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The further you want to go, the more plastic you need to pay. (A plastic bottle is worth about two plastic cups.) The scheme is being well received by locals, and the cost is offset by auctioning the collected plastic off to recycling companies. Surabaya's success should come as no surprise.  \n\nSurabaya is a city where 75% of the trips happens in private vehicles. Through the bottles-for-tickets program, the government is hoping that this will also encourage more people to ride the bus while eliminating plastic waste at the same time.\n\nCuritiba, Brazil, launched a similar program in 1991 trading food and transportation passes for recyclable waste. Today, Curitiba recycles almost 70 percent of its waste. That's particularly impressive when you consider that, on average, Brazil recycles only 1 percent of its waste. If Surabaya's efforts meet with similar success, could other municipalities follow suit?"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Currencies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Bottles For Bus Rides: Transportation Scheme Aims To Boost Recycling"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Financial Technology"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation678c7caa-7593-45e2-a123-bdd3ec36e8e9"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Engaging, hands-on design experiences are key for formal and informal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. Robotic and video game design challenges have been particularly effective in stimulating student interest, but equivalent experiences for the life sciences are not as developed. Researchers have developed the concept of a \"biotic game design project\" to motivate student learning at the interface of life sciences and device engineering (as part of a cornerstone bioengineering devices course). They provide all course material and adapt the project's complexity to serve other time frames age groups learning focuses and budgets.\n \nIn one project the team, led by Seung Ah Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in the Riedel-Kruse lab, created an arcade-style kiosk that allowed visitors to the Tech Museum in San Jose to interact with living cells like fish in an aquarium. Lee explains that the kiosk allowed museum visitors to interact with Euglena, a freely swimming microorganism that typically lives in ponds. [Citation: http://www.futurity.org/biotechnology-biotic-processing-units-905512/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nLike plants, Euglena can convert sunlight into sugar through photosynthesis. The interactive display capitalized on the organisms responses to light. In their interactive kiosk, the Euglena inhabited a micro-aquarium that was essentially a specially configured slide-mounted between a video microscope and an image projector. This slide, or micro-aquarium, was another instance of what the researchers call a BPU. [Citation: http://www.futurity.org/biotechnology-biotic-processing-units-905512/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThis self-contained micro-aquarium was connected to a touch-screen computer display. Museum visitors could use blue, green, or red light to draw patterns on the screen and observe how the Euglena reacted. The microorganisms avoided blue light, so drawing a circle around one of the microbes would trap it, which became the name for one of the scientific mini-games the kiosk offered. [Citation: http://www.futurity.org/biotechnology-biotic-processing-units-905512/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Innovation in Education"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Biotic Game for students"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Community Action"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Quality Education"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0f0a9d86-14dc-4311-adbb-5265cb90fd77"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A new robot called Fiberbot wraps itself in a cocoon, creating towering fiberglass tubes that could be used for constructing buildings and bridges. Fiberbots are being developed by researchers from MITs Mediated Matter Group.\n\nThe FIBERBOTS is a biologically inspired technology; nature's builders leverage hierarchical structures in a swarm of insects in order to control and optimize multiple material properties.\n\nThe FIBERBOTS are a swarm of robots designed to wind fiberglass filament around themselves to create high-strength tubular structures. The robots are mobile and uses sensor feedback to imitate how an individual entity in a swarm operates. With the use of said sensor feedback, the robots can control the length and curvature of each individual tube according to paths determine by a custom design protocol. This capability gives flexibility to the designs that can be implemented using FIBERBOTS. Each Fiberbot will have a winding arm and a motorized base. The MIT researchers developed these bots to build structures in extreme situation and can be used after a natural disaster.\n\nThis technology is leveraging the swarm approach to manufacturing, it is believed that this approach can radically transform digital construction by digitally fabricating structural materials; generating products and objects larger than their gantry size; and supporting non-layered construction by offering novel fabrication processes such as robotic weaving and free-form printing. These methods are conducive to function generation; however, they cannot be easily scaled to large systems. With swarm sensing and actuation, systems can become more responsive and adaptive to environmental conditions. [Citation: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/fiberbots/overview/, Accessed: 06/18/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Building Construction and Design Element Innovations; General Robotics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Fiberbot: Construction robot"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Climate Action; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation229a0de5-1f18-4e63-a853-d0f1a9a6dcc8"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Submit your photos to the 'Facebook' for giant sea bass. A new conservation project called Spotting Giant Sea Bass is a kind of like a Facebook for fishes, where citizen scientists upload photographs of fish and share information about sightings. Capable of growing bigger than an average-sized grizzly bear, and as imperiled as the black rhino, giant sea bass are the largest bony coastal fish in California.\n\nSpotting Giant Sea Bass serves as a portal for citizen scientists to get involved in marine research and create data that could help with the recovery of an endangered species. Divers who upload a photo of a giant sea bass can receive notifications when their fish is spotted by another diver. The program leverages the unique spot pattern of each giant sea bass recorded to match up fish sighted on different days and in different places. The Spotting Giant Sea Bass website makes matches by using pattern recognition algorithms first developed by astrophysicists to spot patterns in star constellations and later used by NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope.\n\nWe are really excited about how Spotting Giant Sea Bass can help connect people around that experience and democratize the process of doing research that can help protect the future of this amazing species. [Citation: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/019052/spotting-giants, Accessed: 06/19/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Internet Portals and Exchanges"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Spotting Giant Sea Bass"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life on Land"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb3f99bb2-6c76-45fc-9423-3f5525c64034"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A new, chewable technology changes flavors on command, but this is a gum you definitely don't want to swallow.\n\nPowered by a small, saliva-proof disc, the gum produces the sensation of taste on the tongue thanks to piezoelectrics. What's more, the gum can be tuned remotely to change flavors on command. The tech has potential for allowing virtual reality experiences to incorporate taste into simulated environments, adding another sense to compliment the audio and video already available.\n\nBut that potential is, at least for now, only potential. The current flavor options are apparently limited to salty and bitter, with users comparing the taste to dried sardines. So those hoping to get the next best thing to Willy Wonka's Everlasting Gobstopper will have to wait at least a little longer.\n\nAbstract: \"Herein, we propose 'unlimited electric gum', an electric taste device that will enable users to perceive taste for as long the user is chewing the gum. We developed an in-mouth type novel electric taste-imparting apparatus using a piezoelectric element so that the piezoelectric effect is stimulated by chewing. This enabled the design of a device that does not require cables around a user's lips or batteries in their mouth. In this paper, we introduce this device and report our experimental and exhibition results.\" [Citation:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3266037.3271635 , Accessed: 06/19/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Packaged Goods"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Electronic Gum Paves Way for Virtual Reality Experiences"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation604c3f6d-d912-4d61-a176-b286a5da54ee"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A study sheds light on stem cell proliferation that may one day boost crop yields. A Purdue University study has uncovered mechanisms that lead to stem cell formation and maintenance in plants. The findings may one day allow scientists to manipulate stem cell production to increase biomass that can be used for biofuels or grain yield in plants like corn and soybeans.\n\nThe research describes how plants create a pool of stem cells separate from their differentiated daughter cells in a meristem, and the daughter cells on the basal side of the meristem maintain the stem cells. Undifferentiated stem cells are located in the apex or tips of plant shoots and roots. These serve as a bank of blank cells that support plant growth and give rise to different organs such as leaves or flowers. Zhou is investigating the ways in which plants initiate stem cell production and keep the stem cells activated. These stem cells keep dividing, and their daughter cells will eventually differentiate. But keeping up production of these stem cells is important for plant growth, Yun Zhou, assistant professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Purdue Center for Plant Biology, said. If we can understand the mechanisms underlying the meristem development, we could have the potential to create a new biological tool to optimize crop growth. [Citation:https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q3/study-sheds-light-on-stem-cell-proliferation-that-may-one-day-boost-crop-yields.html, Accessed: 6/19/2019]\n\nAbstract: \"The control of the location and activity of stem cells depends on spatial regulation of gene activities in the stem cell niche. Using computational and experimental approaches, we have tested and found support for a hypothesis for gene interactions that specify the Arabidopsis apical stem cell population. The hypothesis explains how the WUSCHEL gene product, synthesized basally in the meristem, induces CLAVATA3-expressing stem cells in the meristem apex but, paradoxically, not in the basal domain where WUSCHEL itself is expressed. The answer involves the activity of the small family of HAIRY MERISTEM genes, which prevent the activation of CLAVATA3 and which are expressed basally in the shoot meristem.\" [Citation:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6401/502, Accessed: 06/19/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Agricultural Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Stem cell formation and maintenance to boost crop yields"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa209fd83-3cdd-4d05-a34f-034a561d9b85"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Storage Battery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST, led by Professor Hyun-Kon Song and Professor Guntae Kim of Energy and Chemical Engineering), have developed a new method that can increase the energy efficiency of metal-air batteries. They were able to increase the energy efficiency of metal-air batteries by using a conducting polymer. By adding a kind of conducting polymer called polypyrrole, provskite can be a substitute to platinum which can help also in lowering the price. This new method can be applied to the next-generation energy devices\n \nIn the study, they reported that catalytic activity of provskite which can be a substitute to platinum was dramatically enhanced by simply adding a kind of conducting polymer, polypyrrole, and its principle. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170123115117.htm, Accessed: 7/12/2019]\n \nWhen the perovskite or polypyrrole are used alone, their activities can not be reached to that of platinum. However, as a result of physically mixing perovksite with polypyrrole, the activity was dramatically enhanced and it was reached to that of platinum. This is the first synergistic effect in oxygen electrocatalysis even though there was any chemical interaction between pervskite and polypyrrole. The results of this study have been supported by KEIT, KETEP, BK21Plus, and MSIP. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170123115117.htm, Accessed: 7/12/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Battery Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Increasing energy efficiency of metal-air batteries"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2017"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation60962f76-be9d-4baa-821a-8bc96618497d"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Associate Professor Ernest Chua from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NUS Faculty of Engineering, have pioneered a new water-based air-conditioning system that is water-based, eco-friendly and energy-saving. This all-weather friendly cooling technology cools the air to as low as 18 degrees Celsius without the use of energy-intensive compressors and environmentally harmful chemical refrigerants. This technology can work even without mechanical compressors or chemical refrigerants and this system can generate drinking water. They are also improving the technology and they want to add smart features such as pre-programmed thermal settings based on human occupancy and real-time tracking of its energy efficiency.\n\nCurrent air-conditioning systems require a large amount of energy to remove moisture and to cool the dehumidified air. The NSU Engineering team's design uses two different systems to perform these two process separately. The new air-conditioning system first uses an innovative membrane technology which can remove moisture from humid air. The dehumidified air is then cooled via a dew-point cooling system that uses water as the cooling medium instead of harmful chemical refrigerants. Unlike vapour compression air-conditioners, the novel system does not release hot air to the environment. Instead, a cool air stream that is comparatively less humid than environmental humidity is discharged  negating the effect of micro-climate. About 12 to 15 litres of potable drinking water can also be harvested after operating the air-conditioning system for a day.\n\nOur cooling technology can be easily tailored for all types of weather conditions, from humid climate in the tropics to arid climate in the deserts. While it can be used for indoor living and commercial spaces, it can also be easily scaled up to provide air-conditioning for clusters of buildings in an energy-efficient manner. This novel technology is also highly suitable for confined spaces such as bomb shelters or bunkers, where removing moisture from the air is critical for human comfort, as well as for sustainable operation of delicate equipment in areas such as field hospitals, armoured personnel carriers, and operation decks of navy ships as well as aircrafts, explained Assoc Prof Chua. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180108133239.htm, Accessed: 6/19/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Domestic Appliance Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Environmental Friendly and Energy-efficient Water-based Air Conditioner"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Climate Action; Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationdb0e6b29-d592-4de7-9911-f23685630867"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Testing Laboratories"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Pinky-sized, gel-filled time-capsule sensors identify contaminants and create a barcode-like stain. With data from a sensor that dropped into a stream, engineers can calculate the precise location of a pollution source. Future miniaturized prototypes will pilot different gels, and go underground to track geothermal and petroleum reservoirs that would otherwise crunch electronic sensors with pressure and heat. Researchers from Stanford University, led by Sindy K.Y. Tang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, have developed this time capsule technology.\r\n\r\nThe prototype time capsule is made of clear plastic and is about the size of a pinkie. Inside this device are two tiny tubes, each filled with a carefully chosen gel. Two tubes with different properties are needed to capture the information needed for discerning both the timing of reactions and the concentration of chemicals present. [Citation: https://www.futurity.org/sensor-streams-contamination-797432/, Accessed: 6/11/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Biofuel Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Inexpensive Device Detects And Records Changes in Water Contamination in Streams"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa0440761-2f55-419a-925c-5fdaa25714b2"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"The tiny-living movement is thriving for a variety of reasons. An emphasis on minimalism, financial benefits and location freedom top the list. Many people who consider investing in a tiny home worry about size constraints, but the Calico tiny home by Katz Box offers a solution to that concern by offering a shipping container structure that adapts to its residents' needs. Sustainability drives the Ohio-based Katz Box company with the goal of lowering the environmental impact of housing through reclaimed and recycled shipping containers. \n\nOn the manufacturing end, the team is also committed to focusing on processing that minimizes waste. In addition to creating an eco-friendly option through upcycling, the Calico design highlights a modular blueprint, meaning that each section of the interior is customizable to suit a variety of functions. An option for commercial or individual needs, the Calico provides a universal model to suit an endless array of demands, yet is completely tailored for a personal touch. The adaptable components don't stop with the interior modular variations. In fact, this home can grow or shrink with the needs of the family. When more space is required, an additional shipping container or two can be added, making for a thoughtful and completely scalable design. Similarly, when the kids move out and it's time to minimize, the added shipping containers can be removed. Mobility is another feature of the Calico, which can be relocated with ease. Appealing for the individual who moves often, it's also an option for retail locations or temporary housing and offices, such as those on construction sites. Katz Box, the passion project company born from the sustainable mindset of owner Tobias Katz, is a relatively new option in the tiny-living movement. Founded in 2017, the objectives of Katz Box are many, including the goals of universal design elements and an accessible price point. Katz Box also aims to employ ultra-efficient building practices such as renewable energy and water conservation."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Modular Construction Innovations for Residential and Commercial Buildings"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Katz Box's Calico design for tiny-living movement"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation650b2faa-eec7-4d87-9e15-b590f5d03da6"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Architectural Services"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"It's no secret that the building sector is a resource-intensive industry, but La Mesa, California-based nonprofit Green New World believes that the future of construction can and should be greener, healthier and energy-producing. Green New World created the House of PeacE (also known as Project HOPE), an autonomous and regenerative residential housing model that champions carbon-free living. Combining biophilic design with renewable energy systems and natural materials, Green New World's first carbon-negative residential prototype -- dubbed HOPEone -- is slated for completion by 2019. Conceived as a decentralized, autonomous housing model, Project House of PeacE (HOPE) will integrate water, energy, waste and food production and be adaptable to different climate zones. Shaped into a cluster of domes, the HOPEone prototype will be built from locally sourced earth using low-impact and affordable Superadobe construction methods. The building technique can be easily taught to people and can produce well-insulated and ecologically sound buildings with demonstrated resistance to earthquakes, fires and storms. The geometry of the domes is engineered to optimize energy-efficient thermal regulation and follow passive heating and cooling principles. Modules are selected based on a low-embodied energy and environmental footprint while being simple to recreate with basic skills and, as far as is possible, are constructed with locally available, low-cost and low-impact materials, Green New World explained. The first HOPE model, HOPEone, is nearing completion, where the productivity of the core bioenergy modules and carbon sequestration modules will be assessed for the development of future prototypes. In addition to energy and water conservation measures, the prototype will also harvest and generate its own resources. Depending on the location and climate conditions, different water harvesting systems will be installed and sized to meet the consumption of the inhabitants. The harvested water will be treated with ozone and subject to a three-stage purification, mineralization and alkalization treatment system. Solar photovoltaic panels will also be added to the buildings as will an anaerobic bioreactor for creating biogas used for heating and cooking."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Building Construction and Design Element Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"House of PeacE for Greener and Healthier Homes"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2019"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In Commercial Development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation702bd97b-617d-4752-abf5-66619af78f87"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Living plants generate electricity"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Organic Matter and Biogas Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Project Plant-e: Plant Microbial Fuel Cells as Electricity Source"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationbe2881f4-2931-4381-8e1f-7fdd5d1f7507"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A new technique extracts the cellulose from cattle manure and turns it into the wearable fabric and the fashion industry is interested.\n \nThere are more than 100 million cattle and calves in the U.S., and full-grown cattle produce a lot of waste at least 59 pounds per day (and far more for dairy cows). All of this manure can pose problems. How can it be dealt with in an environmentally responsible way? While some research has looked at using cow manure as an energy source, Dutch entrepreneur Jalila Essadi is exploring a new possible market: clothing.\n \nEssadi's technique, called Mestic, produces a cellulose-based bioplastic that can be used to make a variety of textiles. Essadi says her technique works better than other cellulose-based bioplastic methods because a cow's digestive tract is especially good at breaking down the cellulose. And, no, the materials made using Mestic don't stink. In fact, The Guardian reports that clothing manufacturers are considering using the relatively inexpensive fabric (though they don't plan to market its origins).\n \nTurning a waste product into a profitable material could be a coup for farmers and a win for sustainability.\n \nIt is just one of a range of innovations seeking new materials for old applications, as the world tries to wean itself off dirty habits like plastics and hydrocarbons and embrace new technologies. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/01/the-start-up-making-shirts-out-of-cow-poo, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery; Synthetic Textiles"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Turning Manure Into Wearable Fabric"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement; Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Responsible Consumption and Production; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2e724353-315c-4b7f-9ced-b9889dffbb6b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Major Household Appliance Manufacturing"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Alphapot is a design that can transform food waste into a planter and this design allows waste to be used to grow plants or flowers. Created by Bionicraft, this pot can break down food waste into pulp and once its dry it is compressed into the shape of a planter which creates an infinite loop.\n\nThis environmentally friendly innovation is not only zero-waste created - a product of food waste upcycling - but reduces food waste by using them as material. It is 100% biodegradable, 100% Food Waste Fiber + Vege Starch + Emulsion. It does not contain any plastic or bio-plastic (0% PP,PET and 0% PLA). It is purely made from food waste to grow nature; helping to reduce and repurpose food waste in a more beautiful way.\n\nAlphapot is designed with a round base to hold a plant from a standard 4 inch pot, and the square opening feature allows for pots to be interconnected. The engravings around the base area of the pot enables Alphapot to decompose back into nature more efficiently. It employs a self-watering system which works for any type of plant. The AlphaPot holds the water in a corner reservoir of the pot, together with a wick system that extends into the reservoir, the plant will draw just the right amount of water needed to feed itself."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Agricultural Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Alphapot: The Biodegradable Plant Pot"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation4d2eca22-19c8-44fa-8160-6a37d312b690"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Cambridge University, led by Florent Mouliere, have developed a blood test that can detect if you have breast, bowel or other cancers by looking for characteristic tumor DNA fragments that have leaked into the circulation. This blood test can spot DNA from eight different cancer by detecting and measuring various sizes of tumor DNA fragments that flow through the body. Using this blood test they were able to detect ninety-four percent of breast, bowel, ovary, skin, and bile duct cancers in 68 cancer patients.\n \nThey discovered that DNA fragments leaked by tumours often have different sizes to non-cancerous DNA fragments in the blood. For example, DNA fragments shed by breast, bowel and ovary cancers tend to be shorter. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184604-blood-test-can-spot-dna-from-eight-different-types-of-cancer/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nBy looking for characteristic tumour DNA fragment sizes in blood samples, the researchers were able to detect 94 per cent of breast, bowel, ovary, skin, and bile duct cancers in 68 cancer patients, with a false positive rate of 2.5 per cent, i.e., the rate at which it identified a cancer that wasnt really there. They were also able to identify 65 percent of pancreas, kidney, and brain cancers in another 57 patients. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184604-blood-test-can-spot-dna-from-eight-different-types-of-cancer/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nIn comparison, an existing blood test called CancerSEEK that looks for genetic and protein tumour markers in the blood was found to detect 70 per cent of common cancers on average. However, CancerSEEK was tested on earlier-stage cancers which probably made detection harder, says Mouliere. 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Current clinical methods for repairing peripheral nerve injuries, including microsutures, autologous nerve autografts, and synthetic or autologous conduits, have limited success in fully restoring functional behaviors. Since these methods rely on the slow process of the axonal outgrowths from the proximal stumps, the denervated muscles distal to the injury site lose the capacity to reinnervate. Triton Systems, Inc. proposes to further develop its technology for peripheral nerve repair that preserves the target muscle and promotes the effective functional recovery. The proposed technology is also designed to standardize peripheral nerve surgical repair procedures and offer a more consistent repair technique that will lead to improved clinical outcomes.\n \nTriton Systems Inc. is a global product venturing and investment company creating product-driven enterprises through a proven and proprietary stage-gate Venture-through-Invention-process. [Citation: http://www.tritonsys.com/about.html/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nTriton has carefully assembled an unusually broad skill set of professionals that include basic research scientists, applied applications engineers, quality system experts, manufacturing professionals, and serial entrepreneurs with a track record of multiple start ups and exits. Our senior leadership team possesses professional experience in both private and public companies. [Citation: http://www.tritonsys.com/about.html/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nTritons current 3-D printing applications range from patient-specific medical devices to regenerative tissue engineering. Our formulation has the ability to incorporate cells, drugs, other factors, without damaging them. [Citation: http://www.tritonsys.com/medical.html/, accessed 2019-June-20]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Devices"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Innovative Approach to Peripheral Nerve Repair"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"PROTOTYPE"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation15ffcb8e-f30f-4749-83f9-f2741bb406dd"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Many people like the idea of supporting renewable energy projects but very few people can invest in them. A new initiative aims to expand the funding base for renewable energy efforts by making them accessible to small-scale investors. The initiative, called Asset Germination, is the latest offering from the Australian company Power Ledger. The first offerings for shares in an Australian solar farm and energy storage project are due early 2019. The catch? At least initially, the shares will only be available via cryptocurrency. But don't worry if you are wary of anything related to the blockchain, as reports are that Power Ledger will eventually make shares available using good old-fashioned dollars. While it's impossible to gauge the success of an effort that has yet to get off the ground, the idea of expanding the publics ability to invest in renewable energy is a good one. It significantly expands the potential pool of investors. Power Ledger has earned some influential fans as evidenced by its 2018 win in Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge. Jemma Green is the co-founder and chairman of Power Ledger.