Two‑Reactor Chemical Looping for High‑Yield, Low‑Carbon Hydrogen Production
TS-073219 —
Global demand for low‑carbon hydrogen is rising, yet current methods carry efficiency penalties, complex gas clean‑up, and cost and footprint burdens. These drawbacks are amplified when upgrading dilute or variable‑quality feedstocks such as biogas and waste‑derived fuels. Industry needs a…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Fan, Liang-Shih; Zhang, Qiaochu
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Next-Gen InGaN Quantum Wells for High-Efficiency Amber LEDs
TS-071961 — The Need
Despite near-perfect external quantum efficiency in blue InGaN LEDs, devices emitting green, amber, and longer visible wavelengths remain inefficient. This is due to internal electric fields and charge separation in conventional quantum wells, which worsen with higher indium content and wid…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhao, Hongping; Zhang, Kaitian
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Impact-Activated Ink Release for Advanced Inkjet Printing using Liquid Crystal Substrates
TS-071744 — The Need
Current inkjet printing technologies are limited by the need for inks with specific viscosity and ejection properties, which restricts the range of printable materials and compromises print resolution due to droplet splashing. There is a significant need for a printing method that enables…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Wang, Xiaoguang "William"; Zhang, Meng
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Vectorized Channel Estimation and SINR Optimization for Ultra-Wideband Communications
TS-070631 — The Need
Ultra-wideband communication systems, including mmWave and optical wireless networks, demand highly accurate and low-latency channel estimation to maintain throughput and reliability. Existing methods, such as hybrid correlation and least squares estimators, suffer from high computational c…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Cai, Jian-Feng; Mao, Chongchang; Xian, Poline Y.; Xue, Ye; Zhang, Haiming
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Intermediate Steel Alloy for Joining Steel to Aluminum
TS-069805 — The Need
Welding or bonding steel to aluminum is challenging due to the formation of brittle Fe-Al intermetallic compounds, which weaken the joints. Current methods require alternative, costly joining processes. There is a critical need for a solution that allows the use of traditional welding tech…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhang, Wei; Walker, Luke
- Licensing Officer: Sharick, Joe
Metal nitric oxides redox flow batteries
TS-066016 — The Need
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) offer a promising solution for storing intermittent renewable energy in the electrical grid. However, their reliance on finite and unsustainable transition metals, such as vanadium, poses significant sustainability challenges. The rising costs and environmental …
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Zhang, Shiyu; Park, Jaehyun
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Aqueous Zn-Tetrazine Batteries
TS-064150 — The Need
As the global demand for energy storage devices continues to surge, the limitations of conventional lithium-ion batteries become increasingly evident. Dwindling lithium reserves are unable to meet the burgeoning needs of modern society, necessitating the exploration of alternative solution…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Zhang, Shiyu; Walter, Christopher
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Metal Matrix Composites Reinforced by High Entropy Alloys
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In the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries, there is a pressing demand for advanced materials that combine low weight, high strength, exceptional wear resistance, and superior high-temperature performance. Traditional methods using ceramic particles as reinforcements in aluminum matrix c…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Luo, Alan; Huang, Xuejun; Zhang, Jianyue
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Protecting Bluetooth Low Energy from Address Tracking When Using Whitelisting
TS-052807 —
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is ubiquitous today due to its extremely low energy consumption and relatively large communication coverage. However, the devices communicated through Bluetooth are subject to address tracking attacks, where a nearby attacker can associate Bluetooth addresses to particul…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Lin, Zhiqiang; Zhang, Yue
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Method to enhance light extraction efficiency in tunnel-injected III-Nitrate ultraviolet LEDs
TS-037365 — A novel method to enhance the transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic polarized light via relfective surfaces on top of a tunnel junction based LED structure.
III-Nitride ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs) have a variety of promising applications, including sterilization and water purification. Currently, UV LEDs use an absorbing p-GaN top layer for hole injection, which reduces light extraction efficiency to lower than 20%. UV light emissions …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Rajan, Siddharth; Akyol, Faith; Jamal-Eddine, Zane; Zhang, Yuewei
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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