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Metal Organic Frameworks for Scintillation Detection of Low Energy Radionuclides

Scintillating metal-organic framework (MOF) particles provide enhanced and robust low-energy β emission sensing in aqueous systems. In addition to being stable and dispersive in aqueous solutions, the scintillating -MOFs are stable and functional in a wide range of organic and aqueous-organic systems and uniquely allow control of excitonic transport...

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): Craig Aspinwall, Chen-Yi Ke, Minhui Han, Brian Zacher

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Materials > Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Screening assays, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Reagents, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices > Diagnostic

"Stick and Peel" Probe Properties of Perovskite Material Properties for Manufacturing Scale-Up and Quality Control

A “stick and peel” removable electrochemical probe is used for solvent-free characterization of semiconductor films or optoelectronic devices. The invention may be used to analyze electronic materials such as a metal halide perovskite, an organic semiconductor, a nanocrystalline (quantum dot) thin film, metal oxides, a material blend or...

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): Michel De Keersmaecker, Erin Ratcliff, Neal Armstrong

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Sugar-Based Low Molecular Weight Hydrogels from Alkyl Glycolipids

University of Arizona researchers have created sugar-based low molecular weight hydrogels that spontaneously self-assemble through weak, noncovalent intermolecular interactions. These gels are thixotropic, biocompatible, and biodegradable. Despite being held together through non-covalent interactions, these hydrogels exhibit greater mechanical strength...

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): Jeanne Pemberton, Laurel Kegel, Yu-Cheng Wang

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Photochemically Stable, Non-Leaching, Bridged Polysilsesquioxane Based Sunscreens

This technology is a non-toxic, long-lasting sun protection based on nanoparticles of bridged polysilsesquioxanes. Background: UV radiation (100 – 400 nm) represents ~10% of electromagnetic radiation (sunlight) that reaches the Earth's surface, and can be separated into three main types: UVC (100 – 290 nm), which has the shortest...

Published: 8/1/2024 | Inventor(s): Douglas Loy, Stephanie Tolbert

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Healthcare Portfolios > Dermatology, Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers

High Verdet Constant Polymer Magnetic Nanoparticle Materials for Magneto-Optic Devices

University of Arizona researchers have developed high Verdet constant thin films using polymer-nanoparticle composite material. The invention provides for uniform distribution of nanoparticles in a polymer matrix. The resulting inexpensive material possesses very high Verdet constants, exceeding one million / T-m. This material enables replacement of...

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Kyle Carothers, Lindsey Holmen, Tobias Kochenderfer, Nicholas Lyons

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Optical, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices, Technology Classifications > Materials > Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers

Packed Bed Scintillation Particles for Radioisotope Detection and Separations

University of Arizona researchers have developed hydrophilic scintillation microparticles made with polystyrene cores, doped with a scintillator material, and encapsulated with a thin silica coating. The resulting microparticles are hydrophilic and can be easily surface modified to provide a variety of purposes in radioisotope activity detection, such...

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): Craig Aspinwall, Minhui Han, Colleen Janczak

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Microfluidics, Technology Classifications > Materials > Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Protein, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Screening assays, Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls > Particle & Radiation

Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Devices

This technology enables nonvolatile, reversible control of magnetic anisotropy through voltage induced reversible oxidation. Non-exclusive licenses are available to the resulting US Patent 9,779,865. Background: Using magnetic fields and spin-polarized currents have proven inefficient methods to control the magnetic properties of solids....

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): Weigang Wang, Chong Bi

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Materials > Processing

High Verdet Constant Polymer-Magnetic Nanoparticle Materials for Magneto-Optic Devices

Polymer-nanoparticle composite materials exhibit much higher Verdet constant performance than the currently-used inorganic metal oxide materials commonly referred to as "garnets," such as terbium gallium garnet (TGG). While TGG has a Verdet constant of around 2000-3000 degrees/Tesla meter, the inventive materials have achieved a Verdet constant...

Published: 6/20/2024 | Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers

Tunability of the Phase in Quantum-Like Mechanical Elastic Systems

This technology is an approach that gives the user the ability to tune phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials to have specific quantum computing properties. Background: Metamaterials, artificially fabricated materials in which small structures can be arranged within a material in order, can give said material new properties that are not inherent...

Published: 8/1/2024 | Inventor(s): Pierre Deymier, Keith Runge

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Quantum

Phase Change Nanodroplet - Liposome Conjugates for Enhanced Drug Delivery

This technology utilizes phase-change nanodroplet-liposome conjugates to achieve targeted drug delivery of oncology therapeutics. The technology uses ultrasound to convert the nanodroplet into a gas, whereby this cavitation of the nanoparticles cases stress on the tight junction areas of the brain. The cavitation will temporarily make the blood-brain...

Published: 4/3/2023 | Inventor(s): Theodore Trouard, Terry Matsunaga, Marek Romanowski

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Drug Delivery, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Therapeutics, Technology Classifications > Materials > Nanomaterials, Technology Classifications > Healthcare Portfolios > Oncology

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