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Zwitterionic ionic liquids as gas chromatography stationary phases
Summary: ISU researchers have developed an improved stationary phase for performing gas chromatography on carboxylic acids, glycols and alcohols.
Description: Gas chromatography is the most common method of separating and quantifying carboxylic acids, including free fatty acids, but due to properties such as polarity, involatility, and thermal ins...
Published: 2/18/2019
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging, Research Tools & Design Tools
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Two dimensional early transition metal carbides (MXenes) as catalysts for water gas shift and propane dehydrogenation
ISU researchers have developed a new catalyst for efficient conversion of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and hydrogen as part of the water gas shift reaction and transforming shale gas efficiently into propylene via propane dehydration.
Description: 2D materials have unusual electron, mechanical and optical properties and have been extensivel...
Published: 1/16/2019
Category(s): Energy, Cleantech & Environmental, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Customized setups for high throughput screening of 3D printable resins
Summary: ISU and Ames Laboratory scientists have developed an adapter that conserves the volume of resin used in the 3D printing of smaller parts.
Description: Common commercial 3D-printers have a single build platform that requires a significant volume of material for every printing task, regardless of size of your target part. Consequently, scre...
Published: 1/7/2019
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Integrated selective capture, sequestration, fluidic isolation, electrical lysis and analysis of single cells
Summary: ISU researchers have developed a microfluidic platform capable of selective single-cell capture, isolation, and rapid electrical lysis for analysis.
Description: Iowa State University researchers have developed a microfluidic device for selective single-cell capture at an array of wireless bipolar electrodes. Thus, selective cell isolatio...
Published: 12/5/2018
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Imaging, Medical Devices
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Acoustic mediated multi-material 3D printing
Summary: ISU researchers have developed a system for creating colloidal crystals, embedded in a polymer, using a 3D-printer like flow-through system.
Description: Collodial crystals, ordered structures composed of micro- and nano-scale particles, enable many advanced material applications, such as enhancing solar cell efficiency. Current approache...
Published: 7/27/2018
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Cerium, Cobalt and Copper Alloy doped with Tantalum or/and Iron as a Permanent Magnet Material
Summary: ISU and Ames Laboratory researchers have develop a gap magnet that utilizes trace amount of cheaper, abundant and non-critical cerium (Ce) as an alternative to critical rare-earths containing magnet alloys. This invention makes the magnet significantly cheaper and less dependent on supplies of rare-earth materials, with that performance su...
Published: 4/30/2018
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Ni-Co-Mn-Ti Intermetallics with Enhanced Magnetocaloric Properties Prepared by Combination of Different Methods
Summary: Iowa State University (ISU) and Ames Laboratory (AL) researchers have developed a method to manufacture Ni-Co-Mn-Ti intermetallics with enhanced magnetocaloric properties. The resultant materials produce an extremely large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) with a modest magnetic field change. The MCE is nearly three times greater at near room te...
Published: 3/20/2018
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Polymers for Caloric Applications
Summary: Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have developed a new polymeric material that provides a larger electrocaloric effect than previously known polymer materials.
Description: Highly-efficient, solid-state cooling devices offer the promise of greatly improved energy efficiency relative to vapor-compression refrigeration s...
Published: 2/26/2018
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Energy, Cleantech & Environmental, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Converting levulinic acid to olefins and aromatics (i.e. hydrocarbon fuels) in a single process step without external hydrogen gas
Summary: Iowa State University researchers have developed a new catalyst that effectively converts levulinic acid to butene in a single pot process at high conversion rates and with good selectivity towards butene. As butene is insoluble in the aqueous reaction and readily separates into a second phase, allowing unconverted levulinic acid to be rea...
Published: 2/21/2018
Category(s): Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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Feedstock and Heterogeneous Structure for Tough Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and Production Process Thereof
Summary: Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have developed a method for producing rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs) that reduces their susceptibility to breakage. The process involves unitizing a bimodal or multimodal size distribution of powders in isostatic pressing, which minimizes crack propagation along the grain boundari...
Published: 2/21/2018
Category(s): Ames Laboratory, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Materials
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