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Bay Systems Consulting, Inc.

Palo Alto Research Center Incoporated

Gabriel Iftime

Peter Michael Kazmaier

Naveen Chopra

Peter Gordon Odell

Kentaro Morimitsu

Jennifer Lynne Belelie

Adela Goredema

Daryl Walter Vanbesien

Paul Farrell Smith

Barkev Keoshkerian

Tyler B Norsten

Jessica Louis Baker Rivest

Marcel Philippe Breton

C Geoffrey Allen

Hadi K Mahabadi

David Mathew Johnson

Christopher A Wagner

Mahati Chintapalli

Biby Esther Abraham

Caroline Melanie Turek

Gordon Sisler

San-Ming Yang

Jordan H Wosnick

Edward Graham Zwartz

Richard P N Veregin

Carolyn Patricia Moorlag

Eric J Shrader

John Steven Paschkewitz

Valerie M Farrugia

Stephan V Drappel

James Daniel Mayo

Scott Alan Elrod

Bernard D Casse

Man-Chung Tam

Corey L Tracy

Maria Birau

Guerino G Sacripante

David Eric Schwartz

Victor Alfred Beck

Scott Eugene Solberg

Divyaraj Desai

Karen Ann Moffat

Cuong Vong

Jurgen Hans Daniel

Brynn Mary Dooley

Mihaela Maria Birau

Yiliang Wu

Sandra J Gardner

Sarah Jane Vella

Suxia Yang

Sean Roark Garner

Martin Sheridan

Eric Rotberg

Reiner Eschbach

Shen-Ge Wang

Robert Anthony Street

Jeffrey H Banning

Rina Carlini

Armin R Volkel

Raymond W Wong

Gerald A Domoto

Michelle Chretien

Shigang S Qiu

Guiqin Song

Qi Zhang

Martin Edward Hoover

Kurt I Halfyard

Roger E Gaynor

Brent Shawhan Krusor

Frank Ping-Hay Lee

Jenny Eliyahu

Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis

Sean Emerson Doris

Nan-Xing Hu

Chu-Heng Liu

Beng S Ong

Warren Bruce Jackson

George Amos Gibson

Ashish V Pattekar

Jeffery H Banning

Paul Joseph Gerroir

Joerg Martini

Saroj Kumar Sahu

Bo Wu

Santiago Faucher

Jule W Thomas, Jr

Tse Nga Ng

Michael Alexander Benedict

Marko D Saban

Matthew A Heuft

Yvan Gagnon

Meyya Meyyappan

Craig Eldershaw

Thomas Edward Enright

Paul S Bonino

Michael B Meinhardt

Michelle N Chrétien

Anne Plochowietz

Eniko Toma

Corie Lynn Cobb

A method of manufacturing includes producing a powder resin comprising a polymer precursor and a thermal initiator, packing a fiber structure with the powder resin, resulting in a resin-packed structure, and heating the resin-packed structure to a curing temperature high enough to melt and cure the resin-packed structure to form a final structure.

Fast fabrication of fiber reinforced polymers using solid epoxy powder containing an initiator

A method of producing a polymer aerogel includes dissolving precursors into a solvent, wherein the precursors include monomers, crosslinkers, a controlling agent and an initiator to form a precursor solution, wherein at least one of the monomers or at least one of the crosslinkers has a refractive index of 1.5 or lower, polymerizing the precursor solution to form a gel polymer, and removing the solvent from the gel polymer to produce the polymer aerogel. A method of producing a polymer aerogel include dissolving precursors into a solvent, wherein the precursors include monomers, crosslinkers, a controlling agent and an initiator to form a precursor solution, polymerizing the precursor solution to form a gel polymer, removing the solvent from the gel polymer to produce the polymer aerogel, and reducing a refractive index of one of either the gel polymer or the polymer aerogel.

High optical transparency polymer aerogels using low refractive index monomers

A deposition system has a multi-material print head, a first reservoir of a first compatible material having particles containing chemical elements similar to a first substrate, a second reservoir of a second compatible material having particles containing chemical elements similar to a second substrate, a third reservoir of an polymer precursor material, and at least one mixer. A method of bonding a joint between dissimilar substrate materials includes functionalizing a first compatible material having chemical elements similar to a first substrate, mixing the first compatible material with a polymer precursor material, functionalizing a second compatible material having chemical elements similar to a second substrate, mixing the second compatible material with a polymer precursor material, and using the deposition system to deposit the first and second compatible materials and a polymer precursor material on the joint between the first and second substrate materials.

Method for joining dissimilar materials

A pair of bonded substrates having a first substrate of a first material, a second substrate of the first material, and an adhesive bonding the first substrate to the second substrate, wherein the adhesive has chemically linked compatibilizing particles compatible with the first and second substrates. A composition of matter has an adhesive having a chemically linked particle network forming a bond between a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein compatibilizing particles in the particle network are compatible with the first and second substrates. A method of joining two structures of identical materials includes preparing first and second structures to expose bare material, applying an adhesive to the bare material on the first and second structures, the adhesive containing compatibilizing particles compatible with the material and the preparing allows interaction between the material and the compatibilizing particles, and curing the adhesive.

