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Fourteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC).

Daily Camera—Research funding at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has more than doubled in the last decade, increasing by about $391 million. There were 35 CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-affiliated startup companies this last fiscal year compared to 10 the year before.

Photonics Online—A new variant of liquid crystal is at the core of CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ startup Polaris Electro-Opstics' technology. Designed as a seamless drop-in enhancer of silicon photonic chips, Polaris's modulator technology paves the way for the next generation of optical interconnects critical to the future of data center disaggregation.

The Colorado Sun—Thornton-based Solid Power, a CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ spinout, has a $50 million federal grant to ramp up development of the solid-state EV batteries it considers the technology of the near-future in automobiles, putting the company closer to its goal of developing a mass production facility in the eastern U.S. or Korea.

CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Today—An international team of researchers led by an engineer at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has revealed the underlying mechanism behind battery degradation. Their discovery could help scientists to develop better batteries.