Catalysts play countless roles in modern society including production of fertilizer, synthesis of plastics and other ubiquitous materials and development of pharmaceuticals. However, many catalysts re...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a triblock copolymer strategy for controlling the spacing between CNTs. The triblock copolymers consist of an A-B-A architecture where the B block is the conjugat...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new electrochemical method for synthesizing epoxides from hydroxy-alkanes. The method is implemented in a reactor comprising an anode and a cathode separated by...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a process to recover the components of printed multilayer plastic films. As an example, a film composed of polyethylene (PE), ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH), and p...
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Recent global estimates project that over 125 million tons of dairy products are wasted or discarded due to spoilage each year. Roughly half of this waste occurs before the products even reach the con...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a solution-phase metalation method for increasing M loading on N-C. The N-C supports are synthesized by high-temperature pyrolysis of N, C precursor mixtures (e.g...
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The inventor discloses a new method and system for reductive electrochemical synthesis that uses H2 as the terminal reductant. Essentially, this invention will enable H2-integrated anodes and flow-rea...
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Manufacturers require material that can absorb a high amount of kinetic energy from ballistic impacts to produce protective equipment such as bulletproof vests and tank armor, and air- and spacecraft ...
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A solvent-less method for photo-redox mediated MF-ROMP that can be used to produce industrially relevant polymers. Recognizing that fluorinated alcohols have several comparable characteristics to ROMP...
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An improved ODH method for the conversion of alkanes (e.g., propane) to alkenes (e.g., propylene) that leverages an oxygen-atom donor. Essentially, the method is radical-mediated, requiring only a sma...
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Building off their earlier work with LC-infused multilayer films, the inventors developed a method for directly infusing LCs into porous PTFE membranes.  The resulting materials have desirable ch...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a process for producing core-shell metal matrix nanocomposite wire for directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing. The procedure involves first produ...
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The inventors have identified new interstitial oxygen diffusers. Included in this discovery is the identification of classes of materials that enable substitution of elements to yield related material...
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UW-Madison researchers developed a carbon-supported boron catalyst for the selective and active oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of alkanes to produce alkenes (e.g., olefins comprising two or more carb...
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UW Madison researchers have developed cobalt intermetallic compounds that include cobalt and a second element. The isotopes of the second element in the compounds are present in their natural isotopic...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a diruthenium containing catalyst capable of efficiently converting ammonia to nitrogen in the presence of oxygen. These catalysts, which generally facilitate mul...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an improved method of synthesizing ammonia from hydrogen sulfide and lithium nitrate. This process, currently embodied in a continuous cycle, leverages hydrogen s...
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This invention discloses spray-based methods for generating polymer-based coatings with a range of morphologies, chemical reactivities, and physical stabilities useful for a broad range of application...
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The present invention provides materials and methods of making materials, where at least one surface of the material utilizes an emulsion to controllably release active agents, which can include hydro...
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Zinc oxide graphene composite materials have significant interest commercially as they have been demonstrated effective for use in sensors and capacitors. They can act as transparent conductive thin-...
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The present invention provides combinatorial methods for rapidly generating a diverse library of glycorandomized structures, comprising incubating one or more aglycons and a pool of NDP-sugars in the ...
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Described is a method for making a composition comprising alkanes. The composition is suitable for use as a liquid transportation fuel in general, and jet fuel in particular. The method includes dehyd...
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The present invention provides methods of producing libraries of compounds with enhanced desirable properties and diminished side effects as well as the compounds produced by the methods. In preferred...
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Power generators that incorporate porous electric generation layers composed of mechanoradical-forming polymers are provided. Also provided are methods for using the generators to convert mechanical e...
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Polymers having pendant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) groups covalently bound to the polymer backbone via thioester bonds are provided. The PAH groups are covalently bound to the backbone of t...
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