Current Companies

Alchemity

Alchemity is a University of Maryland spinout company that transforms chemicals into value-added products via ion-conducting ceramics and develops solid oxide fuel cells for producing power.


Faculty Affiliations: Eric Wachsman, director of the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute (MEI2) and a University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor.

AmpX Technologies

AmpX Technologies develops power electronic products for automotive, industrial and consumer electronics sectors. The company’s lead product is an electrically integrated onboard charger and auxiliary power module for electric vehicles.

Faculty Affiliation: Alireza Khaligh, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research

AquaLith Advanced Materials, Inc.

Aqualith has developed new material chemistries that enable consumer electronic devices and electric vehicles to spend significantly less time charging their batteries. These new technologies are safer, higher energy density, less expensive and operate efficiently down to very low temperatures. AquaLith’s capabilities significantly expand lithium-ion energy density beyond anything currently on the market.

Faculty Affiliation: Aqualith has licensed technologies from the University of Maryland based upon the work of Chunsheng Wang, Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, in collaboration with Kang Xu, Senior Chemist at U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

Engineering and Scientific Research Associates

Engineering and Scientific Research Associates develops a new respiratory spirometer replacement device to diagnose pulmonary diseases in both-children and the elderly.

High T-Tech

High T-Tech make catalysts from combinations of cheaper metals that could still perform the same as conventional ones. The company’s technology could be used to make materials for catalytic converters in cars, emission systems in power plants, and a variety of chemical reactions that rely on expensive noble-metal catalysts, such as refining petroleum.

Faculty Affiliation: Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Director, Center for Materials Innovation, Maryland Energy Innovation Institute

Inception Robotics

Inception Robotics is developing and deploying friendly, safe, and socially compliant robots in public places.

Faculty Affiliation: Founded by two former UMD engineering graduate students, Utsav Patel and Abhishek Kathpal. Dinesh Manocha, Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Distinguished University Professor, is a company advisor.

Maryland Energy and Sensor Technologies

Maryland Energy and Sensor Technologies is developing a new thermoelastic cooling technique that could eliminate inefficient vapor compression cooling in refrigerators and HVAC systems. The company is also investigating the use of its thermoelastic cooling technology for commercial use across multiple industries.

Faculty Affiliation: Ichiro Takeuchi, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Maryland Energy Innovation Institute

New Copper

NewCopper develops state-of-art conductive inks from pristine or recycled copper that enable the scalable, lean manufacturing of high-performance, sustainable electronics.

Faculty Affiliation: Shenqiang Ren, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland

Reversal Therapeutics

Reversal Therapeutics is a pre-clinical biotechnology company focused on commercializing a proprietary molecule with a variety of clinical benefits.

Faculty Affiliation: Lyle Isaacs, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland

Ucleaner

UCleaner is developing a low-cost, full-mouth, oral hygiene device that is easy to use and effectively eliminates the need for long-held oral hygiene practices.

Faculty Affiliation: Robert Choe, Ph.D., Bioengineering, '23, and Graduate Assistant, Fischell Department of Bioengineering

US Plasma

USPlasma develops technologies leveraging plasmas and ultra-high temperatures to manufacture cost-competitive, high-quality, and novel materials and to minimize, recycle, and treat waste to ensure a clean environment.

Faculty Affiliation: Liangbing Hu, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland

MPLEX

MPLEX is developing a multiplayer, virtual reality tank combat game that also reduces the onset of VR simulation sickness without compromising player vision or game mechanics.