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Environmentally Responsive Fibers for Reinforced Concrete Composites
The randomness of the orientation of the ER fibers allows the concrete structure to handle a much more diverse array of stresses.
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Fiber-reinforced concrete composites have become popular in the construction industry due to their robust nature with regard to both compression and tension. These fibers, however, cannot be prestressed or post-tensioned...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Patrick Lee, Ting Tan, Dryver Huston
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Nano-Biocatalytic Membranes for Water Treatment
Multi-functional membrane to prevent biofouling during water purification processes
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As the need for more sources of drinkable water increases, there is a strong interest in developing more advanced water purification technologies. During long term use, water purification membranes are susceptible to biofilm formation, clogging the membranes,...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Appala (Raju) Badireddy, Huijie Lu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy
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Embedded Railway Ballast Moisture Sensing
Railbed health is an important aspect of safe transportation by train. If not properly maintained, over time this can lead to track misalignment and compromised load-bearing capacity. If the tracks are compromised in any way, catastrophic derailment is more likely. Additionally, the massive financial burden that misaligned tracks carry with them is...
Published: 2/22/2025
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Inventor(s): Tom Weller, Ismail Uluer, Jeff Frolik
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Wireless Snowpack Monitoring System
Snowpack studies are essential for water planning and provide critical data for fields such as agriculture, recreation, and city planning. Until now, the predominant ground-based techniques used for these studies have been manual measurement of snow cores and deployment of large, potentially hazardous antifreeze-filled bladders.
The high cost and snowpack...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Jeff Frolik, Christian Skalka
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy
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Photogrammetric and Multisensor Position Registration for Ground Penetrating Radars
This innovation utilizes geophysical instruments (i.e., GPR) moving across the ground to figure out what is under the earth’s surface. The question involves finding out where the object is located within a centimeter. To overcome the localization or registration challenge, the team turned to the smartphone technology and incorporated photogrammetry...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Tian Xia, Dylan Burns
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Tunable Stack Architecture for Photonic Crystal OLEDs
These OLED vertical stacks are low cost, durable and applications in flexible displays, light panels and spectroscopy sensors
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Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology brings the promise of sharper displays at lower cost. This sharpness arises from the fact that conventional LEDs leak a little light when displaying black, degrading...
Published: 2/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Matthew White, David Allemeier
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications > Engineering
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An Economical In Situ System for Detecting Moisture
This technology is an economical system for detecting and characterizing signal loss in communications channels with power at only one end of the channel. It is used to measure the properties of the medium itself, such as the amount of moisture.
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One or more passive sensors can be embedded in situ during construction (at a point or in an...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Jeff Frolik
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Preparations of Primary Phosphines
A clean phosphine synthesis method that circumvents the use of toxic reagents, uses industrially common hydrogen and produces no waste
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Primary phosphines are highly versatile precursors and are used as commercial reagents in industries such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, agriculture (pesticides), and materials science industries (semiconductors)....
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Rory Waterman, Brandon Ackley
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Aeroacoustic Duster
Precision particle removal from a surface with no physical contact using a bounded vortex and peripheral jets providing streamlines
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Mitigation of dust or particle build up on surfaces is a problem in many industries, especially where the surface being cleaned cannot be damaged, such as optical materials or delicate electronic instruments....
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Jeffrey Scott Marshall
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Ground Penetrating Radar and Mapping for Underground Infrastructure Maintenance
This technology uses full waveform digitization of the returning signals to significantly reduce the number of launch signals needed
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Critical to the identification and repair of crumbling and unstable infrastructure is the use of ground penetrating radar systems to scan below the surface for dangers present. However, the FCC has mandated...
Published: 2/11/2025
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Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Henry Firsch
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Medical Imaging
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