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Hybrid Water and Nutrient Recovery Process

This process is a combination of electrodialysis (ED) and forward osmosis (FO) to recover nutrients and water from wastewater streams. Background The agriculture sector is the largest freshwater consumer in the United States, accounting for up to 70% of available freshwater withdrawals. However, water shortage has been exacerbated and is becoming...

Published: 3/23/2026 | Updated: 3/23/2026 | Inventor(s): Xue Jin, Quang Tran

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Category(s): Agricultural, Engineering, Sustainability & Cleantechnologies

Novel Reactor Design for Particle-gas Counterflow

This reactor design incorporates a fluidized bed, a counterflow gravity-driven spouted bed, transitioning to a moving bed. Background Thermochemical energy storage (TCES) using metal oxide particles has emerged as a promising technology to enable renewable energy dispatchability. The basic principle of TCES is to store energy as chemical bonds in...

Published: 3/23/2026 | Updated: 3/23/2026 | Inventor(s): Juvenal Ortiz Ulloa, Nicholas AuYeung

Keywords(s): Fluidized bed, Moving bed, Particle, Spouted bed

Category(s): Engineering, Chemical

Tensioning Tool for Flexible Materials

Tensioning Tool for Flexible Materials Background This tool can securely hold flexible materials, like tendons or ligaments, under accurate tension while affixing the material. Technology Description Engineers or surgeons often need to mount a flexible length of material on a surface. Flexible lengths of material can include wires, cables, ropes,...

Published: 3/23/2026 | Updated: 3/23/2026 | Inventor(s): Ravi Balasubramanian, Benjamin Phelps, Hantao Ling, Justin Casebier

Keywords(s): Biomechanics, Biotechnology, tendon, tension

Category(s): Engineering, Medical Devices

Nanomaterial Printhead for Additive Manufacturing

This printhead can deposit reactive materials as they are generated in real time Background The ability to integrate multifunctional parameters into one material has crosscutting impacts in several applications. For example, one can engineer and modify structural materials that provide high mechanical strength at various length scales to attain additional...

Published: 3/23/2026 | Updated: 3/18/2026 | Inventor(s): Chih-hung Chang, Brian Paul, Yujuan He

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Category(s): Engineering, Nanoscience & Microtechnologies

Membrane-less, Gravity Independent Liquid-Liquid and Gas-Liquid Extraction and Phase Separation

A membrane-less device enabling liquid-liquid and gas-liquid separation without requiring gravity Background The separation of mixtures of fluid phases, particularly liquid-liquid and gas-liquid extraction, is relevant to many industrial chemical and biochemical processes, including fuels production, pharmaceuticals, and hydrometallurgy. Many solvent...

Published: 3/18/2026 | Updated: 3/18/2026 | Inventor(s): Goran Jovanovic, Matthew Coblyn, Jad Touma, Lucas Freiberg, Francis Chukwunta, Lei Li, Cliff Kowall, Bingchen Wang, Yihan Song, Fan Yang, Aigerim Baimoldina

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Category(s): Engineering

Micro-channels, Micro-mixers and Micro-reactors

Microreactor architectures for mixing, reactions, and/or heat exchange Background Microfluidic systems and micro-reactors have emerged as promising platforms for precise, small-scale fluid processing. Microfluidic systems offer reduced reagent use, enhanced control over reaction kinetics, and improved safety through process intensification. However,...

Published: 6/23/2025 | Updated: 6/23/2025 | Inventor(s): Richard Miller

Keywords(s): Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Inst. (ATAMI)

Category(s): Nanoscience & Microtechnologies, Engineering, Materials Science

Novel Line-of-Sight RF Signal Classification Method

This is a method for classifying Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions in radio frequency (RF) communication Background Indoor positioning systems struggle with accurately identifying LOS and NLOS signal conditions ‑ a critical capability since most localization algorithms assume the presence of a direct signal path. However,...

Published: 8/4/2025 | Updated: 6/18/2025 | Inventor(s): Tingwei Zhang, Huaping Liu

Keywords(s): Algorithm, digital communication, line-of-sight classification, line-of-sight identification

Category(s): Engineering

Atomically Smooth Nanoporous Alumina Thin Films

A novel method of producing near-atomically smooth and porous alumina thin films with a tunable index of refraction Background Typically, high quality thin films are produced via vacuum-based techniques, though the nature of this technique makes it difficult to produce porous films. In lieu of vacuum techniques, solution processing is a low-energy...

Published: 8/4/2025 | Updated: 1/17/2025 | Inventor(s): Douglas Keszler, Cory Perkins, Ryan Mansergh, Juan Ramos

Keywords(s): Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Inst. (ATAMI), anti-reflective coating, Nanofabrication, Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology, solar cell, Solar flux absorption, Solar Thermal, surface chemistry, Thermal Management, Thin layer chromatography

Category(s): Engineering

A Low-power Magnetorheological Fluid Clutch

This clutch device enables low-power, rapid, and reversible actuation of soft robotic devices to improve physical human-robot interactions Background Common implementations of soft robotics and compliant mechanisms utilize deformable materials, such as silicone or other elastomers, in their designs. Flexibility and elasticity improve overall compliance,...

Published: 8/4/2025 | Updated: 9/5/2024 | Inventor(s): Joseph Davidson, Nicholas Bira, Pallavi Dhagat

Keywords(s): clutch, electronics, electropermanent magnets, magnet arrays, magnetorheological fluid, Mechanical & Areospace Engineering, torque

Category(s): Engineering

Active Force Control of Inherent Passive Dynamics

Background Unlike moving animals, current robots do not maintain sufficient energy efficiency and robustness to (ground) disturbances. Current energy efficient passive walkers fail to handle minor disturbances in walking surface, whereas robotic solutions incorporating active control are robust to disturbances, yet inadequate in energy consumption....

Published: 6/17/2024 | Updated: 6/17/2024 | Inventor(s): Jonathan Hurst, Devin Koepl

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Category(s): Engineering

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