Technology Development and Commercialization at Argonne National Laboratory

Aaron G. Sauers, CLPSoftware Program ManagerTechnology Development and Commercialization December 10, 2013

Technology Development and Commercialization at Argonne

National Laboratory

Argonne: One of DOE’s largest research facilities

Located 25 miles from the Chicago Loop, it was the first national laboratory, chartered in 1946

Operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy

Major research missions include basic science, environmental management, and advanced energy technologies

About 3,000 employees, including about 1,000 scientists and engineers, of whom 750 hold doctorate degrees

Annual operating budget of about $650 million (80% from DOE)

Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies

http://www.anl.gov/

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Industry

PARTICLE PHYSICS

NUCLEAR PHYSICS

APPLIED MATH

ACCELERATOR S&T

CHEMICAL & MOLECULAR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

APPLIED NUCLEAR S&T

APPLIED MATERIAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & INTEGRATION

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS & MATERIALS SCIENCE

ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE, VISUALIZATION & DATA

LARGE SCALE USER FACILITIES & ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION

DOE Office of Science DOE Energy Offices / ARPA-E / WFO

Argonne’s core capabilities and sponsor mix

DiscoveryResearch

Use-InspiredResearch

AppliedR&D

TechnologyDemo

TechnologyDeployment

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM SCIENCE

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Argonne’s mission: Delivering science-based

solutions to national energy challenges

Sustainable Transportation

Sustainable Transportation

Nuclear Energy & Security

Nuclear Energy & SecurityEnergy StorageEnergy Storage

Biological & Environmental

Systems

Biological & Environmental

Systems

Through discovery and transformational research

World-leading hard x-ray sciences &

sources

Discovery science for

energy

Leadership computing and computational

ecosystem

Fundamental physics and accelerator

science

Materials & systems

engineering solutions

and use-inspired science and engineering

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Argonne’s major scientific user facilities

Advanced Photon SourceAdvanced Photon Source Center for Center for Nanoscale Nanoscale MaterialsMaterials

Electron Electron Microscopy CenterMicroscopy Center

Argonne Leadership Argonne Leadership Computing FacilityComputing Facility

Argonne Tandem Linear Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator SystemAccelerator System

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Home to one of world’s fastest supercomputers for open science, Argonne is a leader in computation science and a pioneer on the path to exascale.

Argonne is a leader in high-performance computing

High-performance computing enables detailed simulations

How fast is exascale? 1018 operations per second To match the speed of an exascale computer, all of the 6.9 billion people alive today would need to perform more than 140 million calculations a second.

How fast is exascale? 1018 operations per second To match the speed of an exascale computer, all of the 6.9 billion people alive today would need to perform more than 140 million calculations a second.

Mira – Argonne's IBM Blue Gene/Q

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Argonne’s renewable energy and grid portfolio

Focus AreasVehicle/Grid StorageMaterials for EnergySolar and WindSolar FuelsHydroGeothermalGrid Modeling & Market AnalysisInfrastructure Assurance

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IndustryIndustry

National labs

National labs UniversitiesUniversities

Discovery Research

Use-Inspired Research

AppliedR&D

Technology Demo

Technology Deployment

National Lab priorities: To guide use-inspired

fundamental research To address key problems with

`dream teams’ of academic, industry, and laboratory scientists working collaboratively

To accelerate transfer of science insights and technologies to industry

National lab system links basic science and industry

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Collaborating with Argonne

Argonne’s collaborative relationships are defined by established mechanisms:Contractual work agreements

– Work for Others (WFO)– Collaborative Research and Development

Agreement (CRADA)Test or short-term limited work agreementsUser Facility agreementsLicensing agreements

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Three contractual paths for collaboration

1. License Technology Patents and Copyrights

2. Joint Development3. Proprietary dedicated

development

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Recent Industry SuccessesEVSE Suppliers: SpEC ControllerAutomotive Companies: Autonomie

License Argonne-owned Technology

Annually >100 new inventions Patentable inventions

www.anl.gov/technology/available-technologies Software web.anl.gov/techtransfer/Software_Shop/index.html) Exclusive and Non-exclusive Licenses Evaluation Options Standard Legal Terms Negotiable Business Terms

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Bulk modulus of Fe3O4

(magnetite) core-shell

nanoparticle; Shevchenko

(CNM)

“Collaborative Research” (CRADA) Partner and Argonne provide funds Parties share R&D costs

Partner and Govt. (DOE, others) to fund

Argonne does not fund Partner Partner owns IP it alone develops Argonne owns IP it alone develops Partner negotiates a license to Argonne

owned IP Public disclosure of data may be delayed

up to five years

Joint Development

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Prototype superconducting undulator installed in APS

‘Work for Others’ (WFO) AKA "Sponsored Research" Partner covers entire project cost IP terms depend on the project Under certain conditions partner

may own IP Data may be kept proprietary

Proprietary Dedicated Development

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WBG semiconductor GaN growth established, linking theory to mechanism to in situ growth.

Technical Services to Companies (TSA) Short-term engagement of Argonne expert(s) Partner pays entire project cost For defined technical problems Expertise not available elsewhere Can be executed in 5-10 days

Thank You

Contact Information

Technology Development and CommercializationArgonne National LaboratoryBuilding 2019700 S. Cass AvenueArgonne, IL [email protected]://www.anl.gov/technology

Aaron G. Sauers, CLPSoftware Program ManagerArgonne National LaboratoryTechnology Development & [email protected] 630.252.7878

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