\n \nThe company, like a handful of others, is already using blockchain to enable a peer-to-peer grid, a system that lets someone with solar panels sell excess power to their neighbors. In Japan, the company is using blockchain to help set up a virtual power plant. In California, its working with a utility to use blockchain to give electric car drivers carbon credits for charging their cars during the day, when theres more renewable energy, instead of at night. But the new project uses blockchain to find a new source of funding for large-scale projects. 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It works by reducing inflammation in the lungs that triggers clotting, according to a new study. Metformin flips a switch in immune cells that reside in the lung and continuously samples the air we breathe. It prevents those immune cells, known as macrophages, from releasing dangerous molecules into the blood that promote heart attacks and strokes after pollution exposure. These findings suggest metformin as a potential therapy to prevent some of the premature deaths attributable to air pollution exposure worldwide, says co-lead author Scott Budinger, professor of airway diseases and chief of pulmonary and critical care at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Budinger is also a Northwestern Medicine pulmonary and critical care physician and a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. More than 100 million people take metformin worldwide. The drug works by targeting the mitochondria--the cell's energy center--in lung macrophages. When air pollution particles get into the lungs, the mitochondria release hydrogen peroxide that promotes inflammation and clotting. Metformin slows down the mitochondria and the release of hydrogen peroxide. The simplest next step would be to validate our study with metformin in people in China or other places where exposure to high levels of air pollution are common to see if it reduces inflammation, Budinger says China and India Air pollution remains an enormous US public health problem, causing thousands of excess deaths in the Medicare population alone each year. The large majority of these deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes. Because air pollution levels are about 10 times higher in China, India, and other parts of the developing world compared to the US, the global health impact of air pollution is much larger, Budinger notes. In the study, which appears in Cell Press, a pediatric formulation of metformin was given to mice in their drinking water for three days. It was an equivalent concentration to the dose people take for diabetes. Mice were exposed to air pollution from Chicago in a specially designed chamber that concentrates the particles to levels similar to those seen in China. When mice were exposed to air pollution in the laboratory, their macrophages released an inflammatory molecule called IL-6, which has been linked to heart attacks and strokes. Metformin prevented the release of IL-6 and reduced the speed at which clots formed after an injury. The same findings were seen in lung macrophages from humans. We know it's an anti-diabetic drug, it can be an anti-cancer drug, and now our study suggests it's a reasonable anti-inflammatory drug. The findings are a result of Budinger's more than 20-year collaboration with Northwestern scientist Navdeep Chandel, who studies metformin and its effects on mitochondrial metabolism. Three years ago, Chandel, professor of medicine & cell biology, showed how metformin inhibits cancer progression. Studies had shown that the drug prevented cancer progression, but scientists didn't fully understand how it worked. The researchers discovered that metformin slows mitochondrial metabolism to prevent the growth of cancer. Slow down aging? To prove that targeting the mitochondria in macrophages could prevent inflammation in response to pollution, Budinger and Chandel created mice where lung macrophages lacked key mitochondrial proteins. Like the mice treated with metformin, these mice were protected against pollution-induced inflammation. These results suggest that metformin is a pharmacological way of doing the same thing, Chandel says. We know it's an anti-diabetic drug, it can be an anti-cancer drug, and now our study suggests it's a reasonable anti-inflammatory drug. Now, the Chandel and Budinger labs are determining whether metformin can target mitochondrial metabolism to prevent or slow aging and age-related diseases including diabetes, inflammation, cancer, and neurodegeneration. In parallel, other scientists are planning to give metformin to people older than 65 to see if it can delay the onset of aging-related diseases in the Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) trial. Other coauthors are from Northwestern and the University of Chicago. The National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration, and the US Department of Defense funded the work."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Pharmaceutical Innovation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Metformin as anti-inflammatory drug"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione63dd839-b859-412f-944d-c4f14c46cbb2"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Fuel Dealers "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"OPEC Countries or the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are considered the best region in producing synthetic fuels. Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, led by Christian Breyer, professor for the solar economy at LUT and Pasi Vainikka, Principal Scientist from VTT, have started The Neo-Carbon Energy. Neo-Carbon Energy is a research project which can help in producing synthetic fuels straight from the air.\n \nThe solution is built on carbon dioxide capture, water electrolysis and subsequent synthesis units such as methanation for methane and Fischer-Tropsch for liquid fuels. It depends on very low-cost renewable electricity based on wind and solar and produces synthetic fuels in a carbon-neutral way. This could lead to a whole new circular carbon economy. [Citation: https://www.innovationtoronto.com/2017/05/pioneering-technology-makes-opec-countries-prime-regions-to-produce-synthetic-fuels/, Accessed: 7/12/2019]\n \nThe cost estimates for producing liquid fuels with the solution are around $140/bbl (0.80 /l) between 2030 and 2040 if produced in the Maghreb region. Such prices were reached for crude oil in 2008. The cost could be even less in the future, due to declining solar PV and battery costs. The potential production volumes are practically unlimited since the Earth receives more than 1000 times more energy from the sun than it is used globally for all energy needs today. It is likely that Power-to-Fuels and Chemicals technology will gain increasing importance between 2030 to 2040. [Citation: https://www.innovationtoronto.com/2017/05/pioneering-technology-makes-opec-countries-prime-regions-to-produce-synthetic-fuels/, Accessed: 7/12/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Biofuel Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Fuel from the air technology provides a path to new business for OPEC countries"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2017"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In Commercial Development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2b05aaa5-30ec-4a74-adbb-39f8b4a08fb1"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Delft-based CEAD is Europe's largest commercial 3D printer and they are transforming custom furniture and yacht parts. They are trying to create 3D Printed Yachts and they have successfully tested CFAM 3D printer for shipbuilding. CEAD large-scale CFAM Prime 3D printer also designed infrastructure work and industrial projects. CEAD developed CFAM because it wanted to be able to manufacture or produce parts that have complex geometries. CEAD was founded by Maarten Logtenberg and Lucas Janssen.\n \nCEADs new creation is something called Continuous Fibre Additive Manufacturing, or CFAM. The composite 3D printing technology adds continuous fibers to printed parts for reinforcementpotentially similar to processes employed by carbon-printing 3D printer companies like Markforged, but on a much larger scale. [Citation: https://www.3ders.org/articles/20180108-netherlands-cead-develops-gigantic-cfam-composite-3d-printer-for-shipbuilding.html, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \n\"According to CEAD, the companys first CFAM 3D printer has a build volume of 4 x 2 x 1.5 meters, making it suitable for industrial applications like yacht and shipbuilding. The printer also has a high output and a high-temperature granule extruder capable of extruding and printing at a rate of at least 15 kg/hr.\" [Citation: https://www.3ders.org/articles/20180108-netherlands-cead-develops-gigantic-cfam-composite-3d-printer-for-shipbuilding.html, accessed 2019-June-20]\n\n\"During 2018, CEAD plans to build three more 3D printers beyond the two reserved for its first customers, and will move into a bigger production facility in order to do so. The ambitious company then hopes to become the biggest large-scale composite 3D printer manufacturer in Europe.\" [Citation: https://www.3ders.org/articles/20180108-netherlands-cead-develops-gigantic-cfam-composite-3d-printer-for-shipbuilding.html, accessed 2019-June-20]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printing Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"CFAM: Largest Commercial 3D Printer"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione64416eb-299c-4f24-9621-3c2000cd69b3"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"The NLO for PV or NonLinear Optics for Photovoltaics project has doubled the maximum efficiency of converting solar radiation to energy by designing a device to harvest the heat losses of photovoltaics. This project was led by the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and this project opens the methods that can create new high power lasers, and many on-chip applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and communication.\n \nNonlinear optics (NLO) offers efficient frequency conversion. Yet, it cannot contribute to PVs due to operation limits at high intensity and coherence, much above the solar radiation. Solar-powered lasers allow to increase intensity and coherence by orders of magnitude, thus it is the missing link between PVs and NLO. But thus far, the power threshold of solar laser is above 2000 suns, making it inapplicable for PVs. Here I propose to build a solar-powered laser at a low solar concentration (below 2 suns), which will open the field of NLO for PVs. This proposal is based on my recent experimental demonstration, which enables the reduction of the current power threshold of the incoherently pumped laser by three orders of magnitude. In addition to PVs, this research opens the way to new high power lasers, and many on-chip applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and communication. [Citation: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/102684/factsheet/en, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Solar Cell Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"NLO increasing efficiency of renewable resources conversion to energy"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd28e1912-f3f8-4db0-b716-93c47d800ca0"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Wineries "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"GOfermentor is a Countertop Winery that was invented by a biotech scientist named Vijay Singh. This is an automated, spill-proof, kitchen-size vino machine and its size is as small as a trash can. This countertop allows producing wine in a series of odorless, biodegradable plastic bags. This is a sustainable winemaking system.\n \nGOfermentor has proven to be an innovative system that allows the winemaking of little quantity of grapes, with automatic control of maceration management operations. The system is easy to handle and setup. It has been difficult to control the fermentation temperature by using only cold water circulation/recirculation in the GoCooler device. In unsatisfactory thermal conditions, it is convenient a vinification in controlled temperature environments. [Citation: https://www.gofermentor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GoFermentor2016-Final-Report.pdf, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nIn conclusion, the GOfermentor system can express the best potential in the production of young red wines, or aged wines from grapes which not require an intense (hard) extraction process. The system is useful also when conducting vinifications using moderate amounts of grapes (less than 900 kg). In addition, the GOfermentor system can be a valuable tool for experimental vinification thanks to the high automation that makes the technological effects reproducible, and to the single-use bag that allows a clean production environment in each vinification. [Citation: https://www.gofermentor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GoFermentor2016-Final-Report.pdf, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Food Preparation and Processing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"GOfermentor: Vino Maker"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation37f46921-be17-4659-a8a6-16732246b47d"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Electronic Component Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A simple, inexpensive technique opens new fields for piezo-sensors & energy harvesting, with the first ever large-scale 2D surface deposition of piezoelectric material. \n\n\"Until now, no 2D piezoelectric material has been manufactured in large sheets, making it impossible to integrate into silicon chips or use in large-scale surface manufacturing. This limitation meant that piezo accelerometer devices - such as vehicle air bag triggers or the devices that recognise orientation changes in mobile phones - have required separate, expensive components to be embedded onto silicon substrates, adding significant manufacturing costs. Now, FLEET researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have demonstrated a method to produce large-scale 2D gallium phosphate sheets, allowing this material to be formed at large scales in low-cost, low-temperature manufacturing processes onto silicon substrates, or any other surface.... The revolutionary new method allows easy, inexpensive growth of large-area (several centimetres), wide-bandgap, 2D GaPO4 nanosheets of unit cell thickness.\" [Citation: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/acoe-po090618.php Accessed 6/10/2019]\n\n\"Two-dimensional piezotronics will benefit from the emergence of new crystals featuring high piezoelectric coefficients. Gallium phosphate (GaPO4) is an archetypal piezoelectric material, which does not naturally crystallise in a stratified structure and hence cannot be exfoliated using conventional methods. Here, we report a low-temperature liquid metal-based two-dimensional printing and synthesis strategy to achieve this goal. We exfoliate and surface print the interfacial oxide layer of liquid gallium, followed by a vapour phase reaction. The method offers access to large-area, wide bandgap two-dimensional (2D) GaPO4 nanosheets of unit cell thickness, while featuring lateral dimensions reaching centimetres.... The low temperature synthesis method is compatible with a variety of electronic device fabrication procedures, providing a route for the development of future 2D piezoelectric materials.\" [Citation: Nature Communications 9, Article number: 3618 (2018)  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06124-1 Accessed 6/10/2019]\n\nSelf-limiting oxides on the surface of liquid metals can easily be removed and placed on substrates. The 2D oxide formed on the surface of liquid metal is a perfect crystal, and so may have no grain boundaries, as opposed to conventionally deposited thin films, which are spawned from nucleated elements that usually bring imperfections in grain boundaries or uncontrolled growth."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Manufacturing Equipment and Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Pushing 'print' on large-scale piezoelectric materials"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb0048bf1-75c4-4bde-9c1c-f2f98745ce40"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Commodity Contracts Dealing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Radar Relay is a cryptocurrency startup. They just raised $10 million from Blockchain Capital and other investors. This startup is also taking advantage of the 0x protocol to change tokens into other tokens without going through a traditional exchange. Their company is offering decentralized exchange that is slower than centralized but provides no failure. Centralized exchanges are the major onramps for currency into the cryptocurrency world but even if these exchanges are faster. They are single points of failure.\n \nMany companies are building projects on top of the 0x protocol, and Radar Relay is one of them. As the name suggests, Radar Relay helps you find other traders who are interested in your order. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/decentralized-exchange-radar-relay-raises-10-million/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nFor instance, if you want to exchange 10 MLN for 162 ZRX, you need to publicize your order somewhere so that other users can find it. If another Radar Relay user wants to make a similar transaction, but in the other direction, then the trade occurs. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/decentralized-exchange-radar-relay-raises-10-million/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n\n\"In addition to leaving you in control of your tokens, you dont need to create an account to use a decentralized exchange. Radar Relay is only compatible with ERC20 tokens as 0x has been designed for ERC20 tokens specifically. Since October, users have traded the equivalent of $150 million in 170 tokens.\" [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/decentralized-exchange-radar-relay-raises-10-million/, accessed 2019-June-20]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Currencies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Radar Relay using 0x protocol for Decentralized Token Exchange"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Financial Technology"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Partnerships to achieve the Goal"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationc1e7d965-ad71-4b6d-bc03-68a578a0485f"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Empa researchers, led by project coordinator Ren Rossi, are developing polymer fibers that can be equipped with drugs and create a medication that can be work or drug-releasing textiles. These textiles can be used to treat skin wounds. These fibers are also smart and can detect and recognize the need for therapy by themselves. These fibers can also dose with accuracy. \n \nFor the Self Care Materials project, fibers are produced from biodegradable polymers using various processes. \"The targeted use of the fiber determines which manufacturing process is best,\" explains Empa researcher and project coordinator Ren Rossi. Delicate, light membranes with a large surface are formed during so-called electrospinning. If robust fibers are required, e.g. for protective clothing, it is better to draw the melted ingredients. In the end, all processes produce novel fibers, the nano-architecture of which is made up of several layers and components. \"The properties of these new materials are currently being investigated with test substances,\" says Rossi. In the finished product, for example, antibiotics or painkillers are to be integrated into the fibers. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-medication.html, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nIn order to ensure that the dosage of the active substances is precise as needed, the researchers have devised a tricky control mechanism: Some polymers are degradable by the body under certain conditions. This property can be used specifically. Rossi: \"In response to a stimulus from the body, the fibers should release their drugs into the environment at a calculated degradation rate.\" Such an irritation can be the altered pH value of a skin wound, which indicates that the tissue damage must be treated. As a so-called self-care material, the fibers in the form of a plaster or garment thus support the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-medication.html/, accessed 2019-June-20]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Pharmaceutical Innovation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Smart-fiber for drug delivery"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In Commercial Development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6dcae142-ec47-4006-a98e-d496c529b5ee"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Every year millions of tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill. A new project shows how they could be reused as tiles and panels for home interiors. Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia, led by Veena Sahajwalla, have collected old and unwanted clothes as well as shredded fibers and removed any solid parts such as belts, buckles and zips then compressed and hardened these clothes into the water- and fire-resistant building materials. This project can reuse millions of unwanted garments that are thrown out after only an average of two years.\n \nIn a series of tests, the panels proved to be strong, water-resistant and minimally-flammable. Their properties could also be fine-tuned by mixing the fleece with other waste products like sawdust filler from old couches. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184315-your-old-unwanted-clothes-can-be-turned-into-building-materials/]\n \nThe panels had different textures and colors resembling wood, ceramic or stone  depending on their mix of components  making them suitable for use as floor tiles, wall panels or other interior finishes, says Sahajwalla. Their strength could also make them suitable for load-bearing applications. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184315-your-old-unwanted-clothes-can-be-turned-into-building-materials/]\n \nThe team is now building a small factory in the basement of their university building to see if the recycling process can be scaled up and commercialized. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184315-your-old-unwanted-clothes-can-be-turned-into-building-materials/]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Building Construction and Design Element Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Recycled Clothes as House Tiles and Panels"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail; Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8ccfcd0a-9513-4d78-988a-aef01be4b7a9"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions. Researchers at Ahmedabad University and Lalbhai Dalpatbhai College of Engineering in India have created this search engine for CCTV that uses machine learning to automatically match individuals in videos with their descriptions. The researchers worked on 110 different videos of people shot from different angles and distances and then developed a system. The team is improving and testing the system that they have developed, and their goal is to improve the systems accuracy and soon able to find people by their build, pose, or even style of clothing.\n\n We observed that detection and motion patterns of humans can be found out efficiently by using the proposed method in this paper. Using Visual Saliency as a region proposal algorithm proved to be beneficial for the research work. Human Detection improved by introducing the salience-windowed frames of the video to the HOG + SVM classifier [2]. The performance improved manifolds as compared to classification on normal images. This happened due to unnecessary data which was in a way increasing the recall of the model and also the computation time and thus making the model not fit to be used in real time. Using the Deep Multi-Layer Network for saliency prediction [1] to propose regions of interests makes the model much more feasible in terms of computational requirements as well as precision and recall. [Citation: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1709/1709.00726.pdf/, accessed 2019-June-20]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Automated Surveillance Trawling"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Sustainable Cities and Communities; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation7d17cac7-c349-4412-b8fc-dd14acf1581b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Custom Computer Programming Services "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Organ transplants were a one-to-one transaction, until today. In this innovation, sets of transactions are chained together, creating a better and more efficient market. AI is harnessed to help build the chains. There used to be only two ways of getting a kidney for your transplant needs. The first was to find a healthy person from within one's own pool of friends and family, who perfectly matched both the recipient's blood and tissue types, and possessed a spare kidney he or she was willing to part with. The second was to wait for the unexpected death of a stranger who was a suitable physical match and happened to have the organ-donor box checked on their driver's license. But then it occurred to doctors: given enough kidney patients, and enough healthy, willing donors, they could form a pool big enough to facilitate far more matches than the one-to-one system of the past. As long as patients could procure a donor--any donor, even one that wasn't a fit with the patient themselves--they could get a matching kidney. At first, this required doctors to spend difficult hours poring over the details of blood types and tissue variations in patients' and potential donors' charts. Then computer scientists provided AI algorithms that performed these complicated matches better than human brains could. It's called paired kidney donation and is a great success story of artificial intelligence. Since the first paired kidney exchange surgeries took place in 2000, nearly 6,000 people have received kidney transplants from paired exchanges identified by algorithms. Today roughly one in eight transplant recipients who receive a kidney from a living donor are matched with that person through paired exchange. \n\nKidney failure used to be a death sentence. Dialysis changed that in the 1960's. More recently, transplant became a viable option. As of writing, there are 114,554 people awaiting organ transplants in the US, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. And 94,980 of them--83%--are waiting for a kidney. The 1968 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act established a standard procedure across the US through which people or their next of kin could authorize donation of their organs after death. But even if everyone in the US was a registered organ donor (the current rate is 54%) there wouldn't be enough kidneys to meet the need. Less than 2% of people die in a way that makes them suitable organ donors. For organs to remain transplantable after a person's death, oxygenated blood must be continually pumping through them until they are surgically removed from the body. Deceased donors have typically been declared brain dead and placed on a ventilator before the procurement surgery. Fortunately, since most humans are born with two functioning kidneys but only need one to survive, living people can donate kidneys. As kidneys from living donors also tend to last longer than those from dead ones, finding a living donor is usually the ideal outcome for a person in need of a transplant. While all surgeries carry some risk of complication or death, the vast majority of kidney donors spend just two or three days in the hospital after the laparoscopic procedure, followed by an additional four to six weeks' recovery time. The remaining kidney grows to compensate for the missing one, and donors typically go on to live normal lives. To be sure that donors are not hurt and patients are helped as needed, a committee of doctors would oversee the process and approve or deny requests. This committee wields the power of life and death over the patient, and sometimes over the donor. Petitioning your sibling or cousin for an organ is no small ask. But finding a willing donor is often the easiest part of the process, as many patients and their families are chagrined to learn, since often other factors block the donation. \n\nAn example: a man was with polycystic kidney disease. His wife volunteered to donate. She was healthy and shared his blood type, and so assumed she'd be a viable candidate. But it takes more than a blood and tissue match for an organ donation to proceed. But she had an issue with the shape of her renal arteries, and was disqualified. His brother volunteered, only to be ruled out due to minor medical issues. They turned to the market--not a for sale market which is illegal. A market that doesn't rely on price to allocate resources is known as a matching market. A pool of people seeking compatible dates is one type of matching market (assuming no money is being exchanged for companionship). So is the pool of people who want kidneys and people willing to give one up. Matching markets work best when they're thick, or have a lot of participants. \n\nFor the first several decades of kidney transplantation, sick people and their prospective donors were limited to the very thin market of just themselves. Making this market thicker was floated in a 1986 paper by Felix Rapaport who theorized that it could be possible to transplant kidneys across two willing donor-recipient pairs: Given two incompatible pairs, Patient/Donor A and Patient/Donor B, it is possible that the pairs are compatible across patient/donor lines: in other words, Patient A receives a kidney from Donor B, and Donor A gives a kidney to Patient B. In 1991 doctors in Seoul, South Korea performed the first paired kidney transplants between two donor-patient pairs. Four years later, the world's first paired kidney donation program opened at the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul. Potential donors and recipients were entered into a database and then manually paired by doctors through hours of painstaking analysis. \n\nIn 1999, Switzerland became the next country to establish a paired kidney exchange. The only piece missing now was assessing match worthiness, that's where AI comes in. Roth specialized in market design, focusing on how markets could be adjusted to fix supply-and-demand imbalances. He'd previously designed algorithms to match new doctors to residency programs, and New York City grade-school students to high schools. Now he turned his attention to kidneys. Roth, Unver and Sonmez designed an algorithm that reviewed and analyzed the data profiles of potential donors and recipients. It identified cycles of donor-recipient pairs, and chains, in which a person who chooses to altruistically donate a kidney to anyone who needs one (and such donors exist) sets off a sequence of donations from among the pool of potential donors and recipients registered with a hospital or kidney exchange. For example: Patient B receives a kidney from Altruistic Donor A, after which Donor B gratefully donates a kidney to Patient C. If Patient C has a willing donor, there's no real limit to how long the chain can grow. Unlike cycles, chains could move forward indefinitely, without having to go back and close the loop by finding a kidney for the original donor's partnered recipient. Their 2003 paper triggered the establishment of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange which matched donors and recipients across the 14 kidney transplant centers in the region. Then, the window of time parameter was adjusted. At first, surgeons insisted all the surgeries in a given cycle or chain take place simultaneously, so that no donor could back out at the last minute. This limited the number of patients in a cycle or chain, as there were only so many beds and so many surgeons any hospital could spare at once. This, the economists and several other doctors argued, was unnecessarily restrictive. There were no biological barriers: unlike hearts or lungs, which must be transplanted within four to six hours of leaving a donor's body, a kidney can be safely preserved for 24 to 36 hours before finding its new home.  