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Transient Liquid Phase Sintering Paste
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundElectronic systems are increasingly used in harsh environments under elevated thermal conditions. This includes applications with high absolute temperatures as well as those with very large temperature swings. Some examples of these types of applications include deep well drilling, military and aerospace, or automotive products...
Categories: Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Industrial Processing, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Materials
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-096
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Si-Carbon Nano-Tube (Si-CNT) Composites for Improved Lithium-ion Battery Electrodes
Published Monday, January 13, 2014BackgroundSilicon has been known as the highest capacity anode material to date for Li-ion batteries. However, during repeated lithiation and delithiation processes (charge-discharge cycles), significant swelling leads to anode fragmentation or pulverization, resulting in the loss of electrical connection. As a result, performance degradation...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Chemical
Keyword(s): battery power management cycle life extended
Docket: PS-2013-047
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Transistor Sensors for Detection of Chemicals and Biomolecules
Published Monday, May 27, 2013BackgroundNanotechnology offers opportunities in developing the ability to utilize the exceptional electrical properties of nanomaterials in complex chemical environments such as solar cells, fuel cells, microprocessors, and sensors. The challenge of creating a sensor nanomaterial that is not only highly sensitive to extremely low...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): CNT, SWCNT, carbon nanotube, Nanotube, nano, DWCNT, Double Walled Carbon Nanotube, thin film, Thin film transistor, thin film field effect transistor, covalent, sensor, functionalized CNT
Docket: PS-2013-009
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Method for Synthesizing Asymmetric Multi-Component Nanoparticles
Published Monday, May 27, 2013BackgroundMulticomponent nanoparticles represent an innovative approach to manufacturing new-generation composite materials with new, synergistic and improved properties that combine the desirable properties of the individual components. The attractive aspect of these hybrid multicomponent nanostructures is not only the combination of...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): imaging. theranostic, diagnostic, polymer, asymmetric nanoparticle, nanoparticle, Bioimaging Drug Delivery, Catalysis, Optoelectronic devices, Novel building blocks,new functional materials, functional devices, devices, material, nanomaterial, synthesis, nanoparticle, multi-component, 525
Docket: LS-2012-096
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Self Assembling Inorganic Nanoparticle Vesicles - Building Blocks for Functional Nanomaterials
Published Monday, May 27, 2013Background-Self-assembly is the process by which the components of a preexisting disordered system spontaneously come together as an organized structure or pattern. The self-assembly of nanoparticles composed of two or more different materials into composite nanoparticles offers promising opportunities for synthesizing a variety of...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Research Tools, Antibodies, & Reagents
Keyword(s): vesicle, inorganic, inorganic material, imaging. theranostic, diagnostic, polymer, asymmetric nanoparticle, nanoparticle, Bioimaging, drug delivery, Catalysis, Optoelectronic devices, Novel building blocks,new functional materials, functional devices, devices, material, nanomaterial, synthesis, nanoparticle, multi-component, 525
Docket: LS-2012-097
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Method to Synthesize Stable, Self-Assembling Virus-like Nano Rods and Tubes
Published Wednesday, January 2, 2013BackgroundVirus-like nanoparticles (VLPs) are mere envelopes of viruses sans the genetic material that mimic the structure of actual viral particles. The expression of viral structural or capsid proteins can result in the self-assembly of these particles. In essence, they are non-infective virus-like particles that may be derived from...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Vaccines
Keyword(s): virus, virus-like nanoparticles, VLPs, TMV, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, electrode, vaccine, templating, biosensor, inorganic molecules, templating inorganic molecules, receptor, metallization, nano, nano-scale
Docket: LS-2012-093
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Three-Dimensional, Biotemplated Hierarchical Electrodes for Microbattery Applications
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012Micro-batteries are essential components in miniaturized systems and portable devices as small scale power sources for electronics as well as for energy storage devices from environmental sources such as vibration energy harvesting and solar energy. As the auxiliary components of such systems decrease in size, their power supplies must scale...
Categories: Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Micro-batteries, Microelectromechanical Systems,micro-pillars
Docket: PS-2011-102
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Fluorescent Porous Silica Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery, Diagnostic and Imaging Applications
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012BackgroundThe majority of chemotherapeutic drugs are highly effective in eradicating cancer cells, however they act systemically and kill all cells with minimal selectivity based on cell type, resulting in high toxicity and serious side effects. Therefore, in traditional chemotherapy, the strength of cancer drugs that can be used is...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Imaging devices, Drug delivery devices
Keyword(s): targeted delivery, oncology
Docket: LS-2012-009
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Nano Arrays for Sensors
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Systems Research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have demonstrated the first utilization of virus molecules as a nano-scale bio-template assembled on an electrochemical sensor. The integration of versatile and inexpensive biological Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) as a...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Tobacco Mosaic Virus, nanotechnology, electrochemical
Docket: PS-2012-019
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Low Temperature Synthesis of Faceted Aluminum Nanocrystals
Published Monday, March 26, 2012Metal/oxidizer combinations make very powerful energetic materials due to their high total energy content compared to CHNO-based materials. Bulk aluminum has a very high energy density when oxidized to alumina, but problems arise for energetic applications because the kinetics are diffusion limited between oxidizer and aluminum. This is partially...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): rocket energetic powder nano crystalline aluminum
Docket: PS-2010-087