California Institute of Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

University of Pittsburgh

Eth Zuerich

Chiara Daraio

Vincenzo Costanza

Luca Bonanomi

Jordan R Raney

Abha Misra

Zhun Zhou

Yeong Suk Choi

Paul W Sternberg

Animashree Anandkumar

Tae Hyun Kim

Zongyi Li

John F Brady

Zhengyu Huang

Eleftheria Roumeli

Rodinde Hendrickx

Xuan Wan

Raffaele Di Giacomo

Zhiwei Peng

Bruno Maresca

Giovanni Moscato

Tingtao Zhou

Osama R Bilal

Linghui Wang

Ali Israr

Robert Peter Dillon

John Paul C Borgonia

Piervincenzo Rizzo

Frances Lau

Andrew A Shapiro

Gregory L Davis

Andre Foehr

Nicholas Boechler

Daniel Louis Kahn

Georgios Gkantzounis

Alessandro Spadoni

Tian Lan

Fernando Fraternali

Damien Eggenspieler

Devvrath Khatri

Biocomposites and related fabrication methods and systems are described, the biocomposites comprising compacted plants and/or algae cells having a water content of less than 15 wt %, and a minimized pore presence and/or dimensions, in which the compacted cells are in a lamellar stacked configuration with a plurality of lamellae arranged one above the other, each lamella independently having a thickness of 20 nm to 5 μm and comprising a semi-crystalline structure formed by biopolymers of cell walls of the compacted plant and/or algae cells.

Biocomposite materials and related compositions, methods and systems

Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.

Anti-infection fluidic channel

A composite for sensing heat or infrared light includes a block copolymer including a first structural group represented by Chemical Formula 1, a second structural group represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a third structural group represented by Chemical Formula 3; and a polyvalent metal ion that is coordinated with a side chain group of the block copolymer.

Composite for sensing heat or infrared light and device including same

Biocomposites and related fabrication methods and systems are described, the biocomposites comprising compacted plants and/or algae cells having a water content of less than 15 wt %, and a minimized pore presence and/or dimensions, in which the compacted cells are in a lamellar stacked configuration with a plurality of lamellae arranged one above the other, each lamella independently having a thickness of 20 nm to 5 &#x3bc;m and comprising a semi-crystalline structure formed by biopolymers of cell walls of the compacted plant and/or algae cells.

A sensor includes a heater, a thermal insulator between two thermometer layers, the heater generating a thermal gradient within the thermal insulator. The thermometers give an indirect measurement of fluid flow around the sensor, based on their temperature readings. The thermometers are flexible layers including gels.

Gel and polymer based flow meters

ABA type block copolymers as a new class of temperature sensing polymers with tunable, high temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR). A sensor includes a heater, a thermal insulator between two thermometer layers, the heater generating a thermal gradient within the thermal insulator. The thermometers give an indirect measurement of fluid flow around the sensor, based on their temperature readings. The thermometers are flexible layers including ABA block polymers.

ABA type block co-polymers for temperature sensing and flow meters

A composite includes a polymer network including pectin or a pectin derivative; a low-molecular compound having a hydrophilic group in the polymer network; and a polyvalent metal ion coordinated with an anion present in the polymer chain of the polymer network.

Composite and infrared absorber, thin film, photoelectric device, and electronic device including same

A temperature sensor is described, which includes a sensor gel having a polymer, water and ions, and a first and a second electrode separated from each other by the sensor gel. The present disclosure further relates to a system which has a temperature sensor, a voltage source or electric current source, and a measurement device for detecting voltage or electric current. The present disclosure further relates to a bolometer and a temperature sensor array. A method for temperature detection is also described, wherein a temperature sensor is provided, a voltage or an electric current between the first electrode and the second electrode of the temperature sensor is provided, an electric current or a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode is measured, and a temperature is determined from the measured electric current or voltage.

Gel based thermal sensors

A haptic device can be realized with a single acoustic actuator controlling multiple unit cells by having the unit cells be composed of cantilever arms with different resonant frequencies. The unit cells can be further improved by having the cantilever arms be in a spiral shape, and more specifically an Archimedes spiral shape.

Haptic devices using structured metasurfaces

A foam structure with nominally aligned arrays of carbon nanotube is described. The foam structure also includes a functionalization substance associated or attached to carbon nanotube surfaces.

Foam structure with nominally-aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes

A phononic transistor can be realized by arranging a row of cantilevered structures with attached magnets, elastically extending upward upon application of a magnetic repulsive force to the magnets. In the extended configuration, the phonons are transmitted from source to drain, while in the flattened configuration the phonons are blocked from transmission. A gate element controls the ON and OFF states of the phononic transistor.

Reprogrammable phononic metasurfaces

A method for making a multilayer foam structure of nominally-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is disclosed. The method comprises synthesizing a layer of CNTs and sandwiching the layer of CNTs between two polymeric layers, or between two metallic layers or foils.

Multilayer foam structures of nominally-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTS)

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