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Revolutionizing Hydrogen Production and CO2 Capture for a Sustainable Future
TS-065143 — The Need: In the face of pressing environmental concerns and the imperative for sustainable energy solutions, there arises a critical commercial need for systems and methods that can efficiently produce hydrogen (H2) while simultaneously capturing and converting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Trad…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Baker, Lawrence "Robert"
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Catalysts for Sustainable Hydrofunctionalization Reactions
TS-064828 — The Need: Transition metal-catalyzed hydroelementation reactions address a critical demand in various industries by facilitating the addition of H-E (E = H, Si, B) across C-C double bonds. These reactions are vital in the chemical sector, particularly in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, agrochemic…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Thomas, Christine; Fitzsimmons, Matthew
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

Metalloproteins as a tunable scaffold for constructing quantum bits and dits for use in quantum information storage and processing
TS-064827 — The Need: As the second quantum revolution progresses, the demand for robust quantum materials intensifies, particularly in the realm of quantum computation and information processing. Addressing the challenges of coherence and stability in qubits is crucial for advancing quantum technology towards …
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Shafaat, Hannah "Hannah"; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel; Teptarakulkarn, Pathorn
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

Revolutionizing Pharmaceutical Synthesis: Advancements in Metal-Catalyzed Coupling Technology
TS-064824 — The Need In the pharmaceutical industry, the synthesis of complex organic substrates is crucial for the development of life-saving medications. However, traditional metal-catalyzed coupling reactions often face significant challenges when applied to these complex substrates, leading to high failure…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Sevov, Christo; Dinh, Long; Hamby, Taylor; Starbuck, Hunter
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Electrocatalytic grafting and modification of polyvinylchlorides and chloroparaffins
TS-064268 — Polyvinylchloride (PVC) is a widely used plastic, but its inherent limitations—brittleness, thermal instability, and poor shear strength—pose significant challenges for diverse applications, from medical packaging to construction. Conventional PVC modification relies on high loadings o…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Sevov, Christo; Truesdell, Blaise
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Laminate of Organic Magnets
TS-062304 — The Need In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, there is a pressing need for advancements in spintronics and magnetic devices. Traditional semiconductor-based devices have limitations in terms of size, power consumption, and switching speed. To overcome these challenges and usher …
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Epstein, Arthur; Kao, Chi-Yueh; Min, Yong Gang
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

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: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

Transition Metal Free Alkyne Hydrogenation and Semihydrogenation Catalysts
TS-058577 — Novel, transition metal-free catalysts capable of alkyne hydrogenation and semihydrogenation under modest conditions.
The Need Numerous industrial processes require alkyne semihydrogenation or hydrogenation reactions. For example, hydrogenation is necessary for the industrial-scale synthesis vitamin A, the creation of high molecular weight polymers, and the processing of petroleum into functionally useful derivati…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Goldberger, Joshua; Hodge, Kelsey
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Development of a Single Component Methacrylate Adhesive Formulation
TS-042066 — A novel hybrid adhesive that combines the non-toxic, high strength properties of methacrylate adhesives with the bonding characteristics of polyurethanes
Despite the utility of methacrylate adhesive chemistry, applications have been limited to industrial and biomedical use cases. This is due to the curing mechanism, which is initiated by either heat, light or a two-component redox system. This invention describes two strategies to create a single-c…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Parquette, Jonathan; Schricker, Scott
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

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

Alkyne Semihydrogenation Catalysts with High Z/E Selectivity from Hydrogen-Adsorbing Intermetallic Zintl Phases
TS-039012 — Heterogeneous hydrogenation reactions are important industrial reactions, specifically the semi hydrogenation of triple C bonds to double C bonds. The standard catalyst, known as a Lindlar catalyst, that is used for this reaction is palladium nanoparticles on a CaCO3 substrate, poisoned with lead …
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Goldberger, Joshua
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Development of Non-Foaming High Strength, Single Component Methacrylate/Polyurethane Adhesive
TS-037956 — A single component, moisture-cured methacrylate/polyurethane hybrid adhesive that combines the non-toxic, high strength properties of methacrylate adhesives with the bonding characteristics of polyurethanes
Methacrylate adhesives are strong and can be used on similar or dissimilar materials, such as plastic, metal, composites, and ceramic. They have excellent peel strength, resist abrasion, and stand up to a fair range of temperatures. They also require little preparation of the surfaces to be bonded…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Parquette, Jonathan; Bewick, Nicholas; Schricker, Scott
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

High Surface Area Catalysts for Fuel Cells
TS-014755 — A high performance and durable reductive catalyst for polymer and metal-air fuel cells
Fuel cells offer a cleaner, more-efficient alternative to gasoline and other fossil fuels, and have the potential to revolutionize the way the nation is powered. Fuel cells operate in a similar fashion to conventional batteries, but fuel cells can be continually supplied with a fresh feed of fuel,…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Co, Anne; Coleman, Eric
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Butanol Production from Renewable Biomass
TS-014747 — A genetically engineered bacteria pathway directed to selectively generate butanol over competing by-products.
Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) Fermentation is one of two methods to produce butanol from biomass feedstocks. Various active enzymes or acids are exposed to a biomass feedstock and subsequently produce primarily acetone, butanol and ethanol. Previous attempts in the industry to use Clostridium stra…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Yang, Shang-Tian "ST"; Zhao, Jingbo
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

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