Adhesive with substrate compatibilizing particles

A composition of matter comprises at least 10 wt % epoxy functionalized two-dimensional shaped particles, carbon nanotubes in the range of 0.1 to 5 wt %, epoxy resin and a curing agent. A method of manufacturing a composition of matter includes mixing epoxy resin, carbon nanotubes and a solvent to produce a material, drying the material, and mixing the material with a curing agent to product the composition of matter. A method of printing a composition of matter includes producing the composition of matter by combining epoxy functionalized graphene, carbon nanotubes, epoxy base resin, and a curing agent, extrusion printing the composition of matter into a desired pattern, and curing the pattern.

Printable mixed fillers epoxy composites

A dried polymer aerogel has a Brunauer-Emmett Teller (BET) surface area over 100 m2/g, porosity of greater than 10%, visible transparency greater than 20%, color rendering index of over 20%, and average pore size of less than 100 nm.

Method to produce colorless, high porosity, transparent polymer aerogels

Systems comprising a carbon fiber reactor for fabricating carbon fiber, the reactor comprising a receptacle for containing a carbon-metal melt, and a plurality of nozzles through which a plurality of menisci are formed by the carbon-metal melt for contact with a carbon seed to fabricate the carbon fiber; and a heater for heating the carbon-metal melt.

Carbon fiber fabrication systems and methods

A method of three-dimensional manufacturing including depositing a layer of powder in a powder bed, the layer comprising particles of at least a first component of a two-component reactive material, dispensing a first solution containing at least one of a solvent and a second component of the two-component reactive material the solvent selected to cause the two components to form one or more cross-linked regions of a three-dimensional object, iterating the depositing and dispensing to form subsequent layers of the three-dimensional object until the object is formed, and removing any unwanted particles from the object. A three-dimensional manufacturing system has a powder bed to hold layers of particles, and one or more print heads positioned to dispense liquid onto the powder bed to cause the particles for form one or more cross-linked regions in layers of a solid object.

Inkjet based solid particle powder bed crosslinking

Disclosed herein in is a radiative cooling formulation including a first component with &#x3e;55% reflectance in a wavelengths range of 0.3 to 2.5 microns, a second component with a first thermal emissivity peak value greater than 0.85 at a first wavelength in a range of 8 to 13 microns (&#x3bc;m), and a third component to mechanically bind together a mixture of the first component and second component.

Coating to cool a surface by passive radiative cooling

A colorimetric sensor has a first material deposited on a surface, and sensing particles on a surface of the first material, wherein the sensing particles comprise sensing species dispersed into porous host structures, such that at least a portion of the sensing particles is exposed to an ambient environment, wherein the first material attaches the sensing particles to surface. A method of forming a colorimetric sensor including depositing a first material onto a substrate, providing porous sensing particles, wherein the sensing particles comprise sensing species dispersed into a porous host structure, and embedding the porous sensing particles onto a surface of the deposited first material, wherein the first material attaches the sensing particles to the substrate such that at least a portion of the sensing particles is exposed to an ambient environment.

Printed sensor with vibrant colorimetric particles

A porous polymer aerogel, wherein the aerogel has greater than 5 wt % of amine containing vinyl monomers integrated into a polymer backbone. A method of fabrication of a porous polymer aerogel amine material, includes preparing a solution comprising at least a solvent, amine monomers having protected amino groups, one or more crosslinkers, one or more radical initiators, and a nitroxide mediator, removing oxygen from the solution, heating the solution to promote polymerization and to produce a polymerized material, performing solvent exchange with the polymerized material, causing a deprotection reaction in the polymerized material to remove groups protecting the amino groups, soaking and rinsing the material to remove excess reagents and any byproducts of the deprotection reaction, and drying the material to produce the amine sorbent. A system to separate CO2 from other gases, comprising a polymer porous aerogel sorbent having greater than 5 wt % of amine containing vinyl monomers integrated into a polymer backbone.

Tunable, rapid uptake, aminopolymer aerogel sorbent for direct air capture of CO

Disclosed herein are methods of producing metal nanoparticle-decorated carbon nanotubes. The methods include forming a reaction mixture by combining a first solution with a second solution, wherein the first solution comprises polymer-coated metal nanoparticles comprising metallic nanoparticles coated with a polymer, and wherein the second solution comprises carbon nanotubes. The methods also include heating the reaction mixture to a temperature greater than a glass transition temperature of the polymer for a time sufficient to cause the polymer-coated metal nanoparticles to bind to the carbon nanotubes forming the metal nanoparticle-decorated carbon nanotubes.

Metal nanoparticle-decorated nanotubes for gas sensing

Methods comprising: contacting a carbon fiber seed to a carbon-metal melt, drawing the carbon fiber seed to form a carbon fiber. And, systems and apparatuses comprising: a carbon fiber reactor for fabricating carbon fiber, the reactor comprising a receptacle for containing a carbon-metal melt, and a plurality of nozzles through which a plurality of menisci are formed by the carbon-metal melt for contact with a carbon seed to fabricate the carbon fiber.

A test strip includes a substantially transparent substrate and one or more colorimetric test spots on the transparent substrate. Each colorimetric test spot has one or more sensing chemicals chemically attached onto a porous support material. The porous support material has at least one exposed surface configured to absorb a body fluid. The one or more sensing chemicals are configured to change a color in response to a presence of a target drug in the body fluid.

Colorimetric drug test strip using porous support material

A method of forming a porous structure involves mixing a solvent with a curable material which disperses in the solvent such that the mixture has greater than 50% solvent content. The mixture is deposited on a substrate and viscosity of the mixture is increased. The curable material in the mixture is cured while a shape of the curable material is maintained by the solvent. After curing, the solvent is removed from the structure.

Processes for formation of porous biologically compatible scaffold structures

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