17 Annual Report 2017 17 COHORT 5 ELECTROPLATE Team Members: PrabhatTripathy (principal investigator), Jordan Argyle (entrepreneurial lead) and Steve Herring (industry mentor).This team developed an electroplating process that enables formation of a multilayered surface coating that is thick and uniformly pore-free, adhering to an object’s substrate level. By operating at much lower temperatures than traditional plating methods, it also saves energy. AMAFT Team Members: Isabella van Rooyen (principal investigator), George Griffith (entrepreneurial lead) and Ed Lahoda (industry mentor). This additive manufacturing technology provides a direct route to fabrication of dense uranium silicide using a novel hybrid laser-engineered net shaping process. By creating a small, localized melt pool from multiple powder sources, pellets can be uniformly fabricated to exact microstructure and chemistry specifications. EMRLD Team Members: Steven Prescott (principal investigator), Ram Sampath (entrepreneurial lead) and Rob Sewell (industry mentor). EMRLD is a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) model based on three-phase discrete event simulation, which makes it ideal for dynamic time- dependent models and also makes coupling possible with other time- dependent physics-based simulation models. RE-LIGHT Team Members: Donna Baek (principal investigator), Devin Imholte (entrepreneurial lead), and Robert Fox and James Hedrick (industry mentors). RE-LIGHT’s technology safely removes and separates mercury and rare earth elements from fluorescent lamps. Phosphor powders contain rare earth elements, which are considered critical elements worldwide based on their ubiquitous application in clean energy technologies and microelectronic devices. Energy I-Corps Nine INL teams participated in Energy I-Corps cohorts during fall of 2016 and spring of 2017. Formerly known as Lab-Corps, Energy I-Corps is a DOE program aimed at strengthening entrepreneurial culture at national labs. It focuses on cultivating small- team collaboration between researchers and private entrepreneurs. INL and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies have been sending people to the program since it started in 2015. During seven weeks of training provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, each team visits or calls company representatives in their specific market sectors, engaging directly with potential customers with a goal of 100 Customer Discovery Interviews.At the same time, they also meet with and are scored by panels of industry experts. The participating teams from INL are below. COHORT 4 OPTIBLEND Team members:Allison Ray (principal investigator), Hongqiang Hu (entrepreneurial lead) and Ryan Bills (industry mentor).This technology allows researchers to produce high-quality bioenergy feedstock from grass, wood and agricultural residues. CELLSAGE Team members: Kevin Gering (principal investigator), Josh McNally (entrepreneurial lead) and Frank Meijers (industry mentor). CellSage deploys software to support battery performance and life-cycle determinations in diverse applications. E-RECOV Team members:Tedd Lister (principal investigator), Luis Diaz Aldana and Leslie Ovard (entrepreneurial leads), and Jonathan Cook (industry mentor).This electrochemical recovery process retrieves critical and rare earth materials from such devices as cellphones and computers. CHANGE DETECTION SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS Troy Unruh (principal investigator), Gregory Lancaster (entrepreneurial lead) and SontraYim (industry mentor).This computer software program aligns digital images to detect changes over time for nuclear facility and national security applications. DRY CASK VITAL SIGNS Ahmad Al Rashdan (principal investigator), Carson McNair (entrepreneurial lead) and John Kessler (industry mentor). Noninvasive determination of the status and integrity of vented dry nuclear fuel casks is possible with this technology. A laboratory setup for the E-RECOV technology