Ut-battelle, Inc.

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation

Jonathan B Boreyko

Brook S Kennedy

Scott Thomas Retterer

Charles Patrick Collier

Ryan R Hansen

Weiwei Shi

Grady J Iliff

Saurabh Nath

Joshua Tulkoff

C Patrick Collier

Mark Anderson

Caitlin Bisbano

Prachya Mruetusatorn

Described herein are fog harvesters having a vertical wire array and systems thereof. The fog harvesters described herein can be used to harvest liquid from the air, such as from fog. The fog harvesters can, in some aspects, have improved performance in one or more aspects as compared to fog harvesters having a mesh design.

Fog harvester having a vertical wire array and uses thereof

A method and device for reducing ice and frost on a surface comprising a wettable pattern on a surface. The pattern is wetted with water which is frozen into ice to create overlapping hygroscopic that cover the surface.

Passive anti-frosting surface comprised of microscopic wettability patterns containing sacrificial ice

The present invention provides methods of on-demand, reversible generation of aqueous two-phase microdroplets core-shell microbeads, microparticle preparations comprising the core-shell microbeads, and drug delivery formulation comprising the microparticle preparations. Because these aqueous microdroplets have volumes comparable to those of cells, they provide an approach to mimicking the dynamic microcompartmentation of biomaterial that naturally occurs within the cytoplasm of cells. Hence, the present methods generate femtoliter aqueous two-phase droplets within a microfluidic oil channel using gated pressure pulses to generate individual, stationary two-phase microdroplets with a well-defined time zero for carrying out controlled and sequential phase transformations over time. Reversible phase transitions between single-phase, two-phase, and core-shell microbead states are obtained via evaporation-induced dehydration and water rehydration.

Reversible, on-demand generation of aqueous two-phase microdroplets

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Christiansburg, VA, United States of America

Jonathan B Boreyko