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Flexible Hybrid Fastener with Increased Bond Strength and Optimized Sealing Capacity

Executive Summary Fasteners are often installed through holes drilled in individual pieces to be joined. While significant advancements have been made in fasteners over the past several decades, construction techniques such as using composites (including wood, fiberglass, and carbon fiber), in particular, have exposed serious limitations to existing...
Published: 12/1/2025   |   Inventor(s): Gary Cloud
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Advanced Materials, Defense, Mechanical, Subassemblies and Components, Energy

Lignin-Based Separators for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Executive Summary Lithium ion batteries are currently ubiquitous in numerous applications. In these batteries, the separator plays a crucial role by physically separating the anode and cathode to prevent electrical short circuits while allowing the flow of ions through the electrolytes. Common materials used for separators include polyolefins such...
Published: 8/15/2025   |   Inventor(s): Chengcheng Fang, Huanhuan Jia
Keywords(s): Lignin, Lithium Batteries Category(s): Advanced Materials, Energy

Hybrid Lithium-Ion / Lithium-Metal Battery Electrolyte for Fast Charging and High Energy Density

Executive Summary Lithium ion batteries are currently ubiquitous in numerous applications while lithium metal batteries are becoming closer to commercialization. For all batteries, there is a continuous need for higher energy density and fast charging and discharging due to growing applications such as e-vehicles. One limitation of lithium based batteries...
Published: 8/15/2025   |   Inventor(s): Chengcheng Fang, Robert Kuphal
Keywords(s): Lithium Batteries Category(s): Energy, Materials, Mobility

Modular and Scalable Solar Microinverter

Executive Summary Induction motors are used in a myriad of applications. Often, however, they are oversized and draw high starting currents which typically incurs additional electricity charges. For pumping applications, this can also lead to excess wear of the pump and piping system. While a variable speed drive (VSD) may alleviate this problem, VSD’s...
Published: 1/6/2025   |   Inventor(s): Woongkul Lee, Younsuk Dong, Musab Guven
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Mobility, Electrical, Energy

Efficient Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Liquid Ammonia Storage System

Executive Summary Liquid ammonia is current stored and transported in very large quantities in refrigerated units, railcars, tanker trucks and pressurized containers. While the majority of existing uses are as a nitrogen fertilizer for agricultural uses, increasing attention has been turned to ammonia as a green, carbon free energy storage medium for...
Published: 4/22/2025   |   Inventor(s): Mi Chenija, Reza Ghazfar, Milton Smith, III, Thomas Hamann
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Chemicals, Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Transportation

Synthetic Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Proteins Derived by Circular Permutation and/or Genetic Fusion

INTRODUCTION Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles used by various bacteria to encapsulate metabolic pathways into a proteinaceous shell. BMCs serve as scaffolds to organize encapsulated enzymes and as physical boundaries to reduce diffusive loss of volatile or toxic intermediates and restrict crosstalk with cytosolic biosynthetic pathways....
Published: 4/22/2025   |   Inventor(s): Cheryl Kerfeld, Bryan Ferlez, Markus Sutter, Andrew Hagen, Nancy Sloan
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Biotechnology, Energy, Chemicals, Environmental, Manufacturing Equipment

A Robust Algal Assemblage for Biomass Production and Carbon Dioxide Capture

­Executive Summary: Stable algal assemblage cultured for biomass production and carbon dioxide capture is robust under different bioreactor configurations, environmental conditions, and CO2 supplements. Background: Carbon dioxide accounts for 82% of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Sustainable carbon capture is essential for decreasing...
Published: 3/12/2025   |   Inventor(s): Wei Liao, Yan (susie) Liu
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Agricultural, Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Environmental

Engineered Shell Proteins to Enable Electron Transfer Across the Shell of a Bacterial Microcompartment

INTRODUCTION Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles used by various bacteria to encapsulate metabolic pathways into a proteinaceous shell. Because of their attributes (self-assembling modules, optimization of the reactions in their lumen.) they have potential as catalytic bioreactors that can be customized to support new metabolic functions....
Published: 9/8/2023   |   Inventor(s): Cheryl Kerfeld, Clement Aussignargues
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Biotechnology, Chemicals, Energy, Environmental, Manufacturing Equipment

A Gating Grid Driver for Time Projection Chamber

Executive SummaryTime Projection Chambers (TPCs) are uniquely useful in analyzing nuclear reactions and resulting particles. These devices rely on fast gating systems to allow or deny entry of particles into the detection area; without which they would not be functional. MSU researchers have developed a novel gating grid driver system for TPCs. Due...
Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): William Lynch, Suwat Tangwancharoen, Man-Yee Tsang
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Control Systems, Devices, Test and Measurement, Computer Hardware, Electrical, Energy, Photonics

Couple-Compression Technology

Executive Summary With increasing emphasis on energy efficiency and alternative sources of energy, researchers continually search for methods of energy generation and storage that increase efficiency and reduce costs. One such method of recovering otherwise wasted energy is the implementation of thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectric devices operate...
Published: 6/9/2025   |   Inventor(s): Edward Timm, Harold Schock, Guoming Zhu, Trevor Ruckle, Kevin Moran
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Energy, Transportation, Advanced Materials
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