by | Oct 22, 2019 | Agonafer, Damena, Ma, Binjian, Shan, Li
— Technology Description
Engineers in Prof. Damena Agonafer’s laboratory have developed a highly-efficient, compact, modular evaporative cooling platform with materials and nanostructured geometries designed to greatly enhance thermal management of 3D integrated circuits, power converters and …
by | Jan 23, 2019 | Hayes, Sophia, Mui, Stacy, Ramaswamy, Kannan
— Background: The idea of creating clean, sustainable power in high amounts from renewable energy sources is an interest among many across the globe. One of the many ways of creating renewable energy is applying the photovoltaic effect, the conversion of solar to electrical energy, by using semiconduc…
by | Aug 17, 2018 | Atlas, Gal, Axelbaum, Richard, Elhassid, Dror, Lengyel, Miklos
— Background
Material morphology and composition are critical for production of Li+ ion battery cathodes, and there is a need for improved synthesis methods that yield high quality materials through cost effective, green, scalable processes. Further, there is often a need to dope materials during syn…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Goodenough, Ursula, Goodson, Carrie
— There is currently keen interest in cultivating eukaryotic algae as sources of triacylglycerides (TAGs) to be converted into diesel and jet transportation fuel. Recent studies from numerous labs have shown that when stressed by nitrogen (N)-starvation, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii produce TAGs that ca…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Axelbaum, Richard, Dhungel, Bhupesh, Gopan, Akshay, Kumfer, Benjamin, Xia, Fei
— Technology Description: Washington University in St. Louis researchers have developed new technology for clean coal combustion. The Staged Pressurized Oxy-Combustion (SPOC) system, pioneered by researchers at Dr Axelbaum’s Laboratory for Advanced Combustion & Energy Research, provides a pa…