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Market Opportunity
Current energy storage technologies, primarily lithium-ion batteries, face limitations in energy density, safety, and resource availability. Fluoride-ion (F-ion) batteries represent a promising alternative due to their potential for higher energy density and improved safety profiles. However, existing F-ion battery materials often...
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Market Opportunity
Carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) are extensively used in aerospace, automotive, and energy sectors due to their exceptional strength-to-weight ratio and durability. However, recycling these materials remains challenging because their polymer matrices are highly cross-linked and difficult to break down. Traditional recycling...
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Background
Many advanced materials and molecular systems require precise, reversible control over molecular interactions. Applications for responsive materials, biomedical systems and adaptive surfaces need on-demand, localized, and reversible control of binding interactions. There is a clear need for small molecule platforms that can be controlled...
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Background
Donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) have become valuable photoresponsive materials due to their modular donor, acceptor, and triene components that tune a variety of properties. This attribute is critical for integrating photoswitches into complex devices and biological environments for applications in targeted drug delivery...
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Market Opportunity
While electron emission devices have been heavily explored in the past, the maximum modulation frequency of these devices is limited. Optical modulation of emission offers the highest modulation speeds. Optical approaches, however, are highly inefficient, particularly when utilizing nanostructured tips. Furthermore, these devices...
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Scalable quantum optical circuits
Quantum computing
Quantum communication
Abstract
USC researchers have developed a novel method of generating mesa-top single photon emitting quantum dots (MTSQDs) in a spatially orientated manner. This platform simultaneously meets the characteristics needed to form a quantum optical circuit: spatially ordered...
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Market Opportunity
Additive manufacturing of self-healing elastomers addresses a major unmet need in soft materials by enabling complex 3D architectures that can recover from damage rather than fail permanently. This capability opens significant opportunities in soft robotics, flexible electronics, structural composites, and biomedical devices, where...
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Market Opportunity
Lithium-ion batteries play an essential role in modern society, and cheap, rechargeable batteries will be key to continued scaling of electric car and solar farm technology. However, the active materials in many commercial cathode electrodes have poor electrical conductivity. Incorporating carbon additives is one way to improve the...
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Market Opportunity
Lightweight lattice materials can provide great benefits in many applications such as airplanes, drones, and automobiles where a lighter structure can result in greater mechanical efficiency. The applications of 3D lattice structures have been significantly limited due to their inability in self-repairing of damages. Creating materials...
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Market Opportunity
Vat photopolymerization offers benefits over soft lithography for microfluidic device production, but the technique struggles with controlled micrometer- sized channels due to transparent resin's deep light penetration. This results in over-curing and channel blockages. There is a potential market opportunity for the development...
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