Ut-Battelle, Inc.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc

New Mexico State University

Shannon Mark Mahurin

Sheng Dai

Ivan Vlassiouk

Sumedh Pradeep Surwade

Huimin Luo

Tomonori Saito

Xiao-Guang Sun

Jimmy Wayne Mays

Xiqing Wang

Sergei Smirnov

Raymond Robert Unocic

Josip Caja

Jinshui Zhang

De-en Jiang

Sabornie Chatterjee

Brian Keith Long

Alexei P Sokolov

Xueguang Jiang

Rui Qiao

Tao Hong

A method of thermally insulating a surface, the method comprising applying a coating of a thermally insulating composition onto said surface, wherein said thermally insulating composition comprises: (i) hollow spherical nanoparticles having a mean particle size of less than 800 nm in diameter and a particle size distribution in which at least 90% of the hollow spherical nanoparticles have a size within &#xb1;20% of said mean particle size, and a first layer of cationic or anionic molecules attached to said surfaces of the hollow spherical nanoparticles; and (ii) a second layer of molecules of opposite charge to the first layer of molecules, wherein said second layer of molecules of opposite charge are ionically associated with said first layer of molecules, wherein the molecules in said second layer have at least eight carbon atoms.

Porous thermally insulating compositions containing hollow spherical nanoparticles

A method for regulating ion transport between first and second regions of a liquid solution containing ionic species in at least one of said first and second regions, the method comprising applying a voltage on an electrically conductive mesoporous carbon membrane situated between said first and second regions of the liquid solution, wherein liquid flow between first and second regions is permitted only through said mesoporous carbon membrane, and the applied voltage is selected to modulate the degree of ion transport between said first and second regions, wherein an increase in applied voltage results in a reduction in the degree of ion transport between said first and second regions, optionally up to a critical voltage at which ion transport ceases.

Modulation of ion transport in a liquid by application of an electric potential on a mesoporous carbon membrane

A method for the desalination of water, the method comprising flowing salt water through a free-standing single-layer membrane of nanoporous graphene having a first planar side that makes contact with the salt water and an opposing second planar side from which desalinated water exits, wherein said membrane contains nanopores having a size of up to 1 nm, along with a substantial absence of pores above 1 nm in size, wherein said nanopores up to 1 nm in size have pore edges passivated with silicon, wherein salt ions in said salt water are blocked from passing through said membrane while water in said salt water passes through said membrane to result in desalinated water exiting said membrane.

Nanoporous graphene membrane for desalination of salt water

A membrane useful in gas separation, the membrane comprising a cross-linked polysiloxane structure having a cross-link density of about 0.1&#xd7;10mol/cmto about 6&#xd7;10mol/cm, where, in particular embodiments, the cross-linked polysiloxane structure has the following general structure: wherein R, R, R, R, R, and Rare independently selected from hydrocarbon groups having at least 1 and up to 6 carbon atoms; Aand Aare independently selected from cyclic hydrocarbon groups; Land Lare linking groups or covalent bonds; n is an integer of at least 1; r and s are independently selected from integers of at least 1; and p is an integer of at least 10. The invention also includes methods for making and using the above-described membranes for gas separation.

Cross-linked polymeric membranes for carbon dioxide separation

The present invention is a gas detector and method for using the gas detector for detecting and identifying volatile organic and/or volatile inorganic substances present in unknown vapors in an environment. The gas detector comprises a sensing means and a detecting means for detecting electrical capacitance variance of the sensing means and for further identifying the volatile organic and volatile inorganic substances. The sensing means comprises at least one sensing unit and a sensing material allocated therein the sensing unit. The sensing material is an ionic liquid which is exposed to the environment and is capable of dissolving a quantity of said volatile substance upon exposure thereto. The sensing means constitutes an electrochemical capacitor and the detecting means is in electrical communication with the sensing means.

Method and apparatus for detection of chemical vapors

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