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A Bio-Based Manufacturing Process To Create Foam Using Chitin Sourced From Shellfish Waste
A bio-based closed-cell foam created using chitin derived from shellfish waste. Chitin is the second most abundant polysaccharide after cellulose and acts as the structural component of the exoskeleton of arthropods. Chitin has mechanical properties that can be processed into a foam. Such a foam can be used for biodegradeable packaging as well as other uses.
Solution Processing Of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Thin Films
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Reconfigurable Soft Li-Ion Battery
The invention is flexible/stretchable soft battery for devices that seamlessly integrate for human-machine interface applications. Such reconfigurable and soft batteries will play an important role as power sources can take up a large space in a system. To this end, the conformable/stretchable batteries of the embodiments provide an ideal power sources for these devices. Wearable devices attract lots of interest with a market share of over $116.2 billion/year, projected to be $265.4 billion by 2026
Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Composites
A Battery-Less Wirelessly Powered Frequency-Swept Spectroscopy Sensor
UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a wirelessly powered frequency-swept spectroscopy sensor.
Cephalopod-Inspired Adaptive Infrared Camouflage Materials and Systems
This technology is a new class of materials capable of thermal regulation and active camouflage. These cephalopod-inspired materials, configurable to different geometries, can be used in many sectors, ranging from consumer to industrial to military applications.
High Thermal Conductivity Boron Arsenide For Thermal Management, Electronics, And Photonics Applications
UCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering have developed a novel boron arsenide (BAs) material that has an ultra-high thermal conductivity of 1300 W/mK and low cost of synthesis and processing.
A Solution Method To Improve Nanowires Connection And Its Applications In Electro-Related Areas
UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a simple solution-based method for fabricating highly conductive transparent silver nanowire (AgNW) films with excellent adhesive capabilities and noteworthy electrical, mechanical, and optical performance.
Controlling Magnetization Using Patterned Electrodes on Piezoelectrics
UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a novel piezoelectric thin film that can control magnetic properties of individual magnetic islands.
Flexible And Stretchable Interconnects For Flexible Systems And Flextrate(Tm)
Researchers led by Professor Subramanian Iyer from the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA have developed a novel fabrication technique to create stretchable electronics.
An Implantable Electrocorticogram (ECoG)-Brain-Computer Interface System for Restoring Lower Extremity Movement and Sensation
A fully implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) with onboard processing to control a robotic gait exoskeleton as a walking aid for individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). This technology would alleviate SCI patient’s dependence on wheel chairs, reducing the risk of secondary medical complications that account for an estimated $50 billion/year in healthcare costs.
Electrical Conduction In A Cephalopod Structural Protein
Fabricating materials from naturally occurring proteins that are inherently biocompatible enables the resulting material to be easily integrated with many downstream applications, ranging from batteries to transistors. In addition, protein-based materials are also advantageous because they can be physically tuned and specifically functionalized. Inventors have developed protein-based material from structural proteins such as reflectins found in cephalopods, a molluscan class that includes cuttlefish, squid, and octopus. In a space dominated by artificial, man-made proton-conducting materials, this material is derived from naturally occurring proteins.
A Digital Polar and a ZVS Contour Based Hybrid Power Amplifier
Researchers in the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering have created a hybrid digital polar and zero switching voltage (ZVS) contour power amplifier, offering higher efficiency for up to 36 dB peak-to-average ratio.
A Low-Cost-Wafer-Level Process For Packaging MEMS 3-D Devices
A low-cost solution to robust electronic packaging of 3-D MEMS devices using micro-glassblown “bubble-shaped” structures.
Tunable Thz Generation In Chip-Scale Graphene
UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a novel tunable and efficient terahertz (THz) plasmon generation on-chip via graphene monolayers.
Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with All Solution Processed Metal Oxide Transporting Layers
UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a novel lead halide perovskite solar cell with a metal oxide charge transport layer.
Design of Semi-Transparent, Transparent, Stacked or Top-Illuminated Organic Photovoltaic Devices
UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed novel tandem transparent and semi-transparent organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices.
Silver Nanowire-Indium Tin Oxide Nanoparticle As A Transparent Conductor For Optoelectronic Devices
UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a novel composite material made of metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) and silver nanowires (AgNWs).
Novel Polymers for Polymer Solar Cells, Transistors, and Sensors
UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a novel class of conjugated polymers for photo-electronic device applications.
Operation Frequency Band Customizable and Frequency Tunable Filters with EBG substrate
The technology relates to cavity resonators and filters for improved processing of electromagnetic signals. Specifically, the invention is a cavity resonator or filter that is constructed on electromagnetic bandgap substrate that includes an external controlling assemble can change the work frequency of the cavity resonator or filter. This enables device access to frequencies with a very broad range.
Synthesis Technique to Achieve High-Anisotropy FeNi
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed an innovative synthesis approach to achieve high anisotropy L1 FeNi by combining physical vapor deposition and a high speed rapid thermal annealing (RTA).
Monolithic Integration Of Solar-Powered Wearable Electronics (2015-208)
Monolithic Integration of Ultra-Scaled High Performance Pin-Size Wearable Electronics
Wearable electronics for health monitoring have gained increased interest after conformal tattoo-like electronic sensors were co-integrated on elastomeric sheets. One of the design requirements in such wearable electronics was to carefully adjust the effective Young’s modulus and bending stiffness of the resulting layered electronics, and this has restrained the compact integration of the electronic components because the single transistor elements had dimensions that were in millimeter scale. The promise of tattoo-like epidermal electronics has inspired a significant research effort to optimize the mechanics of these structures.
Composition Structure with Tessllated Layers
The technology is a tessellated composite structure that is resistant to tearing and fatigue.It features improved resistance to tearing and fatigue damage and is biased towards compression stress, as opposed to tensile stress.
GaN-based Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor and Junction Field Effect Transistors
The first true vertical GaN-based transistors, where gating is also performed on electrons traveling perpendicular to the surface in a vertical channel.