highly tunable reflective coatings for rapid self-assembly on rough, uneven or curved surfaces

 

EH GROUP (Vaud, Switzerland)
Mardit Matian
Design, development and production of cheaper, lighter & more compact hydrogen fuel cell solutions

 

ELMWORKS (Berkeley, USA)
Sam Calisch
Additive manufacturing of copper based electronics wirings

 

GRAPHENEMG (Darra, Australia)
Craig Nicol
Liquide graphene formulations that significantly reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions in engine oils, coolants and air conditioning systems


 

KI ENERGY (Rome, Italy)
Federico Pino
Tailor-made solutions for small-scale waste management and clean energy generation

 

NANOMAKERS (Rambouillet, France)
Jean François Perrin
Patented nano silicon that multiplied the energy stored in the battery anodes by up to 3

 

NELUMBO (Hayward, California)
Liam Berryman
Surface treatment nanotechnology for improved heat exchanger performance and corrosion resistance

 

RADICAL PLASTICS (Boston, Massachusetts)
Kristin Taylor
Patented mineral-based catalyst that allows to biodegrade polyolefin agricultural films in 6 months

 

 

SPIN ION (Palaiseau, France)
Dafiné Ravelosona Ramasitera
Provides a manufacturing process solution to increase the storage density and reduce the power consumption of digital memory

 

UBIQD (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
Hunter McDaniel
Nanomaterials for better quality of light rather than more light to improve crop yield

 

VARTEGA (Golden, Colorado)
Andrew Maxey
Low cost carbon fiber recycling process

 

 

ZETA ENERGY (Angleton, Texas)
Charles Maslin
Cobalt free highly stable sulfur cathode with graphene lithium metal anode resulting in safe & low-cost lithium sulfur batteries