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Selection of ENERGY AND MATERIAL technologies available for licensing

For a one-page description of each case with contact information, click on the case number.The date when a case was added to this newsletter is indicated after the case title.

For other energy technology inquiries, please contact Chris Noble. For other MIT Intellectual Property available for licensing, please contact the appropriate Licensing Officer.


     
  • Biofuels
  • Case 8126 Conversion of Organic Substances in pulping wastes with attendant recovery of pulping chemicals (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12549 Light hydrocarbons via cost efficient separation from biomass feedstocks (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12864 Reformer Enhanced Direct Injection Methanol Engines (December 19, 2012)
  • Case 13148 Economical microbial production of higher chain length hydroxyvalerates from levulinate (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 14284 Detection of Ethanol Emission From a Spark Ignition Engine Operating on Gasohols (June 2, 2011)
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Case 15450 Optimizing fuel efficiency for HEV by path forecast and RHC algorithm (October 26, 2012)
  • Case 15230 Thermo-Adsorptive Battery (December 13, 2012)
  • Electromechanical Systems
  • Case 13279 Micro and Nano Scale Shape Memory Material for Mechanical Damping (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 13906 Flexible Actuator Based on Shape Memory Alloy Sheet (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Case 14017 Pulse-modulated control, non-linear friction, micron-scale valves, actuators (August 24, 2011)
  • Case 14771Portable Pneumatic Battery: Chemical Power Generation for Fluidic Elastomer Actuators (December 1, 2011)
  • Energy Efficiency: Energy Monitoring
  • Case 13930 A retrofit 60-Hz current sensor for non-intrusive power monitoring at the circuit breaker (March 3, 2010)
  • Energy Efficiency: Other
  • Case 6389 Multiscale Transient Event Detector (November 16, 2012)
  • Case 12750 Fluorescent Lamp with Integral Proximity Sensor (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Case 13910 Health Monitoring Using Electroactive Sensory Skin (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 14541 A Passive Louver-Based Daylighting System (August 24, 2011)
  • Case 14572 Hyper Resolution Multi-Frame Imaging (March 13, 2013)
  • Case 14596 Multi-Frame Low-Light Signal-to-Noise Enhancement and Super Resolution (August 23, 2011)
  • Case 14676 CO2GO: Transportation Mode Identification and Real-Time CO2 Emissions Estimation Using Mobile Phone Sensors (January 10, 2012)
  • Case 14851 FM TABS: Frequency Modifying RFID Tag Antenna Based Sensing (January 11, 2012)
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Case 13195Active Motion Heat Exchanger (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 13310 Circuit and Method to Improve Energy Harvesting Efficiency in Piezoelectric Harvesters (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 13636 Circuit and Method to Startup from Very Low Voltages and Improve Energy Harvesting Efficiency in Thermoelectric Harvesters (December 1, 2010)
  • Case 13708 Electromagnetic device with compact magnetic flux paths for optimal energy harvesting from fluid motion (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13785 Luminescent solar concentrators for energy harvesting in displays (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 14051 Wide-Bandwidth MEMS-Scale Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 14516 Passive Self-tuning Energy Harvester for Rotational Motion (August 23, 2011)
  • Energy Storage: Batteries: Lithium Batteries
  • Case 11755 LiNi0.5Mn0.5O2 with significantly low cation mixing for higher energy and power density (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12347 Nano-sized coatings to improve cyclability, rate capability and capacity retention of olivine electrode materials for rechargeable lithium ion batteries (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 13787 Solid Polymer Electrolyte Lithium Ion Battery (December 9, 2010)
  • Case 15197 Layer-by-Layer Separator Membrane for Lithium-Ion Battery (January 17, 2012)
  • Energy Storage: Batteries: Metal-air Batteries
