Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Marsh Rice University

University of Illinois

US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Michael S Strano

Paul Walter Barone

Daniel A Heller

Jingqing Zhang

Jong-Ho Kim

Volodymyr B Koman

Richard E Smalley

Robert H Hauge

W Carter Kittrell

Jin-Ho Ahn

Tianxiang Liu

Thomas P McNicholas

Nigel F Reuel

Juan Pablo Giraldo Gomez

James Mitchell Tour

George W Pratt

Monica Usrey

Seunghyun Baik

Christopher A Dyke

Anton Lee Cottrill

Jinqing Zhang

Daniel James Lundberg

Daichi Kozawa

Sayalee Girish Mahajan

Dorsa Parviz

Markita Patricia Landry

Seonyeong Kwak

Ramesh Sivarajan

Angela M Belcher

Woo-Jae Kim

Charles P Marsh

Charles R Welch

Jifa Qi

Sergei M Bachilo

R Bruce Weisman

Clint M Arnett

Neelkanth M Bardhan

Hyunjung Yi

Kyungsuk Yum

Hyeonseok Yoon

Michael Jungho Lee

Daniel Salem

Sooyeon Cho

Freddy T Nguyen

Pingwei Liu

Nicole M Iverson

Andrew J Hilmer

Rishabh M Jain

Sean Mitchell Faltermeier

Kevin C Tvrdy

Joel T Abrahamson

Jae-Hee Han

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian

Seongyeon Kwak

Rene Ortiz-Garcia

Irene Marie Marek, Legal Representative

Gili H Bisker Raviv

Jae Hee Han

Min Hao Wong

Thomas A Carlson

Won Joon Choi

Naveed Bakh

Debadyuti Ghosh

Song Wang

Xun Gong

A sensor for detecting an analyte can include a photoluminescent nanostructure embedded in a sensor porous planar substrate. The sensor porous planar substrate can be supported by a substrate porous planar substrate.

Substrate-immobilized optical nanosensors

A system and method of enhancing fluorescence assays can include signal modulation using an an excitation beam directed at a sensor having a modulation frequency and a detector configured to monitor emission from the sensor at a multiple of the modulation frequency.

Extending fluorescent assays in vivo for biomedical sensing: wavelength modulation spectroscopy

A sensor can include a nanostructure in a housing configured to contact a sample.

Fluorescence-based detection of protein aggregation and fiber optic-based benchtop instrument

A composition can photocatalytically reduce carbon dioxide.

Materials exhibiting biomimetic carbon fixation and self-repair

Corona Phase Molecular Recognition (CoPhMoRe) utilizing a template heteropolymer adsorbed onto and templated by a nanoparticle surface to recognize a specific target analyte can be used for macromolecular analytes, including proteins.

Near infrared fluorescent biosensors for steroid hormones

The present disclosure is directed to materials, devices, and methods for resonant ambient thermal energy harvesting. Thermal energy can be harvested using thermoelectric resonators that capture and store ambient thermal fluctuations and convert the fluctuations to energy. The resonators can include non-linear heat transfer elements, such as thermal diodes, to enhance their performance. Incorporation of thermal diodes can allow for a dynamic rectification of temperature fluctuations into a single polarity temperature difference across a heat engine for power extraction, as compared to the dual polarity nature of the output voltage of linear thermal resonators, which typically necessitates electrical rectification to be routed to an entity for energy storage. In some embodiments, the thermal diode can be applied to transient energy harvesting to construct thermal diode bridges. Methods for constructing such devices, and using such devices, are also provided.

Materials, devices, and methods for resonant ambient thermal energy harvesting using thermal diodes

Corona Phase Molecular Recognition (CoPhMoRe) utilizing a heteropolymer adsorbed onto and templated by a nanoparticle surface to recognize a specific target analyte can be used for macromolecular analytes, including proteins. A variant of a CoPhMoRe screening procedure of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) can be used against a panel of human blood proteins, revealing a specific corona phase that recognizes fibrinogen and insulin, respectively, with high selectivity.

Protein corona phase molecular recognition

The present disclosure is directed to materials, devices, and methods for resonant ambient thermal energy harvesting. Thermal energy can be harvested using thermoelectric resonators that capture and store ambient thermal fluctuations and convert the fluctuations to energy. The thermal resonators can include heat engines disposed between masses of varying sizes or diodes. The masses or diodes can be made of high and ultra-high effusivity materials to transfer thermal energy through the resonator and optimize power output. The masses or diodes of the resonator can be tuned to the dominant frequency of the temperature waveform to maximize the amount of energy being converted. The resonators can be added to existing structures to supply or generate power, and, in some embodiments, the structures themselves can be a mass of the thermal resonator. Methods for constructing and/or using such devices are also provided, as are methods for formulating ultra-high effusivity materials.

Materials, devices, and methods for resonant ambient thermal energy harvesting

A composition can include a complex, where the complex includes a photoluminescent nanostructure and a polymer free from selective binding to an analyte, the polymer adsorbed on the photoluminescent nanostructure, and a selective binding site associated with the complex.

Polymer-nanostructure composition for selective molecular recognition

In one aspect, a composition can include an organelle, and a nanoparticle having a zeta potential of less than &#x2212;10 mV or greater than 10 mV contained within the organelle. In a preferred embodiment, the organelle can be a chloroplast and the nanoparticle can be a single-walled carbon nanotube associated with a strongly anionic or strongly cationic polymer.

Nanobionic engineering of organelles and photosynthetic organisms

A living plant can function as self-powered auto-samplers and preconcentrators of an analyte within ambient groundwater, detectors of the analyte contained therein. For example, a pair of near infrared (IR) fluorescent sensors embedded within the mesophyll of the plant leaf can be used as detectors of the nitroaromatic molecules, with the first IR channel engineered through CoPhMoRe to recognize analyte via an IR fluorescent emission and the second IR channel including a functionalized nanostructure that acts as an invariant reference signal.

Sensor for infrared communication using plant nanobionics

An particle can include a first sheet comprising a layer including a first material, wherein the first sheet includes a first outer surface and a first inner surface; and a second sheet comprising a layer including a second material, where the second sheet includes a second outer surface and a second inner surface, wherein the first sheet and the second sheet form a space, the space is encapsulated by the first sheet and the second sheet.

Nearly 2D electronic microparticles

A single chirality single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT), and combinations thereof, can be used to detect trace levels of chemical compounds in vivo with high selectivity.

Ratiometric and multiplexed sensors from single chirality carbon nanotubes

A sensor for detecting an analyte can include a photoluminescent nanostructure embedded in a sensor hydrogel. The sensor hydrogel can be supported by a substrate hydrogel.

Sensor for detecting analytes

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Lexington, MA, United States of America

Michael S Strano