Material Science

Binder Jet Printing: A Novel Method for Joining Dissimilar Materials

07100

Two-step binder jet printing with sintering bonds dissimilar materials via mechanical interlock and alloying, reducing thermal stress.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Lead Inventor: Mahsa Beyk Khorasani
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Mahsa Beyk Khorasani
Markus Chmielus
Technology Readiness Level: 3. Prototype development
Date Submitted: 2025-02-28

Next-Generation Bio-Adaptive Stent for Safer Organ Repair

07303

A bio-adaptive, biodegradable stent merges strong early support with gradual dissolution, reducing migration and removal needs.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Implantable Medical Device
Tags: Material Science
Implantable Medical Device
Lead Inventor: Mohamed Doheim
Department: Med-Neurology
All Tech Innovators: Mohamed Doheim
Raul Gomes Nogueira
Date Submitted: 2025-08-24
Collections: Regenerative Medicine

Accelerated Wound Healing Sustained Release Nanoparticles

07150

Sustained-release TGF-β3 nanoparticles enhance soft-tissue wound strength, reduce scarring, enabling single-site surgical therapy.

Tags: Material Science
Implantable Medical Device
Lead Inventor: Thiagarajan Meyyappan
Department: Med-Medicine
All Tech Innovators: Steven R. Little
Thiagarajan Meyyappan
Date Submitted: 2025-04-15
Collections: Regenerative Medicine

Novel Laser Sintering/Melting Method

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AI-driven hybrid laser sintering/melting enables solvent-free, dendrite-free Li-ion batteries with higher density, lower cost.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Matthew Criado
Brock T. Golesich
Howard Arthur Kuhn
Date Submitted: 2024-11-13
Collections: Healthcare AI

Self-Powered Pulse Generator for Drug Delivery

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Self-powered, battery-free pulse generator delivers precise high-voltage electrical pulses for topical gene and drug delivery.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Therapeutic Medical Device
Tags: Material Science
Lead Inventor: Chandan Sen
Department: Med-Surgery
All Tech Innovators: Subhadip Ghatak
Chandan Sen
Yi Xuan
Date Submitted: 2024-02-06

Novel Hybrid Advanced Manufacturing System

06568

Hybrid manufacturing system unites wire-arc DED, friction stir welding, and milling for refined microstructure, stronger, high-precision parts.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Lead Inventor: Albert To
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Dinh Son Nguyen
Albert Chi Fu To
Date Submitted: 2023-11-10

Electrically-Driven Single-Photon Emitter Chip

06566

Electrically driven SPS chip enables entangled, path-encoded photons via chirality separation, integrating quantum-dot LEDs and plasmonic couplers.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Semiconductor
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Quantum Computing
Lead Inventor: Hong Kim
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
All Tech Innovators: Noah Bright
Hong Koo Kim
Yu Shi
Date Submitted: 2023-11-08

Novel Approach to Improve Lithium Metal Batteries

06476

New MCA alloy-based lithium battery approach replaces copper current collectors, enables dendrite-free, high-capacity, lighter Li metal cells.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Energy
Tags: Material Science
Chemistry
Electrochemistry
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Mayur Mahendra Gaikwad
Prashant N. Kumta
Ramalinga Kuruba
Date Submitted: 2023-08-08

Novel Energy Frugal Method for Producing Permanent Magnets

06392

Novel Mn-Al magnet production via severe plastic deformation enables low-cost, REE-free permanent magnets for sustainable energy uses.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Chemical
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Permanent Magnets
Lead Inventor: Jorg Wiezorek
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Ravi Shankar Meenakshisundaram
Jorg Michael Wiezorek
Date Submitted: 2023-05-02

Additively Manufactured Ferrite-Based Soft Magnetic Cores for High-Frequency Applications

06354

3D-printed ferrite nanocomposite cores with tunable microstructure for higher-frequency, denser EV power converters.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Paul Ohodnicki
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Bishal Bhandari
Dipika Mandal
Suraj Venkateshwaran Mullurkara
Date Submitted: 2023-03-18

Self-Assembled Nanocomposite Soft Magnetic Ferrites for High-Frequency Applications

06355

Self-assembled Ni-Zn ferrite nanocomposites boost high-frequency inductors with higher saturation, lower losses, scalable redox control.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Paul Ohodnicki
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Suraj Venkateshwaran Mullurkara
Paul Richard Ohodnicki
Date Submitted: 2023-03-18

Membrane Contractor for Seawater Purification

06083

A membrane-coated desalination method locally lowers seawater pH to convert bicarbonate into CO2 for simultaneous desalination and carbon capture.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Environmental Engineering
Tags: Material Science
Chemistry
Environmental Engineering
Lead Inventor: Katherine Hornbostel
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Hoda Behbahani
Matt Green
Katherine Mary Hornbostel
Date Submitted: 2022-06-30

Flow Bed Assisted Photopolymerization Manufacturing

05472

Flow Bed Assisted Photopolymerization Manufacturing enables high-throughput, embedded-filler 3D printing for multi-material composites (CMCs/PMCs/MMCs).

