| Composite Hybrid Electrode Material Composed of Alumina, Titania, and Carbon Nanotubes |
- The invention is a new composite electrode material designed for use in supercapacitors.
- The innovation is composed of a hybrid composite material with a thin coating of alumina and titania which allows energy storage systems to have increased energy density, power density, and cycle life.
- The new composite hybrid electrode is fit for use in renewable energy systems, consumer electronics, aerospace and defense, and can provide a more efficient solution.
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9247 |
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| Scalable Manufacturing Approach of Graded Polymer Thin Film Has Potential for Widespread Use |
- Combines slot die coating with a custom roll-to-roll imaging system to allow for efficient, rapid, and scalable fabrication of high-quality gradient thin films.
- An improved manufacturing process over existing techniques because it uses broad material combinations and yields higher quality patterned thin films.
- Incorporates multiple materials to increase the application of patterned thin films across industries, including microelectronics, energy technologies, and environmental systems.
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8994 |
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| Leverage the Advantages of Aluminum Nitride for Superior Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for High-Power, High-Temperature Diodes and Transistors |
- Metal modulated epitaxy method enables the production of p-type beryllium-doped aluminum nitride films as key components in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors for the first time.
- Achieves high reverse breakdown voltage—a significant advantage over wide bandgap materials such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride.
- Improves current conduction over best previous results in p-type aluminum nitride (AIN) by 30,000,000 times and n-type AlN by 6,000 times.
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8666 |
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| Overvoltage Surge Protection System for Distributed Energy Resources |
- iMOV is a dynamic system capable of achieving voltage surge clamping within 20% of the system’s nominal voltage. This effectively provides protection for highly sensitive semiconductors present in DER-associated power converters.
- This system is built upon a metal oxide varistors (MOV) foundation, whose material composition inherently allows rapid device connection of 500 picoseconds for quicker response times.
- iMOV uses integrated microprocessors and sensors in a cloud-based architecture that provides protection against cyberattacks, reduces system cost, and allows system and power grid monitoring.
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9190 |
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| Solar Cell Manufacturing Technique Increases Efficiency and Lowers Costs |
- This double-side polysilicon/silicon oxide TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cell concept provides a simple and low-cost way to passivate front and back surfaces of silicon wafers to enhance efficiency.
- Provides current and voltage comparable to full-area double-side TOPCon but with no appreciable absorption in front polysilicon and without compromising short circuit current density
- Includes a novel and fast way to pattern polysilicon using laser-induced selective oxidation
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8888 |
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| Tunable MEMs Gas Sensor Improves Selectivity and Sensitivity |
- Versatile: Customizes MEMS chemical sensors, compatible with a variety of sensing materials, allowing for the detection of numerous gas-phase analytes
- Easy to manufacture: Uses batch-fabricated sensors compatible with COTS electronics
- Highly sensitive: Offers sub parts-per-million detection limits for volatile organic compounds
- Enhanced selectivity: Combines gravimetric and impedimetric responses to demonstrate enhanced discrimination between multiple VOCs
- Powerful: Enables the simultaneous observation of both mass loading and dielectric changes in polymeric sensing films upon sorption of an analyte
- Innovative: Uses the transient response characteristics of a sensor response to a gated exposure event, rather than steady-state sensor data
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8269, 8987 |
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| Superluminescent Light Projection (SLP) System Decreases Nanoscale Printing Costs by 10–50 Times |
- This superluminescent light projection (SLP) system decreases overall nanoscale printing costs by 10–50 times.
- A parallel writing mechanism supports higher throughput speeds: up to 100 times higher than existing metal printing methods and four times higher than existing polymer printing methods.
- SLP creates sharp-edged images with minimal speckling patterns, resulting in high-resolution images and structures on both polymer and metal-based films.
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9066 |
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| Patient-Centered Biofeedback Headset Can Isolate, Monitor, and Analyze Vocal Output in Real Time for Optimal Voice Modulation in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease |
- Innovative headset offers real-time haptic feedback for vocal improvement and increased patient autonomy.
- Device stores easily accessible data for therapist review and fine-tuning of preset therapeutic thresholds to continually improve vocal output.
- Lightweight, low-profile, battery-powered headset are favorable for all-day wear and use omnidirectional microphones for optimal comfort.
