12 Patents
Named U.S. patent inventor
Advanced energy storage materials and systems, including patent numbers 8654507 - Enhanced Particle Packing 10195583 - Low Pressure Gas Storage 10490358 - Flow ultracapacitor
Goodwin Technologies Seattle, WA USA
biocarbon research and characterization lab
Biocarbon / energy systems / instrumentation / infrastructure
I build technologies that move from
the lab into working infrastructure.
I am Chad Goodwin: an inventor, materials scientist, and systems builder working across biocarbon, energy storage, instrumentation, manufacturing, and organizational intelligence. My work connects laboratory research, custom hardware, data systems, and real-world climate infrastructure.
Technical record
A 17-year track record of turning difficult engineering problems into real technology.
Group14 Technologies
Invented part of the silicon-carbon platform
Core inventor behind technology that became Group14 Technologies, including patent numbers 10763501 - Nano-featured porous silicon 11611073 - Silicon-Carbon Anode Composite
EnerG2 / BASF
Scaled energy materials from R&D into product
Spent 7 years researching and scaling advanced carbon aerogels, then worked globally as Product Manager after the BASF acquisition in 2016.
Pilot Scale
Built systems beyond the bench
Helped build and provide scientific support for EnerG2's advanced carbon production plant, then built a pilot scale biocarbon manufacturing system for USDA funded California farm residue research.
USDA Scientist
Biochar and carbon research
Co-authored a $3M USDA/NIFA Specialty Crop grant that funded a pilot-scale biocarbon research plant converting California farm residue into energy storage co-products. The work used key pilot-scale carbon equipment purchased from BASF after its EnerG2 acquisition and relocated to California.
Global Commercialization
Technical and commercial operating context
As a BASF Product Manager, spent roughly three years working globally across manufacturing, product, customer, and commercialization relationships from early qualification through product adoption.
External recognition
TIME named Group14 Technologies SCC55 one of the Best Inventions of 2022.
The article highlighted the silicon-carbon composite material for improving battery energy density and charging time while integrating into existing lithium-ion manufacturing.
External recognition
Porsche AG acquired a stake in Group14 Technologies as an innovative producer of battery materials.
Porsche led a $100M investment as part of Group14 Technologies' $400M Series C to accelerate silicon-carbon anode material production for lithium-ion batteries.
External recognition
BASF acquired EnerG2 Technologies in 2016 to enter advanced carbon materials.
I was the fourth materials researcher hired at EnerG2 in 2009, helping develop and scale engineered carbon materials for next-generation energy storage before the BASF acquisition.
2012
EnerG2 Technologies
Developing advanced carbon materials for next-generation energy storage.
This work marked the beginning of a career spanning laboratory research, materials characterization, instrumentation, and prototype development, laying the foundation for technologies that would later scale into commercial battery platforms and the creation of Goodwin Technologies.
Materials synthesis and characterization
Electrochemical testing and analysis
Carbon engineering for high-performance systems
"While researching carbon aerogel structures, I realized that whatever humans build, nature has usually solved with more elegance."Chad Goodwin
Goodwin Technologies
Goodwin Technologies turns hard technical ideas into equipment, data, and working systems.
The purpose is simple: shorten the distance between an idea, a measurement, a working prototype, and a decision that can survive real operating conditions.
Goodwin Technologies is the shop, lab, and build environment I use now for machining, materials testing, instrumentation, electronics, software, and intelligence systems. Ideas are worked through as hardware, measurements, controls, and manufacturing systems before they are asked to carry capital.
Carbon and materials
In-house carbon characterization connects feedstock behavior to product pathways before manufacturing is built.
Instrumentation
A decade of building purpose-fit test equipment to measure what matters instead of extrapolating from non-ideal data.
Design to hardware
A wide build skillset turns concepts into working systems, from machining and welding to CAD, custom PCBs, and software.
On-prem Intelligence
Enterprise grade intelligence systems support research goals, technical memory, documentation, and operations.
