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Non-contact railway inspection

VALUE PROPOSITION Rail transportation is periodically marred by accidents, highlighting ongoing safety challenges. There is a need for effective rail inspection methods. Current techniques are hindered by limitations such as low detection accuracy and sensitivity, particularly at high speeds. This technology introduces a novel method for high-speed,...
Published: 9/27/2024   |   Inventor(s): Yiming Deng, Sunil Chakrapani, Ming Han, Zebadiah Miles
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Test and Measurement, Transportation

Heavy Metal Sensing

VALUE PROPOSITION Heavy metal pollution in soils is widespread in the world, resulting from both natural sources and human activities (e.g., mining and smelting, industrial emission, fossil fuel combustion, etc.). Due to their toxicity, bioaccumulation, and environmental persistence, elevated levels of heavy metals in the environment pose major threats...
Published: 11/14/2024   |   Inventor(s): Wen Li, Hasan Banna, James Siegenthaler
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Agriculture, Analytical Instruments, Environment, Test and Measurement

Super-resolution Optical Imaging

VALUE PROPOSITION Conventional microscopes rely on making a spatial measurement of light, which are diffraction limited. Traditional scanning microscopy approaches obtain a spatial image by scanning across known locations. The wavelength of light becomes the limiting factor in achieving better spatial resolution. It would be advantageous to have a...
Published: 9/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Elad Harel
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Nanotechnology, Photonics, Test and Measurement

Pipeline Inspection Robot

VALUE PROPOSITION Pipelines represent a major supporting industry for utilities and are used in a variety of applications such as for natural gas, water, and oil, as well as residential distribution. Natural gas pipelines alone travel over 2.5 million miles, delivering 28.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to customers in the United States alone....
Published: 7/22/2024   |   Inventor(s): Xiaobo Tan, Preston Fairchild, Claudia Chen, Yiming Deng, Mohand Alzuhiri, Zi Li
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Environmental, Test and Measurement

MRI RF Powered Voltage Sensor

VALUE PROPOSITION For Magnetic Resonance Imaging it is often desirable to measure electrophysical characteristics alongside MRI data. To do so, voltage sensors are employed. This technology is an RF powered voltage sensor which can be configurable to measure a variety of physical indicators with excellent resolution. The design minimizes interference...
Published: 7/29/2024   |   Inventor(s): Chunqi Qian
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Test and Measurement, Biotechnology

High Strain Rate Tensile Testing Apparatus

Executive Summary Characterizing the material response of thermoplastic polymers at intermediate strain rates (1s-1 to ≤ 200s-1), commonly encountered in automotive collisions and crashes, is critical for predicting their failure strength and post-impact behavior. However, investigative experimental techniques required to generate tensile stress-strain...
Published: 6/28/2024   |   Inventor(s): Mahmoodul Haq, Syed Hassan, Oleksii Karpenko
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Test and Measurement

Electrically Active Magnetic Nanoparticle-based Biosensors

Executive Summary Harmful microbes are present in various sources including water, food, plants, and through human-to-human transmission. The ability to detect them rapidly at a low cost is important to protecting the health and safety of humans and animals and the security of food chains. MSU researchers have developed novel nanoparticle-based biosensors...
Published: 3/29/2024   |   Inventor(s): Evangelyn Alocilja, Sudeshna Pal, Emma Setterington
Keywords(s): Biosensors, Magnetic Beads, Magnetic Separation, Molecular Sample Processing, Nanoparticles, Polyaniline Category(s): Biotechnology, Test and Measurement, Devices, Electrical

Laser Pulse Shaper

VALUE PROPOSITION This technology can continuously monitor internal dispersion and correct for temperature drifts caused by the environment or by laser deposited thermal energy. This Pulse shaper will be zero-dispersion and will be able to faithfully characterize input as well as output pulses. INTRODUCTION When a pulse shaper is used as a...
Published: 6/20/2024   |   Inventor(s): Marcos Dantus
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Photonics, Test and Measurement

Recombinant Protein for Rare Earth Element Binding

Executive Summary Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential materials used in advanced technologies such as electronics, process catalysts, magnets, batteries and MRI contrast agents. Although used in small quantities for each application, they end up in surface water and soil during mining, processing and waste disposal. This presents growing environmental...
Published: 10/14/2024   |   Inventor(s): Harvey Lee, Connor Grady, Assaf Gilad
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Biotechnology, Environment, Test and Measurement

Microfluidic Apparatus For Respirometry

Executive Summary Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic processes responsible for the conversion of chemical energy in all aerobic organisms. In animal and plant cells this takes place in the mitochondria where food is broken down to CO2 and strongly reducing compounds. Energy released upon oxidation of the latter by molecular oxygen via a chain...
Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): Denis Proshlyakov, Julia Busik
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Devices, Pharmaceutical, Test and Measurement, Biotechnology
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