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9134 |
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| Custom-Fit Reusable Respiratory Protective Device (RPD) with Continuous Fit Monitoring Improves Comfort and Protection |
- Vastly improves comfort and protection while bringing peace of mind to wearers through a custom fit and continuous monitoring
- Reduces pressure injuries caused by extended RPD use through both a customized fit and alerts to the wearer when the RPD should be adjusted or removed
- Minimizes exposures to workplace hazards by immediately detecting leakage during RPD use and alerting the wearer to adjust the device
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8876, 9089, 9090, 9091 |
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| Electric Field Treatment Creates Safe, Effective Antimicrobial Surfaces |
- Creates safe, effective antimicrobial surfaces via bacteria inactivation without the use of chemicals
- Targets cell membranes or capsid, is less likely to induce antimicrobial resistance, and should be effective for antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Requires very short electrical pulses to achieve effective bacteria inactivation, potentially leading to better antifouling performance
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9130 |
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| Chemically Modified Reduced Graphene Oxides (rGOs) Improve Strength and Qualities of Polymer Composites |
- Chemically modifying rGO creates improved dispersibility and miscibility that can be used in polymer processes as a composite reinforcement or coating material.
- Easily scalable solution chemistry and purification/filtration makes the process economically feasible, resulting in a commercially viable material for many applications.
- Melt lamination results in a robust conductive coating that is more durable than comparable polymer-based coatings and enables many electronically active device designs.
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8297 |
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| Anodically Coloring Molecular Electrochromics (EC) Improve Contrast, Color, and Transitions |
- True black-to-clear transitions with high contrast and color tuning are now possible with anodically coloring electrochromics.
- Broad absorption supports color mixing and color tunability in the charged state, and color tuning is enabled by manipulating the oscillator strengths of radical cation transitions.
- Energy required for practical electrochromic applications is effectively decreased by much lower oxidative potentials, as compared to their corresponding polyamides.
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7745 |
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| Wearable Ocular Electronics with Virtual Reality Solution for Effective Home-Based Vision Therapy |
- The first fully portable and wireless ocular electronic system in a VR environment provides an effective, home-based visual therapy program.
- The integrated wearable system has a data classification algorithm to provide high-fidelity, real-time detection of eye vergence to treat eye disorders.
- Running a VR system on a smartphone can create “virtual therapies” that can be used anywhere anytime.
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7916 |
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| Lightweight, Versatile Cryogenic Conductors |
- Lithium exhibits lower atomic mass, higher power density, and lower losses under cryogenic conditions
- Conductors such as lithium become even more power-dense at lower temperatures, exhibiting improved electrical performance
- Cladding with copper enables lithium to be drawn using standard wire-drawing techniques and tools
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8729 |
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| Vapor Phase Infiltration Produces Solar Cells with Greater Thermal Stability |
- Stability: Decreasing spiro-OMeTAD crystallization improves thermal stability of hole transport layers within perovskite solar cells (PSCs)
- Longevity: Eliminating the main cause of PSCs’ operational degradation increases the overall product lifespan
- Efficiency: Preventing the delamination of the layers transporting electronic charge has doubled the power conversion efficiency of modified PSCs
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9034 |
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| Atomic Metal Catalysts |
- 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
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6451, 5217 |
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| New Methods for Skin Tissue Engineering: Textile-Based Sandwich Scaffold and CNT-based Electrospun Polymer Composite Yarns |
- Biocompatible: Exhibits good biocompatibility of the yarns fabricated using a wet electrospinning technique (results shown within a limited range of CNT concentration in the bath)
- Purposeful: Mimics the strain-stiffening behavior of human tissue, unlike other scaffolds that exhibit strain-softening of their synthetic materials
- Demonstrated: Exhibits the ability to guide cell anisotropic arrangement as well as support cell proliferation and infiltration in in vitro biological tests
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8751, 8752 |
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| Small Beamformer for Simultaneous Spatial and Channel Diversity Communications |
- Scalable: Improves capacity by increasing the number of arrays and increasing the gain of each interpenetrating array
- Small formfactor: Contains nine interpenetrating arrays in the same area as a single legacy array capable of carrying only one bandwidth
- Efficient: Demonstrates that each antenna array can spatially scan at least nine independent interpenetrating arrays simultaneously, each carrying its assigned information channel within the assigned bandwidth
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8635 |
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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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| 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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