SUMMARY The invention centers on a scalable, sustainable, and selective method to electrochemically generate hydrogen peroxide under mild, neutral conditions. The Unmet Need: Method for producing hydrogen peroxide under mild conditions Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂)… Read More
SUMMARY A one-pot method synthesizes a hybrid sulfide–polymer composite by crosslinking Li3PS4 with an organic polymer – yielding a flexible, durable electrolyte with excellent ionic conductivity for use in lithium metal batteries. The Unmet… Read More
SUMMARY This technology enables on-body AI data analysis of data from skin-like wearable electronics for achieving human-integrated/mimetic intelligent systems. The Unmet Need: Data processing for precision medicine Precision medicine, the future landscape of healthcare, provides personalized diagnosis and treatment to individuals by taking into account… Read More
SUMMARY Electroluminescent (EL) devices represent one of the central components of multiple modern technologies. They offer unique functionality for information visualization, wireless signal/power transmission and medical therapies. After decades of development, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become one of the most advanced EL technologies, particularly for the display industry, owing… Read More
SUMMARY Isotope separation methods are key to numerous scientific and industrial processes. Nuclear power plants and weapons, for example, require fuels enriched in a select isotope. And isotopically pure or enriched samples are used in scientific research and medical procedures. Isotopes can be separated via fractional distillation, gaseous diffusion, and… Read More
SUMMARY Lithium-rich layered oxides are promising cathode materials with remarkable electrochemical performance that will revolutionize the electronics, transportation, battery, and grid energy storage industries. The ion-exchange process is a soft chemical synthesis route that is used to prepare new meta-stable materials, including layered oxides, as it separates and purifies crucial… Read More
SUMMARY This method enables predictive growth of qubit host materials without the limitations of iterative measurements. The Unmet Need: Proper characterization of qubit host substrate and in-situ defect growth… Read More
SUMMARY Block copolymers can assemble into large-scale, dense, and regular nanoscale patterns, making block copolymer assembly a potential candidate for nanolithography. The assembly of block copolymers can be directed to follow a chemical pattern to generate a regular structure. Notwithstanding the success of existing approaches, current chemical patterning methods are… Read More
SUMMARY Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionized portable electronics, but there remains room for improvement in energy density, electrochemical stability, and usable temperature window. An improvement in electrolytes can further such needs for the next-generation Li-ion battery. Current state of the art electrolytes are compositions based… Read More
SUMMARY Pressure sensors are essential to a vast array of applications, where they sense and measure pressure, and transmit information, which help ascertain the performance of a given device. In fact, the size for the global pressure sensor market was… Read More
SUMMARY Electrodes in supercapacitor devices (computers, electric/fossil fuel burning vehicles, and renewable energy storage) and electrodes in lithium (Li) and sodium (Na) batteries (portable electronic devices, grid energy storage applications, and electric vehicles) can all benefit from improvements in their ability to store/produce energy/charge in a more efficient and… Read More
SUMMARY Group III-V quantum dots (QDs) are useful for applications such as photovoltaics and display technologies because of their direct band gaps and favorable electronic properties. The bandgaps of these types of semiconductors can be precisely tuned by adjusting the composition of the ternary alloys. As an alternative to traditional… Read More