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Unmet Need: Use of renewable and nontoxic feedstock for epoxiesCurrently over 90% of commercial epoxy resins are derived from the non-renewable petrochemical bisphenol A (BPA). However, BPA is considered as a suspicious endocrine disrupting chemical and may cause harm to human health. In the recent decade, a variety of biobased epoxies have been developed...

Published: 5/25/2023 | Inventor(s): Jinwen Zhang, Tuan Liu

Keywords(s): bioepoxy, hyperbranched polymer, vegetable oil-based epoxy

Category(s): Technologies > Energy & Environment > Bioproducts, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Chemistry

Enhancing Soil Carbon Sequestration to Address Climate Change and Crop Sustainability Concerns

Unmet Need: Natural Rates of Soil Carbon Sequestration are Insufficient to Address Global Climate Change Concerns and Crop Sustainability Mineral associated carbon is both the most persistent and abundant form of carbon in the global soil carbon pool, estimated at more than 1200 Pg. Despite these large natural mineral associated soil carbon stores...

Published: 5/25/2023 | Inventor(s): Marc Kramer

Keywords(s): Adsorption, Agriculture, Carbon, Climate Change and Variability, Farming and Ranching, Soil to Society

Category(s): Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Additive Manufacturing, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Chemistry, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Bioproducts, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Instrumentation/Equipment

Polyurethane Composition with Enhanced Thermocompression Characteristics

Unmet Need: Challenges recycling and reprocessing polyurethane foams due to their thermoset behaviors Polyurethane foams are thermosets and accordingly, at their useful end of life, it may be challenging to reuse or recycle such polyurethane foams. The reprocessing of polyurethane is usually a slow process, especially for those prepared from petroleum-based...

Published: 5/25/2023 | Inventor(s): Jinwen Zhang, Wangcheng Liu

Keywords(s): foam, polyurethane, vitrimer

Category(s): Technologies > Energy & Environment > Sustainable resources, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials

A Facile, Mild, Fast, Catalyst Free Polylactic Acid (PLA) Degradation Method that Generates a Variety of Valuable Products

Unmet Need: Current Polylactic Acid Recycling Processes are not Optimal, Requiring High Pressures/Temperatures, Long Degradation Times and/or Catalysts Currently, PLA degradation routes are divided into three categories: high temperature hydrolysis, low temperature hydrolysis and alcoholysis. Alcoholysis usually requires transesterification catalysts...

Published: 5/25/2023 | Inventor(s): Jinwen Zhang, Yu-Chung Chang, Lin Shao

Keywords(s): 3D printing, aminolysis, chemcial recycling, polylactic acid, recycling of composites

Category(s): Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Sustainable resources, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Chemistry

Thermoacoustic-catalytic system for cooling and transforming cryogenic hydrogen

Unmet Need: Efficient hydrogen cooling and spin conversion Hydrogen is one of the most promising fuels for the future clean economy, as it does not produce harmful emissions and as a liquid, hydrogen is one of the most energy-dense carriers. However, conventional liquefaction and cooling systems for cryogenic hydrogen involve a number of moving parts...

Published: 4/28/2023 | Inventor(s): Konstantin Matveev, Jacob Leachman

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Category(s): Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Energy, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Sustainable resources

Polyols and Polyurethanes from Lignin

Unmet Need: Successful production of lignin based Polyols Polyurethane (PU) is an important class of thermoset polymer with a $70 bn/year market, providing materials for many applications. PU materials are comprised of an isocyanate and a polyol; both of which are currently obtained from non-renewable petroleum resources, suggesting that the development...

Published: 4/28/2023 | Inventor(s): Xiao Zhang, Udishnu Sanyal

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Category(s): Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech

Recovery of Valuable Bioactive Compounds from Potato Peels

Unmet Need: High-yielding extraction of bioactive compounds without the use of toxic solvents The growing consumption of fresh potatoes in food processing industries has led to a fast-increasing generation of potato peels. More than 1.01 million metric tons of fresh peels were produced in the northwest of the United States in 2011. The lack of efficient...

Published: 6/9/2023 | Inventor(s): Xiangyu Gu, Jose Martinez Fernandez, Shulin Chen

Keywords(s): Bioactive Compounds, Biomass and materials utilization, Liquefaction, Potato Peels, Sustainability

Category(s): Technologies > Food & Nutrition > Agriculture and Plant Sciences, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech

Foamed Drywall Waste Panels (FDWP): A fire-protective insulation technology

Unmet Need: Environmentally friendly fire-protective insulation material Flammable plastic foam insulation (aka Styrofoam) has been under scrutiny in recent building fires. Noncombustible alternatives are costly & produced with carbon-emitting fuels. Concurrently, there is pressure to end landfilling of gypsum drywall waste from building construction...

Published: 4/28/2023 | Inventor(s): David Drake, Taiji Miyasaka

Keywords(s): Building Materials, Clean Tech

Category(s): Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech

A Durable Ni-Sn Aerogel Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) in Water Splitting

Unmet Need: Abundant and low cost catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Accommodating the surplus energy from off-peak hours and intermittent electricity from non-dispatchable renewable energy requires efficient energy storage and conversion devices. One of the most promising solutions is to directly convert electricity into hydrogen fuel via water...

Published: 4/28/2023 | Inventor(s): Yuehe Lin, Dan Du, Hangyu Tian

Keywords(s): Catalysis for Energy, Clean Tech, Water Splitting

Category(s): Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech

High-performance planar solar concentrators based on TiO2 nanoparticle doping

AbstractResearchers at WSU have invented a new conceptual solar concentrator: the light scattering-based solar concentrator (LSSC). This invention is a great enhancement of the photovoltaic (PV) application. Luminescence solar concentrator (LSC), has been considered a viable option to harvest solar energy with minimal environmental impacts. However,...

Published: 4/28/2023 | Inventor(s): Wenji Dong, Yilin Li

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Category(s): Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Chemistry, Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials

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