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New Method to Produce PBI Films without using Organic Solvents

Reference #: 01429 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for New Method to Produce PBI Films without using Organic Solvents Background: Polybenzimidazole Film is used in membrane electrode assemblies for fuel cells, flow batteries, and hydrogen pumps. The PBI film is a separator between a nickel mesh and carbon felt....

Published: 3/5/2024 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Fei Huang, Lihui Wang, Laura Murdock

Keywords(s): Film, Gel membrane, PBI, Polybenzimidazole, PPA Process, solvent-free

Category(s): Engineering and Physical Sciences

Gas Separation Membranes From Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles

Reference #: 01418 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for Gas Separation Membranes from Polymer-grafted Nanoparticles Background: Polymeric membranes are critical to many sustainability applications that separate gas mixtures based on size differences. Polymer blends using polymer grafted nanoparticles with small...

Published: 4/4/2024 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Yucheng Huang, Connor Bilchak, Sanat Kumar

Keywords(s): gas separations, polymer membranes

Category(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry

Surface Grafted HIPE Foams for Chemical Separations

Reference #: 01232The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for using a new magnetic nanoparticle fabrication technology.Background:Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are a class of nanoparticle that possess unique chemical, structural, electrical, and magnetic properties. They consist of three functional parts: a magnetic core,...

Published: 4/16/2024 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Julia Pribyl, Thomas Shehee, Kathryn Taylor-Pashow

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Category(s): Engineering and Physical Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanotechnology

Development of Polyvinylpyrrolidone Grafted Nanoparticles using New RAFT Agent

Reference #: 01106 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for a new RAFT agent to efficiently restore antibiotic activity by using synthesized nanoparticles. Invention Description: The subject invention is a new reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) agent to conduct the surface-initiated RAFT polymerization...

Published: 5/27/2021 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz (USC), Lei Wang

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Category(s): Biomedical and Life Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanotechnology

Method of Operating Hydrogen Pumps with High-Concentration Hydrogen Sulfides

Reference #: 01018 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for a method for purifying hydrogen from a hydrogen-containing gas stream that has hydrogen sulfide impurities.Invention Description: The subject invention is a method to purify hydrogen in the presence of high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide impurities using...

Published: 11/17/2017 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Guoqing Qian

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Category(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry

Cyclodextrin Functionalized Nanoparticles for Quenching Bacterial Communications

Reference #: 01089 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for a novel method of combating bacterial infections without using antibiotics.Invention Description: The subject invention disrupts bacterial chemical communication using nanoparticles engineered with cyclodextrin compounds that bind and remove the molecules...

Published: 2/23/2022 | Inventor(s): Lei Wang, Kirsten Miller, Alan Decho, Brian Benicewicz (USC)

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Category(s): Nanotechnology, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Poly Alkyl (Meth)Acrylates Grafted Nanoparticles and Their Methods of Manufacture and Use

Reference #: 01068 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for a method of functionalizing nanoparticles with polyolefin-like polymers and dispersing them in polyolefins.Invention Description:The subject invention is a method of grafting polyolefin-like poly(meth)acrylates on inorganic nanoparticles in a controlled manner....

Published: 10/6/2017 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Mohammad Mohammadkhani, Junting Li

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Category(s): Nanotechnology, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Polyisoprene Grafted Nanoparticles

Reference #: 01058 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for a method synthesizing polyisoprene grafted nanoparticles to prepare rubber on silica surfaces.Invention Description:The subject invention is a new method for polymerizing isoperene on silica nanoparticle surfaces that allows more dispersion of silica fillers...

Published: 2/6/2018 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Lei Wang, Mohammad Mohammadkhani

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Category(s): Nanotechnology, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Fabrication of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Reference #: 01023The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for this novel method of synthesizing iron oxide/silica core-shell magnetic nanoparticles.Invention Description:This invention is a new method to synthesize iron oxide/silica core-shell magnetic nanoparticles with a high saturation magnetization and controllable...

Published: 5/27/2021 | Inventor(s): Lei Wang, Brian Benicewicz (USC)

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Category(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanotechnology

Novel Phosphonate/Phosphonic Acid RAFT Agents and Monomer Design

Reference #: 01017The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for this novel use of binding nanomaterials and polymers.Invention Description:Polymer coated nanomaterials are useful in many applications, including in LEDs and bioimaging systems. However, the commercial use of nanomaterials is limited by the poor optical and...

Published: 11/17/2017 | Inventor(s): Brian Benicewicz, Anand Viswanath

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Category(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry, Advanced Materials

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