As for the possibility of a weak link in the donor chain, the economists argued that in a chain starting with a donor willing to give their kidney to anyone, no recipient would be left stranded if a donor got cold feet, as doctors could find a replacement from within the pool of registered donors. Soon afterwards, a chain of kidney donations that saved the lives of 10 patients across five states over an eight-month period was completed. \n\nToday, multiple US hospitals run their own paired kidney donation programs and there are many exchanges that organize kidney chains across hospitals. In 2012 Roth was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on market design. He brought Rees with him to the ceremony. By then, 2,000 people in the US had received transplant as a result of the system they helped create. Thousands more have since. The AI has been improved since then do consider much more than just biology: it can make decisions based on what it has learned about human values, for example preferring younger donors, or avoiding alcoholics. This accelerates AI development centered on moral principles. In the kidney question, take the ostensibly fair-minded principle that kidneys should be given to the people who will likely have the most years of productive life after receiving one. Before a computer can calculate the longevity of potential recipients, scientists have to feed the algorithm data on life expectancy for various populations. But this leads to some problems. Men tend to die before women do. Black Americans die younger than Americans of any other ethnicity. A 65-year-old white woman in the US could expect to live another 20.5 years in 2015, four years longer than a black man of the same age. What started with good intentions ends in systematic racial and gender discrimination. So the AI team has to redesign the algorithm."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Matching Organ Market Improved with Chaining and AI"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation5bccdcc1-46ef-45e8-ae84-d2ae07488953"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics that capture images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the optics, instead of the traditional approach that relies on the arrangement of optical components. These new principles, the researchers say, open doors to new capabilities for time- or depth-sensitive cameras, which are not possible with conventional photography optics. Specifically, the researchers designed new optics for an ultrafast sensor called a streak camera that resolves images from ultrashort pulses of light. Streak cameras and other ultrafast cameras have been used to make a trillion-frame-per-second video, scan through closed books, and provide depth map of a 3D scene, among other applications. Such cameras have relied on conventional optics, which have various design constraints. For example, a lens with a given focal length, measured in millimeters or centimeters, has to sit at a distance from an imaging sensor equal to or greater than that focal length to capture an image. This basically means the lenses must be very long.\n\n In a paper published in this week's Nature Photonics, MIT Media Lab researchers describe a technique that makes a light signal reflect back and forth off carefully positioned mirrors inside the lens system. A fast imaging sensor captures a separate image at each reflection time. The result is a sequence of images -- each corresponding to a different point in time, and to a different distance from the lens. Each image can be accessed at its specific time. The researchers have coined this technique time-folded optics. When you have a fast sensor camera, to resolve light passing through optics, you can trade time for space, says Barmak Heshmat, first author on the paper. That's the core concept of time folding. You look at the optic at the right time, and that time is equal to looking at it in the right distance. You can then arrange optics in new ways that have capabilities that were not possible before. The new optics architecture includes a set of semi reflective parallel mirrors that reduce, or fold, the focal length every time the light reflects between the mirrors. By placing the set of mirrors between the lens and sensor, the researchers condensed the distance of optics arrangement by an order of magnitude while still capturing an image of the scene. In their study, the researchers demonstrate three uses for time-folded optics for ultrafast cameras and other depth-sensitive imaging devices. These cameras, also called time-of-flight cameras, measure the time that it takes for a pulse of light to reflect off a scene and return to a sensor, to estimate the depth of the 3D scene. \n\nCo-authors on the paper are Matthew Tancik, a graduate student in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Guy Satat, a PhD student in the Camera Culture Group at the Media Lab; and Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and director of the Camera Culture Group. Folding the optical path into time. The researchers' system consists of a component that projects a femtosecond (quadrillionth of a second) laser pulse into a scene to illuminate target objects. Traditional photography optics change the shape of the light signal as it travels through the curved glasses. This shape change creates an image on the sensor. But, with the researchers' optics, instead of heading right to the sensor, the signal first bounces back and forth between mirrors precisely arranged to trap and reflect light. Each one of these reflections is called a round trip. At each round trip, some light is captured by the sensor programed to image at a specific time interval -- for example, a 1-nanosecond snapshot every 30 nanoseconds. A key innovation is that each round trip of light moves the focal point -- where a sensor is positioned to capture an image -- closer to the lens. This allows the lens to be drastically condensed. Say a streak camera wants to capture an image with the long focal length of a traditional lens. With time-folded optics, the first round-trip pulls the focal point about double the length of the set of mirrors closer to the lens, and each subsequent round trip brings the focal point closer and closer still. Depending on the number of round trips, a sensor can then be placed very near the lens. By placing the sensor at a precise focal point, determined by total round trips, the camera can capture a sharp final image, as well as different stages of the light signal, each coded at a different time, as the signal changes shape to produce the image. (The first few shots will be blurry, but after several round trips the target object will come into focus.) In their paper, the researchers demonstrate this by imaging a femtosecond light pulse through a mask engraved with MIT, set 53 centimeters away from the lens aperture. To capture the image, the traditional 20-centimeter focal length lens would have to sit around 32 centimeters away from the sensor. The time-folded optics, however, pulled the image into focus after five round trips, with only a 3.1-centimeter lens-sensor distance. This could be useful, Heshmat says, in designing more compact telescope lenses that capture, say, ultrafast signals from space, or for designing smaller and lighter lenses for satellites to image the surface of the ground. \n\nMultizoom and multicolor: The researchers next imaged two patterns spaced about 50 centimeters apart from each other, but each within line of sight of the camera. An X pattern was 55 centimeters from the lens, and a II pattern was 4 centimeters from the lens. By precisely rearranging the optics -- in part, by placing the lens in between the two mirrors -- they shaped the light in a way that each round trip created a new magnification in a single image acquisition. In that way, it's as if the camera zooms in with each round trip. When they shot the laser into the scene, the result was two separate, focused images, created in one shot -- the X pattern captured on the first-round trip, and the II pattern captured on the second round trip. The researchers then demonstrated an ultrafast multispectral (or multicolor) camera. They designed two color-reflecting mirrors and a broadband mirror -- one tuned to reflect one color, set closer to the lens, and one tuned to reflect a second color, set farther back from the lens. They imaged a mask with an A and B, with the A illuminated the second color and the B illuminated the first color, both for a few tenths of a picosecond. When the light traveled into the camera, wavelengths of the first color immediately reflected back and forth in the first cavity, and the time was clocked by the sensor. Wavelengths of the second color, however, passed through the first cavity, into the second, slightly delaying their time to the sensor. Because the researchers knew which wavelength would hit the sensor at which time, they then overlaid the respective colors onto the image -- the first wavelength was the first color, and the second was the second color. \n\nThis could be used in depth-sensing cameras, which currently only record infrared, Heshmat says. One key feature of the paper, Heshmat says, is it opens doors for many different optics designs by tweaking the cavity spacing, or by using different types of cavities, sensors, and lenses. The core message is that when you have a camera that is fast, or has a depth sensor, you don't need to design optics the way you did for old cameras. You can do much more with the optics by looking at them at the right time, Heshmat says. This work exploits the time dimension to achieve new functionalities in ultrafast cameras that utilize pulsed laser illumination. This opens up a new way to design imaging systems, says Bahram Jalali, director of the Photonics Laboratory and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Ultrafast imaging makes it possible to see through diffusive media, such as tissue, and this work hold promise for improving medical imaging in particular for intraoperative microscopes."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Manufacturing Equipment and Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"New photography optics for ultrafast imaging"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationed360d18-e4b1-463d-8d98-e6d42b92ab4b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Ship Building and Repairing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Wal Seaiby designed Plag, a project that transforms discarded plastic bags into beautiful, hand-made vessels. This is the noble effort of Wal Seaiby to upcycle the disposable plastic bag. Plag was awarded an Innovation Initiative Grant by the University of Edinburgh. Plag is also a study in self-sufficiency in the process of resourcing materials and making products through experimentation.\n \nApproximately one million such bags are used each minute across the globe, and over 90 percent wind up in landfills. Most are made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a polymer that can be used for much more demanding and enduring applications. Plag is a collection of upcycled, handcrafted vessels that evoke ceramic and glass craftsmanship. Because they consist of recycled shopping bags, Plag containers bear the bright pigments of their original HDPE feedstock and exhibit whimsically distorted forms and rough edges in the spirit of their first use. In this way, the Plag collection transforms one of the least valuable uses of plastic into a high-quality application. [Citation: http://transmaterial.net/plag/, Accessed: 7/12/2019]\n \nThe vessels are created through a four-part process. Using a pressurized steal mold, heat and pressure are applied to piles of shopping bags and the designer found that they would turn into rigid plastic sheets. Seaiby then grinds the plastic sheets down into tiny pellets and these pellets are molded around existing bowls and vases. 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Using machine learning and text analysis, they've been able to identify false robbery reports with such accuracy that the tool is now being rolled out to police stations across Spain. Computer scientists from Cardiff University and Charles III University of Madrid developed the tool, called VeriPol, specifically to focus on robbery reports. In their paper, published in the journal Knowledge-Based Systems earlier this year, they describe how they trained a machine-learning model on more than 1000 police robbery reports from Spanish National Police, including those that were known to be false. A pilot study in Murcia and Malaga in June 2017 found that, once VeriPol identified a report as having a high probability of being false, 83% of these cases were closed after the claimants faced further questioning. In total, 64 false reports were detected in one week. VeriPol works by using algorithms to identify the various features in a statement, including all adjectives, verbs, and punctuations marks, and then picking up on the patterns in false reports. According to a Cardiff University statement, false robbery reports are more likely to be shorter, focused on the stolen property rather than the robbery itself, have few details about the attacker or the robbery, and lack witnesses. Taken together, these sound like common-sense characteristics that humans could recognize. But the AI proved more effective at unemotionally scanning reports and identifying patterns, at least compared to historical data: Typically, just 12.14 false reports are detected by police in a week in June in Malaga, and 3.33 in Murcia. Of course, that doesn't mean the tool is perfect. Our model began to identify false statements where it was reported that incidents happened from behind or where the aggressors were wearing helmets, co-author of the study Dr Jose Camacho-Collados, from Cardiff University's School of Computer Science and Informatics, said in a statement. Bad luck for those who really were robbed from behind or by those wearing a helmet."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Big Data Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"VeriPol: Machine Learning and Text Analysis Tool for Robbery Reports"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationabd59eb4-2976-48c1-bec2-b8e4e2ff78bb"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"All Good's solution-oriented, activism-based business strategy means pushing for both environmental and employee well-being. All Good is a California-based company that was founded by  Caroline Duell. They are a company that creates organic and botanical body-care products. The products have 12 categories and examples of those categories are sunscreen, lip balm, and deodorants. The company also started a coral reef awareness campaign by launching a grass-roots education campaign with Criteria for Reef Friendly sunscreen outlined in easy to read materials.\n \nThe coral reef campaign is one of many testaments to the All Good leadership and its attention on the environment. [Citation: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-skincare-company-improving-its-products-save-coral-reefs/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nIn their mission to offer the purest, most elemental ingredients and organic herbs in natural healing products that are good for people and good for the earth, its no surprise that All Good placed on 2018 Best For The World Overall, Environment and Governance lists [Citation: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-skincare-company-improving-its-products-save-coral-reefs/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nWhen were looking at our company and staying aligned with our mission and our values, we think about the people that were supporting, the people whod be interested in our brand and who we are as a company. The people who work for All Good  the employees, the owners, management and everyone thats involved in that whole process  is considered in how were impacting each other and how were impacting the environment. 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The world's most extreme water-saving nozzle Altered:Nozzle helps you use only the amount of water you need, so you don't waste millions of gallons of water as the water slips through your fingers. Same tap, 98 percent less water The Altered:Nozzle is a water-drop-shaped nozzle that fits onto your existing faucet. Just replace the aerator on the faucet you already have, no need to buy a new one. It alters the water's atomization, breaking water into millions of droplets. This changes the flow so that it sprays in a wide arc (kind of like the sprinklers you see in the produce aisle at the grocery store). This means you can wash your hands, fruit, or dishes like you already do, but with 98 percent less water. This Kickstarter prevents millions of gallons of water from slipping or splashing off your hands and down the drain, which means less water is wasted by the essential things we do every day. For those moments when you need that extra burst of water to clean your dishes, Altered:Nozzle has a switch mode that gives you the flow you need while still using 75 percent less water than standard taps. 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They can easily use their hands as access to their homes, offices, and gyms. The chips can serve emergency contact details. The microchips can also store social media profiles or e-tickets for events and rail journeys within Sweden. More than 4,000 Swedes are already using the technology that was developed by the founder Biohax International named Jowan Osterlund, a former professional body piercer.\n \nProponents of the tiny chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of personal health data that might be stored on the devices. [Citation: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/658808705/thousands-of-swedes-are-inserting-microchips-under-their-skin, accessed 2019-June-20]\n\n\"Around the size of a grain of rice, the chips typically are inserted into the skin just above each user's thumb, using a syringe similar to that used for giving vaccinations. The procedure costs about $180.\" [Citation: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/658808705/thousands-of-swedes-are-inserting-microchips-under-their-skin, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nBiohax has installed thousands of professionals worldwide in the financial, healthcare, government, science, and technology sectors. Biohax has enabled their carriers to increase their security in the digital world, provide 100% identification clearance, and unlimited seamless experiences with their connected surroundings. 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For some designers, finding a way to spin trash into treasure is simply the only way forward as our natural environment is increasingly threatened by human activity. Creating closed-loop systems that not only use responsibly sourced raw materials but also account for where they end up when the product's life has come to an end could make a huge impact, but the idea has to catch on within entire industries. These 13 projects, from sunglasses to pavilions, prove that sustainable design can be just as smart, useful and beautiful as its conventional counterparts. SHIFT Flexible Shelf System Made of Upcycled Textiles Upcycled textile maker Really? and Benjamin Hubert's design studio LAYER present SHIFT, a flexible shelving system produced for textile manufacturer Kvadrat made from up cycled waste textiles from the fashion and textile industries. The wall system starts out as a flat acoustic panel, but just pull on the edges of each colored rectangle and pull the support tabs in place, and you've got surprisingly sturdy shelves. The system requires no hardware, machining grooves into the boards to make them flexible, retaining the characteristics of its source materials. 'New Clothes' Furnishing Collection by Pentatonic Made of Fashion Waste Pentatonic, a furniture company turning trash into treasure with unique recycled collections, presents the 'New Clothes' series made of waste from the fashion industry. The range includes hangers, cushions, chairs, tables and accessories with a collaged look thanks to the company's unique process of grouping hand-curated fabric scraps and transforming them into three-dimensional objects using thermal lamination. 4 Recycled Sea Waste Projects by Parley for the Oceans Leave it to Parley for the Oceans, a project bringing creatives, thinkers and leaders together to end ocean destruction, to turn plastic cleaned from the water into all kinds of cool stuff. The organization teams up with big-name brands to transform this trash into consumer products people actually want to wear and use. Most recently, it collaborated with beer maker Corona to create 'Clean Waves,' a series of sunglasses made in Italy from the plastic the group harvests from the oceans and beaches they work to protect. New products in the 'Clean Waves' series are forthcoming. Parley also worked with Soma to produce a reusable BPA-free glass bottle with a sleeve sourced from 90% ocean plastic, the equivalent of two plastic bottles. It's exclusively available at Starbucks. UltraBOOST is a series of three new sneaker designs from Parley x ADIDAS with an outer woven from 95 percent ocean plastic that has been made into yarn. The laces, heel lining, heel webbing and sock liners are all made of recycled PET plastic, too. Previously, Parley and ADIDAS collaborated on a 3D printed shoe made from collected plastic waste from the oceans, including gill nets. The industry can't afford to wait for directions any longer. Together with the network of Parley for the Oceans, we have started taking action and creating new sustainable materials and innovation for athletes, says Eric Liedtke, Adidas executive board member. The 3D-printed ocean plastic shoe midsole stands for how we can set new industry standards if we start questioning the reason of what we create. We want to bring everyone from the industry to the table and create sustainable solutions for big global problems. Hexagonal Recycled Polystyrene Stools by Andreu Carulla. Designed by Andreu Carulla for El Celler de Can Roca, a world class zero-waste restaurant in Catalonia, the RR201 series of polystyrene stools is made from the expanded polystyrene boxes used by eatery to store and transport food. Notoriously difficult to recycle, the material is cleaned, shredded and compacted into a mould. Steam is injected to make the shreds bond together and expand into this hexagonal form. The entire process is carried out by hand, using low-tech tools like a pedal-operated grinder, using as little energy as possible. Fractured Furniture Made of Waste by Pentatonic + Snarkitecture Furniture company Pentatonic collaborated with Snarkitecture, a New York City design studio known for its clever minimalism, to produce the 'Fractured' duo of a modular bench and table made from recycled post-consumer waste. Each bench consists of 120 items of food packaging, 4 car bumpers, 45 aluminum cans and 240 plastic bottles. Each table is made of 140 food packaging items and coffee cup lids, six car bumpers and 1,290 cans. Both the bench and table pull apart at the center in a jagged line, creating either one large piece of furniture or two smaller ones. Both pieces are made using Pentatonic's patented AirTool system, which uses nitrogen-assisted injection moulding to produce lightweight hollow parts in a process similar to the one used to produce complex automobile components. What are pallets? And why should anyone care? Is a good question being asked a lot since Pinterest came into popularity. Pallets are used and abused wooden platforms used in conjunction with... Memo Bottle: Slim Paper-Shaped Water Canteen for Laptop Bags Rectangular, skinny and designed to fit in briefcases or computer bags, this is definitely a bottle with a clear message: it is time to make your preferred refreshment receptacle more... Stacked Ceramics: Shop Floor Made from 25,000 Pieces of Pottery A 400-year-old ceramics studio in Japan has completely remodeled their store with a most remarkable addition: a walkable surface constructed from a stack of tens of thousands of scrapped pieces..."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Biologically Inspired Technologies and Processes"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Reclaiming and recycling for all manufacturing needs"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation9ce83b91-34db-4cc0-ba3e-add1fdb17702"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Scientists from different University, led by Kewang Nan from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have developed stretchable thermoelectric coils that can harvest energy for miniature flexible wearable devices. They have developed an architectural solution to engineer thin-film active materials into flexible three-dimensional (3-D) forms.\n \nThermoelectric devices provide a platform to incorporate ubiquitous thermal gradients that generate electrical power. To operate wearable sensors or the \"Internet of Things\" devices, the temperature gradient between the surrounding environment and the human body/inanimate objects should provide small-scale power supplies. Continued advances in the field focus on aggressive downscaling of power requirements for miniaturized systems to enhance their potential in thermoelectric and energy harvesting applications. Integrated processors and radio transmitters for example can operate with power in the range of subnanowatts, some recent examples are driven via ambient light-based energy harvesting and endocochlear potential. Such platforms can be paired with sensors with similar power to enable distributed, continuous and remote environmental/biochemical monitoring. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-stretchable-thermoelectric-energy-harvesting-miniature.html, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nThe authors recommend additional research on deposition methods, doping and patterning for organic and composite materials. The materials should not succumb to electrical resistance during mechanical transformation from 2-D to 3-D. With silicon used in the study, a three-fold increase in resistance was observed during the transformation potentially due to electrode contact, device degradation or plastic deformation in some parts of the device. The study represents a promising strategy to integrate thin-film materials in harvesters with soft material systems (including human skin) to realize energetically optimized wearable electronic devices in the future. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-stretchable-thermoelectric-energy-harvesting-miniature.html, accessed 2019-June-20]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Small Energy Generators; Manufacturing Equipment and Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Stretchable thermoelectric coils for energy harvesting in miniature flexible wearable devices"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy; Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation4da612df-6b1f-4317-b621-47f75b5fca98"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Solid Waste Collection "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Trash is a big problem in Myanmar. Garbage is scattered in the streets with smells of burning trash never far behind--but an innovative social enterprise has found a way to turn that adversity into advantage. Tucked in the rural backwaters of Dala near Yangon city, ChuChu Design is an eco-friendly startup lifting families out of poverty with the art of upcycling. Created by Italian NGO Cesvi, the ChuChu project collects waste and teaches locals to transform trash into recycled crafts with an environmental message. With the opening of Myanmar's economy, the fast-developing country is seeing a boom in population and consumerism but still lacks much of the infrastructure to support that growth. Absence of waste disposal options in many areas leads citizens to litter or burn their rubbish, creating toxic air pollution. With the lack of education about the environment, public acceptance of recycling and waste reduction practices remains low. ChuChu Design hopes to change that. Founded in 2014 with funding from the EU, the social enterprise is now a self-sustainable startup that teaches families how to upcycle trash into marketable crafts and currently employs 30 makers. To promote their products and message, managing directors Wendy Neampui and Friedor Jeske designed and built a workshop and showroom made largely of recycled materials. Located in Dala across the river from the country's bustling commercial capital of Yangon, this trash-made shop shows off the potential of upcycling from its bottle-embedded walls to its beautiful products constructed of recycled materials. We want to make job opportunities for those who have low income, said Wendy Neampui to Inhabitat. On the other side, we are involved with the environment. Now there are thirty people working here but not all are from Dala. Some are from Mwambi or outside of Yangon. She gestures to the myriad of products lining the walls, including sturdy purses made of car inner tubes, potato chip bag wallets, belts made from bicycle tires, recycled wine bottle glasses, and even laptop slips woven from cement bags. The waste is usually sourced from a waste collector and downtown wholesale market or from locals hired to collect rubbish from the roadside. She continues: We teach them how to make the designs here and then they make the products at home. Twice a week (Thursday and Saturday) we meet together here and they bring all the products they make at home and then we fix the price. The price depends on how long they worked on the product. We sell the products to our regular shops, customers, and weekend bazaar in Yangon. The workshop behind the showroom is filled with raw material, from piles of motorbike inner tubes to enormous plastic bags of all colors. Plastic bags are the most widely used raw material at ChuChu Design and the makers cut shapes out of different colored bags then use a machine to fuse the plastic together into sheets. The colorful patterned sheets are used for purses, pencil cases, laundry baskets and other products without the need for paint. Makers also experiment with new materials they gather from the dump. Wendy is even creating a traditional Burmese dress using a blend of cotton and recycled plastic on a loom. While Wendy does not believe ChuChu Design will dramatically change society, she hopes the project will gradually spread awareness. Local people never buy these products because they know it is made from trash, said Wendy, referencing the social stigma around recycled products. Only foreigners buy. But the locals don't notice this is our trash. We need a lot of awareness. ChuChu Design sells its products at its showroom in Dala as well as in the Pomelo shop in Yangon, the weekend Yangon bazaar, and other locations with hopes of expanding to Bagan and Inle Lake and the online marketplace. You can contact ChuChu Design and learn more on their Facebook page. + ChuChu Design"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Eco-friendly startup transforms trash into treasures and jobs"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2017"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Sustainable Cities and Communities; Responsible Consumption and Production; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd513c58a-7f76-4c0d-aedc-616b83900a86"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Space Research and Technology "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski is obsessed with SAR satellites. He's so obsessed that his company plans to launch dozens of satellites into space. According to him, ICEYE satellites should be much better than existing SAR satellites -- call it the Tesla or satellites if you want. That's why I'm excited to announce that Modrzewski is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin to speak. SAR stands for synthetic-aperture radar. There are already many SAR satellites around the earth, observing the surface of the planet. But they weigh hundreds of kilograms and cost a small fortune to put into space. While consumer electronics have greatly benefited from miniaturization, the same can't be said about space. But ICEYE thinks it's time to make satellites smaller. The company's SAR satellites only weigh around 70 to 80 kilograms. It's a cost-effective solution, which means it's much cheaper to build a complete constellation. The company is aiming for 18 fully operational satellites around the planet. In many ways, ICEYE is a tech achievement. And the fact that the company operates like a startup makes the venture even more interesting. If you want to hear Modrzewski tell you more about what they've been working on, you should come to Disrupt Berlin. The conference will take place on November 29-30 and you can buy your ticket right now. In addition to fireside chats and panels, like this one, new startups will participate in the Startup Battlefield Europe to win the highly coveted Battlefield cup. Rafal Modrzewski Co-founder & CEO, ICEYE Rafal Modrzewski is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of ICEYE. ICEYE aims to launch and operate a constellation of micro-SAR satellites providing access to timely and reliable Earth observation data. ICEYE is the first company that has successfully miniaturized a SAR satellite, creating a unit that is 100x more cost-effective than traditional counterparts. With its 18 satellite constellation, ICEYE offers its partners a set of unprecedented satellite imaging capabilities, accessing any area of interest faster, more frequently and at lower cost. Since co-founding the project in 2012, which became the company in 2014, with Pekka Laurila, Modrzewski is responsible for overseeing the organization's growth and implementing ICEYE's overall vision. Modrzewski brings with him deep domain expertise in SAR engineering, and he has received the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 Technology award based on the world-first achievements of ICEYE. Prior to co-founding ICEYE, Modrzewski researched innovative products at VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) in the RFID and wireless sensing group. He attended Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, where he studied Electrical Engineering and co-founded the Multimedia Technologies Science Group. Modrzewski continued his studies in Radio Science and Engineering at Aalto University where he led the on-board data handling team working on Aalto-1, Finland's flagship satellite project."