  • Case 10188 Novel Air Electrode Designs for Metal-Air Batteries and Fuel Cells (July 4, 2011)
  • Case 14172 Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution in Li-AIR Batteries (March 2, 2012)
  • Case 14330 AuPt Nanoparticles for Catalysis Application in Metal-Air Electrochemical Cells (March 2, 2012)
  • Case 14615 Aligned Carbon Nanofiber/Nanotube Electrodes for Energy Storage Devices(October 25, 2011)
  • Energy Storage: Batteries: Other
  • Case 11837 Spontaneous assembly of viruses on multilayered polymer surfaces for cost efficient thin-film electrode materials (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13090 3D Microbatteries (August 25, 2011)
  • Case 14844 High Energy Density Low Tortuosity Battery Electrodes and Methods of Manufacture (March 12, 2013)
  • Case 14985 Azobenzene Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes and Other Templated Photoswitch Molecules for High Energy Density Solar Thermal Fuels (December 1, 2011)
  • Energy Storage: Thermal Storage
  • Case 15230 Thermo-Adsorptive Battery (November 26, 2012)
  • Energy Storage: Other
  • Case 12292 Energy storage in carbon nanotube-based springs (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 12528 Nanocomposite Catalysts for Steam Reforming of Propane (April 22, 2013)
  • Case 14188 Offshore Energy Harvesting, Storage and Power Generation System (December 2, 2010)
  • Fuel Cells
  • Case 8203 Integrated fast thermal response palladium-based micromembranes for hydrogen separation and hydrogenation/dehydrogenation reactions (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 9570 Thin Film Single Chamber Micro-Fuel Cell (December 7, 2010)
  • Case 9722 Layer-by-layer assembly of ethylene glycol/oxide solid electrolyte with easily tunable transport properties and increased membrane conductivity (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 10730 Layer-by-layer fabrication of proton exchange membranes for reducing thickness of fuel cell stacks (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 10816 Electrophoretically Formed Electrochemical Devices (December 2, 2010)
  • Case 11681 Tolerant anode formulations for solid oxide fuel cells (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12417 Three-dimensionally distributed fuel cell for enhanced fuel cell efficiency (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12526 Interconnected, 3-Dimensional Fuel Cell Design Prepared by Direct-Ink-Writing (December 19, 2012)
  • Case 12912 Layer-by-layer assembly of very high ionic conductivity polymer electrolyte material for electrochemical devices (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13845 Strain-induced activity enhancement for oxygen reduction reaction catalysis and oxygen ion transport (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 14232 Laminar Flow Fuel Cell Incorporating Concentrated Liquid Oxidant (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Hydrocarbons: CO2 Capture and Storage
  • Case 13586 A process and system for separation and capture of carbon-dioxide from water (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 14236 A Novel Approach to Carbon-dioxide Purification for Oxy-Combustion System (July 11, 2011)
  • Case 14633 Biologically catalyzed carbon dioxide mineralization using yeast-displayed enzymes and proteins(July 11, 2011)
  • Case 14644 A Hybrid Polymer-Ceramic Carbon Free Combustor (April 9, 2012)
  • Hydrocarbons: Diesel Engines
  • Case 13646 Thin layer porous material to minimize contaminants for reducing filter pressure drop (March 19, 2012)
  • Hydrocarbons: Oil Exploration
  • Case 12319 Integrated Milliwave Melter Monitoring System (November 1, 2012)
  • Case 12673 Rock Macroscopic Anisotropy Through Rock Minerology Upscaling from Elemental Capture Spectroscopy Logging, "ECS Logging Tool" (December 7, 2012)
  • Case 13021 Millimeter-wave drilling beam system for faster and deeper ground penetrations (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 14014 Robotic Exploration of Surfaces Using Tactile Data (April 4, 2013)
  • Case 14094 Sub Sea Vehicle and Method of Use: Vertical Glider Robot (VGR) (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Case 14336 Magnetic Colloid Petroleum Oil Clean-Up of Surface, Depth, and Shores (August 31, 2011)
  • Case 14446 Hydrate-phobic Pipe Surfaces (October 25, 2011)
  • Case 14632 Thermally-Actuated Gas Lift Safety Valve: Apparatus and Operational Procedure (November 15, 2011)
