| Cluster-Wells: Isolating Aggressive Tumor Cell Clusters for Improved Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment |
- High performing: Demonstrates superior abilities to isolate CTCs without clogging the system or dissociating the clusters
- Low cost: Shows high potential for large-scale production because it uses simple equipment and a straightforward process
- Versatile: Isolates CTC clusters of any cancer type and uses hardware that can be modified to accommodate various devices
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| Low-Power Real-Time Ionizing Radiation Detector |
- Sensitive: Detects the charge generated from the interactions of ionizing radiation within matter with a high level of precision and discerns X-ray pulses of varying dose
- Scalable: Covers a significantly larger detection area than other methods, ranging from 60,000 square micrometers to one square millimeter
- Responsive: Responds within microseconds and proportionately with the overall radiation dose when exposed to X-rays of varying tube voltage (energy) and tube current (number of particles)
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| Self-Powered Highly Stretchable Sensing Interface for Gesture Recognition |
- Self-contained: Includes a signal processing pipeline, providing gesture recognition for an extensive range of input modalities without the need for external power or sensing equipment
- Assistive: Enables eyes-free, unobtrusive, and ergonomic interaction with computing devices embedded in wearables
- Versatile: Demonstrates far-reaching potential for applications beyond gesture recognition including in actuation and data acquisition
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Nanotechnology |
| Integrated Alkali Dispenser Collimator |
- Precise: Reducing the “spread” of vapor via collimation can reduce potential signal-to-noise ratio degradation and avoid contamination of nearby electronic components.
- Simple: Generating a directed atomic beam from the dispenser can be achieved via integrated packaging.
- Cooler: Placing a spacer material between the dispenser and collimator creates a sealed gap that not only prevents leakage, but also allows the vapor to cool (via rapid thermalization with the collimator plate).
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| Chip-Scale Electrochemical Double-Layer (ECDL) Supercapacitors |
- Decreased size: Minimizes space that does not contribute to volumetric density and is drastically smaller than conventional ECDL capacitors, allowing capacitor-dependent devices to shrink considerably
- High power: Achieves gravimetric energy densities of over 100 watt-hours per kilogram
- Improved performance: The vertically aligned graphene-functionalized carbon nanotubes Offers high porosity and surface area for improved pseudocapacitance by vertically aligning graphene-functionalized nanotubes
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Nanotechnology |
| Superior Supercapacitors |
- High performance: Achieves average energy densities as high as 90 Wh/Kg
- Scalable: Leverages a low-cost PAN fabrication process that dramatically increases surface area
- Widely applicable: Demonstrates potential for advances in a variety of energy storage and capacitive water desalination applications
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Nanotechnology |
| Nanoparticle-Stabilized Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes for Efficient, Large-Scale Gas Separation |
- Cost efficient: Eliminates the need for the time-consuming process of post-treating precursor fibers in a chemical modifying agent in order to prevent collapse
- Scalable: Increases available surface area for gas separation to accommodate large-scale applications
- Adaptable: Allows for selection of the nanoparticles’ concentration and type to meet a desired combination of gas permeance and selectivity
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Nanotechnology |
| Skin-Conformal Wearable Stress Monitor Delivers Greater Precision and Continuous, Wireless Monitoring with Comfort and Flexibility |
- All-in-one: The personal adhesive bandage-like single device platform offers wireless, multi-data sensing by simply mounting it on the skin.
- Disposable: This wearable device is fully disposable after the use and the measured data can be simply sent to the cloud via a tablet or smartphone app.
- Compact: The unique, thin design of this bioelectric device is one-sixth the volume of current market offerings—weighing less than 7 g, including its rechargeable battery.
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| Zeolite Membrane Sieves Fabricated on Low-Cost Alumina Hollow Fiber Substrates |
- High performance: Enables lower-cost, scalable, membrane-based molecular separation
- Convenient: Can form a standalone complete separation or reduce bottlenecks in conventional separation processes
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Nanotechnology |
| All-Electronic Immunophenotyping Device for Point-of-Care Testing |
- Convenient: Provides an all-electronic immunophenotyping process with straightforward equipment and techniques
- Low cost: Performs sophisticated, multistep analyses in a system that is affordable enough for point-of-care settings
- Flexible: Allows for the easy immobilization of multiple antibodies in the device—a shortcoming of current systems
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Nanotechnology |
| Scalable Microfluidic Device with Multiple Constriction Channels for High-Throughput Mechanophenotyping |
- High throughput: Addresses the low-throughput challenges of other similar technologies by handling a sample volume near that of a Coulter counter
- Low cost: Eliminates the need for costly equipment, highly trained personnel, and long processing times that come with other measuring processes
- Scalable: Uses a frequency division scheme so that multiple copies of the system can operate concurrently
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Nanotechnology |
| Hybrid Triboelectric Nanogenerator Harvests Mechanical and Electrical Energy |
- Sustainable: Harvests energy from the environment to minimize the use of non-renewable materials for power
- Highly efficient: Exhibits an unprecedented conversion efficiency of 50% to 85%, an area power density of 313 watts per square meter, and a volume power density of 340 kilowatts per cubic meter
- Powerful: Integrates with several other TENGs for output power of 1 megawatt
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| Novel Polymer Hybrid Improves Stability of Implantable Devices |
- Strong: Provides structural stability and enhanced cellular adhesion for implant materials
- Biocompatible: Reduces the risk for complications that could arise with the use of chemical components
- Customizable: Permits easy incorporation of various nanomaterials to fine-tune devices to meet patient needs
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Nanotechnology |
| Core-Shell Nanogel Cellular Delivery Vehicles |
- Delivery of a broad range of various materials to cells
- Higher payloads and faster and more sustained RNA interference than non-targeted commercial siRNA delivery vehicle
- Less toxic than commercial liposomal formulations
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Nanotechnology |
| Large-Scale Manufacturing and Directed Assembly for Nanowires |
- Greater than 106 improvement in the rate of nanowire synthesis compared with the current state-of-the-art
- Applicable to diverse classes of materials, dopant concentrations, and morphologies
- Superstructure assembly is programmable via tip geometry and is material independent
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