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"A cost-effective solution to make satellites smaller"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Partnerships to achieve the Goal; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation26c9f0b8-9e2f-4a80-9af7-81c06287d2ef"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard, a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. It was from their hometown Los Angeles exurb, that Kim and Lee first began plotting how they would turn their experience working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young (respectively) into the software business that just managed to rake in $40 million in financing led by one of venture capital's most-respected firms, Battery Ventures. Kim, who had moved on from the world of the big four audit firms to take positions as the head of global audit at companies as diverse as the chip component manufacturer, International Rectifier and the surf and sportswear-focused clothing company, Quiksilver, had complained to his childhood friend about how little had changed in the auditing world since the two men first started working in the industry. For Kim, the frustration that systems for accounting for risk and compliance -- requirements under the Sarbanes Oxley Act passed in 2002, were still little more than Excel spreadsheets tracking information across different business lines. He thought there had to be a better way for companies to manage their audit and compliance processes. So with Lee's help, he set out to build one. The two men touted the company's service and its ability to create an out-of-the-box system of record for all internal audit, compliance and risk teams. It had been ten years since I had left audit. I couldn't believe there wasn't a software for compliance and risk, Lee said. Companies still manage Sarbanes-Oxley in Excel. There are other tools out there, IBM has OpenPages and ThomsonReuters developed a tool for audit and risk and compliance, but these software services pre-dated Sarbanes-Oxley, and were not made with a modern organization in mind, according to Lee and Kim. The company counts major clients like TripAdvisor, Lululemon, HD Supply, Express Scripts and Spirit Airlines, among its roster of customers and will use the funding led by Battery to further expand its sales and marketing and product development efforts. We were impressed with AuditBoard's product and its customer traction. With more CFOs now turning to dedicated, cloud-based software tools for various tasks, from ERP to tax compliance to procurement, we see a big opportunity for AuditBoard to continue to grow, said Michael Brown, a general partner with Battery Ventures and the latest board member on AuditBoard's board of directors. We have invested before in similar companies that sell technology to CFOs ' products like Avalara, Intacct, Outlooksoft and Bonfire-- and we are excited to partner with Daniel, Jay and their team, who have already built a significant business in a short amount of time. AuditBoard raised a small seed round from friends and family, and followed that up with Donnelly Financial Solutions, a strategic investor who partnered with AuditBoard in 2017 to further develop its Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley toolkit. Now, AuditBoard joins a growing list of Los Angeles business-focused software companies that are beginning to scale dramatically in the city. Long known for its advertising, marketing, and entertainment technology companies, large business-to-business software vendors are cropping up across the Los Angeles region. In addition to AuditBoard's big round, companies like ServiceTitan, which raised $62 million in funding through an investment round led by Battery Ventures earlier in the year, are also making a splash in the Los Angeles business tech scene. Earlier big rounds for companies like InAuth, the security firm; Factual, a location-based targeting service; PatientPop, the management tool for physicians' offices; RightScale, a cloud management and cost optimization service; and Oblong Industries, a collaboration and computer interface developer, all speak to the breadth of the business-to-business talent that's emerging from Hollywoodland."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Banking Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"AuditBoard's risk and compliance toolkit"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Financial Technology"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Decent Work and Economic Growth; Partnerships to achieve the Goal"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation75c39b08-d468-49be-90d4-2fdd071fc255"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"The US army is building a device that during a chemical attack will automatically identify the chemical agent and then inject an antidote. This is a wearable device that can protect soldiers from chemical attacks or gas attacks by automatically injecting it when needed. It has two components - a wearable monitor that checks the user for opioid intoxication and a device that will automatically facilitate the antidote to the wearer.\n\nWHDs allows the ambulatory acquisition of vital signs and health status monitoring over extended periods (days/weeks) and outside clinical environments. This feature allows acquiring vital data during different daily activities, ensuring a better support in medical diagnosis and/or helping in a better and faster recovering from a medical intervention or body injury. WHDs are also very useful in sport activities/fitness to monitor athletes performance or even in first responders or military personnel to evaluate and monitor their body response in different hazardous situations and to better manage their effort and occupational health. These devices can be for both medical and/or activities/fitness/wellness purposes, always targeting the human body monitoring. Taking this in account, the best terminology is health, leading to WHDs. WHDs denomination can be more specific referring to which areas they are applied to. Independently of WHDs purpose, there are four main requirements on their design: low power consumption, reliability and security, comfort and ergonomics. 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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disorder wherein the nerve cells progressively stop working throughout the brain and the spinal cord. The new method was able to fix 89 percent of genes associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.\n \nTen percent of ALS patients have an inherited version of the disease, and 20 percent of those people have a mutation in a gene called SOD1 that causes their ALS. There is currently no effective treatment for this familial form of ALS or the more common sporadic ALS, both of which have a median survival of 3 to 5 years after the onset of symptoms. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184536-gene-therapy-injection-into-spinal-cord-halts-als-in-adult-mice/?fbclid=IwAR2BOEhegKbBl3kwNzd29Ya9ccZk9sRm10nZZPX1IrqrrZ09HktyHeAeGWY#Echobox=1541521219, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nMartin Marsala and Mariana Bravo Hernandez at the University of California San Diego and their colleagues inserted a compound that silences the SOD1 gene into a virus. They then injected the virus into adult mice with an inherited ALS-like condition just above their spinal cords. Were injecting it beneath the membranes that protect the spinal cord, so theres no barrier. Thats what allows us to impact all the neurons inside the spinal cord, says Bravo Hernandez. 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Merck is committed to being the premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company, delivering its medicines, vaccines, and animal health products worldwide. Whether for the treatment of diabetes, infectious diseases, oncology, or other vaccines, these medicines need to get to patients around the globe, sometimes in remote areas. From Aug. 20-24, Kenilworth, NJ-based Merck took part in a Proof of Concept project with AT&T and Softbox to test connected medical payloads carried by drones. The goal? Safely deliver temperature-sensitive medicines using drones across Puerto Rico, which continues to recover from devastating hurricanes. An LTE-connected drone carrying Softbox's thermal-insulated packaging system Skypod, which includes a smartbox powered by AT&T's Internet of Things (IoT) technology, successfully completed demonstration flights. The field trial took place in locations across Puerto Rico, with U.K.-based Softbox providing temperature-control packaging. Merck is pleased to collaborate on this innovative new model for delivering medicines to patients in areas affected by natural disasters, says Brenda Colatrella, Executive Director, Corporate Responsibility at Merck. We're proud of our long history of expanding access to our medicines and vaccines and collaborating to provide humanitarian assistance. The drone test flights give us hope that we will be able to provide a reliable supply of our medicines for disaster. \n\nFor the test flights, Merck shipped a mix of inhalers, tablets, and liquid-filled vials, in weights from 250 g to 500g. Products selected were those considered most necessary for disaster relief. Specifically, these included M-M-R II and Pneumovax 23 vaccines, anti-asthma aerosols Dulera and Proventil, anti-hypertension medicine Cozaar, and insulin, the latter of which required cold chain conditions. Merck donated the products to Direct Relief. Products were held at local San Juan distributor Cardinal Health, where they were picked up for each drone delivery test flight. AT&T's IoT technology tracks the Skypod with data viewed on a web and mobile app dashboard. The data includes near-real time external and internal temperatures of the box and its location. Light exposure data helps signal if there is box tampering during daylight, by determining if the box is open or closed. The dashboard app will flash alerts to help drive appropriate action. For example, it will send an alert if there is a change to the temperature range of 2 C to 8 C. It will also send an alert if the drone goes outside of defined geofencing parameters. AT&T and Softbox have adapted the Skypod from a connected flask prototype developed in the AT&T Foundry, which they showcased earlier this year. \n\nThe AT&T Foundry is a network of innovation centers that collaborates with startups, technology providers and enterprises to move ideas to market faster through rapid prototyping. It moved the IoT sensors that track temperature and location from the lid of the original prototype and fit them into the smartbox. We're proud to be working with AT&T in this dynamic, industry-first trial. The connected Skypod could be rapidly deployed globally in times of humanitarian disaster relief, says Softbox Technical Director Richard Wood. The connection that makes it possible: The AT&T Global SIM and AT&T Control Center connect and manage the Skypod's sensor data transmission. The web and mobile app reporting dashboard use the AT&T Asset Management Operations Center. The drone is also connected to the AT&T network, providing a communications path for flight plan and telemetry data between the drone and ground control system. Last year, AT&T deployed the helicopter Flying COW (Cell on Wings, cell site on a drone) in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. It reportedly was the first time a drone had been used to connect residents with their mobile phone services after a disaster. With the 2018 hurricane season upon us, we are thinking about the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria last year. This trial is a fantastic example of 'IoT for Good,' showcasing that it's possible for connected medical drones to deliver vital medicines to people in times of disaster, says AT&T Region President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, John Vladimir Slamecka. Further Proof of Concept projects are reportedly being arranged, but no specific details were available. Watch a video of drone Skypod delivering vital medicine in the Puerto Rico crisis. 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They are developing a technology to produce eggs by cellular agriculture or produce egg white proteins based on sugar from sugar beet by fermentation. This solution can reduce global warming because the yield of egg white proteins per hectare of land is 10-20 times higher than the animal route.\n \nMoreover, the solution reduces animal suffering, produces no manure and reduces the sensitivity of our food supply to major bird diseases (flu) and the misuse of antibiotics in chicken neutering, thereby increasing AMR issues. The company has also designed new egg-alike proteins, with novel properties related to improved health aspects as well as improved functions such as foaming and binding and less sensitivity of the value chain by having less salmonella and listeria issues. This is due to the intrinsic and sterile production methods in FSC22000 approved food fermentation installations. [Citation: https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/startup-innovation-challenge-2018-nominees-alternative-proteins-upcycling-sidestreams.html, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nWim de Laat at the company notes that BioscienZ has screened for fungus and developed engineering technologies, which enables the efficient expression of animal proteins. We apply our technology in our flagship project egg white protein production and license our platform to third parties for non-strategic applications via FunGeneX BV. We will produce our egg whites as B2B product and will distribute globally via food distributors, he explains to FoodIngredientsFirst. The applications that the ingredint technology is best suited to our bakery and pastry items, meat substitutes and meat analogs. 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This method allowed the fabrication of semitransparent and flexible solar cells with atomically thin 2D materials. This can be used in different applications such as on the surfaces of windows, front display panels of personal computers and cell phones and human skin. This method can also help in creating next-generation smart solar cells. \n\nIn this study, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor Takashi Kato developed an easy and scalable fabrication method to produce semitransparent and flexible solar cells using transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)an atomically thin 2D material. Their technique involved mechanical exfoliation, chemical vapor deposition, conventional photolithography, and electron-beam lithography. [Citation: https://www.asianscientist.com/2017/10/tech/atomically-thin-solar-cell/, Accessed: 7/12/2019]\n\nRelying on a Schottky-type configuration, which is a junction formed between a metal and a semiconductor, the researchers were able to increase the power conversion efficiency of these solar cells by up to 0.7 percent. This is the highest value reported with few-layered TMDs. Clear power generation was also observed for a device fabricated on a largely transparent and flexible substrate. 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The Toyota Tundra PIE Pro is a full-size pickup truck with a complete pizza making factory in the back that is entirely operated by computer-guided robotic arms. Not only does the next generation of pizza delivery get the pizzas made and delivered in the blink of an eye, but the delivery trucks are also zero emissions. The incredible design, which was unveiled at Toyota's 2018 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show, is a truly unique invention. Although we've seen plenty of ingenious food trucks, the Tundra Pie Pro is quite possibly the future of pizza delivery. The custom-made truck is installed with a unique truck bed that has been converted into an open-air kitchen. When a pizza order is placed, a pair of computer-guided robotic arms open the refrigerator and remove the selected pizza. The arms then place the pies on a conveyor belt that passes under a high-speed, ventless oven. Once cooked to perfection, a second arm removes the pizza and places it on a cutting board, where it then cuts it into six identical slices. The arms even put the pizza into a box and off it goes to the customer. The entire process, from start to finish, takes up to seven minutes. Although the objective was to create a faster delivery system, the Pizza Hut and Toyota team were also focused on creating an eco-friendly vehicle. The team took the conventional gasoline-powered drivetrain of the Tundra out and replaced it with a hydrogen fuel-cell electric power unit to make the truck, as well as all of the kitchen components, emissions-free. According to Marianne Radley, chief brand officer of Pizza Hut, the ambitious project was focused on getting piping hot pizza to customers in a faster, more efficient way that won't contaminate the environment. Nothing tastes better than a fresh Pizza Hut pizza straight out of the oven, Radley explained. The Tundra PIE Pro brings to life our passion for innovation not just on our menu but in digital and delivery in order to provide the best possible customer experience."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Food Preparation and Processing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Pizza Hut unveils a zero-emissions delivery truck that makes pizzas on the go"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In Commercial Development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6aa85e67-b56a-4f8d-84d2-0478a150253c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Helbiz is a blockchain startup that creates a marketplace to share cars and other vehicles such as bikes, boats, and other modes of transportation. The startup has an app that is used by users to unlock vehicles and pay for vehicle usage in cryptocurrency. Their goal is to turn vehicles into Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.\n \nHelbiz was founded with the vision of becoming the seamless transportation and payment ecosystem pursuing simplicity and convenience across all transportation services while continuing to push technological boundaries and exploring services for the future of tomorrow. [Citation: https://www.helbiz.com/about/, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \nThe company has a strategic footprint in growing markets with offices in New York, Milan, Madrid, Belgrade, and Singapore, with additional operational teams around the world. Helbizs innovative flagship HelbizGO electric scooter service is fully operational in Italy and Spain, with pilot programs underway in Portugal, France, Greece, Singapore, and Georgia, and was built for the sharing economy and a healthier planet. Perfect for small trips, HelbizGO electric scooters are affordable and easy to use, plus they offer users a convenient way to reduce their carbon footprint. The Helbiz app is available via the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. 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He was able to create a robot that was inspired by the desert locust, scientifically known as Schistocerca gregaria. He researched to be able to develop this robot. He studies the multifunctional feet of the desert locust as well as its jumping behavior and traits especially its ability to enhance surface friction and avoid slips.\n \nThe desert locust, scientifically known as Schistocerca gregaria, is one such well-adapted insect. Its feet have both wet adhesive pads and spines, which allow it to jump quickly and robustly from any surface. Thats why Matthew Woodward chose it for his research project. He is a scientist in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart. His publication, co-authored by the head of the department Metin Sitti, is titled Morphological intelligence counters foot slipping in the desert locust and dynamic robots. It was accepted to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or PNAS. Together with Nature and Science this scientific journal is among the top three interdisciplinary journals worldwide. [Citation: https://idw-online.de/en/news701101, accessed 2019-June-20]\n \n \nWoodward, who is a mechanical engineer, roboticist and biologist, studied the foot structure of the desert locust and its jumping behavior on different surfaces to extract the traits which contribute to helping the insect gain a grip (by enhancing friction) after slipping. He let the locust jump from surfaces such as hydrophobic glass, mesh, wood or sandstone. He wanted to understand how the insect can easily jump from both a smooth and a rough surface. To do so, he built a robot (see figure 1) so he could imitate the jumping behavior of the insect. He built a lot of locust inspiration into it, however also made changes to the natural blueprint: to restrict the motion of the legs to that necessary for jumping, Woodward mirrored the segments of the locust leg and installed this doubling. 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Nat-2 was able to launch 100% vegan sneakers made from recycled coffee grounds. These sneakers can be used by both male and female and it has two styles which are high top and low top. These sneakers were developed by Sebastian Thies which is also the founder of Nat-2. The shoes were handmade in Italy and were produced in a high-tech facility.\n \n\"The 100% vegan, unisex sneakers uppers are made from real sustainable recycled coffee, coffee beans and coffee plant, which covers up to 50% of the shoes surface, depending on each style. The coffee is applied to a layer and got the natural coffee scent. The feel is very smooth and fine, while you can smell the coffee and see the materials natural texture. The patented material was developed in Germany and the final sneakers are 100% handmade in Italy and produced under fair conditions in a new family-run high-tech facility.\" [Citation: https://nat-2.eu/collections/nat-2-coffee-line/, accessed 2019-June-21]\n\n\"All shoes are 100% vegan and equipped with a soft padded, anti-bacterial real cork insole. The glue is free from animal ingredients, the outsoles are made from real rubber and the upper features nat-2 signature reflective glass details for a better visibility and a techy look. The parts looking like suede or nappa leather are made from recycled PET bottles. 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An Israeli company named Pluristem is taking these discarded placentae after childbirth and they are developing a batch of mesenchymal stem cells from these human placentae which can be used to help people who had hip surgery. The batch of mesenchymal stem cells that they have developed can be used to develop a different kind of tissues that releases chemicals and can help in recovery and healing. Different researchers were testing these mesenchymal stem cells. A group of researchers from Charit Berlin University of Medicine in Germany, led by Tobias Winkler, tested the cells on 20 people who undergo hip replacement and after six months of surgery they found out that the people who got a dose of these mesenchymal stem cells had stronger hip muscles compared those who did not but was part of placebo group.\n\nSix months after surgery, people who got a dose of cells had stronger hip muscles than those in the placebo group, as measured by an exercise machine (Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, doi.org/cvsw). All of the people in the experiment  even those in the placebo group  were limp-free by the time they were tested at six months, probably because everyone was having their first hip surgery, says Winkler. The improvements seen in strength suggest that the cells would reduce limping in people having second or third joint replacements, where the muscle starts off in worse condition, says Winkler.  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These composites are exceptionally tough and strong. This was inspired by natures multiscale reinforcing mechanism such as seashells. \n \nNatures multiscale reinforcing mechanisms in fabricating composite armors, such as seashells, provide lessons for engineering materials design and manufacturing. However, it is still a challenge to simultaneously add both micro- and nanoreinforcements in a matrix material since nano-fillers tend to agglomerate, decreasing their reinforcing effects. In this study, we report a new type of micro/nano hybrid filler, synthesized by an unconventional cotton aided method, which has B4C microplatelet as the core and radially aligned B4C nanowires as the shell. To enhance the bonding between the B4C fillers and epoxy, the B4C micro/nano-fillers were coated with a layer of polyaniline (PANI). With a low concentration of the PANI functionalized B4C micro/nano-fillers (1 wt %), this B4C/epoxy composite exhibited an exceptional combination of mechanical properties in terms of elastic modulus (3.47 GPa), toughness (2026.3 kJ/m3), and fracture strain (>3.6%). An analytical mechanics model was established to show that such multiscale reinforcement design remarkably enhanced the load carrying efficiency of the B4C fillers, leading to the overall improved mechanical performance of the composites. This new design concept opens up a new path for developing lightweight, yet high-strength and tough materials with multiscale reinforcing configurations. 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This wearable ultrasound patch can monitor the blood pressure deep inside the body because it can track the blood pressure in a deep artery or vein. This is a non-invasive way of monitoring blood pressure with precision. This technology is using ultrasound waves to continuously record the diameter of a pulsing blood vessel.\n \nThe device measures central blood pressurewhich differs from the blood pressure thats measured with an inflatable cuff strapped around the upper arm, known as peripheral blood pressure. Central blood pressure is the pressure in the central blood vessels, which sends blood directly from the heart to other major organs throughout the body. Medical experts consider central blood pressure more accurate than peripheral blood pressure and also say its better at predicting heart disease. [Citation: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/wearable_ultrasound_patch_monitors_blood_pressure_deep_inside_body, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nThe UC San Diego-led team has developed a convenient alternativea soft, stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn on the skin and provide accurate, precise readings of central blood pressure each time, even while the user is moving. And it can still get a good reading through fatty tissue. 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According to their founder, Morten Toft Bech, they are trying to expand their business to international fresh food distribution and retail and on-premise partners in the European and Middle Eastern markets, particularly interested in countries such as Germany, Netherlands. and Scandinavia, where the meat-free market is thriving. Currently, they are listed in over 600 Sainsburys stores and with 140 Greene King-owned Chef and Brewer pubs. They also recently launched a 400g fresh mince and two pack 227g fresh burger patties in the UK market.\n \nhe Meatless Farm Co.s experts and chefs spent two years developing fresh products that deliver on texture and taste  the most significant barriers to people going meat-free. Now, with patent-pending, The Meatless Farm Co. will sample their products at SIAL using them in everyday family favorite meals. [Citation: https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/meatless-moving-mainstream-uk-start-up-seeks-partners-for-meat-free-npd.html, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nSIAL 2018 is a good opportunity for meat alternatives like The Meatless Farm Co. to talk to retail and casual dining, foodservice, wholesale and quick service restaurants operators, with the latest research revealing eating less meat, could help mitigate the environmental pressures of global food production and allow the planet to support a rapidly growing population. 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This German startup aims to fight Indias huge air pollution and plastic waste problems through biodegradable packaging. They are trying to convert Indias agricultural waste into biodegradable packaging. They already started their goal through their pilot-plant in Bangalore and they are planning to expand nationwide. \n \nThe production process involves buying agricultural residue from farmers which would otherwise have been burnt and converting it into self-binding fibers using a mechanical process, ultimately creating hard shell containers which provide a viable alternative to plastics. [Citation: https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/biodegradable-packaging-bio-lutions-helps-tackle-indias-crop-burning-concerns-212659.html, accessed 2019-June-21]\n\n\"The biodegradable packaging is currently used across a wide range of product categories, including single-use disposable tableware items such as plates and cups, takeaway boxes, fresh fruit and vegetables and meat.