| Microrobots for Neurosurgery Applications |
- Minimally invasive: Significantly reduces invasiveness of procedures in comparison to current macroscale, neurosurgical robots
- Precise control: Uses 3D position data of the microrobots on the brain surface in a closed-loop system to adjust the magnetic field parameters (i.e., magnitude, frequency, phase, and direct current [DC] offset of each coil) as well as the forces the robots exert to the biopsy tissue
- Facilitates movement: Employs microfabricated shapes that dictate the microrobot's movements, limits their contact with the brain surface to reduce adhesion, and may also provide a means for the robot to propel itself in fluid
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8749 |
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| Synthetic Hydrogels for Human Organoid (HO) Generation and Transplantation |
- Synthetic hydrogel exhibits high cytocompatibility and minimal toxicity and inflammation in vivo for improved human organoid viability
- Injectable delivery vehicle supports localized HO engraftment in mucosal wounds to potentially enhance wound closure and repair
- Modular design and delivery via endoscopic techniques enables the translational potential of this delivery platform for regenerative medicine and overcomes limitations associated with the use of commercially available matrices for hPSC-based organoid technologies
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7536 |
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| Hybrid Molecular Catalysts: A New Blueprint for Catalyst Design, Preparation, and Testing |
- Attachment of molecular catalysts to solid supports can lead to new reactivity not seen under homogeneous conditions
- At an optimal atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer thickness, the molecular catalyst remains highly active while still being resistant to surface detachment and subsequent deactivation
- Catalyst separation and recovery achieved via a simple filtering and washing process rather than energy- and time-intensive distillation or re-crystallization processes
- In addition to the simple filter-and-wash process mentioned above, encapsulation requires only about 10 reaction cycles, making this process technologically and economically viable for large-scale manufacturing
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8537 |
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| Eco-Method Mordant that Improves Natural Dye Adhesion to Synthetic Fabrics |
- Eco-friendly: An improved industrial dyeing process because it reduces excessive heat and water contamination during manufacturing.
- Wide applicability: Demonstrated to be successful with other materials beyond polyester, including Kevlar and polyacrylonitrile (PAN).
- Improved quality: Improving commercial dye methods without losing the desired properties of polyester such as flexibility is beneficial to industries like medical supply.
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9048 |
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| Advanced Manufacturing of Biodegradable Shape Memory Polymers Increases In Vivo Success |
- Faster healing: Improvements catalyze the regeneration of tissue for a faster recovery
- Increased efficacy: Decreases the likelihood of rejection because the polymers are manufactured in such a way to increase tissue ingrowth and cell attachment
- Reduced healthcare resource utilization: When initial implantation is successful, it reduces the need for secondary procedures or advanced clinical care for infection
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8658 |
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| Hydrogels for Controlled Delivery of Lysostaphin to Treat Staphylococcus aureus Infections |
- Injectable (or surgically applied) hydrogel formulation conforms and adheres to the fracture and surrounding tissue, ensuring efficient, local delivery of lysostaphin
- Localized treatments enable higher relative doses to be given at the site of infection, and enhanced stability from the hydrogel carrier may reduce the number of overall doses needed
- Tunable nature of the material provides control over the amount and time over which lysostaphin is delivered
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7729 |
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| Vapor Phase Infiltration Produces Solar Cells with Greater Thermal Stability |
- Stability: Decreasing spiro-OMeTAD crystallization improves thermal stability of hole transport layers within perovskite solar cells (PSCs)
- Longevity: Eliminating the main cause of PSCs’ operational degradation increases the overall product lifespan
- Efficiency: Preventing the delamination of the layers transporting electronic charge has doubled the power conversion efficiency of modified PSCs
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9034 |
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| Atomic Metal Catalysts |
- Innovative: Generates new isomers by changing the order in which atoms are added in a hetero-atomic cluster (can maximize available catalytic sites)
- Efficient: Creates and optimizes active isomers of atomic metals such as Au and Pd, increasing the catalytic efficiency of these high-demand metals (requires minimal precious catalytic metal)
- Scalable: Provides a scalable process resulting in theoretically predictable catalytic properties
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6451, 5217 |
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| 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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8203 |
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| Reprocessing, Recycling, and Repairing Covalent Adaptable Network Polymers |
- Environmentally friendly: Recycles fibers and polymers without the use of supercritical chemicals (e.g., acids)
- Effective: Allows for pressure-free surface repair and welding
- Efficient: Reclaims fibers and polymer with the same mechanical properties as fresh material for use in new products
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7348 |
