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Flexible Integrated Circuit Packaging

012-0012-li - The George Washington University has invented a way to package integrated circuits (ICs) in a flexible, twistable, and stretchable format.  In addition to many applications in wearable...

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Self-Repairing and Self-Sustaining Autonomous Machines

11-025-hsu -  Machines are subject to wear due to friction between moving parts.  The expensive heavy equipment, such as wind turbines and aircraft propellers, are expensive to shut down or repair....

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Direct Low Cost Production of Graphene Platelets

012-033-keidar - In the last ten years graphene has exploded on the scientific scene with its myriad of novel and exciting properties.  Graphene has, to name a few of these properties, very high...

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Interferometric System for Parameter Measurement at Supersonic Velocities

011-0011-bivolaru - 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...

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Hollow Carbon Nanosphere Composite Based Secondary Cell Electrodes

015-066-wagner - Building on prior research, researchers at The George Washington University have overcome the lower energy capacity, charge/discharge rate and low temperature performance of lithium...

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Water Purification System Based on Visible-Light-Responsive Graphitic Carbon...

015-037-shuai - 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...

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3D Shape Memory Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

016-005-zhang - Over 120,000 patients are currently waiting for lifesaving organ and tissue transplants. Tissue engineering has the potential to innovate transplant and minimally invasive surgery by...

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Hybrid interconnects for on-chip communication: A solution with low latency...

016-017 -   As computer chip feature sizes continue to decrease, power consumed due to on-chip communications will dramatically grow. This calls for new techniques which can provide higher bandwidth...

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3D printed vascularized tissue scaffold with extracellular matrix triggered...

016-006-zhang - “Vas-Scaf” is a 3D bio-printed vascularized bone scaffold perfused with osteogenic and angiogenic growth factors. Artificial bone grafts lacking vascularization fail due to poor...

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3D Printing Blood Vessels Without Sacrificial Templates

017-011-zhang - Using novel bioactive ink for 3D printing, GW researchers create multi-layered vasculature. Large-scale artificial tissue implants for defect reconstruction require vascularization to...

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Combining Dual 3D Bioprinting and Regional Bioactive Factors to Make...

016-025-zhang - GW researchers generated a vascularized and highly osteogenic bone construct with a biphasic structure using a multiple 3D printing platform. Traditional tissue engineering techniques...

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Microbubble and Ultrasound Therapies to Enhance Cartilage Repair and Regrowth

017-022-sarkar - By combining low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) with lipid coated microbubbles, researchers at GW increased differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) into cartilage....

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Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of CO2 to Potassium Formate using Glycerol...

017-053-voutchkova - To simultaneously transform COand glycerol, two low-value by-products, into formate and lactate can be highly economically attractive. Presently, however, it is challenging to...

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Friction Reduction for Engine Components

011-0021-hsu - The demand for automobile energy efficiency and higher emission standards encourages the development of modern engines and drive trains that have lower frictional losses at various...

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Microencapsulation of Chemical Additives

015-014-hsu - There is a need for a new process for encapsulating complex chemical additives, where microcapsules can give strong performance under hostile chemical and mechanical conditions. While...

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Water Purification Materials: Improving Pd Dispersion and Hydrogenation...

018-055-shuai - Researchers at The George Washington University have developed novel industrially viable catalysts for water purification, catalytic hydrogenation and other engineering application. In...

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Materials and Coatings of Variable Density for Electrodes and Catalysts

019-014-nagel - Researchers at The George Washington University are developing innovative methods to produce materials and coatings, which can be used for electrodes in batteries, fuel cells,...

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NEXT GENERATION OF GOLF BALL DESIGN

018-023-balaras - Researchers at the George Washington University and Arizona State University have been developing a family of novel golf ball designs that can reduce drag by as much as 15% compared...

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4D-Printed Programmable Culture Substrate for Controlling Neural Stem Cell...

020-006-zhang - Neural stem cells (NSCs) exhibit great promise for treating neurodegenerative diseases and injuries. Treatments will rely on efficient proliferation and differentiation of NSCs into...

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Production of Li-Ion Battery-Grade Graphite (environmentally friendly and...

018-004-wagner - Researchers at The George Washington University are developing an innovative method to make high purity crystalline flake graphite from low-cost biomass. The novel Graphite technology...

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Aluminum Coated Silicon Nanoparticles for Li-ion Battery Anodes (inexpensive...

017-028-wagner - Researchers at The George Washington University are developing an innovative material for use in Li-ion battery anodes. The market for Li-ion battery ANODE materials is about $1...

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FABRICATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR AND THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS BY ADDITIVE...

018-030-leblanc - Researchers at the George Washington University have invented a novel additive manufacturing technique for fabrication of semiconductor and thermoelectric structures of various shapes...

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3D Biophotonic Devices for All Optical Electrophysiology

021-036-entcheva - Optical actuation and sensing methods were demonstrated by GW for high-throughput drug and cardiotoxicity screening. However, modification of target cells takes time, has variable...

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