Hey Bountiful,

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had some time to rest and reflect, and our hearts go out to all you researchers who were stuck in the lab over the holidays.

Check out:

• Collaborate on PhotoChromeleon
• New Funding Models for Science
• Lessons Learned from Building in Hard Tech
• New Podcast Episode with Tufts Water Professor & Inventor
• Job & Fellowship Opportunities w/ actnano, DOE, ARPA-E and more.

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🦎 Community News

Welcome to the Bountiful community Yuhua Jin, a post-doc at MIT and now an adjunct research scientist within the Human-Centered Computing & Intelligent Sensing Lab at UCLA.

Yuhua is looking for collaborators for his invention from his time at MIT. It's a physical color-changing technology he named "Photo-Chromeleon". This technology enables users to change the physical color of objects at will, even after fabrication!

Watch a video about the invention here.

You can learn more about the PhotoChromeleon and connect with Yuhua in our community portal here (this link is buggy in mobile but go for it on your desktop and it should work great!)

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👣Cool Threads

New Funding Models for Science

The following is a piece on new funding models for science that have taken root in various constellations. We'll be inviting some of the leaders at these initaitives to speak at our mini-symposia in 2022 so stay tuned. If you'd like to present your research, email max@bountiful.work and we'll make it happen.

Here's the list Judy Introduces:

1. Mega-LabCos
2. Focused Research Organizations (FROs)
3. PARPA (Private ARPA)
4. University-Affiliated institutes w/ philanthropic funding
5. Fast Grants
6. DeSci

Read the thread here.

Now is a good time to remind you that Bountiful is on Twitter! Check us out and follow our list of "Scientists to Watch".

One of these cool new models is worth calling out. The Footprint Coalition, funded in part by actor Robert Downey Jr., is a new hub where leading scientists can share their research and engage directly with our audience to support it. They're working with a cool platform called experiment.com, where individual researchers working on technologies combating our climate and biodiversity crises can receive fast grants and funding from engaged coalition members. There are open calls in cellulary agriculture, indigenous futures, community science & environmental justice, conservation biotech, and "augmented discovery". Applications are open now so check it out if this applies to you!

​Get the link in our community portal.

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Takeaways from Building in Hard Tech

This was a really awesome and detailed article by Alishba Imran and Shagun Maheshwari, two of the founders of VoltX, a deeptech startup in the battery space. She offers lessons learned from her experience as a young founder navigating co-found relationships, fundraising, customer validation and more. Lots of practical advice for those of you looking to spin out your research and build a startup.

​Get the article here.​

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💧New Podcast

Ayse Asatekin is an associate professor and the Steve and Kristen Remondi Faculty Fellow in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Tufts University. She is an entrepreneurial academic that keeps her home base in academia, but has been a founding scientist and inventor on two university spinouts in the water sector, the most recent of which, ZwitterCo, just raised $6M to continue commercializing their technology to use zwitterions to coat membranes that are resistant to fouling and can treat waste streams with fats, oils, grease and more.

Ayse provided a ton of insight into conducting research with an eye towards scale and commercialization, including the importance of de-risking inventions at an early stage in anticipation of what investors and industry might ask. She spoke very candidly about her past experiences in spinning out technologies, what she has learned, what she would advise young inventors considering doing the same, the importance of the team, and much more. It's an encouraging episode for any listeners that want to invent for commercialization but still remain in academia, dedicated to research. Enjoy!

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Youtube and everywhwere else.

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🚗 Opportunities

Featured Job

​actnano is looking for PhDs in Germany and China to join their fast-growing team

About actnano: We are a dynamic materials startup headquartered in Cambridge, MA. With a strong global technical team, we develop and manufacture coatings that protect printed circuit boards in electronics, allowing them to function in water-laden environments. We work with the biggest brands in the consumer electronics and automotive industries to increase product reliability and improve product performance in wet and humid conditions. Not only do we provide a portfolio of coatings, but we also work closely with our customers to help solve some of their most difficult problems through rapid innovation and ingenuity.

Read more about the opportunity here and please email max@bountiful.work if you or someone you know could be a good fit.

To learn more about actnano and the founding story, listen to the episode with CEO Taymur Ahmad on our Out of the Lab podcast Spotify Apple Youtube​

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Funding & Fellowships

​EnergyTech University Prize - Department of Energy​

The US Department of Energy is sponsoring a competition to the tune of $250,000, as they explore business opportunities for lab-developed or other high-potential energy technologies, assess commercialization opportunities through market analysis, and present a viable business plan to industry judges. Applications due Jan 31st!

​ARPA-E Fellows​

ARPA-E is looking for fellows for their 2-year program. Applications due Jan 31st!

​Footprint Coalition​

Rolling applications for their science engine hub for science leads in topics ranging from AI for science discovery to cellular agriculture.

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And that's all for now folks. Here's to a prosperous 2022 for people and planet. Thanks everyone, speak soon. -Max

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