APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Solid state batteries for: Electric vehicles Consumer electronics BENEFITS: Safer than traditional lithium-ion batteries Sustainable production Inexpensive cathode materials Potentially higher energy density than current technology Enables innovative cell assembly BACKGROUND: Lithium-ion batteries are … [Read more...] about Battery Cell with Organic Cathode and Solid Electrolyte 2022-130
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Packet-Switched Superconducting Temporal Network Operations Center (NoC) 2022-030
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Superconducting digital (non-quantum) computing BENEFITS: System can take better advantage of the strengths of superconducting computing and at larger scales Higher throughput per unit area compared to existing superconducting networks Accepts more data representations than other superconducting computing … [Read more...] about Packet-Switched Superconducting Temporal Network Operations Center (NoC) 2022-030
Electron Emission Methods to Generate Electron Beams with a Narrow Energy Distribution 2022-090
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Electron energy-loss spectroscopy Low energy electron microscopy Dynamic transmission electron microscopy Quantum information science Quantum electron microscopy BENEFITS: Narrow energy distribution Higher accuracy in spectroscopy Reduced chromatic aberrations in microscopy BACKGROUND: Electron beams are used in … [Read more...] about Electron Emission Methods to Generate Electron Beams with a Narrow Energy Distribution 2022-090
An advanced optical sensor for measuring the displacement of civil infrastructure 2020-099
Application Measuring building and structure drift caused by earthquakes Advantages Rapid and reliable extraction of time-critical data Interstory drift measurement errors in the sub-millimeter range Use of wireless communication nodes allowing sensors to form a self-configuring and self-healing mesh network … [Read more...] about An advanced optical sensor for measuring the displacement of civil infrastructure 2020-099
Harnessing Chemical Transformations in Cu2O Photoelectrodes for Solar Fuels Production 2022-135
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Production of ethylene BENEFITS: Stable for much longer than bare copper oxide (Cu2O) Protection scheme designed based on insights into degradation mechanism BACKGROUND: Solar fuels are an important area of development in progressing towards a sustainable future, using sunlight energy to produce fuel from readily available … [Read more...] about Harnessing Chemical Transformations in Cu2O Photoelectrodes for Solar Fuels Production 2022-135