William Marsh Rice University

Oxane Materials, Inc.

Natcore Technology, Inc.

Other

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Newcyte, Inc.

Yale University

Apache Corporation

Nec Corporation

Lance Energy Services, LLC

Andrew Ross Barron

Elizabeth Whitsitt

Christopher E Coker

John Ryan Loscutova

Mark Wiesner

Russell James Smith

Stephen A Costantino

Rajendra Kumar Bordia

Dennis J Flood

Robert D Skala

Jun-ichi Takeuchi

Dilip K Chatterjee

Yuming Xie

Kimberly A DeFriend

Samuel J Maguire-Boyle

Eoghan Dillon

Saunab Ghosh

Robin E Anderson

Jason Ho

James Mitchell Tour

Gary P Funkhouser

Richard E Smalley

Robert H Hauge

Howard K Schmidt

Michael P Stewart

Jianzhong Yang

Ramon Colorado, Jr

Ronald L Cook

Samuel James Maguire-Boyle

Ronald Cook

Christopher A Dyke

Graham B I Scott

W Edward Billups

Steven Florio

Katherine Lee Jackson

Valerie C Moore

Kevin Joseph Gleason

Corina Lupu

Waymon R Votaw

Sean Bard

Andrew A Guzelian

Naureen Shahid

Diane Amy Bailey

Jacob L Davis

Rhonda Lynn Callender

Jerome Rose

Cullen Taylor Vogelson

Yoshihiro Koide

Georgette Laila Siparsky

Edward E Munson

Antony Joseph

David Brent MacQueen

Christopher Daniel Jones

Stephen J Obrey

D Brent MacQueen

Alvin White Orbaek

Charles Jeffrey Harlan

Aivaras Kareiva

Chuansheng Bai

Douglas C Ogrin

Rajendra Bordia

Elizabeth Anne Whitsitt

Elizabeth A Whitsitt

Russell J Smith

Mark Weisner

Raj Bordia

The present disclosure pertains to methods of capturing COfrom an environment at pressures above 1 bar by associating the environment with a porous material that has a surface area of at least 2,800 m/g, and a total pore volume of at least 1.35 cm/g, where a majority of pores of the porous material have diameters of less than 2 nm. The present disclosure also pertains to methods for the separation of COfrom natural gas in an environment at partial pressures of either component above 1 bar by associating the environment with a porous material that has a surface area of at least 2,200 m/g, and a total pore volume of at least 1.00 cm/g, where a majority of pores of the porous material have diameters of greater than 1 nm and less than 2 nm.

Method, synthesis, activation procedure and characterization of an oxygen rich activated porous carbon sorbent for selective removal of carbon dioxide with ultra high capacity

Components, systems, and methods for producing highly hydrophilitic, functionalized inorganic filtration membranes, pre-treating organic and biological-containing waste waters for minimal membrane fouling and scaling when processed using such functionalized membranes, and use of such functionalized membranes of the present invention in filtration systems for separating such pre-treated waste waters, all with respect to optimal permeate production rates, purity of permeate and resistance to fouling and scale formation on the membranes.

Functionalized ceramic membranes for the separation of organics from raw water and methods of filtration using functionalized ceramic membranes

The present disclosure pertains to materials for COadsorption at pressures above 1 bar, where the materials include a porous material with a surface area of at least 2,800 m/g, and a total pore volume of at least 1.35 cm/g, where a majority of pores of the porous material have diameters of less than 2 nm as measured from Nsorption isotherms using the BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller) method. The present disclosure also pertains to materials for separation of COfrom natural gas at partial pressures of either component above 1 bar, where the materials include a porous material with a surface area of at least 2,200 m/g, and a total pore volume of at least 1.00 cm/g, where a majority of pores of the porous material have diameters of greater than 1 nm and less than 2 nm as measured from Nsorption isotherms using the BET method.

The present invention relates to a plurality of proppants, wherein at least a portion of the proppants are immobile proppants and are immobile in a proppant pack. The proppants, pre-aggregated proppants, immobile proppants, or any combination thereof can be used for fracking of a well for hydrocarbon recovery. A method of producing, immobilizing, localizing, or any combination thereof a plurality of proppants is provided by the present invention. The present invention also provides a method of immobilizing proppants including flowing a plurality of proppants into a subterranean location, and fusing the plurality of proppants to each other, to a subterranean surface, or a combination thereof to immobilize the plurality of proppants. The fusing can be accomplished using a chemical reaction, physical interaction, cross-linking, polymerization, microwave sintering, surface diffusion, magnetism, colloid destabilization, mechanical entanglement, interlocking, in-situ dimpling, or any combination thereof.

Immobile proppants

Proppants having added functional properties are provided, as are methods that use the proppants to track and trace the characteristics of a fracture in a geologic formation. Information obtained by the methods can be used to design a fracturing job, to increase conductivity in the fracture, and to enhance oil and gas recovery from the geologic formation. The functionalized proppants can be detected by a variety of methods utilizing, for example, an airborne magnetometer survey, ground penetrating radar, a high resolution accelerometer, a geophone, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultra-sound, impedance measurements, piezoelectric activity, radioactivity, and the like. Methods of mapping a subterranean formation are also provided and use the functionalized proppants to detect characteristics of the formation.

