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Economical Ozone Treatment for Quality Fly Ash with Improved Performance (Case 1363)

Principal Investigator: Robert Hurt, PhD, Professor Eric Suuberg, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Coal combustion fly ash is a useful additive in concrete due to its pozzolanic property or ability to react with calcium in concrete mixes and contribute to the formation of the c...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Eric Suuberg, Robert Hurt, Yu-Ming Gao

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Category(s): Devices, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Instruments

Improved and Versatile Magnetic Field Sensor: A Magneto-Optoelectronic Device (Case 1424)

Principal Investigator: Arto Nurmikko, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: The ability to remotely sense magnetic fields without direct physical presence or contact with the field location is important in many industrial/commercial and military applications from environmental monitori...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Arto Nurmikko

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Category(s): Devices, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Instruments, Research Tools

Micronized Hydrophobic Agents/Drugs for Superior Performance Medical and Otherwise (Case 1429)

Principal Investigator: Edith Mathiowitz, PhD, Professor Department of Bio Med Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Many hydrophobic agents, active and non-active, have utility in a variety of in vivo settings – medical and otherwise. Although techniques exist for ...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Edith Mathiowitz

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, Energy, Environmental, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Therapeutics

Improved, Scalable, Optical Particle/Molecule Detector System by Solid State Energy Sources (Case 1494)

Principal Investigators: Arto Nurmikko, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: With environmental safety and defense/bioterrorism concerns, and the continuing drive for important medical breakthroughs, quick and accurate particle diagnostic capabilities have become increasingly importa...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Arto Nurmikko, Richard Chang

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Instruments, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Accurate and Dynamic Noise Adaptive Sonar Signal Processor (Case 1562)

Principal Investigators: Leon Cooper, PhD, Professor Department of Physics Nicola Neretti, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of BioMed Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: For years, sonar systems have used sonar pulses reflected from an object/target to estimate a distan...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Leon Cooper, Nicola Neretti

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Instruments, Research Tools, Software

Innovative, Fully Redox-Active Monomers and Polymers with Broad Applications (Case 1702)

Principal Investigator: Tayhas Palmore, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Interest in redox-active polymers stems from their application in electrochromic devices, biofuel cells, and biosensors all of which require a high concentration of electron mediators that are non-leachable....

Published: Dec 6, 2011 | Inventor(s): Tayhas Palmore, Hyun-Kon Song

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Metabolic diseases, Research Tools

Advanced, Flexible and Versatile, 3D Electromagnetic Tracking and Positioning System (Case 1780)

Principal Investigator: Harvey F. Silverman, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: A typical system for determining the position and orientation of a remote object includes, most simply, a receiver with three receiver coils and a transmitter with three transmitter coils in various ori...

Published: Dec 6, 2011 | Inventor(s): Harvey Silverman, William Patterson III

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Instruments, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Software, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Significantly Enhanced Microchannel and/or Microfluidic Fuel Cell Performance (Case 1870)

Principal Investigator: Tayhas Palmore, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Laminar flow of fluids within microchannels has been studied for use in microfluidic fuel cells, which consist of an anode and cathode configured as a galvanic cell with a microchannel. Parallel streams of ...

Published: Dec 6, 2011 | Inventor(s): Tayhas Palmore

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Nanotechnology, Research Tools

Superior Core/Shell Nanoparticle Catalysts for Fuel Cells and Cathodes (Case 2005)

Principal Investigator: Shouheng Sun, PhD, Professor Department of Chemistry Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Synthesis of active and durable catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) is an urgent need in developing fuel cell – alternative energy – devices for a plethora of practical applications. Research has fo...

Published: Oct 11, 2011 | Inventor(s): Shouheng Sun, Vismadeb Mazumder

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Category(s): Devices, Energy, Environmental, Nanotechnology, Research Tools

Novel, Uniform, and Versatile Diamond Nanowires (Case 2031)(EA)

Principal Investigator: Jingming Xu, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Diamond has unique physical properties of interest for scientific R&D, commercial and military applications. Diamond is the hardest and has the highest thermal conductivity of all known materials. Its wid...

Published: Oct 11, 2011 | Inventor(s): Jingming Xu

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Energy, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Nanotechnology, Research Tools

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