Chemicals

The novelty about the current invention is the superimposition of micro- and nano- structured metal oxide layer onto a metal substrate that constitutes a component of machinery itself.

These family of compounds can be tailored to treat industrial and agricultural aqueous solutions by removing high concentrations of oxoanions such as sulfate, chromate, nitrate, phosphate, etc.

Graphene has great potential to serve as a separation membrane due to its unique properties such as chemical and mechanical stability, flexibility and most importantly its one-atom thickness.

Unexpected synergistic effects on friction and wear reductions have been discovered for as lubricant additives. For example, adding both organic-modified NPs into a base oil has demonstrated >20% friction reduction and >70% wear reductions.

Biomass fermentation to butanediols is an important biological conversion pathway and butanediols are very useful chemical building blocks for production of solvents, chemicals and fuels.

The invention provides a new route for the preparation of metallic catalysts through utilization of a metal-organic framework template.  This technique ensures the metal catalyst is uniformly and homogeneously distributed throughout the inorganic support. 

This invention comprises a method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen gas.

We have developed a ligand that removes CO2 from ambient air by carbonate crystallization from an aqueous solution, allowing for simple CO2 separation by filtration of the carbonate salt.

The present invention includes a method of fabricating of shear thickening electrolytes and coating materials.

This invention concerns a battery electrolyte that includes a shear thickening fluid that stiffens upon impact to form a solid barrier that prevents a shorting event from occurring during an accident.