Magnet/Piezo-free Metamaterial with Temporally Varying Elastic Properties
A metamaterial which allows acoustic waves to pass in one direction only.
Background:
Diodes allow electrical current to pass in one direction only which makes them fundamental to modern electronics. Unfortunately, an equivalent device does not exist for electromagnetic and acoustic waves. These waves are reciprocal, traveling equally well in...
Published: 3/11/2024
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Inventor(s): Mostafa Nouh, Mohammad Ali Attarzadeh, Jesse Callanan
Keywords(s): Featured, General Engineering, Mechanical, Sensors, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Campus > University at Buffalo
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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: 3/8/2024
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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
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High-Performance Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries using MoS2/MXene/CNT
A MoS2/MXene/CNT anode for high-capacity Li-ion batteries with improved low temperature operation.
Background:
Extremely high energy density batteries are needed for underwater electric ships such as unmanned submarines and naval observatories. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the most widely used battery system in portable electronics...
Published: 4/18/2024
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Inventor(s): Fei Yao, Huamin Li
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Clean Energy, Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Nature-inspired Functionally-graded UHMWPE + Kevlar Composites Achieve Extraordinarily High Strength
Nature-inspired polymers are achieved using unique processing to yield functional gradient composites with embedded Kevlar fibers exhibiting extraordinarily high strength lightweight UHMWPE materials.
Background:
Demand for new energy absorption materials and implantable polymeric biomaterials has increased significantly in recent years. The...
Published: 2/2/2024
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Inventor(s): Shenqiang Ren, Lu An
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Technology Classifications > Engineering
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3D Printing Structural Strength Optimization
Method for optimizing the design of lightweight, high-strength parts with reduced material costs and increased heat dissipation.
Background:
Additive manufacturing (3D printing) provides increased design and production flexibility. Leveraging that capability, University at Buffalo (UB) researchers have developed an optimization system for designing...
Published: 3/22/2024
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Inventor(s): Rahul Rai, Jun Wang
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Materials and Chemicals
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Robotic Gripper with Variable Stiffness Actuators
A robotic gripper with variable stiffness actuators improves the safety and robustness of the grasp and enhances dynamic manipulation.
Background:
The reliable grasping and handling of objects is essential to industrial and service robots for physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). Moreover, safety becomes an important issue when a robot needs...
Published: 3/22/2024
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Inventor(s): Ehsan Esfahani, Amirhossein Hajiagha Memar
Keywords(s): Assistive Technology, Robotics, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Assistive Technology, Technology Classifications > Healthcare, Campus > University at Buffalo
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Radar Doppler Detecting Good Codes for Improved Signal Accuracy
A method improving the handling of Doppler shifts allowing radar systems to accurately detect and track objects.
Background:
The world does not stand still for us to measure it. It’s a dynamic place and radar needs to measure objects in motion. Good radar codes maintain strong mainlobe signals and small sidelobes in the presence of Doppler...
Published: 2/2/2024
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Inventor(s): Adly Fam, Alexander Byrley
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Sensors, Campus > University at Buffalo
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Traveling Wave Actuators for Flow Control
A piezoelectric actuator surface that generates traveling waves for active flow control has been developed and can be used to remove, reduce, or control flow separation.
Background:
Flow separation is typically associated with significant energy loss in engineering applications. For example, flow separation decreases lift and increases drag...
Published: 3/22/2024
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Inventor(s): M. Amin Karami, Iman Borazjani (non-RF)
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Energy Conservation
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Non-Volatile Latch Using Magneto-Electric and Ferro-Electric Tunnel Junctions
A non-volatile memory circuit includes an SRAM cell with magnetoelectric or ferroelectric structures for maintaining data within the SRAM cell even with power off in some implementations.
Two memory structures under development in the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) show promise for low...
Published: 3/21/2024
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Inventor(s): Jonathan Bird, Uttam Singisetti, Andrew Marshall
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Campus > University at Buffalo
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Colloidal Nanocrystals with Excellent Thermal and High-Flux Stability
Novel LED nanocrystal demonstrates both temperature (at least up to 150°C) and high-flux (at least up to 20kW/cm2 of cw-excitation) stable quantum efficiencies.
Solid-state lighting (SSL) has the potential to revolutionize the lighting industry. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)--traditionally used in signs, signals and displays--are rapidly evolving...
Published: 3/26/2024
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Inventor(s): Keith Kahen
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Campus > University at Buffalo
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