The Commercialization of Great Science
One of every four Americans live within three miles of a hazardous waste site. Without remediation, toxic contaminants are leached into our drinking water supply, taken up by agricultural products, and released into the air through aerosolized particles.
Triad Growth Partners Sustainable Solutions

       Eleven billion tons of industrial waste are generated worldwide each year. This amount is increasing exponentially, endangering the world’s current and future supplies of safe water and food.
       The solution is crystal clear – we need novel and environmentally sustainable waste management solutions that can recover habitats faster and remediate land and water for agriculture, population and development reuse.
       At Triad Growth Partners, we are committed to developing innovative solutions for the $17 billion remediation market to decrease cost, increase efficacy and restore water and land in a sustainable manner. AxNano, the technology development group of Triad Growth Partners, is designing these advanced solutions as part of the patented RemRx™ treatment technologies platform.  RemRx brings together advanced technologies to create proprietary and highly tunable products that safely address the needs of global development leaders and industry looking for sustainable solutions.
A Game Changer for Groundwater Remediation
The high cost and long project timelines of remedial activities can result in continued exposure to surrounding residents for years. In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO)  can be an effective environmental remediation technology but suffers from short reactive-lifetimes that require many repeat injections to combat “contaminant rebounding”. AxNano seeks to mitigate rebounding through innovative material science approaches.
National Science Foundation Support
The National Science Foundation has awarded AxNano $978,281 in Phase I STTR/Phase II SBIR to support the pilot-scale field testing and design scale-up manufacturing of RemRx™ CRP.
RemRx™ CRP   Controlled Release Pellets  
RemRx™ CRP is a versatile, controlled release oxidant technology being commercialized by AxNano for in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) of groundwater contaminants. They include simple application and long-term treatment that reduces the redeployment and labor costs of traditional ISCO products. RemRx™-CRP can be customized to meet specific site characteristics or toxins and can also be used to treat pathogenic contamination issues. 
Meet the Inventor
Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Ph.D. is Chair of the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) Department and associate professor at North Carolina A&T State University. More about Dr. Luster-Teasley.

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​Groundwater ties all this - and all of us, back to the Earth. The issues of sustainability and waste management are paramount in our efforts to reclaim land for agriculture and development, increase food availability and safety, and tackle water scarcity and safety issues"
Innovative Approaches to Solve Big Problems
Major human health risks are caused by recalcitrant contaminants such as poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), 1,4-dioxane, and others for which current remediation technologies are not as effective towards. AxNano seeks to design multi-component technologies that can target and degrade such “emerging contaminants”.
National Institute of Science and Technologies Support
The National Institute of Science and Technologies awarded AxNano a $399,269 Phase I SBIR Grant to work in collaboration with the University of Arkansas to further develop the composite for commercialization.
RemRx™ - ZVI  Zero Valent Iron Composite
RemRx™-ZVI's innovative composite design includes many benefits for in-situ chemical reduction (ISCR) groundwater remediation including longer reactive lifetime and improved radius of influence. AxNano and collaborators are evaluating how this multi-component material can expand the suite of treatable compounds. RemRx™-ZVI is easy to deploy, customizable and exhibits superior performance with greater sphere-of-influence per injection.
Meet the Inventor
Dr. Lauren Greenlee joined the University of Arkansas faculty as Assistant Professor, Louis Owen Professorship in Chemical Engineering in 2015 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). More about Dr. Greenlee here.

Creating new solutions that support global sustainability and food security by safely recovering depleted water and land sources. These are giant steps with big impact"
TGP Superfund Research Program
Hazardous chemicals released into the environment can get trapped in low permeability zones in the ground, like clay or bedrock, contaminating drinking water sources or affecting indoor air quality for decades or longer. Remediation of these low permeability zones is difficult using current methods and amendments.  The EPA’s Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land and responding to environmental emergencies, oil spills and natural disasters. The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) funds multidisciplinary research on human health and environmental issues related to hazardous substances. The SRP SBIR/STTR program specifically helps small businesses develop innovative detection and remediation technologies for contaminated sites. The central goal of the Superfund Research Program is to understand and break the link between chemical exposure and disease. 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Support
The NIEHS Superfund Research Program has awarded AxNano a Fasttrack Phase I SBIR for $124,641 with the opportunity for $952,290 of Phase II follow-on funding to support the pilot scale field testing of the hydraulic fracturing injection treatment of low permeability zones with RemRx™ CRI
Superfund Site Solutions
AxNano LLC, is developing RemRx™-CRI, an injectable controlled-release in situ chemical oxidation material that can be placed into low permeability zones via hydraulic fracturing, that will lower total project cost, shorten the overall clean-up cycle, and decrease chronic human exposure resulting from hazardous chemical releases.

The commercial impact of the proposed technology brings next generation material technologies for the environmental industry to remediate surface and groundwater. RemRx™-CRI represents a new class of ISCO product offering a customizable, controlled release, and injectable solution.
Meet Triad Growth Partners Principle Investigator
Dr. Carpenter leads Triad Growth Partners’ development of relevant technologies for commercialization and is responsible for securing research funding and managing contract research activities. Prior to joining Triad Growth Partners, Dr. Carpenter was a Superfund Research Trainee as a postdoctoral associate with Dr. Mark Wiesner as part of Duke University’s Superfund Research Center where she developed sustainable technologies for in situ remediation and enhanced wastewater treatment.   
More about Dr. Carpenter​ here.
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​    One out of every four Americans lives within three miles of a hazardous waste site.

​    RemRx-CRP can transform the $17 billion U.S. remediation industry as a lower-cost and more efficient remediation solution."
Bill Doran, CEO, Triad Growth Partners

Intellectual Property Overview

Triad Growth Partners continues to build its intellectual property portfolio through inventions generated from in-house R&D as well as licensing. We have both issued and pending patents in areas such as controlled release materials, novel remediation amendments, amendment formulations, and carbonaceous sorbents. Triad Growth Partners is constantly evaluating new technologies to add to our portfolio through sponsored research programs and business partnerships.
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