The following companies are or have been associated with our group.
| Company | Relationship |
|---|---|
| BIOSYM | Computational chemistry software company; its Catalysis and Sorption Project was begun by John Newsam, Tony Cheetham, Richard Catlow and Galen Stucky in the late 1980s. The company was sold to Corning in 1992, merged with MSI in 1995, merged with Synopsys and Oxford Molecular Group in 2000 to become Accelrys. |
| Gas Reaction Technologies (GRT) | To address the fact that over 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas are flared or vented (lost) annually, equal to the combined annual gas consumption of Germany and France, and enough to supply the entire world with gas for twenty days, Galen Stucky has been instrumental in the development of technology for the conversion of natural gas into transportation fuels, and to reduce global warming emissions due to vented methane and the carbon dioxide produced by flaring. Specifically, in 1998 as a follow-up to reports by the Stucky Group on new transition metal and main group zeotype synthesis , Stucky was asked by Jeff Sherman, a corporate representative of an investors group, to tackle the problem of methane and stranded natural gas conversion to gasoline and liquid petrochemical products as part of a Sponsored Research Project with UCSB. In 1999/2000 Stucky worked closely with Jeff Sherman, shepherding the original Sponsored Research Agreement through the University Tech Transfer Offices, and expanded the effort to include other UC Santa Barbara researchers, Dr. Xiao Ping Zhou, Professor Peter Ford, Professor Eric McFarland, and Professor Michael Doherty (more details). The startup company, Gas Reaction Technologies (GRT, Inc.) was formed in 1999 and since 2004 has been an active local company under the direction of Professor Eric McFarland, with Stucky as a scientific consultant. In July 2008, GRT entered into agreements with Marathon GTF Technology, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation, to cooperate on the advancement of technology for the commercial conversion of natural gas into transportation fuels. |
| High Throughput Experimentation (hte) | hte is a leading provider of technology and services for enhancing research and development productivity, in particular in the areas of catalysis, material science and formulations. hte is a Heidelberg-based company started by two ex-postdocs of the Stucky Group: Ferdi Schüth and Dirk Demuth. The company now has more than 120 employees and it was recently sold (75%) to BASF. |
| SBA Materials | Founded in 1998 with faculty colleagues Brad Chmelka and Dan Morse |