  • Case 14841 Shape Memory Alloy Actuator with Sharp Phase Change (April 4, 2012)
  • Case 15111 Procedure and Device for Electric Energy Generation from Nuclear Decay for Powering Small Devices in Downhole Environments (April 4, 2013)
  • Case 15209 Millimeter-Wave Heating, Radiometry, and Calorimetry of Granite Rock to Vaporization (February 17, 2012)
  • Hydrocarbons: Other
  • Case 14833Electrochemically Induced Synthesis and Surface Deposition and Growth of Crystalline Metal-Organic Frameworks (November 15, 2011)
  • Case 15003Fischer Tropsch Reactor with Integrated Organic Rankine Cycle (March 9, 2012)
  • Hydrophobicity: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Case 14467 Method of Visualizing and Manipulating Liquid Droplets in an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (Janurary 31, 2011)
  • Hydrophobicity: Hydrophobic Materials
  • Case 12387 Superhydrophobic nanomaterials for oil spill cleanup (March 24, 2010)
  • Case 13139 Water and Oil Resistant Fabrics with Tunable Surface Energy or Wettability (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 14176 Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Surfaces Using Viral Nano-Templates (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 14259 Superwetting Surfaces for Diminishing Leidenfrost Effect (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 14358 Superhydrophobic Surface Formation by Crystallization of Polymers (August 31, 2011)
  • Case 14716 Controlling Droplet Impact Dynamics by Nanopatterning Surfaces (March 14, 2013)
  • Metallurgy
  • Case 7247 Precursor for near-stoichiometric silicon carbide for efficient shrinkage control of particles (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 11442 Transient Liquid Phase Bonding for Lower Temperature Joining of Co-Sintered Materials (February 4, 2012)
  • Case 12358 Hard coating for high temperature applications (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 13519Thermo-mechanical process for enhanced quality of grain boundary networks in high-purity metals (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 14010Deposition Processes and Equipments of Forming Ge on Si (August 24, 2011)
  • Case 14063Processing method of Cu alloy to get high coincident site lattice ratio grain boundaries (August 24, 2011)
  • Case 15106Production of PVD Coatings Based on Nb(CN) (February 4, 2012)
  • Nanotechnology
  • Case 9543 Thick Porous Anodic Alumina Films and Nanowire Arrays Grown on a Solid Substrate (July 24, 2011)
  • Case 10051 Cost effective microchemical systems for synthesis and coating of colloidal nanoparticles (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 10391 Novel material with controllable sub-nanometer morphology (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 11971 Novel method for controlling self-assembly over ultra-large area substrates and applications in nanofabrication (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12881 Virus/Nanowires Encapsulation within Polymer Microgels for Energy and Electronics (April 17, 2013)
  • Case 12940 Bactericidal Nanofibers (August 24, 2011)
  • Case 13080 CVD-grown graphite nanoribbons (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13136 Cost effective fabrication of large area single and few-layer graphene on arbitrary substrates (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13342 Layer-by-layer TiO2 nanocoating on electrospun polymers for increased photocatalysis efficiency (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13566 Optical 3-D nanopatterning technology for reversible photo-initiated transitions without high intensities (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13853 Phase transition percolation materials (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 14711 Hierarchical Nanostructures by Thermal Oxidation of Metals (January 10, 2012)
  • Case 14860 Prediction of Stable Nanocrystalline Binary Alloys (April 20, 2012)
  • Nuclear Power
  • Case 9986 Enrichment of uranium by bacteria for greater cost efficiency (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 14791 Method for Improving Deposition (CRUD) Resistance of Nuclear Fuel Cladding and Components (March 16, 2012)
  • Power Transmission & Conversion: Heat Exchangers
