Available Technologies by Category
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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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Heat-Responsive Programmable T-Cells
  • Specific: The remote programmable nature of these T-cells allows them to be selectively activated only in the necessary locations.
  • Protective: This focused, genetically engineered immunotherapy is intended to protect patients from the additional harm of the off-target cell death and unnecessary systemic damage that is more common with oncological therapeutics.
  • Non-invasive: With NIR light’s ability to penetrate into multiple layers of biological tissue and be absorbed by AuNRs, this technology removes the need for a light source in the body to trigger the T-cells.
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Skin-Conformal Wearable Stress Monitor Delivers Greater Precision and Continuous, Wireless Monitoring with Comfort and Flexibility
  • All-in-one: The personal adhesive bandage-like single device platform offers wireless, multi-data sensing by simply mounting it on the skin.
  • Disposable: This wearable device is fully disposable after the use and the measured data can be simply sent to the cloud via a tablet or smartphone app.
  • Compact: The unique, thin design of this bioelectric device is one-sixth the volume of current market offerings—weighing less than 7 g, including its rechargeable battery.
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Adaptive Broadband Impedance Matching in Ultrasound Front-End Electronics
  • High performance: Improves power transfer and acoustic reflectivity
  • Flexible: Enables multimodal and tunable operation of CMUTs
  • Efficient: Provides optimal matching for co-design of CMUT electronics
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Post-Processing Side Chain Cleavage to Enhance Conjugated Polymers
  • Advanced: Can increase electrical conductivity of doped polymer films by tenfold while decreasing the Seebeck coefficient from 46 μV/K to 18 μV/K, resulting in a doubling in thermoelectric power factor
  • Robust: Demonstrates an increase in both in-plane and through-plane thermal conductivity upon hydrolysis
  • Best-in-Class: Surpasses the S/cm value of any currently reported oligoether/glycol-based CP system
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Sustainable Combination Technology Delivers a Long-Lasting Self-Powered Battery
  • Continuous: Regulates power harvested in the presence of constant mechanical motion to store excess energy while pushing a constant voltage to the external load
  • Eco-friendly: Reduces the need for consumers and technology developers to utilize supply-limited traditional batteries that are thrown away after a short use and could leak harmful chemicals into the environment
  • Sustainable: Eliminates the need to mine an additional power supply by harvesting energy from underutilized electrostatic induction found in naturally occurring mechanical motion
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Zeolite Membrane Sieves Fabricated on Low-Cost Alumina Hollow Fiber Substrates
  • High performance: Enables lower-cost, scalable, membrane-based molecular separation
  • Convenient: Can form a standalone complete separation or reduce bottlenecks in conventional separation processes
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Heat Dissipation for Microelectronic Systems via Capillary Trap
  • Effective: Dissipates large heat fluxes via 3D heat spreading and evaporative cooling that could approach kW/cm2 and beyond while keeping the surface temperature under 90oC
  • Preventive: Mitigates coolant dry-out at the critical heat flux levels that result in a rapid and large temperature rise and thus cause device burn-out
  • Efficient: Exploits high cooling capabilities associated with phase-change heat transfer through evaporation
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Molecular Flux Measurement Device and Method
  • Efficient: Enables a 3x increase in MBE speed compared with metal organic chemical vapor deposition  
  • Controlled: Provides flux stability and control by enabling in-situ measurement of a signal related to the flux, achieving 0.001% flux stability under optimal conditions
  • Reliable: Enables signal measurement in real time, providing high accuracy and reproducibility
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Bio-Inspired Gripper with Shear-Induced Clamping
  • Effective: Assists in lifting/releasing objects when in a shear-activated/disactivated mode
  • Versatile: Works with a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and materials
  • Robust: Does not require high precision in controlling vise jaws, making it easy to implement in an industrial environment
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Zeolitic Nanotubes for Advanced Chemical Catalysis and Separation
  • Streamlined: Allows for faster access into and out of zeolite pores without compromising key characteristics of conventional zeolites
  • Advanced: Supports a single central mesoporous channel even after calcination of the organic structure directing agents
  • Robust: Consists of both micropores and mesopores with the potential to enable a variety of separation and catalytic properties.
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A Sensor That Converts Everyday Objects into Microphones
  • Lower cost: The SATURN microphone’s simpler and less expensive fabrication technique results in lower overall costs.
  • Better performance: The microphone geometry, attachment methods, and size and spacing of holes are optimized to maximize the recovery of sound and generation of power. This results in better performance compared to commercially available microphones of this type, recovering sound up to 5,000 Hz.
  • Versatile: Its thin, flexible, and passive form make it configurable to a large number of applications.
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Next-Generation Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage at One-Tenth the Cost
  • Higher power density: This design has achieved ultra-high power densities of 630 W/Ldevice (charge) and 170 W/Ldevice (discharge), compared to existing flow battery designs that achieve only 500 W/Ldevice (charge) and 90 W/Ldevice (discharge).
  • Ultra-high current density: The design has achieved current densities of >300 mA/cm3 per device.
  • Dramatically lower cost: The elimination of parts reduces fabrication costs by 90%. Cost is ~$330 rather than ~$4,400.
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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
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Novel Nanofiltration (NF) Membrane Optimizing Concurrent Nutrient Recovery and Micropollutant Removal
  • Effective: Targets mainstream domestic wastewater to recover a greater volume (>30%) of valuable nutrients than the current industry nutrient recovery technology focused on side streams
  • Safer: Reduces EMPs in the fit-for-purpose water used in agricultural irrigation, minimizing the contaminants charge while permitting a lower rejection rate of valuable nutrients
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