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| New Methods for Skin Tissue Engineering: Textile-Based Sandwich Scaffold and CNT-based Electrospun Polymer Composite Yarns |
- Biocompatible: Exhibits good biocompatibility of the yarns fabricated using a wet electrospinning technique (results shown within a limited range of CNT concentration in the bath)
- Purposeful: Mimics the strain-stiffening behavior of human tissue, unlike other scaffolds that exhibit strain-softening of their synthetic materials
- Demonstrated: Exhibits the ability to guide cell anisotropic arrangement as well as support cell proliferation and infiltration in in vitro biological tests
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8751, 8752 |
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| Versatile Retroreflective Metastructures for Enhanced Electromagnetic Response |
- Improved steep angle performance: Increases the angular range of reflectivity to greatly reduce the precision needed to produce a retroreflective response
- Increased bandwidth: Combines multiple periodic metasurfaces into a hybrid metastructure for greater bandwidth
- Versatile design: Can be designed for either single- or dual-polarized retroreflection, with metasurfaces of different periodicities combined for varying angles
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8764 |
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| Small Beamformer for Simultaneous Spatial and Channel Diversity Communications |
- Scalable: Improves capacity by increasing the number of arrays and increasing the gain of each interpenetrating array
- Small formfactor: Contains nine interpenetrating arrays in the same area as a single legacy array capable of carrying only one bandwidth
- Efficient: Demonstrates that each antenna array can spatially scan at least nine independent interpenetrating arrays simultaneously, each carrying its assigned information channel within the assigned bandwidth
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8635 |
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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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7987 |
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| Salinity Exchange Process for Low-Cost, High-Quality Potable Water |
- Increases water supply: This process takes advantage of abundantly available wastewater to produce clean drinking water.
- Requires significantly less energy: Salinity exchange uses much less energy than conventional desalination technologies for which energy consumption is still a major obstacle. Georgia Tech’s bench scale prototype has demonstrated energy consumption of less than one-third of conventional reverse osmosis.
- Publicly acceptable: Drinking desalinated seawater and brackish water is much more cognitively appealing than direct potable reuse of treated wastewater, overcoming public perception obstacles to water treatment.
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8797 |
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| Scalable Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity for Chemical Separations |
- Scalable: Uses simple chemistry and eliminates production steps to enable large scale polymer manufacturing
- Solution-processable: Permits the development of a variety of membrane morphologies including dense flat sheets, thin film composites, and hollow fibers
- High chemical stability: Results in stable structures able to withstand exposure to solvents and other chemicals, enabling stable separation performance and industrial application
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8113 |
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| A Mechanical Topological Insulator-Based Multiplexer/Demultiplexer |
- Novel: Offers the first known design of its kind, addressing the signal loss challenges of applying acoustic wave technologies to mechanical applications
- Practical: Enables potential development of a single mechanical platform to accomplish both filtering and channeling using inexpensive components that avoid high battery usage
- Signal-protecting: Guides waves from input(s) to output(s) with minimal signal loss and topological protection from backscattering
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8802 |
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| Two-Phase Thermal Management System for Integrated Motor Cooling |
- High-performance: Utilizes three-dimensional silicon carbide packaging and novel drive topologies with reduced switching losses, leading to increased power density and lower motor system size and weight
- Embedded: Integrates with the motor and drive electronics rather than requiring an externally attached heat exchanger system
- Efficient: Dramatically increases volumetric heat removal rates in electric motor systems by employing a wick structure designed to assist liquid delivery to enable evaporative cooling
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8280 |
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| A Method for Creating a Protective Cap Layer for Semiconductor Wafers |
- Protective: Provides a thin protective layer or “cap” after the first layer is deposited, protecting the underlying structure from atmospheric contaminants
- Robust: Enables realization of the advantages of hybrid growth processes by eliminating performance-degrading contaminants and resulting defects
- Advanced: Offers superior protection against contamination compared with simple chemical cleaning methods utilized in other systems, especially against impurity species such as oxides
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8435 |
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| Fluid Interface–Supported Printing Process for Stereolithography 3D Printing |
- Reduced costs: Lowers costs by using less resin and requiring less user effort for support removal and post-processing
- Faster printing: Produces parts more quickly and easily
- Enhanced creation of complex geometries: Enhances the ability to create more detailed and complex structures using SLA 3D printing
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8774 |
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