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Nanoengineered Chemical Sensors Offer Superior Detection of Environmental Pollutants, Hydrogen, and Other Industrial Chemicals
Published Sunday, March 4, 2012Detection of chemicals in air such as industrial pollutants, poisonous gases, chemical fumes, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and trace explosives is vital for the health and safety of communities around the world; however, current methods of detection lack the sensitivity, selectivity, and cost benefits to be viable options. Techniques...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Chemical, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): solid state sensor chemical vapor trace detection explosive dog sniffing
Docket: PS-2011-061
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Highly Concentrated Water Soluble Carbon Nanotube Ink
Published Wednesday, January 25, 2012BackgroundCarbon nanotubes are cylindrical nanostructured allotropes of carbon with unique properties. These carbon molecules have been extensively exploited for a variety of applications owing to their exceptional mechanical robustness, thermal conductivity, electronic transport and optical photoluminescence properties. One of its...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): carbon nanotube, Nanotube, Nanotube Ink, Ink, Nanoink, single-walled carbon nanotube, thermal conductivity, electronic transport, optical photoluminescence, dispersion
Docket: LS-2011-041
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Tunable Nanoparticle Array
Published Sunday, May 15, 2011BackgroundSurface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a spectroscopic and analytic technique that achieves extreme sensitivity through the strong coupling between electromagnetic radiation, plasmon modes of a surface, and electronic states of molecule, which in turn couple to the vibrational modes of the molecule. SERS substrates are often...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): SERS, nanoparticle, optical, magnetic, environmental
Docket: PS-2011-008
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Revolutionary Hybrid Core-Shell Nanostructure without Epitaxy
Published Wednesday, December 1, 2010Background:Until now, epitaxy has been the only affordable method of high quality semiconductor crystal growth in nanotechnology and semiconductor fabrication. However, conventional epitaxial growth imposes strict limitations on deposition layer thickness and only allows certain “lattice matched” materials to be combined. Additional...
Categories: Chemical, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Materials, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): non-epitxial, semiconductor crystal growth, core-shell nanostructures
Docket: PS-2010-031
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Water Soluble, Surfactant Free, Functional Carbon Nanostructures
Published Monday, November 22, 2010Background:Carbon nanotubes, though tiny, have a huge number of potential applications. At approximately 1/50,000th of the width of a human hair, nanotubes find widespread uses in electronics, composites, and biomedical science because they exhibit extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties, and are efficient thermal...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): carbon nanotubes, biological sensing, medical devices
Docket: LS-2010-049
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Introducing Artificial Cilia NEMS – The World’s Smallest Flow Rate Sensors
Published Wednesday, July 21, 2010Microfluidic flow rate sensors and actuators have been transformational in the fields of life and biomedical sciences. Current flow sensing strategies like optical or image velocimetry, thermal anemometry, and micro-electromechanical (MEMS) cilia or hair inspired sensors with diameters on the order of 10-100 micrometers only provide limited flow...
Categories: Microfluidics, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): NEMS microfluidic flow sensing actuator
Docket: PS-2010-046
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Nano Arrays For Energy Storage
Published Tuesday, March 30, 2010BackgroundFabricating next generation nano-structured devices using densely packed interfaces and thin films is highly desirable in markets searching for high density energy storage, particularly with high power capability. Current high density storage systems are relatively high in per unit, installation, and maintenance costs, and are not...
Categories: Microelectronics, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Power Electronics, Materials
Keyword(s): energy, nano, capacitor, array
Docket: PS-2009-094
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Molecular Container that aids in Recovery from Anesthesia
Published Monday, March 8, 2010BackgroundRocuronium is a neuromuscular blocking agent commonly used as general anesthetic during surgery. It is desirable to be able to reverse the effects of rocuronium following surgery for reduced side effects and quick patient recovery. One method to achieve this reversal is the introduction of a molecular container compound capable of...
Categories: Drug delivery devices, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): rocuronium, anesthesia, container, cucurbituril, cucurbit[n]uril
Docket: LS-2010-001
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Nanolithography with Nanowire Arrays
Published Thursday, January 7, 2010BackgroundIntegrated circuits are used in nearly all electronic equipment currently in production. Also known as microchips, they control everything from computers to cell phones to microwave ovens. The performance of these chips depends on features that are only a few tens of nanometers across and that can be assembled in extremely close...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Industrial Processing, Engineering, Materials
Keyword(s): circuits, photon, nano, computer, chip
Docket: LS-2009-123
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Electroacoustic Wave for Enhancing Heat Transport in Nanofluids (Colloids)
Published Monday, July 27, 2009Downscaling or miniaturization has been a recent major trend in modern science and technology. Engineers now fabricate microscale devices such as microchannel heat exchangers and micropumps that are the size of dust specks. Further major advances would be obtained if the coolant flowing in the microchannels were to contain nanoscale particles to...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Nanofluids, heat transfer, 525
Docket: PS-2005-077