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A nitrogenase-like enzyme system that catalyzes methionine, ethylene, and methane biogenesis
TS-064265 —
In industrial settings, the demand for safe and efficient methods of producing ethylene, ethane, and methane is paramount. Existing ethylene production processes often involve oxygen-dependent enzymes, resulting in a flammable ethylene-oxygen gas mixture. Moreover, methane and ethane, when mixed w…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: North, Justin; Murali, Srividya; Tabita, Fred (Bob) "Bob"; Young, Sarah
- Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher
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
Introducing Next-Gen Solid-State Electrolytes: Revolutionizing Energy Storage
TS-062369 — The Need: In the pursuit of large-scale energy storage solutions, potassium batteries with organic liquid electrolytes have emerged as promising candidates. However, the use of liquid electrolytes presents challenges such as dendritic metal plating and oxygen/sulfur crossover from the cathode. To ov…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Wu, Yiying; Zheng, Jingfeng
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Porous inorganic-organic material for removal of trace carbon dioxide from air or other gas streams
TS-059305 — A novel method in which nucleophilic transition metal hydroxide groups are generated at the internal pore surfaces of MOFs to facilitate selective gas-phase CO2 fixation at low pressures via formation of metal bicarbonate species.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous polymers constructed by self-assembly of organic and inorganic components. They have been extensively studied for gas storage and separation applications, and post-combustion CO2 capture under flue gas conditions has been a particularly intense area of st…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Wade, Casey; Bien, Caitlin; Cai, Zhongzheng
- Licensing Officer: Sita, Cordellia
Redox Relay Flow Batteries: hybrid systems for scalable, high-capacity batteries.
TS-050105 — This application relates generally to a novel redox relay flow batteries comprising redox-active solids configured to behave as storage materials and redox-active organic molecules configured to behave as energy shuttles.
The Need
The growing global demand for electrical energy has increased research efforts towards the integration of renewable energy sources into the electrical grid. Generation of energy from petroleum-based sources dominates the current market, but dependence on renewable energy is expected to gro…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Sevov, Christo; Wong, Curt
- Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher
Porous inorganic-organic material for removal of trace carbon dioxide from air or other gas streams
TS-041747 — Adsorbent for carbon dioxide capture with low energy input for regeneration, and high adsorption capacity
46% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions came from electricity and heat production, or from fossil fuels burned for industrial use (EPA). A lot of effort has been put into research on CO2 capture by adsorbents or absorbents, in order to reduce these greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, effec…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Wade, Casey; Bien, Caitlin
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Asymmetric Sulfonamide Salts for High-Voltage Li-ion Batteries
TS-041602 — This two-step method synthesizes novel asymmetric sulfonamide based lithium salts that are highly soluble, resulting in a highly-concentrated electrolyte with a large electrochemical window that significantly suppresses aluminum dissolution even in extreme oxidizing conditions.
The market for electric vehicles is steadily increasing; as it continues to grow one problem consistently holding it back is battery capacity. For this market to expand further, methods for storing large amounts of energy safely and affordably must be developed. One approach is to create more capa…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Wu, Yiying; McCulloch, William
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Ultra-Fast Charging Li-ion Battery Anodes
TS-040614 — A novel battery anode designed to overcome the limitations posed on fast charge batteries by graphite anodes. The new anode increases battery life, is more stable during manufacturing, and has improved heat dissipation qualities.
As technology continues to progress, embedding itself in our daily life from our cars to our wrists, an ever-present concern is the need for batteries with the ability to re-charge quickly. Most of these emerging technologies use Li-ion batteries with graphite anodes. Unfortunately, under fast cha…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Co, Anne; Bascaran, Julen
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Electrolyte to Enable Reversible Dendrite-Free Potassium Plating and Stripping for Potassium Secondary Batteries
TS-037854 — A novel electrolyte to prevent dendrite growth in potassium air batteries.
The Need
Potassium-air batteries have recently emerged as alternative energy storage devices beyond lithium-ion batteries. However, potassium metal anodes suffer from poor reversibility during plating and stripping processes due to their high reactivity and unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SE…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Wu, Yiying; McCulloch, William; Xiao, Neng
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
CO2 Reduction to Acetate on Mixed Metal Oxide Catalyst
TS-037385 — A process for photoelectrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to acetate using mixed metal oxide as catalysts
The combustion of fossil fuels produces billions of tons of carbon dioxide annually. Research indicates that greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has altered Earth's climate, changed the pH of the ocean, and causing other potentially damaging evironmental effects. Countri…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Baker, Lawrence "Robert"; Yang, Xin
- Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher
