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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, Physical sciences > Green tech, Physical sciences > Environment, Life sciences > Agriculture
DNA Nanocaged Enzymes
Compartmentalization increases the overall activity and specificity of encapsulated enzymes by protecting the enzymes, maintaining a high concentration of enzymes and substrates, and promoting substrate channeling. While there have been artificial enzymatic particles that have been created using compartmentalization by virus-like proteins, liposomes,...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Jinglin Fu, Hao Yan, Neal Woodbury, Zhao Zhao
Keywords(s): Bioanalysis, Catalysis, Enzymes
Category(s): Advanced Materials/Nanotechnology, Bioanalytical Assays, Chemistries & Devices, Life Science (All LS Techs), Medical Diagnostics/Sensors
Microencapsulation of Chemical Additives
There is a need for a new process for encapsulating complex chemical additives, where microcapsules can give strong performance under hostile chemical and mechanical conditions. While microencapsulation technique is a mature technology, microcapsule products made by traditional techniques may work well only in relatively simple, passive and non-hostile...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Stephen Hsu, Fei Zhao
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials
Novel Class of Materials for Boron Extraction
Project ID: D2009-11 Background Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) has gained widespread acceptance and use in laboratories due to the fact that it is a solvent-less extraction technique, its mode of operation is relatively simple, easy to automate, and sampling and sample preparation are combined into one step. Until now, methods that coat SPME...
Published: 5/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Jared Anderson, Fei Zhao, Yunjing Meng
Keywords(s): Boron, Extraction, Ionic Liquids, Purification, Separation membranes
Category(s): Coatings, Polymers, Materials
Cost- and Energy-Efficient Device for De-watering Microalgae Using Stimuli-Sensitive Hydrogels
Project ID: D2016-01 IP Status: US Patent 10,077,422 Invention Description: Currently, a major hurdle for commercial-scale production of fuels and other products from microalgae is recovering algal biomass from growth media with minimal cost and energy input. When cultivated in open raceway ponds, microalgae concentrations are very low – typically...
Published: 5/31/2024   |   Inventor(s): Sridhar Viamajala, Sasidhar Varanasi, Agasteswar Vadlamani, Xiaofei Zhao
Keywords(s): Algae, Biomass, Concentrate, Dewater, Microalgae
Category(s): Manufacturing, Biomass Conversion & Recycling
Introductory Business Chinese
Description of TechnologyIntroductory Business Chinese is intended mainly for use by those who have little or no knowledge of the Chinese language but who, for any number of different reasons, wish to learn more about business and economics in the Chinese environment. The primary intended audiences are (1) business professionals who deal with Chinese...
Published: 6/8/2021   |   Inventor(s): Patricia Paulsell, Fei Fei
Keywords(s): Chinese Language, Chinese Language Instruction, Software
Category(s): Computer Software