\" [Citation: https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/biodegradable-packaging-bio-lutions-helps-tackle-indias-crop-burning-concerns-212659.html, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nThe biodegradable packaging is currently used across a wide range of product categories, including single-use disposable tableware items such as plates and cups, takeaway boxes, fresh fruit and vegetables, and meat. [Citation: https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/biodegradable-packaging-bio-lutions-helps-tackle-indias-crop-burning-concerns-212659.html, accessed 2019-June-21]\nBio-lutions have reported that they have already received enough orders to generate an annual turnover of 2.5 million. To facilitate demand, the company will be relocating to a new, larger factory in Mandya, an agricultural district close to Bangalore. The new factory will employ around 60 people. 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BASF and Materialize have teamed up to industrialize 3D printing in production of various products. The two partners are working together within the framework of an open business model to continuously improve materials and software for various 3D printing technologies and bring them more rapidly to the market. The companies are focusing on applications in the consumer goods sector and in the automotive and aviation industries. The agreement allows for systematic, wider scale testing and further optimization by BASF of its materials on the machines and within the infrastructure of Materialise.\n\nTo increase the adoption of 3D printing as a complementary manufacturing technology for final products, our industrial customers increasingly demand more control, more choice and ultimately lower cost, says Fried Vancraen, Materialise CEO. We are confident that this collaboration with a leading manufacturer of materials will help to accelerate the adoption of 3D-printing in existing vertical markets and create significant business opportunities in new markets. \n\nTraditional manufacturing of frames requires bulk production, unlike 3D printing can support small production batches. This could possibly open up the opportunity to customize eyeglasses frames according to consumer's personal preference, leading to faster production times and reducing production waste as well. This new business model also leads to product design optimizations and functional improvements, such as lighter designs. 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Designed by Quentin Irvine, the Recyclable House is an experimental modern home that stays true to its name with its use of recyclable materials and passive solar construction principles. Conceived as a prototype house for the circular economy, the four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath rental comfortably fits 10 guests and promises sensational indoor air quality. Inspired by Australia's iconic galvanized steel woodsheds, Irvine designed the Recyclable House with a gabled farmhouse aesthetic. Three sides of the building are clad in durable Z600 galvanized steel. The fourth facade is covered in timber planks charred using the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban technique. All components in the home were selected for durability and are either biologically or technologically recyclable. Even the walls, which are built with plasterboard, are fully compostable. Passive solar principles and highly effective insulation create comfortable indoor temperatures year-round, with extra heating provided by a Pyroclassic wood-burning stove and a solar hot-water system; no air conditioning has been installed. Natural finishes used throughout ensure low toxicity. Whilst learning the building profession I identified and became frustrated with the fact that most Australian homes are essentially built with/for rubbish whether they were promoted as eco-friendly homes or not, explains Irvine, discussing the impetus behind his project. Even though materials were often coming to site as quality recyclable materials, they would be destined for landfill the minute that they were installed due to the building practices and installation methods used. I found solutions to many of these problems by researching older building methods as well as thinking creatively about the problem. Completed in December 2015, the Recyclable House was recently made available to rent on AirBnB starting at $95 a night. [Citation: Recyclable House AirBnB Images by Nic Granleese]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Waste Housing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Recyclable House: An eco-getaway that celebrates the circular economy"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa1c66b9c-7150-43e0-aa38-9484ae5c2d6c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Software Publishers"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Design Interactive, Inc, led by Dr. Cali Fidopiastis, is experimenting to use augmented reality for training target acquisition with Electro-Optic Infrared (EOIR) Sensors. To be able to do this they are trying to propose TARgET.\n \nAdvanced Augmented Reality (AR) technologies that provide a real-to-life level of complexity are being explored for training target acquisition with electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) images. An understanding of the perception errors imparted from the AR system is necessary to determine if the system can afford training. To meet this challenge, the development of TARgET, a Testbed for AR Experimentation and Training, is proposed. TARgET is an analysis tool that incorporates predictive and experimental methodologies that evaluate the applicability of AR technologies for use with EO/IR sensor target acquisition training and experimentation. The experiments comprised in TARgET include psychophysical metrics and an automated experimental design methodology for ensuring content and construct validity before then assessing training efficacy. The TARgET testbed is comprised of three modules: Predictive Assessment Module, Human Visual Perception Validation Module, and the Training Efficacy Evaluation Module. The software tool will store a database of specifications for different AR technologies and relevant human performance and psychophysical tests. A methodology for completing the user-centered experiments is provided, along with data analysis and interpretation. Results are stored and can be searched for best-in-class hardware and software combinations. Additionally, cross comparisons between training approaches using AR and non-AR strategies are possible. [Citation: https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1514489, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Use of Augmented Reality in Experimentation with New Equipment Training for Electro-Optic Infrared (EOIR) Sensors"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"PROTOTYPE"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2cb15c1d-f4c9-40af-bd05-b839967c2288"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Structural Steel and Precast Concrete Contractors "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"The slab, which is just 20 millimeters at its thinnest point, has been realized as part of 'DFAB house' -- a project underway in Switzerland. The post this digitally fabricated 'smart slab' is half the weight of a conventional concrete ceiling. The slab was developed by researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, led by Benjamin Dillenburger. This is also one of the key elements of the DFAB HOUSE. An 80 square meter structure with a 15-tonne ceiling consists of 11 concrete segments and connects the lower floor with the two-story timber volume above.\n \nThe research group developed new software to fabricate the formwork elements, which can record and coordinate all parameters relevant to production. after planning on the computer is completed, the fabrication data can then be exported to the machines at the push of a button. the team then worked alongside several industry partners to realize the project. the first produced the high-resolution, 3D-printed sand formworks, which were divided into pallet-sized sections for printing and transport reasons, while another fabricated the timber formwork that gives shape to the upper part of the slab. [Citation: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/dfab-house-concrete-smart-slab-eth-zurich-08-02-2018/, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nThe two types of formwork for the concreting were then brought together by a third company, which first sprayed the fiber-reinforced concrete onto the sand formwork to produce the finely ribbed surface of the lower concrete shell and then cast the remaining concrete into the timber formwork. after a two-week hardening process, the 11 individual concrete segments were ready to be installed. [Citation: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/dfab-house-concrete-smart-slab-eth-zurich-08-02-2018/, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Architectural Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Digitally Fabricated Smart Slab"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation27c6aaf0-5d13-401b-b83e-289132eff93e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a technique that significantly reduces bacteria levels in food processing equipment, and thereby reducing the risk of contamination by pathogens.\n\nLarge-scale food manufacturing facilities rely on stainless steel equipment to mix, chop, slice, dice, or otherwise manipulate ingredients for the finished product. Over time, these stainless-steel surfaces can develop minute cracks or chips that can act as reservoirs for bacteria to reproduce. This increases the likelihood of contamination and resulting foodborne illness.\n\nTo address the problem researchers chemically treated stainless steel food preparation equipment with alkylphosphonic acid, then coated it with cooking oil. The acid helps the oil adhere to the steel surfaces, creating what the researchers call a foodsafe oil-based slippery coating. The coating effectively fills in the cracks and chips, resulting in a smoother surface that bacteria and food residues have trouble adhering to. The researchers found that steel surfaces with the slippery coating had bacteria levels 1,000 times lower than steel surfaces without the coating. In short, the technique appears to offer a low-cost, environmentally sustainable way to reduce food contamination risks. Could it do the same for other manufacturing sectors where bacterial contamination is a concern such as brewing? That would be pretty slick."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Cleaning and Sanitation; Green Chemistry"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Using Oil To Fight Food Contamination"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation085a4c3b-79d9-46eb-9574-e896a1c57e75"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Two plant pathologists from Washington State University were able to discover that the cancer-fighting drugs of humans can also help plants fight disease and this discovery can help scientists in developing new methods for plants to fight infection. Lee Hadwiger and Kiwamu Tanaka are the two plant pathologists from Washington State University that made the discovery after using the anticancer drugs that change the DNA of cancer cells to plants. The anticancer drugs were able to change the DNA cells of plants and were able to activate the genes that battle pathogens.\n \nThe researchers applied a wide array of DNA-specific drugs, including actinomycin D, also known as dactinomycin, to pea tissue. There generally were two different results from those applications, with differing mechanisms of action. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180814134150.htm, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nPlant and animal genes are activated in similar ways, so the scientists assumed the drug would work the same on the plants as in humans. But DNA doesn't recognize a drug as anticancer medication, it's just something new altering its makeup. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180814134150.htm, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nThe plants recognize the chemistry of whatever compound it interacts with. That's why the same compounds act in both plants and animals. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180814134150.htm, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Agricultural Technology; Pharmaceutical Innovation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Cancer-fighting drugs also help plants fight disease"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health; Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8ce539e7-aae3-472b-b325-220e4f28470a"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Snack Food Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Mondelz International will launch an innovation hub called SnackFutures to capitalize on changing consumer trends and emerging growth opportunities in snacking, one of the fastest-growing food categories. With a focus on keeping pace with shifting preferences of shoppers, the hub will be structured to bring together internal talent, an ecosystem of external partnerships and dedicated funding.\n \nSnackFutures will officially launch in November 2018 with a cross-functional team of leaders, led by Cofer, with targeted expertise in brand marketing, consumer insights, research and development, innovation and corporate development. SnackFutures is seeking creative, entrepreneurial individuals and partners with great snacking-related ideas or capabilities to join them in this endeavor. For the programs initial innovation projects, SnackFutures will seek entrepreneurs, suppliers, nutritionists, food and technology engineers and other potential partners to collaborate on opportunities in three key strategic areas:\nWell-being snacks and ingredients\nPremium snacks and ingredients\nDigital platforms and capabilities [Citation: https://ir.mondelezinternational.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mondelez-international-launches-snackfuturestm-innovation-hub, accessed 2019-June-21]\n\nMondelz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) empowers people to snack right in approximately 160 countries around the world. With 2017 net revenues of approximately $26 billion, MDLZ is leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Mondelz International is a proud member of the Standard and Poors 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Sustainability Index. [Citation: https://ir.mondelezinternational.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mondelez-international-launches-snackfuturestm-innovation-hub, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Food Preparation and Processing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Innovation Hub to Lead the Future of Snacking"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationce4e3c53-1ce4-48a7-af0d-7a6764970dd6"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Commodity Contracts Dealing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Blockchain is big news in the finance world right now. A complicated database system that's an integral part of Bitcoin, Blockchain creates time-stamped, secure blocks of data that can't be altered. The finance world loves it: Both IBM and Microsoft are building major blockchain partnerships designed to make it easier for Financial institutions to adopt the technology. As a fintech tool, blockchain is only about a year old, but it holds major potential for banks and other institutions to protect customers and reduce overhead. This could simultaneously drive down costs for consumers and raise corporate profits. The system's secure data blocks make it much easier to verify money transfers and the parties involved at a given time. But because there's a limited number of finance people conversant in blockchain, many consulting agencies are working on helping clients get up to speed with the system. The IT consulting and outsourcing firm Synechron, for instance, offers software packages called Accelerators that integrate blockchain into transactions like mortgage lending and global payments. Fast Company spoke with Synechron's CEO Faisal Husain about what blockchain means for the finance world. Fast Company: Why is blockchain important for the Financial world? FS: In simple terms, let's talk about how certain things work in today's world. For example, if you think about securities trading, stock trading, foreign exchange, money transfers, or buying a home--all of these transactions take many days to complete. Stock trading typically takes three days to complete. Really, it takes so long for these transactions to complete because many different actors are involved in the whole chain. The person who wants to make the trade, the brokerage, the investment bank... it goes on and on. Each one of them has their own record-keeping system, like a database or a ledger. They get the data, then store it in their own format or record-keeping system, they work on it, and they pass it to the next person down the chain. With blockchain, however, each party can have their own record-keeping system that is linked with everyone else's. It's automatically kept in sync, and everything is instant. It's all automatic. There is no chance for mistakes when things are passed, and less requirement for an incredible amount of back-office operations to make sure data is stored correctly. That's why it's called a distributed ledger: Each person has their own record-keeping system, but it is plugged into everyone else's. The second big thing about blockchain is how highly, highly secure it is. There is incredible trust and confidence in a blockchain system. For a blockchain system to work, it needs to be distributed around a wide number of computers. Even if you hack into one computer, you have to hack into more than 50% of the systems in the network. That's virtually impossible. The third feature is smart contracts. These are contracts that can be placed on the blockchain that execute at certain events. They get you to a point where you and I can transact with each other and any middle party we both trust. With smart contracts, if we both agree to that on a blockchain, that creates more efficiency. How has large Financial institutions' adoption of blockchain played out so far? It's still in its early stages. One can argue that Bitcoin... was the first big blockchain project. But for banks and Financial institutions, it's still early. There's a big project in Australia with the Australian Stock Exchange, which is the first big runout. What are Synechron's blockchain accelerators, and how do they help companies adopt blockchain? Our contribution to blockchain is that we built six applications that we call accelerators. They focus on specific business scenarios like straight finance, money transfer, know your customer, and margin management. We applied blockchain to these business situations and brought the promise of blockchain to them, which means much faster and secure transactions that require less manpower to run them. We actually built the applications and showed them to the marketplace, the industry, and our clients. While there's a lot of talk and hype about blockchain, very, very few people are building substantial applications for it right now. Our applications are comprehensive, and clients just need to modify them to their particular enterprise. FC: Is there a big talent pool of Financial specialists with blockchain knowledge? FS: No. It's a new market, which means that the technology is new, and there's a steep learning curve. It's complex stuff! The talent market is very thin, which is one of the values we provide. We're a consulting company and a technology company that has invested significantly in blockchain. We built it up to benefit our clients. We've retrained and invested at least six months of training in a team of 50-100 technologists and analysts in blockchain at our own cost. That was our investment to learn and master technology. FC: What does the future hold for blockchain? FS: Payments! I think the current model of transferring money is quite antiquated. It's too long, and there are too many people involved across the chain. Also, when you look at areas like trade settlements and securities trading, the model can be reduced to a few hours in both the middle office and back office. Also, trade finance. Trade Finance involves financing global trade and is a highly fragmented industry. It brings together the bank financing the trade as well as corporate players involved in the trade supply chain, such as the shipping company, credit rating agency, and insurer. Since there is no single view of trade finance across banks, there is a challenge where one company can approach multiple banks with a letter of credit and fraudulently receive funds from multiple banks using the same letter of credit. This is known as the double-spend issue. Blockchain can give these parties a single view of the transaction on a distributed ledger, and use smart contracts combined with digital payments for a full, straight-through process. Additionally, if mortgages and title deeds can be made electronic and on a blockchain, which is highly secure, the time it takes for the process, which can be 45-60 days to buy a house, could significantly go down. The length of time it takes for the appraisal, legal checks, title checks, and insurance would all be reduced. There's also a process called KYC [Know Your Customer, a system used by banks to verify customer identity] that holds promise as well. Right now, each bank stores their own KYC data. With blockchain, they could reduce the amount of investment they make in KYC data and share that data among themselves. Over the last few years, KYC utilities have emerged to help banks and brokers manage the cost of compliance and other applications. While these banks have helped to standardize best practices, the fragmented KYC utility market leaves banks sharing their data with multiple utilities. Bringing KYC data onto blockchain helps create a centralized view of that data, minimizing or illuminating the need to share it with multiple utilities. Banks can also then maintain the ability to own their KYC data and potentially monetize it in a future Blockchain marketplace."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Currencies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"The Global Financial World Is Banking On Blockchain"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2017"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Financial Technology"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Decent Work and Economic Growth; Partnerships to achieve the Goal"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On The Market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation26f5117f-8262-45f9-b414-b07278bf2b25"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Primary Battery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry in China, led by Xin-Bo Zhang, have reported a new type of cathode that can make lithium-oxygen batteries a practical option. This can be used in developing lithium-oxygen systems that can someday outperform today's lithium-ion batteries because of their potential for high energy density. This can also solve one of the important issues which are electrochemical stability.\n \nXin-Bo Zhang and colleagues note that most of the problems associated with lithium-oxygen battery systems arise from two highly reduced oxygen species that react readily with the electrolyte and the cathode. Carbon is a common strong-performing cathode, but it is unstable in these systems. So, the team hypothesized that the key to unlocking lithium-oxygen batteries' potential could be to create cathodes that are unreactive to the reduced oxygen species, but that still have the same highly conductive, low-weight, porous characteristics of carbon cathodes. The researchers succeeded in creating an ultralight all-metal cathode. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170524084411.htm, Accessed: 7/12/2019]\n \nThe design incorporated three forms of nickel including a nanoporous nickel interior and a gold-nickel alloy surface directly attached to nickel foam. Compared to carbon cathodes, the system has much higher capacity and is stable for 286 cycles, which is amongst the best for lithium-oxygen systems and is nearly competitive with current commercial lithium-ion systems. Further experimentation showed that the stability and performance arise from both the metal used and its nanoporous structure and that both these aspects could be optimized to further improve performance. 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The team proposes Phase II of Autonomous System Control via Social Insect Models (ASC-SIM). The Autonomous System Control via Social Insect Models (ASC-SIM) provides a unified framework that combines the swarm-based scenarios of national interest.\n\n\"Boston Fusion is collaborating on a program to optimize the workflow process that turns raw data into finished, actionable knowledge. This system ingests data from multiple sources, creates indexing to form cross reference of entities across the data sets, and provides network visualization and manipulation tools. The tool enables users to build evolving intelligence assessments and navigate associated social networks for actionable intelligence, and for improved case data tracking support.\" [Citation: http://www.bostonfusion.com/work, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nInspired by those who forged an independent nation, energized by our home in the worlds foremost scientific research center, and incentivized by employee-ownership, our engineers, scientists, mathematicians, MBAs, and systems architects are united in pursuit of a common goal: to maintain the security of our great nation and our way of life.  [Citation: http://www.bostonfusion.com/discover, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nBoston Fusion delivers revolutionary capabilities to our customers, changing the way they make critical decisions across a variety of domains: Autonomous Control, Situation Awareness, Threat Assessment, Resilience for Air, Space, Ground, Maritime, and Cyber Operations, and Command and Control. [Citation: http://www.bostonfusion.com/discover, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Techniques"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Managing Emergent Behavior of Interacting Autonomous Systems"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"RESEARCH"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6b023638-0125-4850-bea1-0a509f5ead2e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A San Francisco-based firm named Anderson Architecture has created a prototype for the energy-positive portable classroom that produces four times more energy than it needs and it is a relocated classroom in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. This prototype offers an educational environment and also produces electricity and water. This portable is prefabricated and its size is 960-square-foot. They also use low VOC materials, natural finishes, and FSC-certified timber structures to make the interiors.\n \nThe solar-powered modular classroom prototype was developed as part of the Aloha States plans to replace 10,000 portable classrooms over the next 10 yearscurrently a quarter of Hawaiian students study in poor-quality, energy-inefficient portable units. The energy-positive prototype offers an optimized educational environment and is designed to maximize energy conservation while producing electricity and water. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/energy-positive-portable-classroom-produces-four-times-more-energy-than-it-needs/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe manufacturing and delivery process and the materials and products employed are all selected for minimum environmental impact and for maximum contribution to a healthy indoor environment, write the architects. Wherever possible, materials are chosen to conserve resources, minimize initial and lifecycle maintenance costs, and to promote educational awareness of the natural environment and its relationship to comfortable and healthy living. The design focuses on performance issues directly impacting the learning experience of its occupants and the environmental quality of its communitythermal comfort, natural daylighting, indoor air quality, energy and resource conservation, and generation. 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With low-powered computers, these off-the-grid, heat-durable, $20,000 classrooms are bringing 21st-century training to rural Uganda, democratizing education. These classrooms will come to Kenya next.\n \nAleutia specializes in providing education and healthcare solutions to developing countries and began working on the \"Solar Classroom in a Box\" project back in 2013. The aim of the project is to provide everything needed for a solar classroom in one package, including energy-efficient computers, cabling, and solar panels. Company director Mike Rosenberg tells Gizmag that the initial idea was to retrofit or adapt old shipping containers, but that, ultimately, a different approach was required. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/aleutia-solar-classroom-in-a-box-kenya/38808/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAleutia worked with the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, as well as architects in Nairobi, to develop a structure that is insulated, low cost, easily transportable and scalable. Each classroom is made of local materials, such as cinder blocks and a corrugated tin roof, with a light gauge steel frame. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/aleutia-solar-classroom-in-a-box-kenya/38808/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n\n\"In total, each classroom has 10 computers for students and one for a teacher. Aleutia T1 computers are used, which are designed to be fanless, rugged and economical. Teachers' computers are loaded with an offline English language version of Wikipedia and Khan Academy.\" [Citation: https://newatlas.com/aleutia-solar-classroom-in-a-box-kenya/38808/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Innovation in Education"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Solar Classroom In A Box: Teaching More Than 20,000 Students In Africa"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Community Action"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Quality Education; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6c5d3d05-4a5d-4b50-b31a-867816ac3eed"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Remediation Services "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Imbibitive Technologies Corp has developed Imbiber Beads, salt-size plastic balls that can expand up to 27 times its original volume and these beads absorbs over 1,000 organic chemicals which includes oil but these beads don't absorb water. This oil sensitive technology can cleanup oil spills and can be a good oil spill response."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Toxic and Environmental Remediation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Imbiber Beads For Oil Spill Cleanup"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"1994"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione0381b07-202e-4a8b-b28d-1ab723c55a18"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Mexican engineers have created a system that rehabs pipes without breaking ground. Tupepol halts infrastructure headaches, such as road closings, obstructed businesses or neighborhoods or repaving. With Tupepol, a camera helps a team spot damage, then a resin-impregnated sleeve is inserted into the compromised pipe and hardens, making a pipe within the existing pipe overnight."