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Using NDVI/NDRE to Assess Wheat Tiller Density
THE CHALLENGE The core challenge for cereal growers lies in efficiently managing nitrogen applications to maximize yield while minimizing waste and environmental impact. Traditional methods like manual tiller counts and soil testing are not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also fail to capture the full picture of field variability due to...
Published: 7/10/2025   |   Inventor(s): Joseph Oakes, Maria Balota, Wade Thomason, Alexandre-Brice Cazenave
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
Nanoemulsion Technologies
Mason Group Website: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/Mason/BACKGROUNDNanoemulsions are oil-in-water (or vice versa) suspensions of nanoscale droplets that range in size from 15 to 100 nm and have a variety of applications including drug delivery, agriculture, personal care and food products. Nanoemulsions have many advantages over traditional...
Published: 2/14/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason
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Category(s): Chemical > Instrumentation & Analysis, Chemical, Chemical > Emulsions, Chemical > Synthesis, Life Science Research Tools > Microfluidics And Mems, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies, Platforms > Drug Delivery, Platforms > Drug Delivery > Nanoparticles, Chemical > Chemical Processing & Manufacturing, Materials > Nanotechnology
Measuring Size Distributions of Small-Scale Objects
UC Case No. 2013-900Summary Dr. Thomas Mason and colleagues at UCLA have created a kit, method, and algorithm for measuring size distributions and pH-dependent electrophoretic mobility distributions, thereby revealing types of stabilizing surface groups, of dispersions of small-scale colloidal objects, including nanoparticles and nanoemulsions. Background...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Xiaoming Zhu
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Category(s): Materials > Nanotechnology
2007-574 Process for Creating Stable Double Emulsions
SUMMARYUCLA Researchers in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Bioengineering have developed a process for creating double emulsions (droplets within droplets) for applications in pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, cosmetics, and personal care products. By contrast to more common double emulsions that have microscale droplet sizes, UCLA researchers...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Timothy Deming, Connie Wilking, Sara Harvey, Jarrod Hanson
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Category(s): Materials > Functional Materials
2008-625 Process for Recycling Surfactant In Nanoemulsion Production
SUMMARYUCLA researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a novel method to separate and recycle surfactants used in the manufacturing of nanoemulsions.BACKGROUNDNanoemulsions are oil-in-water (or vice versa) suspensions of nanoscale droplets that range in size from 15 to 100 nm, and have applications in drug delivery, as...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason
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Category(s): Chemical > Coatings, Adhesives & Inks
2014-182 Method of Making Multicomponent Nanoemulsions
SUMMARYResearchers from UCLA's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry have developed a novel method of making deformable, multicomponent oil-in-water nanoemulsions to create a single delivery system for multiple drugs or other insoluble molecules. Background A recent analysis estimates that the current cost of developing a new drug is approximately...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Michael Fryd
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Category(s): Chemical, Chemical > Emulsions
SHAPE-CONTROLLED PARTICLES HAVING SUBPARTICLE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES
SHAPE-CONTROLLED PARTICLES HAVING SUBPARTICLE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES UCLA Case No. 2015-375 SUMMARY UCLA researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a photolithographic method for the high-throughput, parallel production of microscale and nanoscale objects with tailored shapes and dimensions using a single photomask. BACKGROUNDThe...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Kenny Mayoral
Keywords(s): MEMS, Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology
Category(s): Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Electrical > Mems, Platforms > Drug Delivery > Nanoparticles
Novel Multi-Scale Pre-Assembled Phases of Matter
UCLA Case No. 2018-362 SUMMARY UCLA researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and Physics have developed a novel method for creating multi-scale pre-assembled phases of matter with customizable symmetries, topologies, and degrees of order and disorder.BACKGROUNDMicroscale and nanoscale structures are important to many applications including biosensors,...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Thomas Mason
Keywords(s): Chemical Manufacturing & Industrial/Bulk Chemicals, Construction Materials, Software & Algorithms, Software Development Tools
Category(s): Software & Algorithms, Chemical > Industrial & Bulk Chemicals