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World’s Highest Energy Density Thin Film Battery
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009The market for thin film batteries is projected for explosive growth in the coming years. Thin film batteries are enabling the proliferation of electronic devices in ubiquitous applications not possible before, including wireless sensor networks, active RFID, wearable electronics, and medical devices. Conventional battery technologies have...
Categories: Power Electronics, Materials, Engineering
Keyword(s): flexible high energy density rechargeable battery solar harvesting
Docket: PS-2008-041
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Diblockcopolymer Based Multiferroic
Published Monday, June 1, 2009Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a diblock copolymer that improves upon self-organized single-phase inorganic structures by synthesizing a two-phase inorganic nano-composite via the templating of two separate inorganic phases from two sol/gel precursors.The method employed is applicable to the synthesis of any two...
Categories: Materials
Keyword(s): multiferroic diblockcopolymer two-phase ferromagnetic ferroelectric magnetoelectric tunable
Docket: PS-2008-014
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Modeling Facial Aging in Adults
Published Monday, May 18, 2009Researchers at the University of Maryland have been studying and developing personalized facial growth models based upon data gathered for an individual’s facial growth over many years. More particularly, their model predicts an individual’s future appearance which can subsequently be used to perform face recognition across age progression...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): Modeling Facial Aging Adults
Docket: IS-2008-006
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Sensible and Latent Cooling
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention provides an improved energy efficiency and better thermal comfort for cooling systems via an automatic adaptation of operating modes according to the sensible and latent load ratio. Conventional air conditioning systems are designed to simultaneously meet sensible and latent loads in order to meet a typical sensible heat factor (...
Categories: Industrial Processing, Engineering, Chemical
Keyword(s): sensible latent cooling
Docket: PS-2007-112
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Separate and/or Combined Sensible and Latent Cooling
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention provides an improved energy efficiency and better thermal comfort for cooling systems via an automatic adaptation of operating modes according to the sensible and latent load ratio. Conventional air conditioning systems are designed to simultaneously meet sensible and latent loads in order to meet a typical sensible heat factor (...
Categories: Engineering, Chemical, Clean Technology, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): separate combined sensible latent cooling
Docket: PS-2007-109
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Event Timeline Visualization Tool
Published Monday, May 18, 2009Traffic management centers continually monitor traffic incidents data by utilizing incident management and tracking software. However, processing this vast amount of data can be cumbersome, leading to traffic operators having difficulty in decision making both during and after traffic incidents, especially larger incidents. Researchers...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): event timeline visualization tool
Docket: IS-2007-103
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Teleoperated Robotic System for Image Guided Radiofrequency Ablation and Biopsy
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention will lead to the development of a multi-degree of freedom, tele-operated robotic system. This system will be compatible with any imaging modality such as, but not limited to, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, for performing radio frequency ablation, biopsy or any other intervention while under continuous image guidance. The robotic system...
Categories: Biological, Robotics, Surgical devices
Keyword(s): teleoperated robotic system image guided RF ablation biopsy
Docket: PS-2007-087
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Lunar Laser Ranging Array for the 21st Century - LLRA-21
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention proposes one or more improved retroreflector arrays on the moon. Today the linear dimension of the array, combined with the (geometric) lunar librations, results in a return pulse that has a full with at half maximum (FWHM) of about 8 cm. The improvement is by a factor of 5. the goal of this invention is to provide an improved array...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Engineering
Keyword(s): lunar laser ranging array
Docket: PS-2007-082
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Rainbow Surface Tension Analysis
Published Monday, May 18, 2009Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new optical technique to determine the surface tension of a Newtonian liquid. The technique relies on detailed data analysis with respect to diffraction and fluid layer shape characteristics. Light and interference patterns scattered from the fluid layer provide data which is utilized...
Categories: Imaging devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): surface tension analysis
Docket: PS-2007-081
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Microfluidic Mass Spectrometer Utilizing Protein Nanopores
Published Sunday, May 17, 2009NOT REVIEWED BY INVENTORArtificial BLMs have been widely used to investigate fundamental electrophysiology kinetics including ion channel formation and transduction. Standard macro-scale approaches suffer from well known issues, mainly poor BLM lifetimes, laborious formation techniques, and limited data collection throughput. Recently...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Devices, Microfluidics
Keyword(s): microfluidic mass spectrometer protein nanopores
Docket: PS-2007-067