Extremely Light Foam (ELF) Technology Licensing Opportunity
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Los Alamos National Laboratory is offering licensing opportunities for their Extremely Light Foam (ELF) technology. This innovative process creates structural foam that is significantly lighter and stronger than current alternatives by utilizing common epoxy materials, hollow particles, and a temporary liquid that evaporates to form a well-organized network of voids. The resulting material offers exceptional strength-to-weight ratios, high resistance to crushing, and can be manufactured at scale using safe, commercially available ingredients and standard industrial processes. Key advantages of ELF include its exceptionally low weight, high structural integrity, resistance to compression, simple and low-cost manufacturing, moldability into complex shapes, safe materials, and multifunctional performance (structural support, thermal insulation, impact energy absorption). Potential market applications span across marine and offshore systems, aerospace, defense and security, transportation and mobility, advanced composites and manufacturing, energy and industrial systems, and thermal and acoustic solutions. This technology is currently at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 and has a US patent pending. LANL's licensing program aims to transition inventions from their researchers to commercial innovations through exclusive and non-exclusive licensing agreements. This opportunity is not a call for external services for technology development.
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