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Transient Thermal Barcode
An automated recycling system to identify and sort the six most common types of recyclable plastics at the selectivity, sensitivity, and throughput rate needed for commercial materials recycling facilities. Background: Plastic pollution is one of the most profound environmental issues faced, as plastic production has increased from 2.3 million tons...
Published: 7/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Patatri Chakraborty, Thomas Thundat, Yaoli Zhao, Amit Goyal
Keywords(s): Diagnostic, Featured, Instrumentation, Mechanical, Robotics, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Environment
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
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Additive Manufacturing, Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials, Technology Classifications > Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Mechanical Energy Harvesting and Storage Device
An apparatus and method for harvesting mechanical energy, such as environmental vibrations, and both converting and storing said energy into direct current (DC) electricity. Background: The growing demand for powering wireless sensor networks, wearable devices and the like has led to increased interest in mechanical energy harvesting and storage...
Published: 8/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Jun Liu, Thomas Thundat, Kun-Hung Tsai
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Clean Energy, Campus > University at Buffalo