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Tubepol: Repairing Water And Waste Pipes On-Site With Resin-Felt \"Balloons\""},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation3c5655a9-dd2a-494e-a4a0-c80f3f49a652"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Geothermal Electric Power Generation "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Geothermal Energy from Mine Water: Guidebook Helps Communities Tap New Resource. Millions of miles of tunnels crisscross the ground under old mining communities across the United States. Abandoned, falling apart and choked with water, the tunnels are often viewed as a dangerous legacy. But the water in these mines could actually be a major geothermal resource.\n \nStudent researchers at Michigan Technological University have put together the first comprehensive guidebook communities can use to explore the feasibility of using mine water for geothermal energy to heat and cool buildings. While there is great potential for this resource, there are less than 30 active mine water geothermal systems in the world. One is at Michigan Tech's Keweenaw Research Center just north of Houghton, Michigan. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-geothermal-energy.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe research team worked with the University's Keweenaw Research Center and community leaders in Calumet to understand the local potential. In fact, the idea for this project came from community members in Calumet, and especially Elmore Reese at Main Street Calumet. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-geothermal-energy.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe team will present its work to the public in Calumet, Mich., on April 6, in the atrium of the Calumet  Laurium  Keweenaw (CLK) School from 7 to 9 p.m. Community members can interact with a tabletop model showing how mine water geothermal works, calculate the distance from their own home to the nearest mine shaft and make approximate cost calculations for installation and pay-back, using a calculator tool. People of all ages are welcome. 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A nanoparticle coating makes the stainless-steel mesh bumpy. (The bumps mimic the waxy leaves of lotus flowers.) Two polymer layers bookend the mesh, and a fluorosurfactant coating makes it a sieve that catches oil and lets water drain through.\n \nDuring the Deepwater Horizon disaster, cleanup workers used a number of methods to reduce the spills impact, including boats that skim the oil off the gulfs surface, chemicals that disperse the oil, oil-absorbing pom-poms and even burning. Now, researchers have developed a new potential tool: a high-tech coated mesh that separates oil from water with the ease of a sieve. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/117252179365/new-material-could-help-clean-up-oil-spills/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nTo make an oil-separating sieve, Bhushan and Philip Brown, a materials scientist also of Ohio State, took a stainless steel mesh and made it bumpy by coating it with nanoparticles sandwiched between two layers of polymers. Then, they covered the mesh with a fluorosurfactant, a type of chemical that attracts water but repels oil. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/117252179365/new-material-could-help-clean-up-oil-spills/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThose nanoparticle bumps are crucial because they increase the surface area of the mesh, which in turn enhances the outer layers oil-repelling properties. Its a trick the researchers borrowed from the lotus leaf, whose waxy and bumpy surface repels water. In the end, they get a mesh thats really good at letting water flow through  but not oil. 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The bacterium that breathes Uranium us from the common class known as beta proteobacteria.\n \nThe Rutgers team was able to isolate the uranium-breathing bacterium in the lab by recognizing that uranium in samples from the Rifle site could be toxic to microorganisms as well as humans. The researchers looked for signs of bacterial activity when they gradually added small amounts of dissolved uranium at the right concentration back to the samples where uranium had become immobilized. Once they found the optimal uranium concentrations, they were able to isolate the novel strain. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-scientists-bacterium-uranium-immobile.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nBreathing uranium is rather rare in the microbial world. Most examples of bacteria that can respire uranium cannot breathe oxygen but often breathe compounds based on metals  typically forms of solid iron. Scientists had previously witnessed decreasing concentrations of uranium in groundwater when iron-breathing bacteria were active, but they have yet to show that those iron-breathing bacteria were directly respiring the uranium. 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Hanauer and colleagues have created a better way to assess conservation policies by combining research that models and maps ecosystem services and research that empirically measures how human behaviors are affected by actual conservation programs. They are moving toward a computer model of human behaviors and natural systems that can translate to new policies designed to optimize human-natural environment interaction. The group also aims to improve conservation planning by studying and analyzing the impacts of public policies.\n \n\"Nature provides all these free ecosystem services, but we don't have a good picture of how useful our policies are at protecting the supply of these services,\" said Ferraro, a professor in Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. \"Scientists need to move beyond hypothetical scenarios and conduct impact evaluations of real-world policies aimed at delivering these services. So we brought together the scientific modelers with social scientists who empirically evaluate policies in place now.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-policies.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \n\"Without an evidence base for the impacts of real policies,\" he said, \"the insights from modeling and valuation are not as useful to decision-makers as they could be. But when we measure how such policies change human behavior, we have a better idea of their impact on environmental services. It is why, for example, we have human drug trials; a computer model can't do it. 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Mine tailings disasters are a serious problem in the mining industry worldwide. They also created a guide that provides a collection of industry and academic articles regarded by many as the definitive reference for the new technology.\n \nUWA's Professor Andy Fourie said when mines stored their tailings in large mounds that also hold water, the structures occasionally failed and discharged toxic slurries with disastrous effects for local communities and the environment. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-tackle-tailings-disasters.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nProfessor Fourie said an emerging solution involved treating tailings to thicken them or make them into a semi-paste, a process that can reduce water losses due to evaporation and also help reduce operating costs. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-tackle-tailings-disasters.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nProfessor Fourie said the use of thickened tailings had been evolving over the past 15 years had been adopted at more than a dozen mine sites around Australia - including the Mt Keith nickel mine in WA - and some 30 or 40 other mines around the world. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-tackle-tailings-disasters.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \n\"It also has the advantage of reducing the risks of these catastrophic failures. As communities become more concerned about mining impacts, this issue will become greater and greater.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-tackle-tailings-disasters.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Thickening Mine Tailings Saves Water, Money and May Prevent Failure"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Climate Action; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation93ef5713-9453-4855-bfff-7d9a1cff91d5"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Biomass Electric Power Generation "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method of manufacturing Bio-based BTX Chemicals from the Gasification of Wood Biomass. The team has demonstrated that lignocellulosic biomass can be successfully converted into pure BTX chemicals such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. The goal of their research is to enable the use of wood-based chemicals to replace crude oil in, for example, plastics, fuels, medicine, and paints.\n \nDemand has grown rapidly for chemicals generated from renewable sources, creating a need for alternative, environmentally friendly production routes. Particularly sought-after chemicals include pure aromatics, such as the BTX chemicals benzene, toluene, and xylene. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-pure-industrial-chemicals-gasifying-lignocellulosic.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe process can be applied to the production of bio-based chemicals. However, both benzene and toluene can also be used in the manufacture of more sophisticated compounds, such as paracetamol, a painkiller that VTT used as an example compound in its tests. Since the compound's synthetic route requires pure source materials, VTT's research proves the high quality of aromatics produced through gasification. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-pure-industrial-chemicals-gasifying-lignocellulosic.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nVTT is continuing larger-scale development work in its Bioruukki piloting center in Espoo, Finland. The aim is to demonstrate the industrial viability of the entire process - from biomass to aromatics to end products - by producing several kilos of material. VTT will further develop the synthetic route in order to improve the technical and economic feasibility of the process as a step towards commercial viability. 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Read more LifeSignals Gets FDA Clearance for Its Wireless LP1100 Life Signal Patch Made from a flexible mesh material, the smart implant measures the heart's electrophysiological signals. Electrophysiology is the study of the heart's electrical activity and is used to diagnose abnormal heartbeats or arrhythmia. Research is ongoing rapidly into materials for wearables and implantable medical devices. This latest research demonstrates a new material developed by Korean scientists, which can record electrical signals from tissue or skin it contacts, and deliver stimuli to the area, reports MedGadget. Because of its stretchable property, the material is ideal for implantation in tricky areas, such as around the heart. This guarantees that it doesn't hamper heart's normal activities. The patch is made from gold-coated silver nanowires that are housed in a flexible rubber called polystyrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS). The gold coating prevents the silver from entering the body, where it could have toxic effects, and reduces the potential for corrosion caused by bodily fluids. We took advantage of silver's high conductivity, SBS' stretchability, and gold's high biocompatibility, said Hyeon Taeghwan, a researcher involved in the study appearing in Nature Nanotechnology. Finding the right proportion of each material was the key to success. When implanted, the wearable provides information on muscle and cardiac dysfunctions, and can apply electrical and thermal stimulations. Researcher believe it could be employed in future therapeutic applications, such as pain relief, rehabilitation, and prosthetic motor control. Upon testing the device on human skin for recording the electrical activity of heart and muscles, the researchers found that the softness, elasticity and stretchable property of the patch allowed it to follow the contours of flexible joints, such as those in the wrist. The first test was therefore performed on the forearm, where it simultaneously monitored electromyography signals, and delivered electrical and thermal stimulations. For their next test, the researchers took it to the next level and manufactured a customized large mesh and fitted it on the lower part of a swine heart. Read more Wearable ECG Monitoring Patch Can Detect Atrial Fibrillation Earlier and More Efficiently, Says Study While wrapped around the heart, the device was able to read signals from the entire heart to pinpoint possible lesions and help recovery. For example, the mesh was able to register the change of electrocardiogram signal caused by an acute heart attack. During repetitive heart movements, the wearable remained stable and apparently didn't interfere with the heart's pumping activity. Although various soft cardiac devices have been reported for the rat heart. This study on pigs can approximate human physiology more accurately, said CHOI Suji, first co-author of the study. We aim to study heart diseases, and stimulate the heart more effectively by synchronizing cardiac pumping activity."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Devices"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Flexible Batteries Half A Millimeter Thick Suitable For Wearables"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb459c81f-69c0-4ded-96d6-29e921aaa25c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyushu Synchrotron Light Research Center, Kagoshima University and Florida State University have discovered a bacterium that can help clean radioactive soil during their collaboration. This highly acidic protein from salt-loving bacteria can be used in removing radioactive cesium from contaminated soil and could be key in cleaning the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan after the radioactive leak incident.\n \nThe team demonstrated how they could locate cesium ions in a specific site within the protein even in the presence of a nine-fold molar excess of sodium ions, which would normally out-compete any binding site. Intriguingly, the presence of strontium and cesium ions does not diminish the activity of the enzyme determined using isothermal titration calorimetry. [Citation: https://www.asianscientist.com/2015/03/in-the-lab/bacteria-clean-radioactive-soil/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nIt is well known that proteins from salt-loving bacteria have an abundance of acidic amino acids and so present an acidic surface that can interact with a range of metal ions. There are twelve types of such enzymes recorded in the Protein Data Bank that can bind to sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, strontium and cadmium ions. Indeed, the presence of these materials in various enzymes is usually a prerequisite for their structure and functionality. 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Hotels could use apps from check-in to ordering room service. Guests are pinged with room availability and pick up pre-programmed keys, and someday smartphones could _be _keys. This could cut labor, space and printing costs, while adding convenience for travelers. Marriott and Hilton plan to expand app options globally by years end."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Hospitality Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Automated Hotel Check-ins and Room Service through Smartphone Apps"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Sustainable Cities and Communities; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2733ee66-432e-4bc6-b68b-54e9f5925b4a"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Aalto University, led by Professor Hele Savin, have produced prototype black solar cells on an industrial manufacturing line, turning a concept first introduced in 2011 into a reality.\n \nBy incorporating engineered nanostructures into the cells, the researchers are able to achieve 20 percent efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity -- without having to apply an anti-reflective coating to the cell. While there are other cells with comparable efficiency ratings, most commercially available solar cells have efficiency ratings well below 19 percent. The black cell prototypes also appear to have better long-term stability than the cells industry uses as a standard reference.\n \nWhile the manufacturing costs for the black cells remain an obstacle, it is always exciting to see ideas move from the drawing board into the real world. We look forward to seeing how this technology develops.\n \nAaltos approach consists of using deep needle-like nanostructures to make an optically perfect surface that eliminates the need for the antireflection coatings. Their industrial production, however, was not an easy task. 'We were worried that such a fragile structure would not survive the multi-step mass production, because of rough handling by robots or module lamination.' [Citation: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/first-truly-black-solar-modules-roll-off-industrial-production-line, accessed 2019-June-21]\n\n\"Luckily, the concerns were proven not to be an issue. The cells and modules were truly black when they came out from production and had no signs of damage. The best module was producing energy with more than 20% efficiency. In addition to excellent optical properties, the researchers were positively surprised that their black cells had additional unexpected benefits, such as a high tolerance towards impurities and much better long-term stability as compared to the industry standard reference cells.\" [Citation: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/first-truly-black-solar-modules-roll-off-industrial-production-line, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Solar Cell Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Black Solar Cells Are A Reality"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation45189ae3-3cad-44c7-b565-30dbd6d98dbc"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Remediation Services "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Coal has left some Ohio towns with undrinkable orange water. But because its full of iron oxide, the sludge can be turned into paint cleaning up and potentially monetizing a disaster area. The scalable technique could pump out 2,000 pounds of pigment a day. Other areas, such as Australia and Northern Appalachia, could benefit from the strategy."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Cleaning and Sanitation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"From Toxic Sludge To Paint: Pollution Could Fund Its Own Cleanup"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2013"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation19260186-f376-4237-8f37-4f225ca56f52"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"In the U.S., polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) became popular after World War II but were banned in 1979 because of toxicity. Because they don't degrade, they infiltrate sediment and work their way up the food chain to humans. An MIT grad student is using passive water samplers to track PCB outside Seattle, helping regulatory agencies map pollution and respond.\n \nThe environment is incredibly complex, and our grasp of it is shifting every day, he says. I liked the idea of chasing a life in environmental engineering because its application-based. I can, right now as a student, produce something tangible and impactful in all of my work. Course 1, he continued, has fostered his comprehension of the environment from both a scientific and developmental point of view. [Citation: http://news.mit.edu/2015/combating-contamination-rivers-dan-prendergast-0710, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n\n\"Prendergast, originally intent on pursuing a career in chemical engineering, received his bachelors degree from Brown University in Rhode Island. His undergraduate work, however, served him his first taste of environmental engineering  a field he says he didnt even realize existed before arriving at MIT.\" [Citation: http://news.mit.edu/2015/combating-contamination-rivers-dan-prendergast-0710, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n\nWorking with CEE Professor Philip Gschwend in Parsons Laboratory, Prendergast develops and deploys passive samplers in Seattles Lower Duwamish Waterway. The aim of his project is to devise means to identify the source(s) of contaminants like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in complex environments so that organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can effectively mitigate and eliminate such toxic chemicals. [Citation: http://news.mit.edu/2015/combating-contamination-rivers-dan-prendergast-0710, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Toxic and Environmental Remediation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Passive Samplers Detect Toxins In Waterways Faster"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione23b0ef3-7171-421f-8afc-92c1607093fd"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Synthetic Dye and Pigment Manufacturing"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Bringing green chemistry to textiles could eliminate many harsh chemicals posing threats to wearers and water. Archroma created the biosynthetic dyes for cotton and cellulose-based fabrics named \"EarthColors\". These dyes are made from almond shells, saw palmetto, rosemary leaves, and other natural non-edible waste products or biomass. In stores, shoppers can scan clothing tags with phones to track the supply chain, from mill to hanger, and its environmental impact. The final garments made from Archroma fabrics are embedded with NFC (near field communication) technology. This feature allows the users and brands to scan the tag and receive all manufacturing information, such as biomass used, origin of the biomass, dyestuff batch number, name of textile mill and the garment maker. This innovative feature keeps the traceability open and easy for a highly sustainable supply chain.\r\n\r\n\r\nThis new development is a step-change in dye manufacturing and coloration technology using agricultural waste to make natural dyestuffs, Wessels reported. As he puts it: We continuously challenge the status quo in the deep belief that we can make our industry sustainable. [Citation: https://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/features/2017/03/archroma-treads-a-highly-sustainable-path/, Accessed: 6/10/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Green Chemistry"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Earthcolors: Safe Fabric Coloring From Waste Products"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione139c566-fca2-47da-9201-882315ea660b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Remediation Services "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"The Deep Water Horizon/BP oil spill incident in 2010 inspired Mike Chung, a Penn State materials scientist to envision and develop a synthetic material that could absorb oil while rejecting water. His innovation Petrogel can be in the form of powder, flakes or as a film. Soaking up the oil molecules will turn the supermaterial into a gel. Used Petrogel can also be converted to oil at 350 degrees C."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Cleaning and Sanitation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Petrogel: Superabsorbent Polymer Could Recover Oil From Cleanups"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation05867175-3f68-4741-ae5b-72060bc7ee54"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), led by Jon Otto Fossum, professor at the Department of Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), are conducting basic research to develop a technology that can allow ordinary clay to be used for carbon capture. This can play a central role in helping the nations of the world manage and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.\n \nClay offers many benefits compared to other materials, particularly because other potential materials can be expensive, difficult to produce, toxic and not particularly environmentally friendly. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150408090319.htm, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nCommon clay can be just as effective as more advanced materials in capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, according to research by Norwegian and Slovak scientists. One particular type of clay mineral, known as smectite, was especially effective in absorbing CO2 emissions, the researchers said in the journal Scientific Reports. One possible use for clay would be to incorporate it into filters or scrubbers in smokestacks at power plants, the scientists said. They said their research into clay's CO2-absorbing capabilities is preliminary and would not be available for commercial use anytime soon. But the scientists said clay offers many benefits compared to some other expensive and potentially toxic CO2-scrubbing materials. [Citation: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/clay_shows_promise_in__capturing_co2_from_power_plants Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Green Chemistry"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Carbon Capture: Clay Offers Potential As Non-Toxic Scrubber"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb8202d83-b596-4d53-82d0-7a46b4286b71"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) is an efficient vector of a bacterium that causes a lethal citrus disease, huanglongbing (HLB), one of the most destructive diseases of citrus worldwide. ACP-HLB is a serious threat to California's annual $2 billion citrus industry. This insect-disease combination has cost Florida's citrus industry $1.3 billion in losses, and production costs have increased by 40 percent. Now a research team at the University of California, Riverside has targeted the olfactory system of the psyllid, and identified a suite of odorants -- odor molecules -- that the ACP olfactory system detects. Some of these odorants can modify the behavior of ACP and lead to the development of tools to tackle its spread worldwide, the researchers report. The ACP olfactory system is sensitive to a variety of odorants released by citrus plants. This presents an opportunity to develop attractants and repellents using odors, said Anandasankar Ray, an associate professor of entomology and the director of the Center for Disease Vector Research, who led the research project. Ray explained that the ACP detects citrus plant odors using tiny pit-like sensors (containing neurons) on its antenna. His lab performed a large-scale analysis of numerous citrus emitted odors and identified those odors that strongly activate the citrus odor sensitive neurons on the ACP antenna. Then, using a blend of activating odorants, the researchers developed an efficient attractant that could lure ACP to yellow sticky traps. We anticipate that this odor-based insect lure could be of use to growers in California and other parts of the world where ACP invasion is occurring, Ray said. The large scale identification of odors that are detected by ACP appears in the 39th issue of Chemical Senses. Both studies were funded by the Citrus Research Board. One of the major gaps in ACP control is the lack of effective surveillance traps to track the rapid spread of these highly invasive insects that are fast spreading globally. Currently, HLB is mostly managed by spraying insecticides and swiftly removing infected trees. But if the ACP develops insecticide resistance, commercially managed citrus groves could be in jeopardy. Further, abandoned citrus groves could become prolific reservoirs of HLB. The blend of odors Ray and his team of researchers identified consisted of myrcene, ethyl butyrate and p-cymene -- odors found in nature. To test whether this blend was indeed effective as an attractant, Ray and his team of researchers performed field trials, spread over 10weeks, in citrus trees located in backyards in a residential neighborhood in El Monte, Calif. They found that the odor-based yellow traps caught nearly 230 percent more ACP than conventional yellow traps placed on the same trees. What's particularly encouraging is that these three chemicals are affordable, useful in small quantities and safe for human handling, Ray said. They could be developed into monitoring and surveillance tools. Similar approaches can be taken to develop control strategies using odors for other insect pests of crops as well. Our study also reports identification of odors that block the ACP olfactory system from detecting citrus odors and have potential for development into repellents. The Ray Lab has already identified odor molecules that can severely impair, if not completely disrupt, the carbon dioxide and skin-odor detection machinery of mosquitoes. Recently his lab discovered the receptor proteins in insects that detect the repellent DEET and used it to identify several naturally occurring, pleasant smelling odor repellents for mosquitoes and flies that were better than DEET. Both are approaches that can help control the spread of diseases mosquitoes transmit -- malaria, dengue, yellow fever, filariasis and West Nile virus. Besides California, ACP and HLB are found in Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, the Caribbean, Central America, and large parts of Mexico and Brazil. When the ACP feeds on leaves and stems, it injects the bacterium into the trees and, within a few years of infection, the leaves turn yellow and the fruit becomes misshapen and bitter. The tree dies within 5-8 years of infection. Ray was joined in the PLOS ONE study by UC Riverside's Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu, Lisa Forster and Tom Guda; and by Coutinho-Abreu, Forster, Shane McInally and Robert Luck in the Chemical Senses study. The California Department of Food and Agriculture assigned the location for the field trials after securing permission from landowners for setting up traps. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, approved the chemicals tested as lures for field use. The UCR Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent on the technology reported in the research paper, which has been licensed to ISCA Technologies. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2014-10-odor-molecules-pest-devastating-citrus.html#jCp"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Agricultural Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Odor molecules monitor pest that spreads devastating citrus disease"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2e6ee5c0-d295-4d3a-b354-bc48c84740fc"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Scientists are using biotechnology to chip away at barriers to producing biofuels from woody plants and grasses instead of the corn and sugarcane used to make ethanol. NC State's Forest Biotechnology Group, which has been responsible for several research milestones published this year, summed up biofuel research progress and challenges for a special issue of the Plant Biotechnology Journal. The greatest barrier to producing more sustainable and economical biofuels, according to lead author Dr. Quanzi Li, comes from stubborn plant cell walls that resist being broken down into biofuel ingredients. Cell walls contain desirable cellulose and hemicellulose, which is covered up with lignin, the substance that contributes to the strength of wood but gets in the way of biofuel production. To make biofuel from wood, manufacturers must remove lignin and convert the cellulose to ethanol. Production begins with an expensive pretreatment, followed by enzyme use to release the sugars that can be fermented to produce ethanol. Li says biotechnology research focuses on simplifying the process on several fronts. Scientists have found ways to modify the cell wall structure to reduce the amount of lignin and change its makeup. They've manipulated the steps in hemicellulose formation and disrupted links between lignin and celluloses. To speed up biofuel production, they've introduced cell wall-degrading enzymes into plants, such as a bacterial gene that won't affect plants until it's activated at high temperatures during biofuel production. NC State's team has created genetically modified trees with reduced lignin content -- no small feat. Normally when you reduce lignin, plant growth is negatively affected, which also reduces biomass production, Li says. However, we now know that we can produce transgenic plants with strong cell walls and normal development but much less lignin. Fast-growing trees with high energy content could grow on marginal land without disrupting crop production. NC State has worked extensively with black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), a model tree species for biofuel production. Forest Biotechnology Group researchers in the College of Natural Resources have developed engineering models that predict how 21 pathway enzymes affect lignin content and composition, providing the equivalent of GPS directions to guide future research. This comprehensive approach, which involves genes, proteins, plant chemical compounds and mathematical models, fits into a systems biology perspective that's the key to future breakthroughs, Li says. Progress has been made in many areas, but we still lack a complete understanding of how the cell wall is formed. We have to have a better idea of the factors that control its formation to produce better biomass for biofuels."