TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY “Frozen Smoke”: LLNL’s Aerogel Technology Suite
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- IL-10937Plus
- Agency
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Department of Energy
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 325998 All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing
- Place of performance
- Livermore, California, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Special Notice is published by the Department of Energy (DOE) and describes an opportunity to collaborate with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to further develop and commercialize its portfolio of aerogel materials.
The purpose of this opportunity is to leverage LLNL's expertise and technology in aerogel materials, which exhibit unique properties such as ultralow densities and open-porous structures, for use in a variety of applications. The Special Notice is open to all interested parties, with no set-aside used. The due date for responses is June 21, 2024. LLNL, operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC under contract with the DOE, is offering this collaboration to advance the commercialization of its aerogel technology suite.
Notice text
Opportunity:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract no. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and commercialize its broad portfolio of aerogels materials for use in a variety of applications from energy storage and 3D printing to water desalination and catalysis
Background:
Aerogels are a diverse class of porous, solid materials that exhibit an array of unique material properties. Aerogels are known for their ultralow densities (which range from 0.0011 to ~0.5 g cm-3). Essentially an aerogel is the dry, low-density, highly porous, solid framework of a gel that is isolated from its liquid component. Aerogels are open-porous (that is, the gas in the aerogel is not trapped inside solid pockets) and have pores in the range of <1 to 100 nanometers in diameter and usually <20 nm. Aerogels are produced by extracting the liquid component of a gel through supercritical drying or freeze-drying. This allows the liquid to be slowly dried without causing the solid matrix in the gel to collapse from capillary action, as would happen with conventional evaporation.
Description:
LLNL has a long history of developing aerogels. Because of their high surface area, they have unique physical, chemical, and mechanical properties, which makes aerogels a promising material for use in a variety of technical applications areas ranging from energy storage to catalysis. LLNL researchers are able to tailor the structure and properties to create strong, high-density aerogels or extremely transparent, ultralow-density aerogels and everything in between, depending on the requirements of the intended application. Initially, LLNL focused on silica aerogels. Later, LLNL researchers developed carbon-based aerogels for energy and environmental applications and also expanded to materials such as metal-carbon composite, boron nitride, metals and polymers, making the number of possible applications for this remarkable material especially vast.
Advantages/Benefits:
- Ultrahigh surface area
- Ultralow density
- High strength
- Low thermal conductivity
Potential Applications:
Aerogels are among the most versatile materials available for technical applications due to their wide variety of exceptional properties.
- Energy storage devices
- Water purification
- High surface area catalysts
- Sorbents
- Sensors
- Insulation
Development Status:
Current stage of technology development: TRL 2-4
LLNL has patent(s) on this invention and include:
US Patent No. 8304465 High strength air-dried aerogels published 11/06/2012
US Patent No. 8303883 Forming foam structures with carbon foam substrates published 11/06/2012
US Patent No. 8580438 Monolithic three-dimensional electrochemical energy storage system on aerogel or nanotube scaffold published 11/12/2013
US Patent No. 8778540 Monolithic three-dimensional electrochemical energy storage system on aerogel or nanotube scaffold published 7/15/2014
US Patent No. 9852824 Methods for controlling pore morphology in aerogels using electric fields and products thereof published 12/26/2017
US Patent No. 8968865 Methods of electrophoretic deposition for functionally graded porous nanostructures and systems thereof published 03/03/2015
US Patent No. 8629076 High surface area silicon carbide-coated carbon aerogel published 01/14/2014
US Patent No. 8809230 Porous substrates filled with nanomaterials published 08/19/2014
US Patent No. 10479933 Extreme synthesis of crystalline aerogel materials from amorphous aerogel precursors published 11/19/2019
US Patent No. 11718787 Extreme synthesis of crystalline aerogel materials from amorphous aerogel precursors published 08/08/2023
