Featured Technologies
Spotlighting Cutting-Edge Innovations

These are just a few of the thousands of new technologies developed at Georgia Tech that are available for commercial use. To see others, search our database of available technologies or sign up to be alerted when new technologies become available.

Photograph of the device, with red dye introduced to highlight the fluidic pathways
A straightforward lab-on-a-chip system with parallel channels to minimize idle time

For Use In:

  • Health care diagnostics and therapeutics
  • Life sciences research
  • Cell manufacturing
  • Biotechnology
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Particle characterization
Learn more aboutTech #8031
Thin, flexible, easily manufactured SATURN (Self-Powered Audio Triboelectric Ultra-Thin Rollable Nanogenerator) microphone with self-powered communication

For Use In:

  • Ambient noise monitoring
    • Noise pollution (e.g., airports, construction sites, concert venues, mining)
    • Workplace safety (e.g., noises exceeding safe sound thresholds for humans)
    • Environmental monitoring (e.g., landslides, avalanches, polar ice movement)
    • Military situation awareness (e.g., monitoring movement of tanks, troops, exploding ordnance)
  • Smart home... Click to view more applications
Learn more aboutTech #7915
For structural and electromagnetic uses in radome structures

For Use In:

These materials have the potential to open an avenue to design composites that fulfill both structural and multi-physics and multi-scale performance demands in such a way that they can be made flightworthy, seaworthy, and suitable for high-temperature applications.

Learn more aboutTech #8469
Schematic structure of a 3D photodetector. A thin film of insulator AlOx is deposited on p-Si substrate. The nanowire arrays were grown vertically on the insulator layer. The ITO layer is core-shelled with the tips of ZnO nanowires, suspended as the ceili
Offers applications for communications, medical imaging, and more

For Use In:

  • Optical-fiber communications systems
  • Medical imaging
  • Thermal imaging
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Defense technology
  • Nano-robotics
Learn more aboutTech #7963
Schematics illustrating the various membrane characteristics that can be fabricated using Georgia Tech’s innovative process.
Increasing efficacy of domestic wastewater treatment with precisely tuned pore size (distribution) and surface charge

For Use In:

  • Domestic wastewater treatment
  • Environmental agriculture
Learn more aboutTech #8626
Electrochemical lithium extraction cell. Photo by Po-Wei Huang
Shortens the oceanic lithium extraction cycle from years to days

For Use In:

  • Harvesting lithium from seawater
  • Industrial-scale electrochemical mining systems
Learn more aboutTech #8355
SlothBot in the canopy of the Atlanta Botanical Garden
A solar-powered, fail-safe robot for environmental monitoring applications

For Use In:

  • Environmental monitoring
  • Conservation research
  • Precision agriculture
  • Autonomous sensing/monitoring equipment
Learn more aboutTech #8194
The LoCHAid is built from standard electronic components housed in a 3D-printed shell. The prototype resembles a wearable music player.
Accessible and affordable therapy for age-related hearing loss

For Use In:

  • Hearing aids
  • Audiology research
Learn more aboutTech #7876
Georgia Tech’s PoPPR method for contact lenses
A robust, damage-free alternative to rinse-and-rub methods for removing environmental pollutants, aerosols, and other particles

For Use In:

Any biological device with a soft, wet surface that may be at risk of accumulating pollutants may benefit from this technology, including:

  • Contact lenses
  • Prosthetics
  • Implants
Learn more aboutTech #8398
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