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Biofuel Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Biofuels from woody plants and grasses instead of the corn and sugarcane"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8e598d0e-6911-4574-a10a-c239d7d990af"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Brooklyn is a manufacturing company in New York that noticed it was throwing away plastics while buying more plastic to use in its manufacturing. In particular, plastic filament is used in 3D printing to print many of the objects the company sells. Potato chip bags are made of polypropylene and polyethylene: because these are already blended, they are difficult to recycle. However, 3D Brooklyn approached Terracycle, a recycling company specializing in the capture and diversion of partially recyclable items, and obtained pellets made from cleaned and processed potato chip bags. 3D Brooklyn manufactures these pellets into filament for 3D printing which they use for their products, and also sell to other makers.\n \nThe synergy between these two companies comes from the fortunate abundance of discarded potato chip bags Terraform had access to. They in-turn repurposed these bags into plastic pellets through a third party before 3D Brooklyn converted them into filament reusable in a 3D printer. Will Haude, the founder of the 3D Brooklyn has gone on to say that we dont want these plastics to keep being made. [Citation: https://www.3ders.org/articles/20151211-3d-brooklyn-turns-recycled-potato-chip-bags-into-3d-printing-filament.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWe just knew they had a lot of plastic. We volunteered to throw it in our machines to experiment with it and it worked. Haude continued. It was a perfect match. For now, 3D Brooklyn has used 150 pounds of these pellets to make filament and is looking to use more. [Citation: https://www.3ders.org/articles/20151211-3d-brooklyn-turns-recycled-potato-chip-bags-into-3d-printing-filament.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printing Filament From Potato Chip Bags"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2d4d2a90-4fa3-4a66-9974-e74fb6150f6d"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"3D printed concrete has had limited application in architecture due to fabrication constraints (printers would need to be larger than the structure they printed). Students from the Bartlett School of Architecture (a group known as Amalgamma) have developed a new 3D printing process that combines extrusion with powder-printing to create furniture and structural elements. The scale of architecture is still a challenge for 3D printing, but these new applications will allow for elements of buildings to be 3D printed.\n \nAmalgamma  a team made up of Masters students Francesca Camilleri, Nadia Doukhi, Alvaro Lopez Rodriguez and Roman Strukov  undertook a year-long research project titled Fossilised. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/21/amalgamma-develops-3d-printing-concrete-technique-building-structures-bartlett/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nA binder is incorporated into the extrusion process to harden certain parts of the granular support  eventually producing a multi-material piece. Each print takes between six to ten hours to complete. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/21/amalgamma-develops-3d-printing-concrete-technique-building-structures-bartlett/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \n\"One of the main issues involved in scaling up 3D printing practice to the architecture scale is that of the size of the 3D printer itself,\" the team told Dezeen. \"In order to 3D print a building as one continuous monolith, as is usually done in small-scale 3D printing, the 3D printer on-site must be larger than the proposed building.\" [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/21/amalgamma-develops-3d-printing-concrete-technique-building-structures-bartlett/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printing Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printed Extruded Concrete For Architecture"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation804f3966-c34c-4daf-8e90-d4b53e00a9e6"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"3D printing and carbon fiber are two technologies whose full potential is yet to be realized. Two companies, one in Massachusetts, the other in Chicago, are moving towards that goal with slightly different approaches. MarkForged of Cambridge has developed a 3D printer with a proprietary head that is capable of \"printing\" a precursor to carbon fiber and a traditional head that extrudes a polymer. Each part printed is a combination of carbon fiber and polymer. Impossible Objects has developed an inkjet printer that deposits a solution onto carbon fiber sheets then polymer powder is added to the solution and the whole is then heated and sandblasted to produce carbon fiber parts.\n \nImpossible Objects developed a process that avoids the need to print carbon fiber. Instead, it begins with sheets of carbon fiber. On top of each sheet, an inkjet printer deposits a clear solution in precise design, according to digital instructions. Polymer powder is added, and it sticks to the printed design. The sheets are stacked and heated, causing the polymer to melt and bond to the fiber. A final sandblasting step removes the parts of the fiber sheets that arent bonded to the polymer. Impossible Objects makes parts to order, and is developing a machine it could sell to businesses that want to use the process to make their parts. 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A collaboration between Rhode Island School of Design and Virginia Tech Center for Design Research has yielded a process using a robot to build up glass shapes from extruded molten glass. The glass is on a ceramic tile that the robot moves around until the shape is formed. This collaboration demonstrates that traditional technical arts can lead technology towards solving seemingly intractable problems."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Robotics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printed Glass: Fusing Art, Technology And Design"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2013"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationfb11a0a6-faee-4672-8a57-00345ebc791e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"3D printing metal parts often use selective laser melting to fuse metal powder layers into parts. 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Geostellars virtual supply chain connects customers to vendors. This eliminates solar's biggest barrier cost--and makes alternative energy an opt-in rather than seek-out upgrade.\r\n\r\nUnder the Solar Community Initiative administered by the World Wildlife Fund and executed by solar firm Geostellar, employees of the four firms can install rooftop solar PV at prices that average 35 percent below the national average for solar and nearly 50 percent less expensive than average grid-delivered electricity, according to WWF and Geostellar. 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Swiss Barefoot Company's socks are water-proof and worn like a glove, but on the foot: a foot-glove for athletes. 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This could lead to the development of graphene electrodes, that would perform better than conventional silicon or tungsten electrodes currently used in biodevices, which may cause the formation of scar tissue and which frequently degrade over time. The research is exciting both for the enhanced performance of biodevices and for the potential use of graphene in other biomedical applications.\n \nProf. Laura Ballerini -- the lead Neuro Scientist in this research explains 'For the first time we interfaced graphene to neurons directly, without any peptide-coating used in the past to favor neuronal adhesion. We then tested the ability of neurons to generate electrical signals known to represent brain activities and found that the neurons retained unaltered their neuronal signaling properties.........This is the first functional study of neuronal synaptic activity using uncoated graphene-based materials.' 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This holds promise for future implants or synthetic cartilage that function as both a body part and a drug-delivery system. The combination of two biopolymers as ink which are respectively brittle is durable, stretchy and flexible. Researchers from MIT, Duke University, and Columbia University, led by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao, have developed a new way of making tough but soft and wet biocompatible materials, called \"hydrogels,\" into complex and intricately patterned shapes.\n \nZhao says the new process can produce complex hydrogel structures that are \"extremely tough and robust,\" and compatible with the encapsulation of cells in the structures. That could make it possible to 3D-print complex hydrogel structures  for example, implants to be infused with cells and drugs and then placed in the body. [Citation: http://www.3dprintingprogress.com/articles/8116/tough-biogel-structures-produced-by-3-d-printing, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nHydrogels, defined by water molecules encased in rubbery polymer networks that provide shape and structure, are similar to natural tissues such as cartilage, which is used by the body as a natural shock absorber. The new 3-D printing process could eventually make it possible to produce tough hydrogel structures artificially for repair or replacement of load-bearing tissues, such as cartilage. 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That gas fuels an engine that heats water, which generates electricity to the tune of 2.8 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) each year, or enough to power a community of 1,500, Chazen reports. Albertvilles residents numbered around 19,000 in 2012. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/france-has-power-plant-fueled-cheese-180957642/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWhile Albertvilles plant isnt the first cheese-powered station, it is the largest. The first cheese-based power plant Valbio designed was next to an abbey that had been making cheese since the 12th century, Chazen reports. The company has helped to create about 20 other small plants around Europe and Canada. 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Previous attempts to 3D print ceramics had failed - the process of firing ceramic powder caused microscopic flaws that led to cracks. HRL Laboratories created \"preceramic polymers\" that can be printed then fired in a kiln converting the polymers to ceramic. The team has also used ultraviolet light and patterned masks instead of lasers to create the polymers boosting the production speed by 100 to 1000 times. HRL's ceramic products are reported to be 10 times stronger than traditional ceramics currently in use which will be of particular interest to the aerospace industry.\n \nThis material is compatible with stereolithography, a popular 3D printing method wherein a laser is used to solidify a liquid polymer. What's more, the team figures it can print out a highly detailed and complex ceramic part 100 to 1000 times faster than conventional stereolithography by using ultraviolet light and patterned masks. [Citation: https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/01/now-we-can-3d-print-ceramics/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThis advancement could prove a boon to the aerospace industry which already relies on ceramic components for everything from wing panels on planes to the internal mechanisms of orbital rockets. DARPA has awarded the team a development contract for an ablative ceramic aeroshell -- essentially a heat shield for spacecraft as they enter an atmosphere -- as HRL's ceramics are reportedly 10 times stronger than the ceramic foam currently commercially available. 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The system's wave scanner, high-res camera, and 3D environment monitor can work mounted on top of any robot and scans packages noninvasively. It may be commercialized by 2019. This new robotics sensor system was developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), along with industry partners and criminal investigation authorities, led by Stefan A. Lang, team leader at the FHR and the project's coordinator.\n \nThe entire sensor system is compact, light and platform-independent, enabling it to be easily mounted on any robot. In addition to speedy reconnaissance, the team says that the system could also help authorities preserve as much evidence as possible. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/fraunhofer-robot-luggage-scanner/41187/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nBomb disposal engineers have typically been forced to destroy luggage bombs, which makes identifying perpetrators difficult for want of evidence. Getting an accurate three-dimensional image of the bag as well as the surrounding area, could help authorities quickly determine the danger to take the appropriate action. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/fraunhofer-robot-luggage-scanner/41187/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe team expects to demonstrate the millimeter-wave scanner in April 2016 and field tests of the remote-controlled sensor suite will begin in mid-2017. The complete multi-modal sensor suite is expected to launch in 2019. 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Sofft could reduce the need for detergent by up to 50 percent. The ingredients are bio-inert and activate in cold water. Sofft could drastically cut energy used, thereby decreasing the overall number of laundry loads, reliance on harsher chemicals, and heat. Sofft successfully Kickstarted its Clorox-licensed tech."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Packaged Goods"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Hydrophobic Fabric Softener For Cold Water"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationeedb54a2-29cf-489b-8943-d05b8d30e68b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A new leap in hydrographic printing may allow a pattern to be painted onto 3D objects just by dunking the object in the water. The item is 3D scanned, the data used to print a pattern onto transparent film. A robot lowers the object into the pool, applying the film precisely. Someday this could change how cosmetic features are applied to mass-manufactured products.\n \nA team comprised of researchers from Hangzhous Zheijiang University and NYCs Columbia University to figure out a solution to the problem, which they call computational hydrographic printing. Essentially, what they do is 3-D scan whatever object they want to print on before they dunk it. Algorithms then take whatever pattern you want to paint on it, and print it on the layer of transparent film in such a way that, when lowered into the water bath by a robotic arm, the pattern will be applied perfectly every time. [Citation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3046264/this-crazy-way-to-paint-patterns-on-3-d-objects-is-like-a-cartoon-come-to-life, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAccording to the researchers, this technique could be used to easily paint 3-D printed objects, or even more traditionally manufactured items, like a mug. And by dunking an object multiple times, you could even apply three-dimensional paint patterns to an object, making it look painted by hand. 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Such tech on a chip has applications across fields from biotech to anthropology, especially in remote areas where sending samples and waiting for results could be prohibitive.\n \nNew technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, promises to dramatically speed up the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA test and make it cheaper and more portable by simply accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/heating-and-cooling-with-light-leads-to-ultrafast-dna-diagnostics, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe PCR test, which amplifies a single copy of a DNA sequence to produce thousands to millions of copies, has become vital in genomics applications, ranging from cloning research to forensic analysis to paternity tests. PCR is used in the early diagnosis of hereditary and infectious diseases, and even for analysis of ancient DNA samples of mummies and mammoths. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/heating-and-cooling-with-light-leads-to-ultrafast-dna-diagnostics, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nPCR is powerful, and it is widely used in many fields, but existing PCR systems are relatively slow, said study senior author Luke Lee, a professor of bioengineering. It is usually done in a lab because the conventional heater used for this test requires a lot of power and is expensive. Because it takes an hour or longer to complete each test, it is not practical for use for point-of-care diagnostics. Our system can generate results within minutes. 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The device can redirect the equivalent of about three 100-watt bulbs and is solar-powered. The device also uses an app to inform how much energy is being saved.\n \nLucy, from Solenica, is a completely wireless solar-powered device that reflects sunlight from a window or balcony to another interior location (it can only do so to another 'line-of-sight' location, obviously), and can \"intelligently\" track the sun throughout the day to keep that location illuminated. The device is said to be able to deliver up to 7000 lumens of warm natural sunlight, and the tracking motor is powered by a few onboard solar cells, so no additional energy inputs are needed. [Citation: https://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/lucy-daylighting-system-directs-sunlight-where-its-needed.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nInterior daylighting isn't simply a way to reduce lighting electricity consumption, although that's certainly one application, but could be a method of addressing and mitigating the 'winter blues' or seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in some people, as well as serving as a full-spectrum light source for artists, photographers, plant lovers, and anyone else who needs or prefers the natural warmth of sunlight. 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The robot can be remotely controlled, propelling the locust into a jumping motion in the air via energy from a small on-board battery. Researchers are currently working to improve the movements of the robot, including flight and increased jumping distances for multiple commercial uses, such as military intelligence.\n \nThe new locust-inspired robot, dubbed TAUB (for Tel Aviv University and Ort Braude College), is 12.7 cm (5 in.) long and weighs 23 grams (less than one ounce). It was developed by Tel Aviv University and Ort Braude College researchers. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/robot-locust-can-jump-11-feet-high, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe ABS plastic body of the robot was 3D-printed, its legs are composed of stiff carbon rods and its torsion springs of steel wire. A small on-board battery powers the robot, which is remotely controlled via an on-board microcontroller. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/robot-locust-can-jump-11-feet-high, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nA locust catapults itself in a three-stage process. First, the legs are bent in the preparation stage. Then the legs are locked in place at the joint. Finally, a sudden release of the flexor muscle on the upper leg unlocks the joint and causes a rapid release of energy. 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The service agreement between UtiliSave and the Brooklyn hospital was established on Aug. 25, 2014. 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The YardMap project, in partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, allows users to create maps of their sustainable practices, and to share information with 22,000 other users. HCI is partnering with another Cornell lab, the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab, to analyze data that could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease. In this project, humans will identify and map blood vessels in the brain, helping to complete the data analysis needed to bring the cure to the market. Both projects demonstrate the power of combining machine and human intelligence to solve hard problems.\n \nThe first phase of WeCureALZ, based on the Stardust@Home platform, is slated to launch in a few months, with the second phase, based on EyeWire game, soon to follow. Essentially, between the two platforms, humans will both identify stalled blood vessels as well as trace and map the overall network of blood vessels in the mice brain images. In the meantime, interested parties can pre-register to participate at the WeCureALZ website. [Citation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3055277/how-the-global-hive-mind-is-teaming-up-to-find-a-cure-for-alzheimers, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nRegarding the other interesting human computation initiative, YardMap, Dickenson explains how more than 22,000 participants to date have used the online platform to create maps that represent their landscape and sustainable practices. 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The monitor and the self-learning network to which it is attached allows users to monitor indoor and outdoor air quality as well as the efficacy of air quality solutions (dehumidifiers exhaust fans and other filtering and ventilation devices) they might deploy. The prototype was launched via a successful Indigogo campaign.\n \nThe Node combines a particle sensor, a CO2 sensor, a temperature sensor, and a humidity sensor. Information is displayed on an 800 x 480 resolution 5-in LED screen and the device is powered by a rechargeable Li-ion battery. The battery is said to provide five hours of use and is charged via micro USB. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/airvisual-node-air-monitor/41668/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nFour areas are tracked by the Node. Outdoor air quality data is pulled in from the internet over Wi-Fi from the closest official monitoring station. This can then be compared with the air quality in the user's indoor environment. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/airvisual-node-air-monitor/41668/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe Node's confinement metric measures CO2 levels, which can be used as an indication of when air has become stagnant and contains less oxygen, more bacteria, more mold, and other harmful fumes. An accompanying app for Android and iOS provides alerts. 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Due to limited oxygenation and perfusion, the current 3D printing approach only keeps alive 60-70% of the initial cells - but this could change with the help of a 40 dollar cotton candy machine that spins hydrogel into networks that provide support and feeding during the transglutaminase-based process that transforms separate cells into new human organs. Spinning hydrogel networks resulted in 90% of the cells staying alive at the end of the first trial.\n \nResearchers at Vanderbilt University wanted to see if electrospinning using a cotton candy machine would work as well as the traditional processes. After fiddling with the contents and concentration of the polymer solution, the researchers figured out that they could sprinkle in the human cells and an enzyme called transglutaminase--colloquially called meat glue in the food industry--to make the gel coalesce. The resulting material looks a lot like cotton candy, as you might imagine, but its a mass of living cells connected by fibers about the same size as a human capillary. Once the mass had cooled, the researchers pumped it full of oxygen and other nutrients the cells needed to survive. After a week, 90 percent of the cells were still alive, compared to the typical 60-70 percent in solid synthetic tissue that doesnt have the fibers. 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It seeks to identify species of marine microalgae that are present on the Basque coast and contain bioactive compounds of interest-- such as omega-3-type oils. The center has managed to identify and isolate a set of microalgae species that belong to the Thraustochytridos family that have high levels of lipids and docosahexaenoic acid. Bioactive compounds that can be used to produce food products represent a growing area of research interest for the food industry as concerns grow about global food shortages.\n \nNeiker-Tecnalia has developed a crop protocol suited to the selected microalgae that take into consideration the influence of a range of factors, such as salinity, the concentration of nutrients or the type of nutrients. Cultivation of this type allows the obtaining of DHA and other omega-3-type polyunsaturated fatty acids to be optimized to a maximum. What is more, the biochemical analysis of these species has revealed the presence of other compounds of interest for the food industry: natural pigments with an antioxidant capability of extracellular hydrolytic enzymes, such as lipases, cellulases or proteases. [Citation: https://www.nutritioninsight.com/news/Neiker-Tecnalia-Identifies-Microalgae-With-Health-Giving-Omega-3-Type-Fatty-Acids.html?tracking=All%20Category%20News, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe Neofood project goes beyond the identifying of microalgae with bioactive compounds and likewise seeks to prepare new food creations that incorporate the health-giving and sensory aspect of the beneficial compounds of the microalgae. Omega-3-type polyunsaturated fatty acids are regarded as nutrients indispensable for health. The scientific community and the food industry alike recognize the benefits of consuming them and recommend that they are added to diets. 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The app meets the needs of drivers wanting to borrow cars from friends or family. Up until now, these people would either have to wait to be added to the owner's policy, or risk driving uninsured. Building on an API to the government driver licensing authority database, Cuvva has developed an app that enables them to check the driver's credentials and accept payment via mobile devices."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobile Apps"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Cuvva: Disrupting Car Insurance Business Model"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationde257445-4052-4b45-a04e-7553baa17ef8"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Supply and Irrigation Systems "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A sculpture installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City entertains viewers while cleaning the polluted water from the East River to drinkability. The mobile system makes the invisible (to most) water filtration visible, and can filter about 1,000 gallons a day. Incorporating filtration and other conservation systems into the infrastructure and architecture can benefit rather than detract from the design. This features a dazzling array of plants and pipes made to be watched and enjoyed by people.\n \nDeveloped by Andrs Jaque and his architecture firm, winner of the 2015 Young Architects Program, this mobile filtration plant (dubbed Cosmo) takes in polluted water supplied by the city (from or) matching pollution levels of the East River and renders it clean and drinkable. [Citation: https://weburbanist.com/2015/07/02/portable-potable-water-purifying-sculpture-cleans-east-river/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nFiltering out particulates, balancing acidity levels and introducing dissolved oxygen, the array of spiraling tubes can process nearly 1,000 gallons of water a day, with all its functions on display. [Citation: https://weburbanist.com/2015/07/02/portable-potable-water-purifying-sculpture-cleans-east-river/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nTwo portable four-wheeled rolling vehicles below can be pushed to wherever the party may be. The design brief called for shade, seating and water, the last of these clearly dominates this particular winner. [Citation: https://weburbanist.com/2015/07/02/portable-potable-water-purifying-sculpture-cleans-east-river/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Purification"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Cosmo: Water Filtration Sculpture"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Innovation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd027eabd-6e56-4e63-9b47-39559765df80"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Stanford University, led by Jelena Vuckovic, an electrical engineering professor, have developed a barcode device that can help create and build optical computers. The team that developed this device calls it an optical link. This device has a slice of silicon engraved with a barcode pattern and can bend at right angles. This can build computers that uses light instead of wires. The key to the device is the algorithm that they have created which makes optical components do a specific function."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Materials Science"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Etching Patterns On Silicone Can Direct Light In Multiple Directions – Transmitting Information To Replace Copper Wire In Processors"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation5eda89ba-4f9f-422f-bb9b-43cd6e1b94d6"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A Stanford team has created superstrong small robots, able to cart from 100 to 2,000 times their weight. The innovation: The robots gecko-inspired feet, which are covered in rubber spikes and their inch wormlike movement, sliding one pad with the other pad firmly planted. Once upscaled, applications include emergency response, construction and limiting backbreaking manual labor.\n \nThe secret is in the adhesives on the robots feet. Their design is inspired by geckos, which have climbing skills that are legendary in the animal kingdom. The adhesives are covered in minute rubber spikes that grip firmly onto the wall as the robot climbs. When pressure is applied, the spikes bend, increasing their surface area and thus their stickiness. When the robot picks its foot back up, the spikes straighten out again and detach easily. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27413-tiny-robots-climb-walls-carrying-more-than-100-times-their-weight/#.VT3h7heepW0, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe bots also move in a style that is borrowed from biology. Like an inchworm, one pad scooches the robot forward while the other stays in place to support the heavy load. This helps the robot avoid falls from missing its step and park without using up precious power. