Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) at Argonne helps startups and founders bring their green technologies to market by leveraging the lab’s many scientific experts and capabilities.

Chain Reaction Innovations’ Cohort 4 - QDIR

Led by Matthew Ackerman, Ph.D., QDIR hopes to revolutionize national security and defense technologies using high-resolution infrared detectors using semiconductor quantum dots and a proprietary device design. By offering a more accurate and reliable detection, infrared cameras play an important role in infrastructure inspection, quality assurance, research, manufacturing, security, recycling, and medical industries.

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