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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	8435
A Biological Computing Framework for Living Systems	Innovative: Builds on probabilistic computing principles to construct analog biological bits, enabling an entirely new set of logic gates and algorithms and potentially allowing users to solve previously intractable problems Robust: Can sense every extracellular protease encoded in the human genome, for which there is a known peptide substrate, enabling a simple plug-and-play framework for communicating with a variety of biological activities and offering performance competitive with DNA-based computers but with increased processing speed Relevant: Provides a framework based on biological activity and constructed from biological materials, which enables a direct interface with and understanding of living materials and systems	8009
High-Throughput MSC Potency Assay to Bring Feasibility to Immune/Inflammatory Therapeutics	Reproducibility: The well-defined cellular environment of the device enables a highly reproducible MSC response not observed in 2D cultures. Scalable: The assay’s simplistic design is amendable to cost-effective scale up. Economical: The low cost of the microfluidic chip and the ease of implementing the assay into existing cell therapy manufacturing practices provide for low costs to enter the market.	8722
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	8774
Steerable and Flexible Robotic Endoscopic Tool with Instrument-Changing System	Flexible: Offers multiple tendon-driven degrees of freedom and is designed to enable the surgeon to avoid obstacles within the workspace Simplifies instrument changes: Includes three instrument stations with a motorized shaft to allow insertion into or retraction from the working channel(s) without leaving the surgical field Reduces procedure time: Demonstrates potential to improve procedure efficiency and patient safety by reducing procedure time	8118
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	6573
Spin-Coated Polymer Collars Prevent Solder Wicking	Extend product lifespan: Increasing the stability of the contact between socket paddles and the Au surface allows for the BGAs to be in use longer Stability: Adding the mechanical reinforcement of the polymer collars allows for stronger thermodynamically stable solder joints Simple manufacturing: Spin coating the polymer onto the package is a simple manufacturing process.	8747
Wearable Health Monitoring Device Improves Data Quality and Accuracy	High performance: Captures real-time, real-world data of multiple physiological signals with a significant reduction in MA interference Chest-mounted: Provides more accurate ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate, and activity detection than existing wrist-worn commercial monitors Comfortable: Adheres securely and discretely to the skin using a breathable soft membrane for continuous conformal contact, eliminating excessive sweating and skin irritation	8691
Germination Platform for Cost-Effective Plant Production	Cost effective: Simply and inexpensively produces large numbers of high-quality plants from somatic embryogenesis Convenient: Permits easy handling and transport of germinated propagule Practical: Produces high-quality straight roots	6888
Generative Causal Explanations for Black-Box Classifiers	Increased trust: Has the potential to improve the transparency and fairness of machine learning systems and increase the level of trust users place in their decisions Flexible explanation vocabulary: Provides a rich and flexible vocabulary for explanation that is more expressive than feature selection or saliency map–based methods Deeper insights: Offers visualizations that can be much more descriptive than saliency maps, particularly in vision applications, leading to better user understanding	8507
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	6201
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	6723
Smart Porous Hydrogels to Increase Cold Supply Chain Efficacy of Biologics and Pharmaceuticals	Preservation: With the ability to adjust the pore size of the SMH, researchers may be able to increase the rejection rate of bacteria, thereby protecting the medicine by slowing down biodegradation. Extended use: Preserving the potency of the transported and stored biologic or pharmaceutical should allow for an improved shelf-life (regardless of the cold supply chain) and an increase in the supply accessible to patients. Lower cost: Using Georgia Tech’s SMH for the storage and handling of biologics or pharmaceuticals should minimize the dependence on a cold supply chain, which utilizes freezers that cost between $10,000-$15,000.	8685
Robotically Steerable Guidewire for Improved Vascular Intervention	Robotic: Provides operational improvement of guidewire navigation to facilitate catheter placement by employing robotics, while most other commercially available guidewires lack active steering capability Versatile: Controls the guidewire bending angle and also adjusts the bending length of the joint, increasing the capabilities of the guidewire and accommodating varied vasculature geometries Flexible: Can be extended to multiple bending sections and degrees of freedom, in stark contrast to passive guidewires that offer clinicians very limited degrees of freedom	8451
Handheld Breath Collection Device for Detecting Disease Biomarkers	Improved diagnosis: Analyzes both the gas and liquid sampled from the patient’s breath for potentially more robust and multifaceted results Enhanced patient experience: Requires a shorter exhalation cycle to get a breath sample, making the test more comfortable for patients Small and portable: Optimizes and miniaturizes the collection process for easy point-of-care applications	8791
Microscale High-Throughput Phenotypic Assay for Fibrosis	Powerful: Provides high-throughput image-based analysis of fibrotic processes as well as fibrinolysis Convenient: Combines label-free readouts for fibrin degradation, collagen synthesis, and cell contraction to evaluate fibrotic tissue remodeling Enabling: Opens new opportunities for understanding fibrosis pathogenesis and for evaluating anti-fibrotic therapeutics	8502
A Chip-Scale Linear Ion Trap to Enable Portable Mass Spectrometers	Enabling: Can be used in the development of much smaller mass spectrometers than are currently available—from benchtop devices to handheld or even smaller instruments—which would extend their use to applications in which they are not currently cost effective High-performance: Provides better than unit-mass resolution and high detection efficiency, and operates at much higher pressures than larger mass analyzers, as shown during lab-based simulations Multi-modal: Allows for several different modes of operation and enables tandem(MS/MS or MS2) or multi-stage/sequential (MSn) mass spectrometry, greatly improving capability compared with other analyzers	8137
Increasing Medium-Chain Fatty Acid (MCFA) Yield in Bacterial Host with Engineered Enzyme	High performance: Increases the yield of MCFAs during chemical and biopolymer synthesis Enabling: Improves the microbial production of chemicals that require the expression of heterologous enzymes Adaptable: Potentially applies to methods of engineering other heterologous enzymes to interact with endogenous proteins in order to produce molecules of interest in a bacterial host	7595
Quasi-Melt Processing Technique for Stronger Single-Polymer Composites	Highly effective: Facilitates increased fabrication of SPCs using a variety of processing techniques Simpler: Eliminates the need to develop a textile preform, which is necessary during fiber hot compaction processing Flexible: Is compatible with standard high-throughput melt processes for polymers and plastics	5449
A Biomimetic Nose with Machine Learning for Advanced Threat Detection	Enhanced chemical detection: Reduces proximity issues and enhances detection Functional in air and liquid mediums: Can detect single or multiple chemical agents even when the medium contains both a liquid and a gas. An attachment makes it possible to use the device in liquid with air monitoring sensors. Continuous improvement: Uses machine learning algorithms to continually improve agent characterization	7796