Available Technologies by Category
Drive Belt with Surface Texture to Minimize Vibrations
  • Effective: Demonstrated significant reduction in vibration compared with flat, untextured belt surfaces in preliminary testing 
  • Simple: Provides a straightforward and easy-to-implement solution to a widespread problem 
  • Economical: Offers a far less expensive means of maintaining the operation of machinery compared with replacing worn belts or employing complex tension systems
8307
Droplet Impingement Planar-Array-Micro-Reactor
  • Component Integration – high degree of multi-functionality
  • Scalability – throughput
  • Simple  simple operations and robustness
4099
Dual Electrode Ultrasonic Transducers
  • Optimized – allows for both transmitting and receiving signals to be optimized
  • Reduced Interference – reduces interference in receiving and transmitting signals to reduce dead zones
3103
Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Through Primary Beam Modulation
  • More affordable than currently available comparable DECT components.
  • Eliminates the need for two scans, resulting in a shorter imaging time and reducing issues associated to patient motion during scans.
  • Compatible with most CT scanners, including cone-beam CT.
7038
Dual-Polarized Antenna for OFDM
  • Assists wireless devices conform to power transmission limits that normally accompany FCC transmit mask rules
  • Power maximization and substantial gain in Signal-Noise Ratio at the receiver by combating fading on a subcarrier-by-subcarrier basis
  • Minimal signal loss within the channel for each subcarrier through the use of polarization control
6492
Durable, Water Repellent Coatings
  • Durable – coating is wear-resistant against many types of damage and retains its water repellent properties over a long period of time
  • Low Cost – production process is simple and straight-forward
  • Functional – can be used for both indoor and outdoor applications
7656
Dynamic Neck Support for Extended Surgeries and Other Applications
  • This device alleviates neck pain caused by looking down for extended periods of time. 
  • The pulling force changes relative to the extent the head is bent, providing comfortable support both when the head is upright and when bent.
  • In mass production, the cost could be less than $10. 
9159
Dynamic Stochastic Optimal Electrical Power Flow Control
  • Enables multi-objective optimal control capability to complex electrical power systems
  • Uses nonlinear optimal control techniques, such as adaptive critic designs and the model predictive control method
  • Allows seamless integration of intermittent renewable generation resources
5996
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.
9048
Edge Viewing Photodetector
  • Efficient
  • Cheaper
3321
Efficient, Reliable, Robust Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications
  • Increased efficiency — Satisfies zero voltage switching condition at 50% duty cycle and shapes the drain voltage at other duty cycles to minimize power loss
  • Improved reliability — Reduces peak drain swing
  • Mitigated variation — Determines optimal adaptation settings for each process shifted device using on-chip sensors and digital logic
6210
Efficiently Generating Complex Hydrogel Structures for Tissue/Organ-on-a-Chip Models
  • Faster: Reduces preparation time from several hours to minutes
  • Simplified: Generates complex patterns, including perfusable channels, using light-triggered polymerization of synthetic hydrogels and photomasks rather than current equipment-intensive methods that use laser-based patterning or ablation techniques
  • Lowers regulatory burdens: Using synthetic rather than biological matrices simplifies regulatory hurdles, increases reproducibility from batch to batch, and increases tunability of the mechanical and biochemical properties of the matrix
8838, 8839
Electric Field Treatment Creates Safe, Effective Antimicrobial Surfaces
  • Creates safe, effective antimicrobial surfaces via bacteria inactivation without the use of chemicals
  • Targets cell membranes or capsid, is less likely to induce antimicrobial resistance, and should be effective for antibiotic-resistant bacteria
  • Requires very short electrical pulses to achieve effective bacteria inactivation, potentially leading to better antifouling performance
9130
Electrical Contact Geometry for Switchgear Applications
  • Faster operation
  • Enabling of fault current limitation
  • Reduction in risk of damaging electrical equipment
7703
Electrically Short Antenna with High Bandwidth
  • Powerful – Antenna can be operated at high power levels
  • Stealthy – Plasma version can be any length and can be hidden easily; can also be rapidly shut off to prevent radar detection
  • Variable – Most of the design parameters can be rapidly varied, enabling a single antenna to potentially serve multiple purposes
6746
Electroactive Polymers with Rapid Switching Rates
  • Environmentally friendly: Aqueous/Organic processing is safer than the aromatic hydrocarbon and chlorinated solvents typically used.
  • Higher levels of electric power: Films made with this technology have significantly faster redox switching rates of up to 10V/s.
  • Versatile: Various electrolyte systems have been successfully tested, including organic, aqueous, the spinal fluid analog Ringer’s solution, and even commercially available sports drinks.
7035
Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing Driven By a Triboelectric Nanogenerator

Safety: intrinsically limited charge transfer and current provide better safety for both personnel and instruments.

Cost-effectiveness: the TENG was simply operated using a rotary motor and the cost of the TENG device and boost circuit is less than 100 USD, while a commercial DC HV power source usually costs more than 1000 USD.

Controllability: owing to the charge dominating output characteristic of TENG, the droplet jetting frequency could be controlled by the TENG operation frequency.

8292
Electromagnetic (EM) Metastructures
  • Multi-use: Provides structural support in conjunction with static and in situ EM performance
  • Efficient: Reduces size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) parameters 
  • Flexible: Integrates non-standard material systems
8469
Electromagnetic Breach Detection Sensor
  • Difficult to defeat — due to unique voltage patterns
  • Works independently — not reliant on perfect connections to maintain functionality
  • Ability to sustain a moderate amount of damage — to avoid incorrectly detecting a breach
3646
Electromagnetic Detecting and Energy Converting Coated Nanotubes
  • Unlimited — No limit to energy collection
  • Efficient Energy Collection — Useful in Solar Spectrum
6214