Method of manufacture and the use of a functional proppant for determination of subterranean fracture geometries

The present invention relates to coated fullerenes comprising a layer of at least one inorganic material covering at least a portion of at least one surface of a fullerene and methods for making. The present invention further relates to composites comprising the coated fullerenes of the present invention and further comprising polymers, ceramics, and/or inorganic oxides. A coated fullerene interconnect device where at least two fullerenes are contacting each other to form a spontaneous interconnect is also disclosed as well as methods of making. In addition, dielectric films comprising the coated fullerenes of the present invention and methods of making are further disclosed.

Coated fullerenes, compositions and dielectrics made therefrom

Various aspects of the present invention pertain to porous membranes that comprise: (1) a plurality of pores with pore sizes of more than about 0.1 &#x3bc;m in diameter; and (2) a plurality of hydrophilic molecules. Additional aspects of the present invention pertain to methods of separating organic compounds from a liquid sample by: (1) providing the porous membrane; and (2) flowing the liquid sample through the porous membrane in order to retain organic compounds on the porous membrane. Further aspects of the present invention pertain to systems for separating organic compounds from a liquid sample. Such systems comprises: (1) the porous membrane; and (2) a flowing unit that enables the liquid sample to flow through the porous membrane. Additional aspects of the present invention pertain to methods of making the above-described porous membranes by: (1) coating a surface of a porous membrane containing 0.1 &#x3bc;m pores with a ceramic material; and (2) associating the coated surface of the porous membrane with hydrophilic molecules.

Methods, systems and membranes for separation of organic compounds from liquid samples

A composition of matter, and method to make same, for a nano-based material including a nanocarbon support to which is attached an aliphatic amine. In particular, the composition of matter is an aliphatic amine-nanocarbon material that includes a nanocarbon (NC) support, such as C, nano-graphite, graphene, nanocarbon ribbons, graphite intercalation compounds, graphite oxide, nano-coal, nanohorns, and combinations thereof, and further includes an aliphatic amine, such as polyethyleneimine (PEI).

Aliphatic amine based nanocarbons for the absorption of carbon dioxide

A computationally feasible encoding and decoding arrangement and method for transmission of data over an additive white Gaussian noise channel with average codeword power constraint employs sparse superposition codes. The code words are linear combinations of subsets of vectors from a given dictionary, with the possible messages indexed by the choice of subset. An adaptive successive decoder is shown to be reliable with error probability exponentially small for all rates below the Shannon capacity.

Sparse superposition encoder and decoder for communications system

The present invention relates to proppants which can be used to prop open subterranean formation fractions. Proppant formulations are further disclosed which use one or more proppants of the present invention. Methods to prop open subterranean formation fractions are further disclosed. In addition, other uses for the proppants of the present invention are further disclosed, as well as methods of making the proppants.

Composition and method for making a proppant

A transport of plasmonic particles through a mineral formation is analyzed by flowing a plasmonic particles solution through an immobile phase (e.g., a mineral formation), determining an absorbance of the plasmonic particles solution subsequent to flowing the plasmonic particles solution through the immobile phase, comparing the determined absorbance of the plasmonic particles solution with an absorbance of the plasmonic particles solution determined previous to flowing the plasmonic particles solution through the immobile phase, and determining an absorbance of the plasmonic particles to the immobile phase as a function of the comparison. The plasmonic particles solution may be produced by dissolving or suspending plasmonic particles in a mobile phase. Flowing the plasmonic particles solution through the immobile phase may include injecting the plasmonic particles solution into the immobile phase, and then flushing the plasmonic particles solution through the immobile phase.

Analyzing the transport of plasmonic particles through mineral formations

The present invention is directed towards methods (processes) of providing large quantities of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) of defined diameter and chirality (i.e., precise populations). In such processes, CNT seeds of a pre-selected diameter and chirality are grown to many (e.g., hundreds) times their original length. This is optionally followed by cycling some of the newly grown material back as seed material for regrowth. Thus, the present invention provides for the large-scale production of precise populations of CNTs, the precise composition of such populations capable of being optimized for a particular application (e.g., hydrogen storage). The present invention is also directed to complexes of CNTs and transition metal catalyst precurors, such complexes typically being formed en route to forming CNT seeds.

Amplification of carbon nanotubes via seeded-growth methods

A nanoparticle coated with a semiconducting material and a method for making the same. In one embodiment, the method comprises making a semiconductor coated nanoparticle comprising a layer of at least one semiconducting material covering at least a portion of at least one surface of a nanoparticle, comprising: (A) dispersing the nanoparticle under suitable conditions to provide a dispersed nanoparticle; and (B) depositing at least one semiconducting material under suitable conditions onto at least one surface of the dispersed nanoparticle to produce the semiconductor coated nanoparticle. In other embodiments, the nanoparticle comprises a fullerene. Further embodiments include the semiconducting material comprising CdS or CdSe.

Fabrication of light emitting film coated fullerenes and their application for in-vivo light emission

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