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 [email protected]
t. 607.255.8809
John Sinnott Industrial Partnerships Manager
624Clark Hall [email protected]
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
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