Available Technologies by Category
High Strength and High Modulus Carbon Fibers
  • Lighter – Carbon fiber is lighter than metals and exhibits significantly higher strength characteristics
  • Stronger and More Thermally Stabile – Process produces stronger fibers by using new processing techniques
  • Lower Energy Manufacturing – Process does not require ultra-high temperature for heat treatment of fibers
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Thermoelectric Interconnects
  • Efficient – Increased power density for powering sensors, wearable devices, and personal power generators
  • Cheaper – Fabrication utilizes classic, lower cost roll-to-roll processing techniques 
  • Market Specific – Better suited to these current markets than traditional inorganic TE materials
7677
Cancer Diagnosis Using Nanotechnology
  • Can be used with a simple microscope
  • More sensitive and cost-effective
  • Non-toxic
3424
Microfluidic Droplet for Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Applications
  • Viable, cellular micro-environments requiring precise control are achieved using hydrogel microspheres with diameter sizes ranging from 10-1000 micrometers
  • A protective, semi-permeable capsule encases the cells and biomolecules
  • Release rates of encapsulated biomolecules or drugs are controlled by adjusting the polymer parameters used to fabricate hydrogel microspheres
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Synthetic Nano-Antibodies for Immunotherapy
  • Cheaper and faster to manufacture- production only involves synthesis of ligands, nanoparticles, and nano-antibodies; it does not involve cell-lines or animal work
  • More effective- better accumulation and penetration is achieved due to the nanoparticle design
  • Better for patients- dosage to achieve therapeutic efficacy is reduced and can lower the price, duration, and frequency of treatment
7554
PUPS: Pressure Ulcer Prevention System
  • Enhanced quality of care: Patients are less likely to develop a hospital-acquired infection
  • Lower cost: Minimizes costs from “never events” such as pressure ulcers
7541
Biopolymer Fabricated Materials for Biomaterials
  • Novelty – first technology that enables the formation of biopolymer brushes at interfaces of any thickness
  • Incredibly biocompatible – hyaluronan has many salient features such as being non-fouling, non-immunogenic, and viscoelastic that make it a common polymer used in biomedical applications
  • Potential for regenerative technology – further applied in regenerative interface technology research
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Thermophotovoltaics With Storage
  • Lower Production Costs  – Can provide fully dispatchable solar electricity at a cost competitive with conventional generation at a potentially reduces cost        of 70%, making it highly competitive with fossil fuel plants
  • Higher efficiency design  – By packing the PV densely within the array, thermal losses are minimized an an improved in efficiency by almost a factor of two is possible with existing InGaAs PV Cells
6420
Crosslinked Membranes for Natural Gas Purification
  • Better separation - achieved better CO2/CH4 separation than commercial polyimide membranes
  • Cheaper
  • Versatile in production - crosslinking can be done in various chemical means depending on application demands and still result in plasticization resistance and improved gas separation performance
6419
Atomic Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Platinum
  • Increase the utilization efficiency of platinum
  • Reduce the materials cost of fuel cells
  • Enhancement for certain catalytic reactions
6376
Fast Evaporating Polymers and Copolymers Cross-linking
  • Incorporation of small molecules that are capable of amplification
  • Residue reduction
  • Waste elimination
7472, 7645
Incorporation of Phase Change Materials into Fibers
  • Improved thermally modulated fibers with high mass loading
  • Implementing a heat/sink source directly into the fiber next to the sorbent material
  • Enhanced pressure swing adsorption processes
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Tensegrity Lattices for Structural Applications
  • Can be severely deformed and still not suffer permanent deformities
  • Provides high energy absorption while making possible to recover the geometry after impact
  • Concept can be immediately applied to larger structures
7425
Contact Resistance Stabilization for Lead Free Surfaces
  • Efficiency — fuel flexibilty
  • Cost effective — single-step solution and less expensive materials
  • Lower operating temperature — clean production of electricity
3281
Recyclable Organic Solar Cells on Cellulose Nanocrystal Substrates
  • Solar cells are recyclable through a low-energy process at room temperature
  • CNC substrates are fully biodegradable and made of renewable sources such as wood
  • CNC substrates have ideal optical and morphological properties combining high transparency with a very low roughness
6304
Light Powered RFID Tags
  • Ultra-thin
  • Highly flexible and conformable
  • Long sheltimes and operation times
3278
Methods for Generating Palladium-Rhodium Hetero-Nanostructures
  • Improved performance: Core-frame structure enhances shape stability and catalytic activity at high temperatures.
  • Cost effective: Less rhodium is used than with other crystal growth methods.
  • Simple: Crystals are formed in a scalable solution-based process.
6252
Superomniphobic Paper
  • Cost effective
  • Higher oil repellency than currently available
  • Can be modified to repel other substance
6222
Electromagnetic Detecting and Energy Converting Coated Nanotubes
  • Unlimited — No limit to energy collection
  • Efficient Energy Collection — Useful in Solar Spectrum
6214
Hybrid Extrusion and Coating Technology
  • The technology provides dynamic, in-process patterning that will benefit the mass production of layer-based thin film devices
  • This new approach allows for a purely additive approach to making layer-based devices and does not require an additional subtractive step
  • The integration of CAD into the system allows for making complex patterns
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