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Xiayun Zhao
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Xiayun Zhao
Date Submitted: 2021-02-17

High Temperature Optical Fiber Devices

05308

High-temperature optical fiber sensor enables near-IR/thermal emission probing above 500°C, enabling harsh-environment sensing and energy extraction.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Sensor
Lead Inventor: Paul Ohodnicki
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
All Tech Innovators: Paul Richard Ohodnicki
Sheng Shen
Date Submitted: 2020-04-15

Self-Aware Composite Metamaterials (Meta-Tribomaterials)

05268

Self-aware meta-tribomaterials harvest mechanical energy, self-power, and sense changes for aerospace, healthcare, and infrastructure.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Renewable Energy
Lead Inventor: Amir Alavi
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
All Tech Innovators: Amir Alavi
Date Submitted: 2020-02-03
Collections: Regenerative Medicine

Novel Cathodes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

05179

New CFMs for Li-S battery cathodes enable high conductivity, polysulfide trapping, and scalable, low-cost high-energy cathodes.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Energy
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Moni Kanchan Datta
Prashant N. Kumta
Ramalinga Kuruba
Date Submitted: 2019-11-21

Novel Architecture for Dendrite Free Li-ion Batteries

05155

Dendrite-free Li-metal anodes via CNF-PDMS/Cu, enabling high CE (>99%), >2000 mAh/g, stable 600-cycle LIBs.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Energy
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Moni Kanchan Datta
Bharat Gattu
Prashant N. Kumta
Date Submitted: 2019-10-31

Using Nanoparticles to Stabilize and Preserve the Bioactivity of Proteins and Peptides

04961

Silica nanoparticle textures stabilize surface-bound proteins, enabling dry storage, broader biosensor and implant applications.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Implantable Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Other
Tags: Material Science
Biomaterial
Coating
Lead Inventor: Xinyan Cui
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Xinyan Cui
Kevin M. Woeppel
Date Submitted: 2019-04-17

Nanoparticle Dopants for Conducting Polymers

04941

Nanoparticle-doped PEDOT lowers impedance, boosts charge injection and drug loading for improved neural interfaces.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Implantable Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Cardiovascular
Neuroscience
Tags: Material Science
Biomaterial
Coating
Lead Inventor: Xinyan Cui
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Xinyan Cui
Kevin M. Woeppel
Date Submitted: 2019-04-03
Collections: Regenerative Medicine
Cardiometabolic

Ovarian ECM Derivatives for Women's Health Applications

04945

Bioengineered ovarian ECM hydrogel enables rapid follicle delivery to restore fertility and endocrine function after chemotherapy.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Industrial Biotech
Therapeutic Areas: Reproductive Health
Tags: Material Science
Biomaterial
Regenerative medicine
Lead Inventor: Michael Buckenmeyer
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Bryan Nicklaus Brown
Michael Joseph Buckenmeyer
Kyle E. Orwig
Date Submitted: 2019-04-06
Collections: Regenerative Medicine
Women's & Reproductive Health

Fade-to-Clear Sutures

04276

Fade-to-clear sutures: visible during use, fade to clear within 24 hours, reducing eyestrain and patient-visible scarring.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Surgical Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Other
Tags: Material Science
Polymer
Lead Inventor: Eric Beckman
Department: Chem/Petroleum Engineering
All Tech Innovators: Eric J. Beckman
Stephen Douglas Cummings
Joseph Peter Rubin
Technology Readiness Level: 3. Prototype development
Date Submitted: 2017-06-04

Automatic Early-Onset Free Flap Failure Detection

04241

Automated, early-detection system reduces free flap failure false positives to ~10%, eliminating expert reliance and enabling implantable monitoring.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Implantable Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Cardiovascular
Musculoskeletal
Tags: Material Science
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Machine learning
Lead Inventor: Michael Rothfuss
Department: All Temps
All Tech Innovators: Murat Akcakaya
Michael Lawrence Gimbel
Michael A. Rothfuss
Technology Readiness Level: 3. Prototype development
Date Submitted: 2017-05-10
Collections: Cardiometabolic
Healthcare AI

Composite Polymer Electrolytes Improve Li–S Batteries

04093

Composite polymer electrolytes enable stable Li–S batteries with higher energy density via gel separators and inorganic fillers.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Energy
Tags: Material Science
Engineering
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Moni Kanchan Datta
Bharat Gattu
Prashanth Jampani Hanumantha
Date Submitted: 2016-11-27

