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Highly Sensitive 3D Sensors for Prevention of Hypocalcemia in Dairy Cows
Challenge
Hypocalcemia, colloquially known as Milk Fever, is a common metabolic disorder caused by severe calcium deficiency most prevalent in dairy cows. This disorder has clinical and subclinical levels of severity, the latter often going undetected due to lack of symptoms. Without treatment, up to 60-80% of cases result in death. Further, milk fever...
Published: 6/4/2025
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Updated: 5/28/2025
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Inventor(s): Azahar Ali, Matin Ataei Kachouei
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Biotechnology, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Veterinary Technologies
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Model Predictive Control in Laser 3D Printing
THE CHALLENGE
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) manufacturing faces significant challenges due to its traditional reliance on empirically optimized, constant processing parameters that do not adequately address layerâwise variations in thermal history, leading to inconsistent microstructures, porosity, poor surface finishes, and geometric distortions....
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Alexander Riensche, Prahalada Rao, Kevin Cole
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Additive Manufacturing, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Transparent NanoplasmonicMeshes for
Bio-interfaced Multimodal Biochemical Sensing
THE CHALLENGE
For multicellular systems such as microbial biofilms and tumors it is essential to capture the holistic system-level spatiotemporal picture. This allows for the understanding of complex and dynamically evolving biological activities to determine effective therapeutic intervention methods. Currently, standard bioanalysis methods do not...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Aditya Garg, Wei Zhou, Elieser Mejia
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Biotechnology
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Recovering Critical Elements from Acid Mine Drainage
THE CHALLENGE
The demand for certain elements, such as Manganese (Mn), Cobalt (Co), and Nickel (Ni), has surged in recent years due to the rapid growth of battery production for electric vehicles and utility-scale energy storage. The United States government has deemed Co, Ni, and Mn critical elements, primarily because of the country’s high...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Wencai Zhang, Qi Li, Rick Honaker
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Mining and Recycling, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials
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Multiresonant Plasmonic Meshes for Bio-interfaced
Sensing and Actuation
THE CHALLENGE
Mesh plasmonic devices have the potential to combine the biocompatibility of polymeric meshes with the capabilities of plasmonic nanostructures to enhance nanoscale light-matter interactions for bio-interfaced optical sensing and actuation. However, scalable integration of uniformly structured plasmonic hotspot arrays with polymeric meshes...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Aditya Garg, Wei Zhou, Peter Vikesland
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Biotechnology, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials
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Smart Work Zone System
THE CHALLENGE
Roadside work zones present imminent safety hazards for roadway workers as well as passing motorists. In 2016, 764 fatalities occurred in work zones in the United States due to motor vehicle traffic crashes, and in 2017, a work zone crash occurred once every 5.4 minutes in the U.S., adding up to almost 100,000 work zone crashes, a 7.8%...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Mollenhauer, Jean Talledo Vilela, Elizabeth White, Christopher Cox, Nazila Roofigari-Esfahan, Sidhant Singhal
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Transportation
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Enhancing Phosphate-Use Efficiency
THE CHALLENGE
Mineable Phosphorus, while essential for maintaining food security worldwide, is becoming increasingly scarce as the global population increases. Furthermore, this nonrenewable resource is inefficiently allocated in urban and agricultural areas and detrimentally impact the environment. Wastewater treatment and overfertilization lead to...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Glenda Gillaspy, Catherine Freed, Sarah Williams, Zhiwu Wang
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Environment/Green Tech
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Planar Bridging-Droplet Thermal Diodes
THE CHALLENGE
Thermal diodes preferentially conduct heat in one direction but insulate in the reverse direction. They are of immense practical interest for smart thermal management of aircraft, electronics, and buildings. However, real-life implementation has been constrained by poor effectiveness (solid-state diodes), dependence on a gravitational...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Jonathan Boreyko, Mojtaba Edalatpour, Kevin Murphy, Ranit Mukherjee
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Aerospace, Technology Classifications > Transportation, Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Residual Glioblastoma and Glioma Cell Capture
THE CHALLENGE
Physical removal of tumors in most cases cannot eradicate all the cancerous cells in the affected area. The cells that are left behind are known as residual tumor cells due to their inability to be removed. Some of these residual cells are also resistant to chemotherapy which make them particularly threatening as this is the primary method...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Zerin Khan, Scott Verbridge, Timothy Long, Eli Vlaisavljevich
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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New Carbon Dioxide Absorbent Material
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THE CHALLENGE
Concerns of global warming have been growing over the last decade. One of the driving forces of these concerns is the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It allows more heat into the atmosphere than most other particles while also remaining in the atmosphere for a very long time. Due to this, methods for absorbing and utilizing...
Published: 5/21/2025
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Updated: 5/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Amanda Morris, Jie Zhu
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Environment/Green Tech
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