University of California

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

Wayne A Jensen

Jeffrey S Haas

John F Bushman

Fredrick R Kelly

Michael H Wiefel

Duncan J Maitland

William J Benett

Thomas S Wilson

Jane P Bearinger

Ward Small, Iv

Jason M Ortega

Daniel L Schumann

John E Marion, Iii

Gregory Klunder

Jeffrey M Loge

A system for removing matter from a conduit. The system includes the steps of passing a transport vehicle and a shape memory polymer material through the conduit, transmitting energy to the shape memory polymer material for moving the shape memory polymer material from a first shape to a second and different shape, and withdrawing the transport vehicle and the shape memory polymer material through the conduit carrying the matter.

Shape memory polymer medical device

A hand portable, field-deployable thin-layer chromatography (TLC) unit and a hand portable, battery-operated unit for development, illumination, and data acquisition of the TLC plates contain many miniaturized features that permit a large number of samples to be processed efficiently. The TLC unit includes a solvent tank, a holder for TLC plates, and a variety of tool chambers for storing TLC plates, solvent, and pipettes. After processing in the TLC unit, a TLC plate is positioned in a collapsible illumination box, where the box and a CCD camera are optically aligned for optimal pixel resolution of the CCD images of the TLC plate. The TLC system includes an improved development chamber for chemical development of TLC plates that prevents solvent overflow.

Illumination box and camera system

Hand portable thin-layer chromatography system

Growing community of inventors

Livermore, CA, United States of America

Wayne A Jensen