  • Case 13427 Nanoparticle Thin-Film Coatings for Enhancement of the Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient and Critical Heat Flux (January 18, 2013)
  • Case 14875 A Double Pinch Criterion for Optimization of Regenerative Rankine Cycles: Powerplant Operation and Simmulation/Optimization Software Modeling Strategies (December 1, 2011)
  • Power Transmission & Conversion: Other
  • Case 06953 Set point optimization in vapor compression cycles(August 31, 2011)
  • Case 13956 Tumble Dryer with Thermoelectric Heat Pump in Combination with Internal Heat Exchanger (December 9, 2010)
  • Case 14110 Swirl-Counter-Swirl Microjets for Thermoacoustic Instability Suppression (November 8, 2010)
  • Power Transmission & Conversion: Superconductivity
  • Case 13179 Cabling Method of Flat Tape-shaped Superconducting Wires (November 24, 2009)
  • Power Transmission & Conversion: Transmission
  • Case 15075 Topology Identification in Distributed Network with Limited Measurements (February 28, 2012)
  • Semiconductor Technology: Semiconductor Manufacturing
  • Case 10597 Integrated BST Microwave Tunable Devices Using Buffer Layer Transfer Method and Fabricated on SOI Substrate (December 2, 2010)
  • Case 10697 Strained Silicon on Silcon by Wafer Bonding and Layer Transfer (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 12126 Nanometer-Precision Tip-to-Substrate Control and Pattern Registration for Scanning-Probe Lithography (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 14605 Method for forming a contact layer having strong adhesion and exceptional uniformity on semiconductor or thermoelectric substrate (August 23, 2011)
  • Semiconductor Technology: Power Transistors
  • Case 10578 Improved Enhancement of P-Type/N-Type Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors Preserved over a Large Processing Temperature Range (November 12, 2010)
  • Case 12506 New Devices Based on Si/Nitride Structures (December 1, 2010)
  • Case 13414 New Wafer Technology and Its Applications in Nitride Semiconductors (December 1, 2010)
  • Case 14353 High-Performance Nitride Transistor (December 1, 2010)
  • Case 14643 Unconventional Nitride-on-Si Substrate Structures (July 6, 2011)
  • Case 15195 New Structure and Technology for Power Semiconductor Devices (January 10, 2012)
  • Solar: Photosynthesis
  • Case 14286 Solar-Powered Water Splitting with Cobalt-Based Catalyst on Silicon Photoanodes (May 2, 2012)
  • Case 14882 Asymmetry of Multi-electron Transfer Kinetics in Oxygen Electrocatalysis and its Application for Highly Active Catalyst Design (December 16, 2011)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: Concentrating PV
  • Case 12478 Improving the Collection Efficiency of Luminescent Solar Concentrators (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Case 13284 Applications for Luminescent Solar Concentrators (August 24, 2011)
  • Case 13336 Solar energy at greater than 50% efficiency via Polychromatic-Diffractive Concentrators (December 5, 2012)
  • Case 13289 Materials for Luminescent Solar Concentrators (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Case 13296 Methods for Increasing Power Output from Luminescent Solar Concentrators (Janurary 6, 2011)
  • Case 15192 Si-based Parallel Multijunction Solar Cells for Solar Spectrum Splitting, High Efficiency Concentrating Photovoltaics (January 17, 2012)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: Organic PV
  • Case 12843 Organic based solar cell with patterned exciton blocking layer (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 14292 Photovoltaics on Paper and Plastic Enabled by Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition (oCVD) (December 2, 2010)
  • Case 14540 Virus enabled self-assembly of nanocomposites for highly efficient photovoltaic devices (August 31, 2011)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: PV Electronics
  • Case 13884Ultra High Efficiency Grid-Tied Power Conversion(February 21, 2012)
  • Case 14787 Multi-phase Grid Interface System (December 8, 2011)
  • Case 14303 Stacked Controlled-Cell Power Conversion Architecture for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems (December 21, 2011)
  • Case 14725 Per Panel Photovoltaic Energy Extraction with Multilevel Output DC-DC Switched Capacitor Converters (August 23, 2011)
  • Case 14953 Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer Architecture (March 12, 2012)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: PV Optics
