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Ramkumar wins 2016 President’s Excellence in Commercialization Award
April 27th, 2016
Texas Tech University professor Seshadri Ramkumar has won the 2016 President’s Excellence in Commercialization Award. Ramkumar, professor of technical textiles and countermeasures to chemical threats in Lubbock-based Texas Tech’s Department of Environmental Toxicology and The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), was recognized for his contributions to nonwoven materials. “I am humbled by this […]
Commercializing new technologies: The FiberTect® experience
February 10th, 2015
“Applied research deserves Nobel prizes,” proclaimed the editorial of Nature Materials in January 2010. Although, the Nobels are known to be rewarded only to basic discoveries, there are plenty of examples to showcase rewarding research of applied nature—for example, the 2014 award in Physics for blue light LEDs. More and more, academia is emphasizing translational […]
When is a fabric a fabric?
February 10th, 2015
This month, our featured material is not about a specific market area, per se, but rather about the challenge of commercializing new technology in any segment of the industry. There’s enough to talk about here to fill a shelf of encyclopedias (remember those?), so the challenge was to manage the topic, given the expanse of […]