US Patent No. 8993113 Graphene aerogels published 03/31/2015
US Patent No. 10106418 Graphene aerogels published 10/23/2018
US Patent No. 10106419 Method of making graphene nanocomposites by multiphase fluid dynamic dispersion published 10/23/2018
US Patent No. 9314777 High surface area graphene-supported metal chalcogenide assembly published 04/19/2016
US Patent No. 9631148 High surface area graphene-supported metal chalcogenide assembly published 04/25/2017
US Patent No. 9543569 Graphene-supported metal oxide monolith published 01/10/2017
US Patent 10109845 Methods for making graphene-supported metal oxide monolith published 10/23/2018
US Patent No. 9601226 High-density 3D graphene-based monolith and related materials, methods, and devices published 03/21/2017
US Patent No. 10014090 High-density carbon nanotube-based monolith and related materials, methods, and devices published 07/03/2018
US Patent No. 9844762 Nanoporous metal-carbon composite published 12/19/2017
US Patent No. 10399053 Nanoporous metal-carbon composite published 9/3/2019
US Patent No. 9611146 Crystalline boron nitride aerogels published 04/04/2017
US Patent No. 9840414 Crystalline boron nitride aerogels published 12/12/2017
US Patent No. 9870871 Graphene macro-assembly-fullerene composite for electrical energy storage published 01/16/2018
US Patent No. 10633255 Graphene macro-assembly-fullerene composite for electrical energy storage published 04/28/2020
US Patent No. 9776156 Nitrogen-doped carbon aerogels for electrical energy storage published 10/03/2017
US Patent No. 10399054 Nitrogen-doped carbon aerogels for electrical energy storage published 09/03/2019
US Patent No. 10086431 Porous materials via freeze-casting of metal salt solutions published 10/02/2018
US Patent No. 11376657 Porous materials via freeze-casting of metal salt solutions published07/05/2022
US Patent No. 10233087 Highly crystalline 3D graphene published 03/19/2019
US Patent No. 10276286 Polymer-carbon composites for temperature-dependent electrical switching applications published 04/30/2019
US Patent No. 10647580 Three-dimensional deterministic graphene architectures formed using three-dimensional templates published 05/12/2020
US Patent No. 11596916 Tailoring of pores in aerogels using 3D printed structures published 03/07/2023
US Patent Application No. 2023/0106574 TAILORING OF PORES IN AEROGELS USING 3D PRINTED STRUCTURES published 04/06/2023
US Patent No. 10379439 Architected three dimensional graphene via additive manufacturing published 08/13/2019
US Patent No. 11,880,133 Architected three dimensional graphene via additive manufacturing published 01/23/2024
US Patent No. 10391466 Fabrication of nanoporous aerogels via freeze substitution of nanowire suspensions published 08/27/2019
US Patent No. 11617998 Metal boride aerogels published 04/04/2023
US Patent No. 11938545 Ultralight conductive metallic aerogels published 03/26/2024
US Patent No. 11884830 Base-catalyzed sol-gel inks for direct ink writing of high resolution hierarchically porous carbon aerogels published 01/30/2024
US Patent No. 11715607 Graphene macro-assembly-fullerene composite for electrical energy storage published 08/01/2023
U.S. Patent Application No. 20230312829 TRANSPARENT POLYMER AEROGELS published 10/5/2023
LLNL is seeking industry partners with a demonstrated ability to bring such inventions to the market. Moving critical technology beyond the Laboratory to the commercial world helps our licensees gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. All licensing activities are conducted under policies relating to the strict nondisclosure of company proprietary information.
Please visit the IPO website at https://ipo.llnl.gov/resources for more information on working with LLNL and the industrial partnering and technology transfer process.
Note: THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT. Companies interested in commercializing LLNL's Aerogel Technology Suite should provide an electronic OR written statement of interest, which includes the following:
- Company Name and address.
- The name, address, and telephone number of a point of contact.
- A description of corporate expertise and/or facilities relevant to commercializing this technology.
Please provide a complete electronic OR written statement to ensure consideration of your interest in LLNL's Aerogel Technology Suite.
The subject heading in an email response should include the Notice ID and/or the title of LLNL’s Technology/Business Opportunity and directed to the Primary and Secondary Point of Contacts listed below.
Written responses should be directed to:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Innovation and Partnerships Office
P.O. Box 808, L-779
Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Attention: IL-10937Plus
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