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Aqua Science offers a global platform of technologies and fast and reliable solutions for the testing and treatment of water. They provide research and development, custom reagent and kit manufacture, product assembly, lyophilization services, and contract manufacturing services.

Spekciton Biosciences specializes in biophotonic measurement systems and services aimed at enhancing agricultural performance and sustainability. The company develops innovative technologies that enable the rapid and precise detection of plant stress and viability, providing farmers with essential insights for improving crop management. Additionally, Spekciton offers biosensors designed to quickly identify soil and water contamination, supporting environmental health and agricultural productivity. Through its advanced measurement solutions, the company contributes to a better understanding of bioprocesses, ultimately aiding in the cultivation of resilient and sustainable crops.

Ballydel Technologies is a research and development company that specializes in material and technology solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Newark, Delaware.

TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.

Saphtx develops protein-based therapeutic strategies for a wide range of diseases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

ThruPore Technologies Inc. develops porous carbon support structures for industrial catalysts. It develops heterogeneous catalysts in pellets and powders. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Bear, Delaware.

Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.

SAS Nanotechnologies is a developer of smart and self-healing anticorrosive coatings for solving chemical challenges. These anticorrosive coatings have applications in a variety of industries such as oil and gas, construction, marine, architecture, etc. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

MSTM is an ionization innovation company that develops novel ionization techniques for mass spectrometry. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.

SuperBrewed Food, a biotechnology company founded in 2011 and headquartered in New Castle, Delaware, focuses on developing innovative fermentation technologies for both human and animal probiotics. The company employs advanced synthetic biology and bioprocess development to create new probiotic solutions. Its technology portfolio includes MixoFerm, which facilitates the fermentation of carbohydrates with gas, and FlexFeedstock, allowing for adaptable biobased and gas feedstock inputs. Additionally, SuperBrewed Food utilizes Zero-CO2 Fermentation technology, which aims to produce CO2 in a sustainable manner, and employs liquid-liquid extraction methods for the fermentative production of various chemicals and fuels. Through these technologies, the company is positioned to contribute significantly to the fields of biochemistry and renewable resources.

ThruPore Technologies Inc. develops porous carbon support structures for industrial catalysts. It develops heterogeneous catalysts in pellets and powders. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Bear, Delaware.

Voltaic Coatings owns the exclusive license to a pending composition of matter patent for a new material created at the University of Delaware. The material transforms the way electronic displays, touch screens, organic lighting, and thin film solar devices are produced. The customizability of our product will enable our clients to replace the current materials used in the transparent conductor and hole injection layers of their devices.

MSTM is an ionization innovation company that develops novel ionization techniques for mass spectrometry. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.

ThruPore Technologies Inc. develops porous carbon support structures for industrial catalysts. It develops heterogeneous catalysts in pellets and powders. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Bear, Delaware.

STF Technologies LLC develops and provides advanced materials and personal protective equipment for occupations that demand superior protection combined with the highest level of flexibility and comfort. STF Technologies was founded in 2013 by Dr. Richard Dombrowski and Dr. Norman Wagner.