His company - AAMTECH - is developing a more environmentally friendly process to recover materials from used Li-ion batteries and create a precursor cathode active material (pCAM) for a green circular supply chain.

Dan Berglund will now remain through his fifth Presidential transition, but relinquish the CEO role.

The projects announced recently are the Appalachian Regional Commission's largest POWER investments since the initiative was launched in 2015.

The app is in the development stage, but the two founders are hopeful to unveil a beta version within the next few months.

The participants hail from South Carolina, Boston, New York, Florida, and even as far as Taiwan.

John Sorochan and Kyley Dickson just unveiled version 3 of "The fLEX" machine ahead of Saturday's first Tennessee football game.

Two "Lab to Launch" events were held during the day, followed by a well-attended "Beer and Biotech" meetup at Schulz Bräu Brewing Company.

For the second year in a row, participants in the "Innovation Crossroads" program and the Spark Cleantech Accelerator are sharing 12 weeks of instruction and mentoring.