Current Member Companies and Laboratories |
Past Members |
Companies & Laboratories We Are Recruiting |
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| ADM Afton Aramco BASF Chevron Clariant Evonik ExxonMobil Heraeus Group Honeywell/UOP INL Biogen Shell Sanofi US Pharmacopeia (USP) Weichai America Corp |
AMPAC Boehringer-Ingelheim Eastman Chemical Fuzionaire GlaxoSmithKline JC Dream NICE America SRNL Laboratory TCG Life Sciences Thales Nano Sinocat Phillips 66 Mitsubishi Origin Materials TCGreenChem |
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Member Benefits
$50,000 is typically leveraged to over $1,000,000 in research (see http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131407&org=CISE)
Member companies form an Industrial Advisory Board to direct the research; faculty provide methods, industry provides input and recommends catalyst compositions and reactions
- Opportunities to network and partner with thought leaders in the industry
- Access to potential customers: other petroleum and chemical companies and catalyst manufacturers in the business of catalyst development
- Early access to technology breakthroughs and potential commercialization through shared IP (see separate IP/Membership Agreement link)
- Access to graduate students at the forefront of rational catalyst synthesis and development, trained with an industrial outlook
- Direct input into specific research projects via industrial research advisors
NSF I/UCRC Program Presentation (Dr. Rafaella Montelli, NSF I/UCRC program Director)
Member/IP Agreement and Cost
Industrial memberships are $60,000/year ($30,000/year for associate memberships for small companies) starting in Phase III:
- CeRCaS Membership Agreement
- Preferred, royalty-free licensing of inventions
- The option to spin off proprietary catalyst development projects with full IP rights