Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Essilor International

The General Hospital Corporation

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Montedison S.p.a.

Khalifa University

Toyota Motor Corporation

Robert E Cohen

Michael F Rubner

Gareth H McKinley

Raymond F Baddour

Joseph M Mabry

Nuerxiati Nueraji

Adam J Meuler

Zekeriyya Gemici

Debasish Banerjee

George Barbastathis

Haipeng Zheng

Albert Joseph Swiston

Anuj Bellare

Charles S Munn

Ali S Argon

Hyungryul Johnny Choi

Dayong Chen

Prem V Pavoor

Brian P Gearing

Roberta Polak

Jian Qin

Haskell W Beckham

Osman S Gebizlioglu

Madhu Anand

Ih-Houng Loh

Mehmet Toner

Masahiko Ishii

Minjuan Zhang

Kripa K Varanasi

Darrell J Irvine

Brian Lee Wardle

J David Smith

Luciano Del Giudice

Fabio Fachin

Roberto Nocci

Elena V Batrakova

Eric Christopher Forrest

Kyoo-Chul Park

Kenan Song

Matthew J Haney

Kyoo Chul Park

Jacopo Buongiorno

Alonso R Ramos

Jeong-gil Kim

Shreerang S Chhatre

Lin-wen Hu

Khalid Askar

Erik Howard Williamson

Pinar Kurt

Grinia Michelle Nogueira

Xiaoxia Sheng

Kyu Chul Park

Lei Zhai

Hyo Min Lee

Natalia L Klyachko

Harrison L Bralower

Anish Tuteja

Wonjae Choi

Frank S Bates

Yuling Zhao

George C Corbin

Giancarlo Attalla

Floriana Bertinotti

Uniform, functional polymer patches can be attached to a fraction of the surface area of living individual cells. These surface-modified cells can cross the blood-brain barrier while remaining viable after attachment of the functional patch. Functional payloads carried by the patch can include a drug. The patch can include one or more polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs).

Synthetically functionalized living cells for targeted drug delivery

A simple spray coating process can be utilized to create epoxy/HNT nanocomposites with vertically aligned nanotubes. Important mechanical properties such as modulus and hardness values can be optimized and enhanced by controlling the level of nanotube dispersion during processing and the final orientation of the nanotubes. Thus, a technologically relevant processing scheme can be used to fabricate HNT nanocomposites with a high level of control over nanotube alignment and the resulting mechanical properties.

Spray-coating method with particle alignment control

An anti-icing coating can include an amphiphilic copolymer on a surface of an article.

Anti-icing coatings

Titania-based porous nanoparticle coatings are mechanically robust, with low haze, which exhibit short time scales for decomposition of fingerprint oils under ultraviolet light. The mechanism by which a typical dactylogram is consumed combines wicking of the sebum into the nanoporous titania structure followed by photocatalytic degradation. These TiOnanostructured surfaces are also anti-fogging, anti-bacterial, and compatible with flexible glass substrates and remain photocatalytically active in natural sunlight.

Anti-fingerprint photocatalytic nanostructure for transparent surfaces

A surface can be coated with a liquid repellent coating. Materials for making the liquid repellent coating (e.g., a fingerprint resistant coating) can be selected on the basis of surface energy considerations, such as a receding surface energy. The materials can include a polymer and a liquid repelling material, for example, poly(ethyl methacrylate) and a fluorinated silsesquioxane such as fluorodecyl POSS.

Liquid repellent surfaces

This invention relates generally to articles, devices, and methods for gas hydrate mitigation in deep-sea drilling applications. In certain embodiments, hydrate-phobic surfaces are provided that ensure passive enhancement of flow assurance and prevention of catastrophic failures in deep-sea oil and gas operations.

Articles and methods for reducing hydrate adhesion

An article can have a surface with selected wetting properties for various liquids.

Tunable surface

A superhydrophilic coating on a substrate can be antireflective and antifogging. The coating can remain antireflective and antifogging for extended periods. The coating can include oppositely charge inorganic nanoparticles, and can be substantially free of an organic polymer. The coating can be made mechanically robust by a hydrothermal calcination.

Superhydrophilic coatings

A microfluidic device for manipulating particles can include a substrate and one or more obstacles, each obstacle comprising a plurality of aligned nanostructures including a plurality of nanoparticles or a plurality of polymer layers, or a combination thereof. The obstacle on a substrate can be forests with intra-carbon nanotube spacing ranging between 5-100 nm for isolation of particles such as very small viruses and proteins.

High definition nanomaterials

Inverted Nanocone Structures and Its Fabrication Process. The method of fabricating nanotextured structures includes making a master mold having an array of tapered structures to be replicated. The master mold is pressed into a curable polymer supported on a substrate and the polymer is cured. Thereafter, the mold is detached from the cured polymer to form the nanotextured structure.

Inverted nanocone structures for multifunctional surface and its fabrication process

A structure for collecting liquid droplets from an aerosol can have a structure and properties that are selected for efficient liquid collection. In particular, the strand radius and spacing of a mesh, and a material for coating the mesh, can be selected to provide efficient collection of water droplets from fog.

Liquid collecting permeable structures

A process for making an article having anti-fog properties.

Process for preparing articles having anti-fog layer by layer coating and coated articles having enhanced anti-fog and durability properties

A hydrophilic coating can be applied to virtually any surface to produce a long-lasting, durable antifog effect. The coating includes a molecular-level blend of hydrophilic polymers. The coating can be assembled using a layer-by-layer assembly process.

Coatings

An optical article comprising a substrate and on at least one face of the substrate a multilayered antireflecting coating functioning in an interferential manner having antifog properties, said antireflecting coating including a last layer with a refractive index n&#x2266;1.55 and a physical thickness of 120 nm or less directly deposited on a high refractive index layer (HI layer) having a refractive index n&#x3e;1.55, and a thickness of less than 500 nm.

Optical article including an antireflecting coating having antifog properties and process for making same

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Robert E Cohen