General Electric Company

Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.v.

Cytiva Sweden Ab

Bha Altair. LLC

Ge Infrastructure Technology, LLC

Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

Hongyi Zhou

David Roger Moore

Daniel Joseph Brunelle

Matthew Jeremiah Misner

Patrick Joseph McCloskey

Daniel Steiger

Julia L Lee

Hua Wang

Joseph Anthony Suriano

Anil Raj Duggal

Paul Dean Sybert

John Frederick Graf

Hieu Minh Duong

Reginald Donovan Smith

Paul Sherwood Bryant

Peter D Miller

Cathryn Ellen Olsen

Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo

Holly Ann Comanzo

Gary William Yeager

Sterling B Brown

Georgios S Zafiris

James Edward Pickett

Charles Burton Theurer

Daniel R Olson

Jimmy Lynn Webb

Yizhen Lin

Deepak Trivedi

Anup Sood

Joyce Hung

Marianne Elisabeth Harmon

Hongwei Liu

Liming Yu

Nichole Lea Wood

Brian David Polizzotti

Louisa Ruth Carr

Matthew Rainka

David Moore

Peter Miller

Yanshi Zhang

Erich Otto Teutsch

Minglin Ma

Christopher Luke Hein

Tiberiu Mircea Siclovan

Edward Kung

Paul Edward Howson

Margaret Louise Blohm

Oltea Puica Siclovan

Ryo Tamaki

Safwat Ebeid Tadros

Kevin Henry Janora

Christoph Georg Erben

Donald Joseph Buckley

Vicki Herzl Watkins

Rainer Koeniger

Hongbo Cao

Joshua James Stone

Xiaohui Chen

Lifeng Zhang

Jason Michael Nichols

Xiangyang Li

Bimal Ramesh Patel

Enamul Haque

Karmin Lorraine Olson

Gert Boven

Glen Robert Tryson

Michael Shoen Davis

Chris Hartshorn

Michael T Roland

David Rosendale

Himanshu Asthana

Theodorus J M Timmerman

Martin J Lindway

Hendrik Cornelus Jacobus De Nooijer

Georgia Dris Fishburn

Peter Hendrikus Theodorus Vollenberg

Beth Brister

Jeroen Vervoort

Axel Grimm

Luca Saggese

Julia Lam Lee

Patrick Joseph Mccloskey

Louise Ruth Carr

Martin Lindway

Daniel Robert Olson

A porous electrolyte structure for a solid state battery is provided. The porous electrolyte structure has an interconnected ceramic matrix with a network of open pores disposed throughout a thickness of the porous electrolyte structure. The porous electrolyte structure includes a porosity of about 20% by volume to about 80% by volume. A solid state battery cell including the porous electrolyte structure and a method of making the solid state battery cell are also provided.

Solid state battery, ceramic electrolyte structure and methods of making

Multicomponent copolymers including two or more types of repeat units is presented. In one example, the multicomponent copolymer includes at least one repeat unit AC having a structure (I), at least one repeat unit DC having a structure (II), and at least one repeat unit BC having a structure (III) or (V). The multicomponent copolymer may be cross-linked via a cross-linking agent. A polymer blend including the multicomponent copolymer or a cross-linked copolymer and a second polymer is also provided. The multicomponent copolymer may be a random or a block copolymer. The structural units of the multicomponent copolymers provide improved, tunable properties, such as improved biocompatibility and hydrophilicity, protein fouling, and mechanical properties, to the copolymers and/or the membranes fabricated from the copolymers.

Zwitterion-functionalized multicomponent copolymers and associated polymer blends and membranes

An insertion apparatus includes an insertion end positionable within a cavity and configured to travel through the cavity, a steering end opposite the insertion end, and a body extending from the insertion end to the steering end and sized to fit within the cavity. The body includes a plurality of members flexibly coupled together and individually actuated. Each member of the plurality of members includes at least one actuator strand. At least one member of the plurality of members has a first configuration in which the at least one member of the plurality of members has a first stiffness and a second configuration in which the at least one member of the plurality of members has a second stiffness greater than the first stiffness. At least a portion of the body is flexible to facilitate travel of the body through the cavity when the at least one member of the plurality of members is in the first configuration. The at least a portion of the body is configured to maintain a selected shape when the at least one member of the plurality of members is in the second configuration.

Insertion apparatus including rigidizable body

A membrane including a block copolymer is presented. The block copolymer includes at least one block A including structural units having a formula (I), and at least one block B including structural units having a formula (II). A hollow-fiber membrane for hemodialysis or hemofiltration, and associated block copolymer are also presented.

Zwitterion-functionalized block copolymer membranes and associated block copolymer composition

Solutions for efficiently filtering air for a machine are disclosed. In one embodiment, a filter element for a filter assembly of a rotary machine is provided. The filter element includes: a first set of pleats, each pleat including a first tip radius and a first spacing; and a second set of pleats, each pleat including a second tip radius and a second spacing, wherein the first and second set of pleats are positioned upon a continuous filter media.

Filter assembly including pleat tip shapes

Method and systems, for processing biological material, that contain a biological material in a vessel; add an aggregating agent to the material in the vessel and allow the material to separate into two or more distinct submaterials; extract one or more of the submaterials from the vessel; automatically transport one or more of the submaterials remaining in the vessel to a filtration device; and collect a resulting target retentate into a target retentate receptacle.

Systems and methods for processing complex biological materials

A porous membrane patterning technique is provided. In one embodiment, a porous membrane may be patterned via printing on the porous membrane with a solvent such that the porous membrane collapses where the solvent is applied. In another embodiment, a patterned porous membrane may be formed by casting a solution including at least components of the porous membrane into voids of a casting plate or stencil, removing the casting plate, and letting the remaining components go through a phase inversion process to form porous membrane regions.

Porous membrane patterning technique

A method for synthesis of N-methyl piperazine diphenolamide is presented. The method includes contacting diphenolic acid with N-methyl piperazine to form a reaction mixture; and heating the reaction mixture to form a reaction product including N-methyl piperazine diphenolamide. An associated composition is also presented.

Method for synthesis of N-methyl piperazine diphenolamide and related composition

A separation matrix comprises a porous surface layer; and a bulk porous support, wherein both the porous surface layer and the bulk porous support comprising a block copolymer. The block copolymer comprises A-B or A-B-A repeating units, wherein A and B at each occurrence are two different blocks of oligomer, or polymer. A structural unit of block A is derived from one or more atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP)-active monomer or oligomer and a structural unit of block B is derived from a thermoplastic ATRP-active macro initiator. A poly dispersity index of the block copolymer is at least about 2.

Block copolymer membranes and associated methods for making the same

A polymer electrolyte membrane includes a porous base membrane and electrolytes dispersed within the pores of the base membrane. The electrolytes include metal oxide compounds having acid functionality. A process for making the membrane is also provided. The membrane is compatible, durable, highly conductive, mechanically strong and dimensionally stable.

Polyelectrolyte membranes and methods for making

Multilayer articles comprising a coating layer comprising resorcinol arylate chain members bound to a support substrate via an optional intermediate tie layer. Adhesion between the layers of the multilayer article is enhanced by modifying at least a part of a surface of at least one of the layers in the multilayer article by a technique selected from at least one of: surface adhesive treatment, surface corona treatment, flame treatment, plasma surface treatment, vacuum deposition treatment, ionization radiation, chemical surface treatment, surface abrasion treatment, and surface texturing treating.

Multilayer articles comprising resorcinol arylate polyester and method for making thereof

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