| Reinvented Toilet Technologies |
- Self-contained: Requires no plumbing or sewerage
- Ecological: Reduces the use of clean drinking water in sewerage processes, as well as the energy and infrastructure required for modern wastewater treatment and disposal
- Forward-looking: Could provide non-sewered locations with a much-needed sanitation solution, while potentially addressing ecological threats (water use, air and waterborne pathogens, etc.)
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8592, 8593, 8594, 8595, 8596, 8597, 8917, 8996 |
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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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8780 |
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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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| 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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8872 |
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| Flexible Power Generation with Negative Carbon Emissions |
- Energy security: This system enables the continued use of low-cost domestic fuel (i.e., natural gas) for electricity generation and increases the reliability of U.S. electricity production.
- Environmental protection: Flexible carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems can achieve high CO2 capture rates from flue gas. For example, with this system a power generator could shift the times it exports electricity to the grid, allowing the power generator and CCS plant to operate under steady-state conditions and with reduced emissions.
- Reduced costs: The cost of a net-zero carbon electricity system is lowered by providing dispatchable power to a high-VRE grid.
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8834 |
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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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| Antibodies for Glaucoma Research |
- Precise: Distinguishes between correctly folded and mutated forms from samples, allowing for more precise research and interventions
- Powerful: Enables a more complete and robust understanding of myocilin antibody targets and their applications in potential glaucoma treatments
- Enabling: Opens new opportunities for development of pharmaceuticals to treat or prevent damage to the eye caused by glaucoma
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8489 |
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| Anti-Resonance System Enables Variable Speed Rotors |
- High performance: Enables variable rotor speeds by significantly reducing resonance loads during transition from one rotor speed to another
- Agile: Reduces vibration by completely removing resonance points within the rotor operating range
- Energy efficient: Decreases power consumption by optimizing rotor speeds for different flight conditions
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8857 |
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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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| RobocallGuardPlus |
- Advanced: Uses a unique smart virtual assistant with a voice interaction model that generates natural conversation to filter out robocalls
- Robust: Blocks robocalls that other methods may miss, such as those that evade call block lists through caller ID spoofing
- Unique: Provides the first known system to block mass, evasive, and targeted robocalls using natural, interactive conversation methods rather than relying solely on caller ID and block lists
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8817 |
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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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| 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
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8009 |
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| 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.
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8722 |
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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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| 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
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8118 |
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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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6573 |
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| 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.
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8747 |
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| 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
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8691 |
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