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Integrated CMOS Capacitance Sensors for On-Chip Tracking of Cell Proliferation
Published Tuesday, April 29, 2008Quantifying cell growth is essential for many applications in cell biology and biotechnology. It is required for optimizing cell culture conditions, for studying substances that inhibit or promote cell growth, for studying cancer progression, cytotoxicity assessment, biocompatibility characterization, etc. Traditional cell proliferation assays...
Categories: Engineering, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): CMOS, cancer, on chip, proliferation, cell growth, capacitance, sensor
Docket: PS-2008-047
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High Surface Area Oxide Powders by Coprecipitation
Published Monday, April 28, 2008Nanosized oxide materials with high surface area are of interest for a wide range of applications including gas sensors, abrasives, electrode materials for solid oxide fuel cells, etc. Various solution based coprecipitation methods for synthesizing these nanosized oxide materials have been reported. These conventional coprecipitation methods use...
Categories: Materials
Keyword(s): coprecipitation, oxide powder, fuel cell
Docket: PS-2007-113
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Waterfall Cooling and Heating Systems
Published Wednesday, April 23, 2008This invention provides cooling and dehumidification during hot and humid conditions and heating and humidification during cold and dry conditions. While conventional decorative waterfalls provide humidity to dry air winter spaces, they add to humidity levels during the summer. Conventional vapor compressor systems provide heating and cooling...
Categories: Clean Technology, Engineering, Chemical, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): water fall cooling heatng system
Docket: PS-2007-110
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A General Route for the Self-Assembly of Reverse Vesicles in Organic Liquids
Published Wednesday, April 23, 2008Vesicles have grown in interest to scientists due to their applications ranging from drug delivery and controlled release to bioseparations and sensing. While vesicles in aqueous solution are well-known, reverse vesicles are much less known. Reverse vesicles are spherical containers in organic liquids (oils) consisting of an oily core surrounded...
Categories: Chemical
Keyword(s): reverse vesicles, solutes, self-assembly organic liquids
Docket: PS-2007-072
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Non-Aqueous Photorheological Fluids with Light-Tunable Viscosity
Published Thursday, April 17, 2008Recently, interest has grown in developing fluids whose rheological properties are tunable by light. These photorheological fluids are desired to be single-phase solutions that are structured at the nanoscale, such as in microfluidics. Researchers have developed a non-aqueous fluid formation that displays significant light-sensitivity in its...
Categories: Materials, Chemical
Keyword(s): photorheological fluids, viscosity, photogelling
Docket: PS-2007-061
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Novel Polymer Solid Electrolyte for Flexible Batteries
Published Wednesday, April 2, 2008Batteries used in medical equipment and implants are part of a one billion dollar worldwide market in which supply has not yet reached demand. Lithium ion polymer batteries, due to their superior energy density, small size, and low toxicity, are well-suited as medical implant power sources. These batteries circumvent the use of corrosive and...
Categories: Clean Technology, Engineering, Chemical, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): polymer, electrolyte, battery, energy source
Docket: PS-2008-013
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Frequency and Force Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Amplitude-modulation tapping-mode atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) has developed into an important imaging tool for surface characterization. Despite its technical advances it succumbs to imaging bistability caused by the co-existence of attractive and repulsive imaging regimes, and potential sample damage in the repulsive regime....
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Devices, Engineering
Keyword(s): atomic force microscopy
Docket: PS-2007-001
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New Treatments for Viral Diseases
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Human viral epidemics have proliferated since the latter half of the 20th century. The same cannot be said of the medicines used to treat them. As HIV spreads to nearly every corner of the world, existing antivirals cannot fill the global need for inexpensive, easily accessible forms of treatment. New and potentially helpful drugs face a long and...
Categories: Small molecules, Therapeutics, Repurpose Drug
Keyword(s): Viral therapy, antibiotic
Docket: LS-2007-092
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Lateral Two-Terminal Nanotube Devices and Method for their Formation
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a method to enhance the efficiency of energy capture, storage, and delivery. Applications include solar energy capture, energy storage in capacitors and batteries, and integration of capture and storage elements within a thin film process technology to provide high performance energy/power...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Nanotubes, nanopores, 525
Docket: PS-2007-090
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Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Brain tumors, which occur in 20-40% of adult cancer patients, are among the most feared complications of the disease. Despite numerous advances in treatment, the prognosis for these patients is poor, with a median survival of 4-8 months. The primary reasons for the poor survival rate are the lack of good continuous imaging modality for...
Categories: Imaging devices, Surgical devices, Robotics, Devices
Keyword(s): minimally invasive neurosurgical intercranial robot
Docket: PS-2007-088