Pen Inc.

United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of Nasa

Rochester Institute of Technology

Ohio Aerospace Institute

Nanofilm, Ltd.

Bio-pixel Ltd.

Glenn Research Center

Stephanie Castro

Mocherla K K Rao

Zvi Yaniv

Dongsheng Mao

Xueping Li

Anand Upadhyaya

Karl Rickert

Jason Avent

Phillip P Jenkins

Ryne P Raffaelle

Donald L Chubb

David M Wilt

David Scheiman

M Bud Nelson

Kulbinder Kumar Banger

Aloysius F Hepp

Jerry D Harris

Emillo Barbera-Guillem

Brandon S True

Michael Hyun-Chul Jin

A disinfectant material may be used to kill bacteria, viruses, mold and fungal contaminants while minimizing toxic risks to humans. The disinfectant material may be effective in killing pathogens and more on numerous types of surfaces including on the skin of mammals. Exemplary embodiments include a copper halogen, such as copper iodide. Exemplary materials may also include a pH stabilizer, a preservative, humectants, or other constituents. Exemplary disinfectant materials may be used as a liquid or a gel, applied via a wipe, sprayed or in other forms.

Disinfectant material comprising a copper halide salt and surfactant

Disinfectant material

An article of manufacture includes a liquid tight container that holds a disinfecting material. A disinfecting material includes a liquid gel material. The disinfecting material is dispensable from the container through a manual dispenser. The material is usable to apply a antimicrobial coating on surfaces, including the external surfaces of mammals such as human skin.

Disinfectant material comprising copper iodide

An article of manufacture includes a liquid tight container that holds a disinfecting solution. The disinfecting solution is dispensed from the container via an atomizing sprayer. The solution is usable to apply a film of the solution on surfaces. The film applied by the atomizing sprayer is operative to destroy bacterial and fungal organisms on the surfaces at the time of initial application and organisms that later come in contact with the film on the surface.

Disinfectant spray comprising copper iodide

A transparent laminate comprises an optically clear, cured coating layer including abrasion-resistant nanoparticles, and one or more monomers and/or one or more oligomers that are reacted in the presence of an ultraviolet light photoinitiator. The coating layer also contains a surface portion rich in hydrophilic surfactant so that the coating layer when residing on a transparent substrate forms a laminate having good abrasion resistant properties as well as good anti-fog properties.

Fog and abrasion resistant hardcoat for plastics having hydrophilic surfactant rich surface portion with surfactant concentration gradient

An alpha voltaic battery includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material comprising at least one p/n junction, at least one absorption and conversion layer on the at least one layer of semiconductor layer, and at least one alpha particle emitter. The absorption and conversion layer prevents at least a portion of alpha particles from the alpha particle emitter from damaging the p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. The absorption and conversion layer also converts at least a portion of energy from the alpha particles into electron-hole pairs for collection by the one p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material.

Alpha voltaic batteries and methods thereof

A single source precursor for depositing ternary I-III-VIchalcopyrite materials useful as semiconductors. The single source precursor has the I-III-VIstoichiometry 'built into' a single precursor molecular structure which degrades on heating or pyrolysis to yield the desired I-III-VIternary chalcopyrite. The single source precursors effectively degrade to yield the ternary chalcopyrite at low temperature, e.g. below 500&#xb0; C., and are useful to deposit thin film ternary chalcopyrite layers via a spray CVD technique. The ternary single source precursors according to the invention can be used to provide nanocrystallite structures useful as quantum dots. A method of making the ternary single source precursors is also provided.

Single-source precursors for ternary chalcopyrite materials, and methods of making and using the same

Provided are compositions and assay kits comprising functionalized nanocrystals having extending therefrom a plurality of polynucleotide strands of known sequence; wherein primary dots are used to operably link to a molecular probe, and secondary dots comprise a plurality of polynucleotide strands which are complementary to the plurality of polynucleotide strands of the primary dots. Also provided is a method for detecting the presence or absence of target molecule in a sample comprising operably linking primary dots to molecular probe, contacting the complex formed with the sample, contacting the sample with successive additions of secondary dots and primary dots. If target molecule is present in the sample, the primary dots and secondary dots will form dendrimers that can be detected by fluorescence emission.

Polynucleotide strands operably linked to nanocrystals functionalized to be water soluble

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