Category: New products
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Profs Develop Dyes to Help Solar, Hydrogen Fuel Processes
Chemistry professors in Buffalo and Rochester, New York have synthesized new photo-sensitizing dyes that increase the efficiency of producing solar electricity and hydrogen fuel, for which light is a key ingredient. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has cleared the way for a patent on this technology. The research team, led by University at…
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Engineers Develop Biomarker Breathalyzer Diagnostics
Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana are developing breath-analysis technology to diagnose patients in real time by detecting chemical compounds called biomarkers in a person’s respiration. Carlos Martinez, an assistant professor of materials engineering leads the project for Purdue, and is working with colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a…
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Space Company Launches European Comm. Satellite
International Launch Services (ILS), a commercial space services company, launched the Ka-Sat satellite (pictured left) to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton rocket from its facility at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan. After a nine-hour mission, the KA-SAT was released into a geostationary transfer orbit. The Proton Breeze M vehicle used in…
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Student Engineering Works Become Products for Disabled Vets
Last year, four University at Buffalo (UB) computer engineering undergraduates developed a software program to enable quadriplegics and other people with limited mobility to use computers productively with one button. The students are now working with a federal government contractor to tailor the software for disabled veterans, and have formed a company to distribute the…
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Start Up Company Licenses University Polymer Research
A new start up company has licensed advanced polymers research at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, aiming to commercialize polymer technology. PolymerPlus LLC, in nearby Valley View, plans to work with some of the intellectual property developed at the university’s Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS). PolymerPlus will seek out specific applications for…
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Process Developed for High-Quality Gluten-Free Bread
Chemists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Manhattan, Kansas have developed a process for high-quality, gluten-free bread. According to National Institutes of Health, some two million Americans suffer from celiac disease, which makes them unable to digest gluten, a protein in flour from grains such as wheat, barley and rye, causing severe diarrhea…
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NFL Grant Funds Bioengineered Spinal Disc Research
Researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have received a $100,000 grant from NFL Charities to research tissue engineering for spinal injuries. NFL Charities is the charitable foundation of the National Football League owners. The research aims to create a living, bioengineered intervertebral disc (IVD)…
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Doctoral Candidate Develops Stress-Reducing Pen
Researcher Miguel Bruns Alonso, a Ph.D. candidate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, has developed a pen that measures the stress levels of the person using it, and can help to reduce that stress. Bruns is expected to receive his doctoral degree in industrial design later this week. Bruns carried out…
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Another Use for Bounce Dryer Sheets: Repelling Gnats
For some time, many gardeners have carried around Bounce fabric softening dryer sheets to ward off insects. Entomology professor Raymond Cloyd and colleagues at Kansas State University in Manhattan and University of Illinois in Urbana, decided to test this claim about the Procter and Gamble product and discovered there’s something to it. Cloyd’s team conducted…
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Collaboration to Develop Smart Power Grid in Denmark
A collection of 32 partners — companies, not-for-profits, research institutes, and universities — have agreed to develop a new intelligent power grid in Denmark. Called the iPower platform, the new system aims to be ready in 2025, when Denmark is scheduled to generate half of its electricity from wind energy. The iPower platform’s full name…