UbiQD Signs License Agreement with Western Washing
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UbiQD Signs License Agreement with Western Washington University and University of Washington for Luminescent Solar Concentrator Technology
Los Alamos, New Mexico-based UbiQD has reached an agreement with Western Washington University and the University of Washington to exclusively license groundbreaking luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) technology developed at the two schools.
Unlike typical heavy opaque solar panels, this technology is partially transparent and lightweight, enabling windows or other surfaces, such as building facades, to become solar collectors.
Developed at Western’s Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center (AMSEC) and the University of Washington via funding from the National Science Foundation, Hunter McDaniel, founder and CEO of UbiQD, said the technology has the potential to disrupt the way we think about energy.
“We envision a world where sunlight harvesting is ubiquitous, a future where our cities are powered by quantum dot-tinted glass on skyscrapers,” said McDaniel. “UbiQD is making tremendous progress already in translating quantum dots and LSC tech into viable products and a scalable business model,” he said.
WWU Professor of Chemistry David Patrick said the agreement with UbiQD is significant because it shows how laboratory discoveries can be translated to the marketplace, and ultimately impact jobs and the economy.
“The fact that so many Western undergraduate students participated in the research, development and demonstration of this technology speaks volumes for the importance of our public institutions’ roles as innovators and partners with entrepreneurs in the private sector like UbiQD,” he said.
Forest Bohrer, manager of Innovation Development at the University of Washington’s CoMotion Innovation Center, agreed.
“It has been a pleasure working with Western Washington University to license this technology, and it is quite exciting to see research with substantial undergrad contributions make the leap to commercial application,” said Bohrer.
Los Alamos, New Mexico-based UbiQD has reached an agreement with Western Washington University and the University of Washington to exclusively license groundbreaking luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) technology developed at the two schools.
Unlike typical heavy opaque solar panels, this technology is partially transparent and lightweight, enabling windows or other surfaces, such as building facades, to become solar collectors.
Developed at Western’s Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center (AMSEC) and the University of Washington via funding from the National Science Foundation, Hunter McDaniel, founder and CEO of UbiQD, said the technology has the potential to disrupt the way we think about energy.
“We envision a world where sunlight harvesting is ubiquitous, a future where our cities are powered by quantum dot-tinted glass on skyscrapers,” said McDaniel. “UbiQD is making tremendous progress already in translating quantum dots and LSC tech into viable products and a scalable business model,” he said.
WWU Professor of Chemistry David Patrick said the agreement with UbiQD is significant because it shows how laboratory discoveries can be translated to the marketplace, and ultimately impact jobs and the economy.
“The fact that so many Western undergraduate students participated in the research, development and demonstration of this technology speaks volumes for the importance of our public institutions’ roles as innovators and partners with entrepreneurs in the private sector like UbiQD,” he said.
Forest Bohrer, manager of Innovation Development at the University of Washington’s CoMotion Innovation Center, agreed.
“It has been a pleasure working with Western Washington University to license this technology, and it is quite exciting to see research with substantial undergrad contributions make the leap to commercial application,” said Bohrer.
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