Gap fund awards help get WSU innovations to market

Wound healing, smart textiles, biodegradable hydraulic fluid and estimation of apple crops with a smartphone are some of the innovations that are closer to reaching the market thanks to the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) at Washington State University.

Thirteen faculty – representing the variety of technology development at WSU – recently received support from the third round of CGF funding.

CMEC winners are:

  • Karl Englund: Fire performance of recycled wind turbine composite panels
  • Hang Liu: Self-weighing, self-powered, smart sensing textile

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