Available for Licensing | Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne grants licenses for lab-developed intellectual property to existing and start-up companies that are technically and financially capable of turning early-stage technology into commercial products. We are committed to negotiating fair and reasonable license agreements that are beneficial to both parties. We work with our licensees to make these technologies a success in the commercial world.

Technologies Available for Licensing

Energy Storage

Argonne is a global leader in advanced energy storage technologies with a portfolio of more than 125 patented advanced cathode, anode, electrolyte and additive components for lithium-ion, lithium-air, lithium-sulfur, sodium-ion, and flow batteries.

Materials

Argonne’s innovations in high-tech materials are key to breakthroughs in biology, the environment, nuclear energy, transportation and national security.

Instrumentation and Devices

Argonne regularly invents sensors, detectors and other technologies for gaining valuable insights about the world around us.

Environmental Science

Argonne provides the nation with rigorous science and engineering analyses about the present and possible future state of the environment.

Transportation

Argonne’s transportation research efforts bring together scientists and engineers from many disciplines to find cost-effective solutions to critical issues like foreign-oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions.

Security + Infrastructure

Teams at Argonne are developing scientific and technical national security solutions to address complex problems that threaten safety and stability throughout the world.

Bioscience

Argonne’s life sciences research has yielded a portfolio of advanced technologies that are having a profound impact on medical technologies and therapies, energy production and sustainability, and bioremediation.

Information + Computer Systems

Argonne’s innovations are focused on solving the most challenging scientific/technical problems through high-performance computing, data analysis, artificial intelligence, and advanced modeling and simulation.

Manufacturing

Argonne’s scientists create next-generation catalysts, processes, coatings and technologies that advance industrial development and output without compromising energy use and the environment.

Hydrogen + Fuel Cells

Argonne’s fuel cell research extends from nanometer scale to components and systems and is focused on performance, durability and cost.

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are working on optimization models that use machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to simulate the electric system and the severity of various problems. In a region with 1,000 electric power assets, an outage of just three assets can produce nearly a billion scenarios of potential failure. Image by urbans/Shutterstock.com.

Software

Argonne has created a wealth of powerful software and models with broad-ranging applications, such as simulation and modeling, computation, Internet usage, and more.

Made nuclear fuel processing safer. Argonne scientists developed a simpler, safer method to reprocess used nuclear fuel. Stealing a mollusk’s secret to a tough shell. The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne revealed how a Placuna mollusk’s shell is tougher than glass or high-performance plastics: it uses tiny defects that keep damage from spreading, a secret that researchers are planning to steal to make transparent, super-tough ceramics for cars, armor, electronics, and other uses.

Nuclear Science + Engineering

Argonne advances the design and operation of nuclear energy systems and applies nuclear energy expertise to current and emerging programs of national and international significance.

Express Licensing Technologies

Argonne’s Express option for select technologies provides several benefits for U.S. companies. It provides a streamlined pathway for interested and eligible companies to assess promising technologies through a standardized, exclusive, fixed-fee agreement.