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New Nano-Composite Materials for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Reference Number: U-4646 Invention Description: Recently, organic solar cells are viewed as important alternative in the search for cost effective alternative energy sources. Current inorganic solar cells are efficient, but are very expensive to manufacture. On the other hand organic based solar cells are significantly cheaper and easier t...

Published: August 12, 2010 | Inventor(s): Ling Zang

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Energy and Fuels, Environmental, Materials and Mining

Category(s): Energy and Fuels

A New Architecture of Materials for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Reference Number: U-4647 Invention Description: In the past several years, organic based solar cells have attracted a lot of attention and are expected to become a promising source for clean and renewable energy production. Organic based solar cells have high potential to become competitive against inorganic solar cells by reducing the cos...

Published: August 12, 2010 | Inventor(s): Ling Zang

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Energy and Fuels, Environmental, Materials and Mining

Category(s): Energy and Fuels

Adenosine Derivatives in Synthetic Oligonucleotides that Modulate RNA Interference Activity and Off-Target Effects

Reference Number: U-4831 Invention Description: Chemically modified RNAs are of great interest in studying the RNA interference pathway. This technology is focused on the chemical modification of nucleoside analogs, such as adenosine, as an approach to study RNA interference and off-target effects. For example, a series of modified adenos...

Published: March 31, 2010 | Inventor(s): Cynthia Burrows

Keywords(s): Nucleic Acid Diagnostics, Chemicals, Research Tools

Category(s): Chemicals

Surface Modified Nanoporous Substrate for High Sensitivity and High Density Microspot

Reference Number: U-4464 Invention Description: Current microarray systems have various disadvantages such as expensive instrumentation, low efficiency, sensitivity and binding. This technology is focused on addressing these issues by using a Continuous Flow Microspotter (CFM) system to spot various biomolecules on a nanoporous substrate...

Published: February 05, 2010 | Inventor(s): Bruce Gale

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Medical Devices, Non-Cancer Disease Diagnostics, Research Tools

Category(s): Research tools

A General Catalyst for the Conversion of Terminal Alkenes to Methyl Ketones

Reference Number: U-4669 Invention Description: This technology describes an improved, highly selective and efficient method for the palladium-catalyzed Wacker oxidation of diverse substrates. The key component of the new catalytic system is Quinox ligand. This ligand is easily prepared in two steps and structurally unique leading to a hig...

Published: September 25, 2009 | Inventor(s): Matthew Sigman

Keywords(s): Chemicals

Category(s): Chemicals

Ultra Small Synthetic Ferrihydrite Based Catalysts with Promoter Metals for Fisher Tropsch Synthesis of Alternative Fuels

Reference Number: U-4719 Invention Description: This technology describes the synthesis of ferrihydrite, iron based catalyst, for the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis. Ferrihydrites are found in nature and are well known precursors to various iron oxides. In this technology, 2-line ferrihydrite catalysts have been synthesized and characteriz...

Published: September 25, 2009 | Inventor(s): Edward Eyring, Richard Ernst

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Nanotechnology, Energy and Fuels

Category(s): Energy and Fuels

Synthesis and Use of Novel Xylosides

Reference Number: U-4173 Invention Description: Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) play a vital role in various pathophysiological functions such as wound healing, cell signaling, blood clotting etc. It is still unknown, which are the important factors that regulate the mechanism and biosynthesis of GAGs. Consequently, there is a great need for a s...

Published: July 21, 2009 | Inventor(s):

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Non-Cancer Disease Therapeutics, Non-Cancer Disease Diagnostics, Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment

Category(s): Non-cancer disease therapeutics

Synthesis of Nearly Monodisperse, Organically-Capped Metal Nanoparticles

Reference Number: U-4592 Invention Description: The Brust two-phase method and its various modifications have been commonly used to synthesize small size nearly monodisperse metal nanoparticles. Although these methods have shown great success in synthetic applications, a phase transfer agent is required, which introduces impurities in the...

Published: May 28, 2009 | Inventor(s): Jennifer Shumaker-Parry

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Materials and Mining, Nanotechnology

Category(s): Nanotechnology

Modified Guanine Bases for Controlling Off-Target Effects in RNA Interference

Reference Number: U-4599 Invention Description: Chemically modified RNA oligonucleotides are viewed as one of the approaches to eliminate or significantly reduce the non-productive binding of proteins that do not participate in the RNA interference pathway along with the possible immune response pathway that can result in the detrimental e...

Published: May 28, 2009 | Inventor(s): Cynthia Burrows

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Nucleic Acid Diagnostics, Research Tools

Category(s): Chemicals

A New Method for the Synthesis of Fine, Nanosized Ceramic Powders

Invention Summary The market for nanosize powders is large and diverse, ranging from environmental cleanup to chemical and petroleum industries. The conventional methods for molecular synthesis face two specific problems. First, the formation of fine uniform size particles. This requires a good control over the nucleation and the growth of particle...

Published: March 03, 2009 | Inventor(s):

Keywords(s): Chemicals, Nanotechnology, Environmental, Materials and Mining

Category(s): Materials and Mining

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