WARF Advances in Clean Tech | January 2026

WARF ADVANCES
Top licensing prospects from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Solvent-Based Plastic Recycling for Managing Industrial-Scale Waste
STRAP™ can process flexible plastic packaging, which cannot be recycled mechanically, and offers scalable, sustainable solutions to reduce waste.
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Nuclear Fuel Assembly Retrofit for Increasing Reactor Power
This novel reactor core uses an irregular fuel rod spacing that nevertheless retains grid-positioned control rods, allowing a retrofitting of the reactor core to existing reactors without substantial modification to the pressure vessel.
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Selective Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Biomass
A UW-Madison food scientist is developing a bacterial mutant that will be capable of removing the inhibitory co-products from lignocellulosic biomass-derived hydrolysates.
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Carbon Negative Supplementary Cementitious Materials
This method for producing carbon negative supplementary cementitious materials utilizes a carbon mineralization-based direct air capture process named DDAC-REACT (Distributed Direct Air Capture with Rapid Mineral Carbonation).
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RNA-Guided DNA Transposition
UW-Madison researchers have applied transposon technology to CRISPR-mediated gene targeting to create libraries of genetically modified bacteria displaying differentially expressed genes throughout their genome.
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