John Sinnott, Industrial Programs Manager

Cornell / Industry Partnerships for Innovation

The CCMR Industrial Partnerships Program

New York State Metal Finishing Innovation for Sustainability and Business Growth

MRSEC: Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF-DMR)

JumpStart

Program

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Industrial

Collaboration

Program

Entrepreneurship

@CCMR

CCMR Symposium

Facilities 101

Michèle van de Walle, Ph. D., M. B. A. Industrial Partnerships Director 607 Clark Hall mjv28@cornell.edu

t. 607.255.8809

John Sinnott Industrial Partnerships Manager

624Clark Hall jps39@cornell.edu

t. 607.255.7070

Providing Access to Innovation

CCMR - Symposium

Next-Generation Materials Characterization

CCMR Symposium

May 22, 2012

Development of a super-resolution fluorescence

microscopy method which allows biological

imaging with nanometer-scale resolution.

Professor Xiaowei Zhuang

Chemistry and Chemical Biology,

Physics at Harvard University

Sproull Lecturer

CCMR - Symposium New Materials for Prevention

of Ice Accumulation

Meet Cornell Faculty

Meet Other Industry Attendees

Meet With Funding Agencies

Meet Students (Prospective Employees)

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1 in 5 Facilities 101 attendees are CCMR facility users

April 5, 2012 • 150 Different instruments

• $30M Capital investment

• 22,000 sq ft lab space

• 12 Full time technical staff

• $2.7M Annual budget

The CCMR Shared Facilities

NSF Quote

The CCMR

Shared Facilities

“a national gem” AFM

SEM

Ultra STEM TEM

XRD

Raman

Polymer analysis

XPS

Sample prep.

Materials Testing Microscopy

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http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/facilities/

Rates

Instruments

Search

Useful Links

Contact

information

Online

Reservations

Facility Managers

Mr. Anthony Condo

Polymer

Mr. John Grazul

Electron Microscopy

Mr. John Hunt

Electron Microscopy

Dr. Jonathan Shu

Materials

Mr. Malcolm Thomas

Electron Microscopy

Dr. Christopher Umbach

Materials

Dr. Maura Weathers

X-Ray

A total of

~200 years of

experience,

taking care of

100 different

instruments

Industrial Collaboration Program Accelerating Innovation through Rapid Implementation of Research Ideas

Foster low cost joint R&D projects with companies from NY State and beyond

• Cost effective: 5% overhead

• Fast and simple process

• Flexible funding levels

Wallace

Foundation

Wide range of industry sectors from multinationals to startups

54 companies, 133 projects, $5.9 M (2000-2011)

Goal: Help small New York State companies solve technical problems Promote economic development in NYS

Geographic Diversity of JumpStart Projects

Impact across New York State 51 projects completed to date

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JumpStart Success Stories

Prof. Itai Cohen

Harrick Scientific, a 45 year old manufacturer of optical and

spectroscopy equipment

Expand into life science, and pharmaceutical research areas

Developed a new shear, compression, rheometer attachment

for optical microscopes

Partner: Prof. Itai Cohen (Physics)

First customer trained in August 2009

JumpStart – Success Story

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Developed a new product line, low-background transmission

electron microscopy (TEM) grids .

Partner: Prof. David Muller (Applied Physics)

SiMPore, Rochester Spin-off U of Rochester manufacturing

porous silicon membranes for biological separation applications

Prof. David Muller

Nanometer Thick TEM Windows

for High-Resolution Imaging of

Nanoscale Materials

TEMwindows.com Commercialized in 2009

Rigidized Metals, manufacturer of textured metal products

Development of new value added coatings

Increase thermal absorption and bacterial resistance

(crack resistant, color selectable and stable)

Partner: Prof. Shefford Baker (Materials Science)

JumpStart – Success Story

Prof. Shefford Baker

Another JumpStart Success Story

Wakonda Technologies, Startup from Rochester

2 SBIR and 1 NYSERDA grants: $240K (2006) Awarded $900K US Dept of Energy (2007) Won Golden Horseshoe Contest $100K (2007) Named Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year (2007) Raised $9.5M in Series A Financing (2008) Wakonda was acquired by Solexant Corporation in early 2012

(Move to San Jose, CA)

The benefits of a CCMR partnership can go an awful long way if you look at

the value it brings early on, accelerating your growth… We have leveraged

$5,000 worth of JumpStart matching support into $200,000 worth of federal

money in the course of about six months, and we are now looking to leverage

that into about a million dollars of funding for next year.

— Les Fritzemeier, President

Prof. Bruce van Dover

Developed a new technology for manufacturing of

solar panels on a flexible copper substrates.

Used CCMR Shared Facilities as their sole R&D lab

Partner: Prof. Bruce van Dover (Materials Science)

Visit the CCMR online at http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu Research supported by NSF DMR-1120296

High-tech companies require constant innovation to maintain

their technological edge. To help small companies evolve, the

Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) developed the

JumpStart program — a semester-long partnership that pairs

New York State small businesses that have well-defined

technical needs with Cornell faculty and students who have

the expertise to help. This program is supported by the New

York State Foundation for Science and Technology Innovation

(NYSTAR) Matching Grant Program

In Fall 2011, the JumpStart program partnered Harrick

Plasma with three Cornell faculty and two students to

improve the performance of Harrick Plasma Cleaners. Cornell

undergraduate Michelle Chou measured the performance of

the existing design, while another undergraduate, Anthony

Xing, designed and built a special tool to analyze the

fundamental characteristics of the plasma as part of his

senior thesis. The information generated by this project will

be used to improve the next generation of plasma cleaners.

Industry-University Partnership Promotes Innovation Cornell undergraduates gain experience with industrial research

Michelle Chou Cornell Class of 2013 Anthony Xing

Cornell Class of 2012

Harrick Plasma Cleaners

“The program gave access to faculty research experts whose input

was instrumental to the initial development and characterization of

AAC’s technology. This collaborative work, and the resulting

feedback, provides AAC with a strong position to pursue next

phase business and funding opportunities that will enable its

technology to be brought to market.”

Todd Nordblom

American AeroGel Corporation

“Having participated in two JumpStart activities over the past 5-

years, I find the program highly useful to small companies that

have limited resources available for investigating novel materials

and processing approaches. The recent experience with Prof.

Chris Ober’s group was rewarding and provided useful insights on

how we can adopt the teachings to our product development

needs.”

Robert Miller, PhD

CTO of Paper Battery Company