TriaGel: Comprehensive Gel Eye Dressing to Revolutionize Ocular First Aid

04068

TriaGel: a rapid, injectable ocular gel that stabilizes injuries, delivers anti-inflammatories, reduces complications and costs.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Industrial Biotech
Therapeutic Areas: Intensive Care
Ophthalmology
Tags: Material Science
Regenerative medicine
Lead Inventor: Morgan Dileo
Department: Med-Ophthalmology
All Tech Innovators: Morgan Virginia Dileo
Jenny Yu
Date Submitted: 2016-11-07
Collections: Regenerative Medicine

ResMag: A Resorbable Magnesium Alloy for Medical Applications

04049

Biodegradable magnesium alloy implants matching bone elasticity reduce metastasis risk and need for removal surgeries.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Surgical Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Musculoskeletal
Tags: Material Science
Regenerative medicine
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Da-Tren Chou
Dae Ho Hong
Prashant N. Kumta
Date Submitted: 2016-10-18
Collections: Regenerative Medicine

A Touch Probe Passively Powered Wireless Stent Antenna for Implanted Sensor Powering and Interrogation

03793

Passive touch-probe powered wireless stent antenna enables secure powering and interrogation of implanted sensors for restenosis monitoring.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Surgical Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Cardiovascular
Tags: Material Science
Aging
Lead Inventor: Michael Rothfuss
Department: All Temps
All Tech Innovators: Michael Lawrence Gimbel
Michael A. Rothfuss
Ervin Sejdic
Technology Readiness Level: 3. Prototype development
Date Submitted: 2015-12-21
Collections: Cardiometabolic

Fiber Optic Light Cable Safety Cover

03693

Fiber Optic Safety Cover prevents heat/light hazards when cables disconnect, boosting patient safety and reducing hospital liability.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Surgical Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Other
Tags: Material Science
Minimally invasive
Lead Inventor: Steven Docimo
Department: Med-Urology
All Tech Innovators: William W. Clark
Alexandra Marie Delazio
Steven Gerard Docimo
Technology Readiness Level: 3. Prototype development
Date Submitted: 2015-08-02

Resorbable Magnesium Hardware for Bone Fractures

03562

Biodegradable magnesium bone fixation hardware strengthens healing and resorbs, reducing need for removal and surgeries.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Surgical Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Musculoskeletal
Tags: Material Science
Biomaterial
Regenerative medicine
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Da-Tren Chou
Vijay S. Gorantla
Dae Ho Hong
Date Submitted: 2015-03-24
Collections: Regenerative Medicine

Colorimetric Chemodosimeter for Palladium

03416

A low-cost, on-site colorimetric palladium detector with autonomous halting/restart, rivaling ICP methods in sensitivity.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Tags: Material Science
Platform Technology
Lead Inventor: Kazunori Koide
Department: Chemistry
All Tech Innovators: Xiaodong Bu
Junyong Jo
Kazunori Koide
Date Submitted: 2014-10-04

Temperature-Assisted On-Column Focusing in Liquid Chromatography

03289

Temperature-Assisted On-Column Focusing enhances small-column LC by cooling sections to concentrate samples, improving efficiency and reducing waste.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Chemical
Tags: Material Science
Coating
Platform Technology
Lead Inventor: Stephen Weber
Department: Chemistry
All Tech Innovators: Stephen Robert Groskreutz
Stephen G. Weber
Technology Readiness Level: 3. Prototype development
Date Submitted: 2014-04-03

Corrosion-Resistant, Bioactive Coatings for Magnesium -Based Medical Devices

03014

Bioactive PEM coatings yield corrosion resistance, improved biocompatibility, and controlled biomolecule delivery for magnesium-based implants.

Technology Type: Medical Device
Technology Subtype: Implantable Medical Device
Therapeutic Areas: Dental
Musculoskeletal
Tags: Material Science
Biomaterial
Coating
Lead Inventor: Prashant Kumta
Department: Bioengineering
All Tech Innovators: Prashant N. Kumta
Sangeetha Kunjukunju
Boeun Lee
Date Submitted: 2013-04-01

Electroosmotic Convection-Enhanced Delivery System

02482

Electroosmosis-driven, programmable drug delivery via porous tissue with directed, backflow-free transport, enabling precise tumor targeting.

Technology Type: Engineering Technology
Technology Subtype: Material Science
Therapeutic Areas: Oncology
Tags: Material Science
Platform Technology
Lead Inventor: Stephen Weber
Department: Chemistry
All Tech Innovators: Amir H. Faraji
Yifat Guy
Stephen G. Weber
Date Submitted: 2011-05-13