Stanford University

Stratio Inc

Stratio has developed an innovative approach to reducing the cost of manufacturing short-wave infra-red image sensors by using germanium rather than indium gallium arsenide as the photo-sensitive material. It has also developed a range of products that demonstrate its key value proposition of affordable, portable, and versatile optical measuring devices.

Karius

Karius has developed a liquid biopsy test for infectious diseases.

Oorym

Oorym is commercializing the Simple Planaric Substrate (SPS), an optical waveguide combiner that it says is simpler and more efficient than other forms of reflective waveguide. The SPS can be configured to a wide range of use cases, with augmented reality and heads up displays being major applications.

Osmoses

Osmoses is a startup with a membrane-based technology for gas separation. IDTechEx spoke with Dr Francesco Benedetti (CEO and Co-founder).

Cepton Technologies, Inc

Cepton Technologies, Inc. (Cepton) was founded in 2016 by Dr Jun Pei (CEO) and Dr Mark McCord (CTO) of Stanford University. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. It also has presence in Canada, Germany, Japan, India and China to support its global customer base.

Citrine Informatics

Citrine Informatics provides a materials/chemicals informatics platform which is deployed to customers as a cloud service. The company believes it leads on training on small datasets. IDTechEx spoke to Citrine Informatics' CEO and Co-founder Greg Mulholland and Director of Marketing Joshua Tappan.

Uncountable

Uncountable provides an AI-empowered platform to manage research and development. Customers come from the materials, chemical, and life sciences industries. It describes its mission as making science go faster. IDTechEx spoke to Co-founder Will Tashman.

New Wearable Device Measures Changing Size of Tumors Below the Skin

Engineers a have created a small, autonomous device with a stretchable/flexible sensor that can be adhered to the skin to measure the changing size of tumors below. The non-invasive, battery-operated device is sensitive to one-hundredth of a millimeter (10 micrometers) and can beam results to a smartphone app wirelessly in real-time with the press of a button.

A Simple, Cheap Material for Carbon Capture, Perhaps from Tailpipes

Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas warming Earth and is emitted in large quantities in the flue gas from industrial and power plants. A new method for removing CO2 from these flue gases involves piping the emissions through a porous material based on the chemical melamine. DETA, a chemical bound inside the porous melamine, grabs CO2 and removes it from the gas, with nitrogen vented to the atmosphere.

Swift Solar

Swift Solar is a company that works on perovskite PV. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California, USA. This profile is based on a discussion with the CEO and co-founder, Dr Joel Jean.

Enervenue

Enervenue are a US company commercialising Ni-H batteries.

Robot Aided Assembly Helps Speed Pace of Discovery for New Technology

The ability to make, say, a flexible screen or a new solar panel, starts with discovering a new combination of materials with unusual properties at the atomic scale. But in the field of 2D materials, which is considered one of the most exciting areas for future electronics, scientists still have to laboriously hand-make each new potential material before they can test its capabilities.

Alertgy

Alertgy is a US-based biotech startup currently developing the Alertgy NICGM, a noninvasive CGM device in the form of a wristband. IDTechEx analyst Brendan Beh spoke with Alertgy CEO, Marc Rippen, on 18 January 2022.

Honeywell and FREYR Collaborate on Next-Generation Battery Cells

Through the agreement, Honeywell and FREYR intend to provide smart energy storage solutions to address the needs of a wide range of commercial and industrial customers alike. Subject to viability, FREYR will leverage Honeywell's broad automation and software expertise including automation systems, quality assurance and controls, and industrial software to provide manufacturing capacity at scale in Europe and the US.