APPLICATIONS: Seismic monitoring ABSTRACT: Seismic detectors may register movements of the earth generated by earthquakes and other seismic events. However, locating and determining the precise location and mechanism of an earthquake based on data received from seismic detectors may be difficult or impossible with some systems. Gregory Newman and Petr Petrov of … [Read more...] about Moment Tensor Reconstruction 2017-095
Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Food products Cosmetics Water and wastewater treatment Pharmaceuticals BENEFITS: Significantly lowers the costs of product recovery from cyanobacterial production strains Self-aggregating properties of the material streamline the processes of flocculation and clarification Enables novel encapsulation and drug formulation … [Read more...] about Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
Graded Band Gap Perovskite Solar Cell 2016-060
APPLICATIONS: Solar cells ABSTRACT: Alex Zettl and Onur Ergen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed graded bandgap perovskite photovoltaic cells with good output current and power conversion efficiency by implementing a new cell architecture. GaN was chosen to replace the typical TiO2 electron transport layer to provide a better surface morphology … [Read more...] about Graded Band Gap Perovskite Solar Cell 2016-060
A Photonic Near Infrared Heater for Efficiency and Comfort 2017-045
APPLICATIONS: Radiation heaters Industrial process heating, e.g., curing Food processing BACKGROUND: Radiative heaters such as infrared (IR) heaters are readily available in the market; however, they suffer from two fundamental problems: The visible appearance of IR heaters greatly impacts the aesthetics of building interiors. As a result, these heaters … [Read more...] about A Photonic Near Infrared Heater for Efficiency and Comfort 2017-045
Metabolite, Annotation and Gene Integration System (MAGI) and Software 2017-063, 2017-105
APPLICATIONS: Genomics research BACKGROUND: Metabolomics has been used for obtaining direct measures of metabolic activities from diverse biological systems. However, metabolomics can be limited by ambiguous metabolite identifications. Furthermore, interpretation can be limited by incomplete and inaccurate genome-based predictions of enzyme activities (e.g., gene … [Read more...] about Metabolite, Annotation and Gene Integration System (MAGI) and Software 2017-063, 2017-105