  • Case 13051 Multiple Wavelength Binary Diffractive Elements (Feburary 16, 2011)
  • Case 13573 Global optimization of silicon photovoltaic cell front coatings for enhanced light absorption (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 14244 Method for Antireflection in Binary and Multi-Level Diffractive Optical Elements (February 21, 2012)
  • Case 14861 Process for Manufacturing Glass with Micro/Nanostrutured Surface Texture (October 24, 2012)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: PV Processing
  • Case 11524 Externally Fed Photovoltaic Cells Utilizing Plasmon Energy Transfer (Janurary 6, 2011)
  • Case 11996 Zinc-Oxide Nanowire Photosynthetic Solar Cell (September 1, 2011)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: Silicon PV
  • Case 13019 Reduction of dislocation density in silicon solar cell material for enhanced solar cell performance (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 14086 Dislocation Reduction in Silicon by Application of Cyclic Thermal Stress (Janurary 5, 2011)
  • Case 15220 A Method for Producing Thin Layers of Crystalline Silicon without Wire-Sawing
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: Thermal PV
  • Case 14212 A High Efficiency Micro-Thermophotovoltaic Generator System (August 31, 2011)
  • Case 15281 Thermally Stable Nano Structure for Selective Emitter (April 27, 2012)
  • Case 14368 Angular Photonic Band Gap (August 31, 2011)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: Thin Film PV
  • Case 9261 Ge backside solar cells to absorb un-utilized light below Si band-gap for increased energy conversion efficiency (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 11367 Light trapping in thin film solar cells using textured photonic crystal (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 12087 Solar cell efficiencies through periodicity (November 24, 2009)
  • Case 13718 Low cost self-assembled deterministic quasi-periodic structure (DQPS) for light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells (December 1, 2011)
  • Case 14085 Solar photovoltaic cells based on silicon membranes with periodic holes (March 3, 2010)
  • Solar: Photovoltaics: PV (Other)
  • Case 14118 Three-dimensional photovoltaic apparatus and method (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 14319 Recycling of Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics by Means of Ambipolar Electrolysis (November 8, 2010)
  • Case 14703 Photovoltaic Reverse Osmosis System with Thermal Management (April 21, 2011)
  • Solar Thermal Conversion
  • Case 13251 Solar Power Tower with Direct Absorption of Solar Radiation in a Salt Bath with Nanoparticles (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 13728 Concentrating solar power receiver, storage tank, and salt bath with nanoparticles (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 13794Self-cleaning Parabolic Trough for Concentrated Solar Power Systems (November 29, 2011)
  • Case 14322 CSPonD: Concentrated Solar Power on Demand (January 7, 2011)
  • Case 14333 Discretely Actuated Solar Mirrors (November 5, 2010)
  • Case 14620 Site Selection for Hillside Central Receiver Solar Thermal Plants (July 6, 2011)
  • Case 14695 Parabolic Solar Concentrators Using Optimized Bands (April 21, 2011)
  • Case 15058Biomimetic Spiral Pattern for Heliostat Layouts (December 21, 2011)
  • Thermoelectricity
  • Case 7661 Superlattice Structures For use In Thermoelectric Devices (August 31, 2011)
  • Case 8631 PBTE-based quantum dot thermoelectric materials (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 8761 A Simple Thermoelectric Device Test Structure (December 2, 2010)
  • Case 10634 Cold Electron Thermal-Electric Diode (November 9, 2012)
  • Case 10827 Surface Plasma Coupled Nonequilibrium Thermoelectric Devices (December 2, 2010)
  • Case 11653 Multistage Thick Film Thermoelectric Devices (November 28, 2012)
  • Case 13666 Nano-scale thermal conduits for creating high power thermoelectric waves from stored chemical energy (March 3, 2010)
  • Case 15717 Tantalum, Niobium, and Alloys Thereof and Their Use as Selective Emitters Based on 2-D Photonic Crystals (April 16, 2013)
  • Wind
  • Case 14848 Improvements in Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines (December 1, 2011)
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