Current Member Companies and Laboratories
ADM
Afton
Aramco
BASF
Biogen
Chevron
Clariant
Evonik
ExxonMobil
Haraeus
Honeywell/UOP
Idaho National Laboratory
Origin Materials
Shell
Past Members
AMPAC
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Eastman Chemical
Fuzionaire
GlaxoSmithKline
JC Dream
NICE America
Savannah River National Laboratory
TCG Life Sciences
Thales Nano
Sinocat
Phillips 66
Mitsubishi
TCGreenChem
Companies & Laboratories We Are Recruiting
Albermarle
AdvanSix
BP
Braskem
Corning
Cummins
DSM
Eli Lilly
Ford
GTI
Johnson Matthey
Merck
Nissan
NIST
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OCO
PACCAR
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Parsons
Pfizer
SABIC
Shepherd Chemical
Toyota
Waters
W.L. Gore
W.R. Grace
XG Sciences
SKI
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 $50,000/year ($25,000/year for associate memberships for small companies):
- USC CeRCaS Membership Agreement
- VCU CeRCaS Membership Agreement
- UCD/B CeRCaS Membership Agreement
- Preferred, royalty-free licensing of inventions
- The option to spin off proprietary catalyst development projects with full IP rights