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Star, Branched, and Graft Polymers in Binders for Inkjet Additive Manufacturing for Personalized Dosage Tablets THE CHALLENGE A major problem posed by the pharmaceutical industry is giving effective dosages while not giving excessive amounts of a particular drug. An estimated 80% of side effects in humans and animals are a direct result of inaccurate dosing because varying weights in patients. Additive manufacturing has emerged as a very promising method to... Published: 1/31/2024   |   Inventor(s): Emily Wilts, Timothy Long, Christopher Williams, Da Ma Keywords(s):   Category(s): Technology Classifications > Additive Manufacturing, Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials, Technology Classifications > Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Hybrid Plasmonic Platform for Directing and Controlling Nanostructure Growth Low-Heat, Bottom-Up Approach Can Produce Metal, Polymer or Bio-Molecule Structures for Catalysis, Biosensors, Electronic Devices and MoreThis surface plasmon mediated chemical solution deposition method uses surface plasmon resonance to deposit nanoparticles in the liquid phase at room temperature to direct and control nanostructure growth. Plasmonic... Published: 6/27/2021   |   Inventor(s): Wei Wei, Jingjing Qiu Keywords(s): Catalysts, nanoparticle synthesis, Plasmonic, Thin Films Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Materials

14-3-3 Protein Overexpression to Enhance Plant Oil Production Executive SummaryVegetable oils are used for nutrition, biofuel, industrial applications, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. To meet the growing demand for vegetable oils, production of oilseeds has increased steadily in recent years. Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have discovered a method to significantly increase the content of oil in... Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): Christoph Benning, John Ohlrogge, Wei Ma, Que Kong Keywords(s):   Category(s): Agriculture, Biotechnology

Engineered WRINKLED1 Transcription Factor with Increased Stability and Enhanced Oil Production IntroductionPlant oils, primarily seed oils, are major agricultural commodities. The world consumption of plant oils in 2013 was 165 million tonnes, which represents an increase of 100 million tonnes since 1995. The majority of vegetable oils are produced from just four crops, oil palm, soybeans, rapeseed, and sunflower, which together accounts for... Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): John Ohlrogge, Christoph Benning, Wei Ma, Que Kong Keywords(s): Agriculture Biotechnology, Biodiesel, Oil Crops Category(s): Biotechnology, Agriculture

External Cavity Laser Spectrometer Scientists at STFC have developed a novel external cavity laser absorption spectrometer, which can be used to determine characteristics of sample such as environmental air, human or animal breath, environmental water or condensate from gas, bodily fluids, etc.IMAGES Published: 7/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Richard Brownsword, Damien Weidmann Keywords(s): 01.h. Imaging & Detector Technology, 05.e. Meteorology/Climatology, 05.f. Physics, 06.a. Medicine, Human Health, 10.b. Environment Category(s): Scientific Instrumentation, Optics & Lasers, Medical & Biomedical

Isotope Ratiometer The isotope ratiometer is a new technique developed at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory used to measure the ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C (δ13) for CO2. The novel configuration allows the instrument to compact robust and offer very high precision in real time. IMAGES Published: 6/8/2022   |   Inventor(s): Damien Weidmann Keywords(s): 01.h. Imaging & Detector Technology, 05.b. Chemistry, 05.c. Earth Sciences, 05.e. Meteorology/Climatology, 05.f. Physics, 06.a. Medicine, Human Health, 08.b. Food quality and safety, 09.a. Measurement Tools, 10.a. Safety & Security, 10.b. Environment Category(s): Electronics & Semiconductors, Optics & Lasers, Food & Beverage Technology, Scientific Instrumentation, Sensors & detectors, Medical & Biomedical

CLaDs A portable CLaDS instrument has been deployed for the environmental monitoring of nitrous oxide at Princeton University (invention partners). This proved the instruments enhanced properties over other traditional sensors, and shows outstanding performance in terms of sensitivity, robustness and reliability of results. A table –top instrument... Published: 6/8/2022   |   Inventor(s): Damien Weidmann, Gerard Wysocki Keywords(s): 02.c. Process control and logistics, 03.a. Other Industrial Technologies, 03.b. Process Plant Engineering, 06.a. Medicine, Human Health, 09.a. Measurement Tools, 09.c. Electronic measurement systems, 10.b. Environment Category(s): Sensors & detectors, Scientific Instrumentation, Optics & Lasers, Manufacturing & Process Engineering, Security Applications, Medical & Biomedical

Highly Sensitive Trace-Gas Sensing Method Based on Laser Spectroscopic Sensing of Anomalous Molecular/Atomic Dispersion Princeton Docket # 10-2584-1 Researchers from Princeton University and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) have developed a novel method of high sensitivity molecular detection based on detection of refractive index changes around the absorption line. This method employs heterodyne interferometric measurement with a frequency... Published: 5/1/2024   |   Inventor(s): Gerard Wysocki, Damien Weidmann Keywords(s): gas sensing, laser, Opto-Electronics/ELE ENG Category(s): Medical Devices/Diagnostics, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering