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Advanced Filtration Media for Treating Urban Stormwater Runoff
Published Tuesday, October 13, 2009BackgroundSand filters are used to remove suspended solids from urban stormwater runoff. These suspended particles are can block sunlight, deposit on organisms, and exert an oxygen demand. They can also carry pollutants such as phosphorus, hydrocarbons, and metals like zinc, copper, and lead. Filtering these particles from urban stormwater...
Categories: Engineering, Clean Technology, Materials
Keyword(s): runoff, pollution, green, pollutants, clean water, filter, filter system
Docket: PS-2009-031
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Atomic Layer Deposition for Metal Anode Passivation
Published Wednesday, November 11, 2015Background:Lithium metal is of great interest to the battery community: as the lightest and most electropositive alkali metal, Li has a low density, resulting in an extremely high specific capacity value of 3.86Ah/g and energy density of 11,701Wh/kg, making it the holy grail of battery anodes. Other light metals – Na, Mg, and Al – have...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Batteries, Lithium metal, Li-ion batteries, Energy storage, metal anode
Docket: PS-2014-155
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Atomic Layer Deposition Modifications for All Solid State Metal Ion Batteries
Published Tuesday, May 19, 2015Background:Solid-state lithium batteries are considered to be the ultimate solution for an electric vehicle’s power supply which require safety, high energy density, and long a lifespan. Currently high ionic conductive solid state electrolytes and an interfacial contact are the two important issues for the practical use of Solid-state lithium...
Categories: Microelectronics, Engineering, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): batteries, Solid-state ion batteries, metal anode, atomic layer deposition (ALD)
Docket: PS-2015-002
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Biocompatible 3D Printing Resin at Physiologic Temperature
Published Sunday, June 19, 2016BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide and congenital heart disease (CHD) is among the leading causes of death in newborns. In recent years, there have been complications with the use of synthetic materials such as artificial grafts or patches, two current treatments of CVD and CHD, which include...
Categories: Engineering, Biomaterials, Bioengineering, Biological
Keyword(s): Cardiovascular disease, 3D printing, vascular graft material, 3d printer resin, drug delivery system, cell growth scaffolds
Docket: PS-2016-028
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Compliant Passive Grasping Technology for Arbitrary Shaped and Sized Objects
Published Monday, December 7, 2015BackgroundSuction grippers (also referred to as "vacuum grippers") can grasp objects for handling and manipulation. They enable active control of grasp, enhance grasp stability, and handle some objects such as large flat plates more easily than standard graspers. However, the application of suction cups to object manipulation has been...
Categories: Robotics, Industrial Processing, Robotics, Devices, Engineering
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2009-107
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Compressive Radar Imaging Technology
Published Sunday, June 29, 2014The military utilizes the mapping of targets and terrain to provide much needed information for its field operations. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been used in this capacity to provide a quality map for these operations. Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland–College...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Aerospace, Engineering
Keyword(s): defense, radar, compressed imaging, mapping, environmental monitoring
Docket: IS-2009-018
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Controllable, Mechanical Maple Seed (Samara)
Published Tuesday, July 7, 2009BackgroundUnmanned vehicles are currently being used in a wide variety of applications such as security and surveillance, fire monitoring, and search and rescue. The field of auto-rotating MAVs capable of vertical takeoff and landing is a particularlyactive area of research. Designs in this field frequently mimic the seed of the maple...
Categories: Engineering, Aerospace
Keyword(s): samara, mav, aerial
Docket: PS-2008-091
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Defect-free dendrimer synthesis through proportionate branching
Published Tuesday, May 27, 2014Dendrimers are nanoparticles of synthetic monomers with applications in commercial paints, blood substitutes, nanomaterials, sensor technology. Dendrimers are also building blocks for targeted drug or gene delivery. The dendrimers open architecture forms hollow cavities within the branches that can encapsulate molecules such as drugs or...
Investigator(s): Bruce Yu, Xuyi Yue
Categories: Imaging devices, Diagnostics, Platforms, Therapeutics, Engineering, Biomaterials
Docket: BY-2012-068
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Disruption of the microtubule network as a therapeutic intervention in the muscular dystrophies
Published Tuesday, May 27, 2014Across several muscular myopathies, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Becker muscular dystrophy, and dysferlinopathies, intercellular signaling cascades such as reactive oxygen signaling (ROS) and calcium (Ca2+) are enhanced and contribute to the onset and pathogenic progression of the myopathy. The discovery of the...
Investigator(s): Christopher Ward, Ramzi Khairallah
Categories: Research Tools, Antibodies, & Reagents, Therapeutics, Biologics, Engineering, Bioengineering
Keyword(s): musculoskeletal, rare disease, muscular dystrophy
Docket: CW-2012-040
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Efficient Sulfur and Energy Recovery With Novel Isothermal Thermal Flame Reactor
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009The Claus process is considered to be an industry standard for recovering elemental sulfur from gaseous hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The removal of H2S is desirable due to the detrimental effect H2S has on the environment and human health. However, the gases which accompany H2S in the recovery/removal process impact the optimum reactor temperature...
Categories: Chemical, Engineering, Clean Technology, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): Efficient Sulfur Energy Recovery Novel Isothermal Thermal Flame Reactor
Docket: PS-2008-120