• Microgeodes have a programmable structure of nanowires that allows their optical response to be engineered precisely over multiple spectral bands, from UV through mid-IR. 
• Microgeodes combine the tunability and versatility of nanowires with the processability of microspheres to provide a photonic materials platform for a wide range of applications. 
• Microgeode paints could reduce building surface temperatures by as much as 25°C, offering the potential for significant consumer savings while retaining aesthetically pleasing colors.

• Minimally invasive: Significantly reduces invasiveness of procedures in comparison to current macroscale, neurosurgical robots 
• Precise control: Uses 3D position data of the microrobots on the brain surface in a closed-loop system to adjust the magnetic field parameters (i.e., magnitude, frequency, phase, and direct current [DC] offset of each coil) as well as the forces the robots exert to the biopsy tissue
• Facilitates movement: Employs microfabricated shapes that dictate the microrobot's movements, limits their contact with the brain surface to reduce adhesion, and may also provide a means for the robot to propel itself in fluid

• Innovative: Generates new isomers by changing the order in which atoms are added in a hetero-atomic cluster (can maximize available catalytic sites)
• Efficient: Creates and optimizes active isomers of atomic metals such as Au and Pd, increasing the catalytic efficiency of these high-demand metals (requires minimal precious catalytic metal)
• Scalable: Provides a scalable process resulting in theoretically predictable catalytic properties

• Substantially deeper etches: Because a very thick metal mask can be created, a wide range of µm features can be etched in a variety of III-Nitride semiconductors, allowing for extremely high voltage devices that require thicker layer structures
• Robust: This method has demonstrated highly consistent and effective protection against the kind of damage that is typical with standard fabrication methods
• Scalable: The nickel hard mask with cascaded e-beam evaporation and sputtering metal deposition method can readily be applied to the large-scale production of electronic devices

• Higher yield and efficiency: Uses hollow hybrid nanoparticles instead of solid nanoparticles for a three-fold enhancement in electrocatalytic activity due to the increased surface area and higher number of successful reactant collisions
• Sustainable production: Leverages renewable electricity sources and offers clean and sustainable ammonia electrosynthesis, unlike the current industrial method for ammonia production that is energy intensive and heavily relies on fossil fuels
• Simplified process: Enables production of ammonia via gas-phase system with few or no additional steps for separation and purification

• 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

• 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.

• High performance: Enables lower-cost, scalable, membrane-based molecular separation
• Convenient: Can form a standalone complete separation or reduce bottlenecks in conventional separation processes

• 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

• Strong: Provides structural stability and enhanced cellular adhesion for implant materials
• Biocompatible: Reduces the risk for complications that could arise with the use of chemical components
• Customizable: Permits easy incorporation of various nanomaterials to fine-tune devices to meet patient needs

• High-performance: Enables a powerful process for high-throughput 3D printing of micro- and nanoscale structures
• Efficient: Reduces defects during printing to improve yield and decrease excess printing commonly observed with FP-TPL
• Improved: Broadens the applicability of FP-TPL to printing of functional micro- and nanoscale structures

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.

• Cheaper – Can be easily fabricated on a large scale
• Efficient – High luminescence efficiency and light output
• Compact – Greater portability

• Can report CdS in a room temperature liquid solution
• Allows for absorption and photoluminescence decay of the samples

• The developed approach offers many advantages such as reduced materials cost
• Low processing temperature
• Compatible with low cost, flexible substrates such as paper and PET

• High speed processing: Enables rapid prototyping and large-scale manufacturing
• Simple optics: Nano-scale patterning achieved without complex optical systems or photomasks
• Cost effective: Replaces slow and expensive electron beam lithography

• Sensitive — can image single molecules with multiple emission wavelengths
• Fast — probe is multivalent and bind to RNA in less than 10 minutes
• Low cost — the alternative dual-label probes are more expensive

• Densely packed CNT arrays allow for better bio-incorporation, prevention of  glial scarring, chronic inflammation, and neuronal cell loss
• Readily functionalized to promote neuronal growth and tissue-electrode adhesion, enhancing electrode performance and quality of read-out signals
• Inherent mechanical stiffness enhances the rigidity of adjacent CNTs preventing buckling as in other high-aspect probe systems.

• Dramatic increase in mobility: Yields a 2-order-of-magnitude increase in charge transport
• Fast: Achieves 100-fold improvements after a mere 5 minutes of ultrasound
• Simple: Requires only low-intensity ultrasound and eliminates the need for dielectric surface modifications or post-deposition treatment of the device