The useful work happens where finance meets hot equipment, biomass feedstocks, plant floors, hard measurements, manufacturing limits, and operating systems.
That is the layer I build in: close enough to the physics to know what can actually scale.
Engineering Intelligence
Organizational knowledge should compound into better decisions.
Every experiment, project, material characterization, design decision, meeting, and engineering discussion creates knowledge. Most organizations lose that knowledge across notebooks, emails, PDFs, files, and conversations.
At Goodwin Technologies, I am developing an on-premises organizational intelligence platform that preserves technical and business context across years of work. It connects laboratory measurements, patents, publications, project history, instrumentation, software, financial models, and engineering documentation into persistent working memory for future decisions.
The objective is not to replace engineers or operators. The objective is to make sure every experiment, lesson learned, and successful design continues contributing to the next decision.
Persistent Memory
Engineering knowledge retained across years of laboratory work, documentation, measurements, and design decisions.
Engineering Reasoning
Technical context assembled before reasoning instead of relying on isolated prompts.
On-Premises Infrastructure
Designed to operate on private engineering hardware where sensitive research stays inside the laboratory.
Decision Support
Connecting patents, publications, experimental data, manufacturing constraints, and project history into one engineering workspace.
Facet Power
Facet is where local operating knowledge meets climate infrastructure.
PRISM
Engineering intelligence layer for climate systems, project memory, modeling, and operating context.
EcoSystems
Regional biomass, carbon, energy, land, infrastructure, and partner relationships organized into repeatable models.
Aperture
Investor interface for understanding project structure, technical assumptions, risk, and deployment pathways.
Facet Power builds project ecosystems that turn regional biomass, carbon, energy, and infrastructure opportunities into financeable climate assets.
Facet Power is building the connective layer between local climate opportunities and institutional capital. The platform is designed to organize carbon, energy, natural systems, and regional assets into structured opportunities that can be understood, financed, and repeated.
My role as Founder and CTO is to keep the platform connected to measurable physical work: materials, equipment, controls, data, and operating constraints. Goodwin Technologies gives Facet direct access to the lab capability, equipment design, software, and intelligence systems needed to turn projects into working infrastructure.
Current project
Nagaland-Bhutan project converts Naga bamboo into renewable biocarbon and clean energy.
Facet Power announced a cross-border EcoSystem converting locally grown bamboo waste into renewable industrial biocarbon for Bhutan's ferrosilicon sector. Goodwin Technologies' role is developing the bio-coke replacement from Nagaland bamboo.
Current project
Facet Power and Goodwin Technologies met with the President of Burundi on sustainable development and bioeconomy innovation.
The meeting positioned Facet Power and Goodwin Technologies around biochar, clean energy, regenerative agriculture, green city planning, and carbon-market infrastructure as part of Burundi's long-term development agenda.
Current project
Facet Power partnered to launch Guinea's largest agro-industrial project.
The 200,000-hectare sweet sorghum initiative combines regenerative farming, sugar, bioethanol, nutrient-rich animal feed, biochar carbon sequestration, and restoration of degraded ecosystems. Goodwin Technologies supports the technical side of the work through project modeling, process development, and the build path needed to turn the system design into operating reality.
Facet Power
Building climate infrastructure with local partners.
Facet Power develops carbon removal and clean energy projects alongside local research institutions, project partners, and communities. The work combines technical rigor with on-the-ground collaboration before projects are asked to scale.
Facet Technical Advantage
Facet has a CTO connected to real equipment, data, and operating constraints.
As CTO, I bring Facet direct access to Goodwin Technologies' in-house materials characterization, instrumentation, equipment design, controls, software, prototyping, and intelligence systems. Assumptions can be tested before they become expensive commitments.
For investors, that reduces technical ambiguity. The company can evaluate feedstocks, measurement pathways, equipment needs, and operating constraints close to the work as projects move from concept to deployable systems.
Open conversations
For investors, partners, and project developers.
I am interested in conversations where climate infrastructure, carbon systems, manufacturing, regional assets, and capital need to meet in the real world.