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Design and Fabrication Processes of Icephobic Surfaces
Researchers at GW have invented design and fabrication processes associated with the prevention of ice formation in various surfaces with a particular focus on surfaces associated with sea-ships, space-ships, high-altitude airplanes, and high-altitude aircrafts associated with space travel. One design invented is capable of delaying icing for at least...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 12/17/2021
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Inventor(s): Stephen Hsu, Govindaiah Patakamuri
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Industrial Manufacturing
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Multi Axis Integrated Tracking Lens Array
Researchers at GW have invented a solar apparatus that has an integrated tracking lens array which is also multi-axial. The invented solar apparatus is highly cost-effective compared to extant solar devices. It can capture solar rays from a wide range of angles of incidence thus having an increased efficiency in contrast to extant solar apparatuses...
Published: 1/11/2022
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Updated: 12/17/2021
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Inventor(s): James Moore
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Industrial Manufacturing
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Improving the efficiency of intermediate band quantum dot solar cells
Conventional single junction (e.g. silica, GaAs) solar cells absorb photons only from a limited range of spectra (i.e., above the band-gap photons), missing almost 60% of the energy that can potentially be obtained from the entire solar spectrum. Intermediate band (IB) solar cells, with Quantum Dots (QD) tuned to absorb photons from a wider range of...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 11/11/2021
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Inventor(s): Andrei Afanasev, Ara Kechiantz, Jean-Louis Lazzari
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
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Interferometric System for Parameter Measurement at Supersonic Velocities
The device is a nonintrusive instrument capable of simultaneously measuring the (translational) temperature, bulk velocity and density of gas flows under a wide range of conditions including extremely high temperatures and velocities. The instrument is capable simultaneously measuring the three variables (temperature, velocity and density) of...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 11/9/2021
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Inventor(s): Daniel Bivolaru, Andrew Cutler, Paul Danehy
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials
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Greatly improved Li-ion battery – much higher “energy storage capacity” & “charging rates”
The problem: most batteries use graphite as anode material. Graphite has poor energy storage capacity.
The solution: Researchers at the Geoerge Washington University (GW) have developed a new type of composite materials based on HCNS (hollow carbon nanospheres), which have the ability to charge at much higher rates and greatly exceed the energy-storage...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 11/4/2021
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Inventor(s): Michael Wagner, Nathan Banek, Kevin Hays
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials
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Water Purification System Based on Visible-Light-Responsive Graphitic Carbon Nitride
Researchers at The George Washington University (GW) have worked on the development and optimization of a carbon nitride based photo-catalytic membrane system in order to create an advanced technology for the purification of water.
Our society is currently facing great challenges from environmental pollution. Many organic pollutants such as pharmaceuticals...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 11/4/2021
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Inventor(s): Danmeng Shuai, Qinmin Zheng
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
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Hybrid interconnects for on-chip communication: A solution with low latency and efficient energy consumption
As computer chip feature size continue to decrease, power consumed due to on-chip communications will dramatically grow. This calls for new techniques which can provide higher bandwidth and data rates than over traditional electrical interconnects.
Photonic interconnects can provide higher bandwidth and data rates. However optoelectronic...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 10/14/2021
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Inventor(s): Shuai Sun, Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Vikram Narayana, Abdel-Hameed Badawy
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips
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Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of CO2 to Potassium Formate using Glycerol as a Hydrogen Source
To simultaneously transform CO2 and glycerol, two low-value by-products, into formate and lactate can be highly economically attractive. Presently, however, it is challenging to achieve the reaction on an industrial scale.
GW researchers developed novel single-site supported heterogeneous catalysts that can simultaneously convert CO2 and glycerol into...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 10/14/2021
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Inventor(s): Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, Matthew Finn, Jacob Heltzel
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
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PMU-Embedded Analytics for Online Event Detection and Classification in Power Grids
Researchers at The George Washington University are developing innovative analytics for power grid online surveillance (event detection and classification with minimum latency) and real-time situational awareness. The novel analytics can be deployed as a stand-alone next-generation smart sensor or can be embedded within the existing phasor measurement...
Published: 1/7/2022
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Updated: 10/6/2021
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Inventor(s): Payman Dehghanian, Shiyuan Wang, Li Li
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
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