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Technology for converting methane to methanol using tailored vibrational excitations and plasma-assisted processes
Background Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, constitutes most natural gas and is emitted from various sources such as agri­culture, wetlands, and fossil fuel industries. Despite its potential as an energy source, methane’s low boiling point and flammability pose significant challenges for its compression and transport, leading to its frequent...
Published: 10/8/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Underwood, Charan Nallapareddy
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Category(s): Physical sciences > Energy > Oil & gas > Midstream oil & gas, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Machine learning model for real-time prediction of bottom-hole circulating temperature in geothermal wells
Background Drilling high-temperature geothermal wells presents significant technical and economic challenges due to the extreme conditions encountered deep underground. Effective thermal management is crucial to ensure that the bottom-hole circulating temperature (BHCT) remains within the operational limits of downhole tools, which is essential for...
Published: 10/6/2025   |   Inventor(s): Eric van Oort, Dongmei Chen, Pradeepkumar Ashok, Ningyu Wang, Anthony Luu
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Category(s): Physical sciences > Energy > Oil & gas > Upstream oil & gas, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Rare earth metal extraction from ash
Background Rare earth elements (REEs), such as lanthanides, yttrium, and scandium, are critical components in numerous advanced technologies, including electronics, energy storage systems, and medicine. Currently, the majority of REEs are sourced from a limited number of mining operations, which poses substantial risks to geopolitical tensions, supply...
Published: 6/7/2024   |   Inventor(s): Wen Song, Sheila Gerardo
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Category(s): Physical sciences, Physical sciences > Energy, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Plastic-degrading enzymes
Able to break down PET plastics in as little as 24 hours Overview Plastic waste poses an ecological challenge. There have been 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics produced—6 billion tons are waste. What do we do with this waste? The long-term, sustainable solution is to find effective ways to break down the plastic into smaller parts and then...
Published: 6/11/2025   |   Inventor(s): Hal Alper, Andrew Ellington, Hongyuan Lu
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Category(s): Life sciences > Agriculture, Life sciences > Research tools > Reagent, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Atmospheric water irrigation enabled by super moisture absorbent gels
Overview The global population is projected to reach 9.6 billion people by 2025, requiring food production to increase by 70% to meet the demand of the huge population. Water is most limiting natural resource for agricultural production due to the freshwater shortage and enormous need for irrigation. Dry cropland accounts for 84% of the cultivated...
Published: 1/11/2024   |   Inventor(s): Guihua Yu, Fei Zhao, Xingyi Zhou
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Category(s): Physical sciences > Materials, Life sciences > Agriculture, Physical sciences > Environmental & sustainable solutions, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Fabrication of metal-insulator-semiconductor photoelectrodes
Background Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a promising technology for converting solar energy into clean and storable chemical energy. In PEC cells, semiconductors play a key role in absorbing photons from the light source to create mobile charge carriers. Various semiconductor materials have been studied for the high-performance PEC cells,...
Published: 12/11/2023   |   Inventor(s): Edward Yu, Soonil Lee, Li Ji
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Category(s): Computer > Semiconductors, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Electrochemical production of solar-grade silicon films from SiO2
Background Silicon thin films are an important limitation for solar photovoltaic cells. Currently, manufacturing of these films are from single crystal silicon and a large amount of raw material is wasted. Single crystal silicon is not a cheap commodity. Thus, the sawing process used on single crystal silicon is costly not only from a manufacturing...
Published: 12/11/2023   |   Inventor(s): Allen Bard, Sung Ki Cho, Fu-Ren Fan
Keywords(s): Silicon nanocrystals
Category(s): Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Generating water from air
Background Air water generation (AWG) is a technology that extracts water molecules from the relative humidity in the atmosphere, passes the condensed water vapor through a filter to produce a drinkable source of water. This type of technology is most beneficial in environments that do not produce large amounts of drinkable water such as arid climates...
Published: 12/11/2023   |   Inventor(s): Mark Raizen
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Category(s): Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Next-gen smart windows
Electrochromic transition metal oxide nanocrystals for inexpensive, efficient, and responsive windows Technology description Researchers in the group of Professor Milliron have developed low-cost glass coatings made from nanocrystal inks that control daylight and solar heat gain in buildings on demand. These smart windows can be integrated with building...
Published: 3/20/2025   |   Inventor(s): Delia Milliron, Gary Ong, Camila Saez Cabezas, Hsin-Che Lu
Keywords(s): Environmental, Renewable, Smart glass
Category(s): Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
Low-cost photothermal composites for solar-assisted desalinization and oil-spill cleanup
Problem Current methods for water decontamination and desalination of ocean water to provide clean drinking water are time consuming and expensive. The materials that have previously been reported for these functions are difficult and expensive to synthesize. Additionally, these materials usually have drastic limitations such as being mechanically...
Published: 12/11/2023   |   Inventor(s): Donglei Fan, Weigu Li
Keywords(s): Decontamination, Desalinization, Water collection, Water purification
Category(s): Physical sciences > Materials, Physical sciences > Energy > Renewable, green, or transitional energy
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