by | Oct 22, 2019 | Cupps, Brian, Pasque, Michael
— Background: Assessing left ventricle (LV) cardiac contractile function is a good indicator of overall heart health and is used to determine which patients are good candidates for revascularization surgery. With over 3 million new coronary artery disease patients annually and over 1 million annual re…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Mutic, Sasa, Zhao, Tianyu
— Background: High precision and accuracy is critically needed for the use of radiation treatment and diagnostic imaging (magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography, X-ray, positron emission tomography); each of these modalities uses the standard flat couch to manipulate the patient during pr…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Parrondo, Javier, Ramani, Vijay, Wang, Zhongyang
— Background: Anion exchange membranes (AEMs) are used as separators in redox flow batteries, water electrolyzers, water desalination systems, fuel cells, and other electrochemical devices. Current AEMs suffer from issues with cost, poor stability and low perm selectivity. For example, current redox flow batteries are not economical or suffer from capacity loss upon cycling due to cross species contamination while using less expensive decoupled chemistries.
An advanced, tunable AEM has been developed with dramatically reduced cost and improved performance relative to industry leading AEMs. High ionic conductivity, chemical stability and enhanced mechanical performance have been shown. The technology includes tunable membrane compositions, mechanical re…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Xiao, Yi, Zhang, Fuzhong
— Researchers in Prof. Fuzhong Zhang’s laboratory have developed a simple, scalable, broadly-applicable system to enhance fermentation efficiency for biosynthetic production of biofuels, pharmaceuticals, materials and other useful chemicals. Currently, biosynthetic pathways have enabled renewabl…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Zhang, Tiezhi
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About 70 million computed tomography (CT) scans are performed in the United State alone each year. Traditional helical scanners use a single point x-ray source that rotates around the patient, acquiring images in sequential slices, which results in high quality images. But these helical scanners a…