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27413-tiny-robots-climb-walls-carrying-more-than-100-times-their-weight/#.VT3h7heepW0, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe most impressive feat of strength comes from a ground bot nicknamed Tug. Although it weighs just 12 grams, it can drag a weight thats 2000 times heavier  the same as you pulling around a blue whale, explains David Christensen  who is in the same lab. [Citation: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27413-tiny-robots-climb-walls-carrying-more-than-100-times-their-weight/#.VT3h7heepW0, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Robotics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Bioinspired Robots Perform Feats Of Strength Based On Gecko's Sticky Feet"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd6a50bbd-e3ec-4381-ba7e-991e8c2fc1f3"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A startup comprised of former Google engineers and Stanford researchers have developed an app that uses Big Data to enable users to conduct scenario planning. The app, Urban Engines Maps, has a feature that allows testing alternative routes, taking into account numbers and types of vehicles used and time of travel. This could make it easier for logistics companies and transit authorities to optimize routes without needing in-house data teams or expensive real-life tests. The cost of this feature is yet to be determined, but the app without the testing feature is available to consumers.\n \nUrban Engines pulls data from everywhere it can: It licenses information from cities, pulls in anything public, buys data on private vehicles from an unnamed third party, and uses open street maps. The startup builds all that information into a single-engine to deliver, in real-time, updates on the full range of transportation modes in any given place. [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/urban-engines-is-ab-testing-transportation/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n\nUrban Engine's A/B testing software is aimed at transit agencies as well. Based on data it's collected and analyzed over the past few years, it can play with variables like weather, closed lines, and ridership. The Bay Area's BART system, for example, could use the program to get an idea of what its system will look like when OneRepublic plays an outdoor concert in downtown San Francisco the week of the Super Bowl. What would happen if it ran extra trains? What's the best time to increase or decrease service? How will road closures affect its service? [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/urban-engines-is-ab-testing-transportation/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n\nIn 2016, Google acquired Urban Engines. [Citation: https://venturebeat.com/2016/09/15/google-acquires-urban-engines-to-bring-its-location-based-analytics-to-google-maps/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobile Apps"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Big Data Allows Transit Scenario Planning"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation600e0a86-90ab-47f9-965f-d3f2336bad62"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A startup that began democratizing eyeglasses now has applications in augmented reality. Eyenetra could create screens that adjust for missing eyeglasses, which could benefit gamers and Google Glass wearing surgeons alike. Adjusting screens instead of people could someday have accessible design applications from phones to windshields. The startup envisions a world where all people feel empowered to make informed decisions about their health.\n \nGlobally, there are about four billion people who need eyeglasses. The technology, an inexpensive, diagnostic mobile eye device that checks your eyesight, was originally created to democratize eye tests and also address poor and remote regions of developing countries where access to healthcare is challenging. [Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2015/10/19/eyenetra-wants-to-create-prescription-virtual-reality-screens/#facd3475f286, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nBut after years of development, thousands of tests and a successful roll-out, EyeNetra says it's looking at offers from VR companies who want to use their technology to develop \"vision-corrected\" VR displays. [Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2015/10/19/eyenetra-wants-to-create-prescription-virtual-reality-screens/#facd3475f286, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe VR market sits squarely in the living room and centers around gaming and 3D films and some enterprise use. If there are four billion people in the world who need eyeglasses, that market segment is a smart one to address  because the likes of Google GOOGL +0% Glass, Oculus and Microsoft MSFT +0%s HoloLens want to be used by everyone. [Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2015/10/19/eyenetra-wants-to-create-prescription-virtual-reality-screens/#facd3475f286, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Electronics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Eyenetra: Augmenting Reality With Information-Rich Goggles and Windshields."},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation7918cd59-e21b-4cc8-aba8-6418b983f828"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A team at Harvard's Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences, led by Jennifer A. Lewis, the Hansrg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, devised a novel way to print fully vascularized tissue. The novelty consists in the ability to 3D bio-print thick tissue composed of stem cells and blood vessels lined with endothelial tissue. Consequently, the built-in vascular network allows for perfusion of nutrient and cell growth factors into the tissue. To date, lack of perfusion and subsequent cell death has been a major hurdle on the path toward extended tissue lifetime. This breakthrough will allow for future in-lab drug trials and in-vivo tissue regeneration in humans.\n \nIn the study, Lewis team demonstrated the 3D printing of one centimeter-thick tissue containing human bone marrow stem cells surrounded by connective tissue. By pumping bone growth factors through the supporting vasculature lined with the same endothelial cells found in our blood vessels, the team induced cell development toward bone cells over the course of one month. [Citation: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/03/scaling-up-tissue-engineering?, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nLewis novel 3D bioprinting method uses a customizable, printed silicone mold to house and plumb the printed tissue structure. Inside this mold, a grid of vascular channeling is printed first, over which ink containing living stem cells is then printed. The inks are self-supporting and strong enough to hold the shape as the structures size increases with each layer of deposition. At intersections meeting within the foundational vascular grid, vertical vascular pillars are printed, which interconnect a pervasive network of microvessels throughout all dimensions of the stem cell-laden tissue. After printing, a liquid composed of fibroblasts and extracellular matrix fills in the open regions around the 3D printed tissue, cross-linking the entire structure. [Citation: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/03/scaling-up-tissue-engineering?, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Pharmaceutical Innovation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Harvard: Bioprinting For Medical Applications"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb9127e8b-9f03-4e0a-86c5-75d93a0510eb"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A team at Western University in Canada has made ink from silver salt and rubber that allows highly flexible conductive circuits to be created by users with the stroke of a pen. The ink can be used in regular ballpoint pens: once the circuit is drawn, a user paints the design with a special solution to activate the conductive properties of the ink.\n \nThis new ink can be loaded into a regular ballpoint pen and lets users sketch out electrical circuits on paper, reports Prachi Patel for Chemical & Engineering News. The ink itself is a mixture of silver salt and adhesive rubber that can stick to various surfaces. The rubber helps the circuits stretch and bend without losing their conductivity, the researchers report in ACS Nano. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pen-can-draw-electrical-circuits-180957641/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThat stretchiness is one of the distinguishing qualities of this new ink, according to the researchers, led by Jun Yang, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the University of Western Ontario. Other conductive silver inks dont produce flexible wiring and the commonly used silver nanoparticles clump too much for use with a ballpoint pen, Patel reports. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pen-can-draw-electrical-circuits-180957641/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWhen the ink dries, the team paints the lines with a solution of formaldehyde and sodium hydroxide. This cocktail reduces the silver salt in the ink to metallic silver nanoparticles, 'activating' it or making it conductive. The teams ink can stick to paper, plastic and other materials, Patel writes. If a link breaks or requires greater conductance, just trace over it again. 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Previous attempts to develop biorenewable materials have been hampered by low yields, expensive metals and high temperatures needed for catalysis. The next step is to scale up the process into a continuous conversion, which will pave the way for biorenewable chemicals to enter mainstream production.\n \nShao's research group has created genetically engineered yeast -- \"a microbial factory,\" she said -- that ferments glucose into muconic acid. By applying metabolic engineering strategies, the group also significantly improved the yield of the acid. Then, without any purification, Tessonnier's group introduced a metal catalyst -- lead -- into the mixture and applied a small voltage to convert the acid. The resulting reaction adds hydrogen to the mix and produces 3-hexenedioic acid. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160209121735.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nAfter simple separation and polymerization, the engineers produced biobased, unsaturated nylon-6,6, which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer's properties. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160209121735.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n\n\"The engineers say the hybrid conversion technology offers many advantages: The reaction is performed at room temperature, it uses a cheap and abundant metal instead of precious elements such as palladium or platinum, and the other compounds involved in the reaction are produced from water.\" [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160209121735.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Synthetic Biology Innovations; 35"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Hybrid Catalysis Turns Lead And Sugar Into Nylon"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation196d9108-f9ac-4a1a-b90b-8ea4560293b2"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new indexing data structure that can search a bioinformatics database - the Sequence Read Archive of DNA sequences - in minutes, rather than days. This allows researchers from a range of disciplines to query the database, maintained by the National Institutes of Health, and uncover insights about gene sequence pairs. The indexing structure allows hundreds of thousands of queries to be performed simultaneously, thus reducing the time and cost of research. It has been published as open-source code.\n \nThe method developed by Carl Kingsford, associate professor of computational biology, and Brad Solomon, a Ph.D. student in the Computational Biology Department, is designed for searching so-called \"short reads\" - DNA and RNA sequences generated by high-throughput sequencing techniques. It relies on a new indexing data structure, called Sequence Bloom Trees, or SBTs, that the researchers describe in a report published online today by the journal Nature Biotechnology. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-technique-dna-sequences-minutes-days.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThousands of hard drives would be needed to store these sequences. Searching through the short reads, which are typically 50 to 200 base-pairs each, to see which ones could be assembled to form a target gene of perhaps 10,000 base-pairs, is cumbersome and can take days in some cases, he noted. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-technique-dna-sequences-minutes-days.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Big Data Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Indexing Structure Speeds DNA Research"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing; Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation16369a7e-0382-49a5-9518-2a65e5926009"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Waste Collection "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"A team of researchers in Singapore have created an aerogel from waste paper. Waste paper is mulched to extract cellulose fibers, which are then mixed with a polymer resin and cured. The resulting aerogel can be used as a sorbent to clean up oil spills, as well as for insulation, packaging and even winter clothing. Not only does the material have the potential to reduce the amount of paper waste entering the landfill, it is also a less polluting way to manufacture aerogels, which are often made from silica and metal oxides. Further, when used as a sorbent, 99% of captured crude oil can be recovered, making this aerogel a very valuable and effective material.\n \nAssistant Professor Duong Hai Minh, along with undergraduate students Gu Bowen and Siah Jie Yang, developed the technique by the mulching paper to extract cellulose fibers and then mixed them with water. They added a polymer resin and then the solution is agitated by sound in a process known as sonication. Its then poured into molds, frozen, freeze-dried for two days, and cured in a 120 C (248 F) oven. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/scientists-turn-mountains-of-paper-waste-into-biodegradable-aerogel/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe resulting aerogel is super strong and biodegradable. Cellulose aerogel could also revolutionize oil spill cleanup efforts. In addition to low thermal conductivity, these novel aerogels have several unique features, one of which is super high oil absorption capacity, said Duong. It is up to four times higher than commercial sorbents available in the market. We are very excited about the potential applications of this new material. 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The software is being developed to protect military and business-grade servers. In a demo for DARPA, A3 was able to find and fix Shellshock in four minutes. Someday this could keep consumer technology safer and prevent expensive website and hardware replacement or repair, plus retail security gaffes."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Software Detects Malware And Repairs Damage"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation7209c31a-141c-46b8-9f7f-0d76734fab22"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"AbbVie's Humira is the top-selling drug in the world. The drug treats several autoimmune disorders. AbbVie is collaborating with biopharmaceutical Synlogic to bring an innovative drug delivery method to the market for patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Backed by MIT research, Synlogic plans to genetically engineer probiotic bacteria and transform them into symbiotic switches that will react to the natural cycles of the human organism. Unlike traditional methods, living bacteria can sense the environment and adjust the medication dosage in real-time. This is a breakthrough for autoimmune diseases that do not have a linear progression, the patients experiencing flares and remission periods instead.\n\nThe idea is a wild one. Synlogic essentially wants to take a live bacterium, like a probiotic, and program in some specific genetic circuitry that no other drug on the market contains today. With the genetic circuits programmed just so, the bacterium can sense the ever-changing conditions it encounters in the body, and adjust the dose of a drug based on whats needed at the moment. [Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/luketimmerman/2016/02/10/abbvie-maker-of-worlds-no-1-drug-bets-synthetic-biology-startup-can-keep-it-going/?ss=pharma-healthcare#248c8d869427, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nReal-time dose adjustment in the body is especially tantalizing for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system goes haywire and attacks healthy tissues. These inflammatory diseases like the ones treated by AbbVies blockbuster adalimumab (Humira) tend to wax and wane, with unpredictable flares that can be painful and disabling. Instead of bluntly suppressing the immune system all the time to prevent that from happening, Synlogics drug could stay in the gut for a day or two, and do nothing when nothing is needed. It would release the business part of the anti-inflammatory drug when the body needs to counteract a flare. [Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/luketimmerman/2016/02/10/abbvie-maker-of-worlds-no-1-drug-bets-synthetic-biology-startup-can-keep-it-going/?ss=pharma-healthcare#248c8d869427, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Pharmaceutical Innovation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Synlogic: Using Bacteria For Precision Drug Delivery"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6225d95a-cb67-446f-a95b-669b95c75b39"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Accelerometers placed on cattle's ears could someday help catch disease earlier making food production safer and preventing costly spread. By analyzing measured movement with algorithms from rumination and feeding to rest and activity, the SensOor CowManager system detects disease in dairy cows. In beef cattle, it was able to correctly identify feeding 95 percent of the time, but only about half the rumination movement.\n \nThese technologies are made possible by accelerometerssmall, electromechanical devices that measure acceleration. The devices are able to detect the most sensitive of motions, from the number of steps taken during a morning walk to the number of jaw movements during a heifer's morning meal. In fact, some dairy producers use these devices to measure feed intake, detect heat and notably, identify sick animals. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-disease-beef-cattle-ear-tag.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nColleagues from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada wanted to know if the same accelerometer technology could be implemented in beef systems. Their 13-day study, \"Technical note: Accuracy of an ear tag-attached accelerometer to monitor rumination and feeding behavior in feedlot behavior,\" can be found in June's issue of the Journal of Animal Science. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-disease-beef-cattle-ear-tag.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n\n\"More studies need to be conducted to validate the technology before it can be used to detect disease. Consequently, the team at Calgary also applied the ear tags in a Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) study, but since few animals actually contracted the sickness during the trial, a relation between rumination and feeding events couldn't be shown. Still, the few animals that did contract BRD showed \"very distinct patterns of rumination.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-disease-beef-cattle-ear-tag.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Agricultural Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Accelerometers Could Detect Disease In Cattle"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation688f63c3-f9cd-41b9-9172-e4e60255de49"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - Disney Research Lab has developed Acoustruments, manipulating Controls by Soundwaves. By manipulating soundwaves emitted by your smartphone's speaker, Disney was able to build buttons/knobs/or sliders that can interact with your device without any power source or wired connection. When you launch the acoustrument app, it emits a tone through your phone's speaker. When you push a button or twist a knob, the acoustrument modifies the tone much in the way your finger changes the tone of a flute when it blocks a hole. Your phone's microphone detects the tone change and reacts accordingly.\n \nMuch of what they build and share is really, really cool, but hard to imagine being used by anyone outside of Disney. This crazy robot that draws massive pictures on the beach? Its cool as heck, but unless you own a big stretch of beach to act as a canvas (as Disney does with its resorts), its not super practical. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/disneys-lab-builds-buttons-that-work-by-manipulating-soundwaves-rather-than-electricity/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAcoustruments are passive, acoustically driven mechanisms that provide rich, tangible functionality to handheld device interaction. By combining design primitives, familiar physical mechanisms, and even end-user applications can all be constructed from passive elements made of plastic. Using technologies like 3D printing, we show that rich physical controls can be rapidly prototyped, providing new methods for experimentation by HCI practitioners. Further, our approach can be extended to traditional fabrication techniques, such as injection molding, milling, and machining, which can further drive down cost and improve ease of deployment in consumer products. [Citation: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/disneyresearch/wp-content/uploads/20150416201017/Acoustrument-Passive-Acoustically-Driven-Interactive-Controls-for-Hand-Held-Devices-Paper.pdf, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobile Apps"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Acoustruments: Manipulating Controls By Soundwaves"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation4e0a72fb-4bc7-40e3-8638-7240e0d7dcd1"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Supply and Irrigation Systems "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Activated carbon is widely used to purify water. However, a new material based on cross-linked sugar molecules can purify water up to 200 times faster than activated carbon. It can also be rinsed in methanol and reused without diminishing performance. The prospect of a faster, more effective and cheaper way to purify water is within reach.\n \nScientists working on developing inexpensive materials that can purify water quickly have been working with an insoluble polymer called -cyclodextrin (-CD)a big loop of linked sugar molecules. Recently, they've discovered a way to cross-link -CD using aromatic groups forming a porous, cross-linked complex. The porous, cross-linked -CD has an increased surface area that significantly speeds the removal of pollutants. [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/reusable-sugar-based-polymer-purifies-water-fast/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe team tested how well the new material could sequester organic micropollutants, using Bisphenol A (BPA) as a model pollutant. (BPA is a component of plastics that has raised significant health concerns over the past decade.) The team assessed a variety of activated carbon adsorbents and a few variations of -CD. All materials eventually removed the majority of the BPA from a solution. [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/reusable-sugar-based-polymer-purifies-water-fast/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe scientists also explored the ability to reuse the material. They found that BPA could be easily removed from the material by rinsing the polymer in methanol at room temperature. They repeated the process five times and saw a negligible decrease in performance compared to the freshly synthesized polymer. [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/reusable-sugar-based-polymer-purifies-water-fast/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Purification"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Sugar-Based Polymer Outperforms Carbon Water Purification Methods"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Innovation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationf6873fca-ffd9-415c-8461-a26fa5077b93"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Activity monitors have become commonplace but they usually measure heart rate and calories burned. Sweat contains several byproducts of bodily processes, that can indicate conditions from thirst to depression. However, until now sweat analysis has required removable patches to be analyzed offline. A device developed at the University of California at Berkeley, led by Ali Javey, can be worn on the wrist and transmits data to a smartphone. This technology expands the range and quantity of potential health measurements available in a real-time, readily accessible form. In the future, medical applications may be developed.\n \nPutting together existing advances in wearables technology, Javeys team made the sensors from a flexible electronics board joined to a flexible printed plastic sensor array, which can detect glucose, lactate, sodium, potassium and body temperature. When the sensors come into contact with sweat they generate electrical signals that are amplified and filtered and then calibrated using skin temperature. This step is essential, says Javey: Electrochemical sensors are very sensitive to temperature, and skin temperature can vary quite a bit when we are sweating. The data are then wirelessly transmitted to a smartphone. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wearable-sweat-sensor-paves-the-way-for-real-time-analysis-of-body-chemistry/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nIn time, the researchers hope to incorporate more sensors that might provide an even deeper picture of whats happening in the body. We want to develop medical applications, Javey says. He points to research suggesting that certain biomarkers in sweat may correlate with symptoms in people with depression. By looking at those other chemicals we may be able to get information about the mental health of an individual, he says. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wearable-sweat-sensor-paves-the-way-for-real-time-analysis-of-body-chemistry/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Devices"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Wearable Sensors Detect Sweat Composition"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationcb5b7649-6d9c-460b-b3bc-bbcdb57e0f18"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Computer Systems Design Services "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Optimal Synthesis Inc, led by Dr. K. Menon, has developed software that can improve the inertial measurement unit performance. This sensor has algorithms that can improve the accuracy of sensor calibration, as well as for transfer alignment of the inertial navigation system during operations. \n \nNovel algorithms for improving the performance of IMU without changing the sensor hardware were demonstrated during the Phase I research. These improvements consisted of higher-order nonlinear transfer alignment and calibration filters incorporating detailed models of sensor uncertainties, de-noising algorithms to eliminate the impact of shock and vibration on the IMU navigation solution, and more accurate algorithms for propagating the navigation equations. Using MDA-supplied data, these signal processing algorithms were shown to substantially improve the IMU accuracy of tactical-grade IMU sensors based on metrics such as Circular Error Probable and fixed-interval root mean square navigation errors. Algorithms and software developed under the Phase I research can be used to improve the accuracy of sensor calibration, as well as for transfer alignment of the inertial navigation system during operations. The focus of the present proposed Phase II research is on developing a hardware-software prototype of the signal processing system and evaluating it under realistic operating conditions. Optimal Synthesis Inc is teaming with IMU sensor manufacturers for testing and qualifying the system for military and commercial markets. Commercialization of the technology will be carried out in collaboration with these IMU sensor manufacturers. 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Competitors have also adopted 3D printing technology for shoe components, but have restricted its use to niche markets. Adidas claims this is the future of performance shoes for all athletes.\n\nWith Futurecraft 3D, Adidas says it aims to make pairs based on each individual's needs. That custom-made approach means the shoes would match your own footprint elements, including contour details and precise pressure points -- which, in turn, could give you the ideal comfortable shoe. While companies such as Nike have also designed footwear with 3D-printed elements, it's only implemented it in niche products like football cleats, whereas Futurecraft 3D is intended for every-day use. [Citation: https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/10/adidas-futurecraft-3d-closer-look/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nOf course, it's too early to tell if Adidas will turn its concept into a success, but at least it's putting the idea out there for consumers. With that in mind, we managed to get our hands on an early prototype of Futurecraft 3D, and we wanted to give you a detailed look at it. 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Their process design for the biodiesel is based on their experience in the Oleochemicals Industry."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"More Efficient Bio-Diesel Fuel From Grease"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd2532b72-e222-41b4-9809-86607ddd5e7b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Air and Gas Compressor Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"AIR Lab hopes to amplify Earth's self-cleaning process to deal with modern pollution crises. Through Gas Phase Advanced Oxidation (GPAO), ozone is pumped into pollutants, then UV light irradiates it, essentially forming dust motes that can be collected once they settle. Future applications could include cities, such as Beijing or Los Angeles, or even factories without chimneys.\n\nAccording to AIR Lab, their GPAO process enhances the already existing natural cleansing process that the Earths atmosphere uses to clean itself, which, in modern times, is obviously not enough to combat pollution on its own. With dense urban areas around the world like Beijing, Cairo, New Delhi, and Los Angeles regularly measuring unhealthy pollution levels, it is evident that the Earths natural cleansing process could use a boost. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/copenhagens-air-lab-wants-to-eliminate-air-pollution-by-turning-it-to-dust/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n\nThe researchers at the University of Copenhagen seek to replicate this cleansing process by transforming pollutant gas molecules into something easier to remove- dust. The nature of gas molecules, which exist far apart from one another, making them difficult to remove, simply because they are hard to get a hold of. Dust, however, is much easier to grasp and remove. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/copenhagens-air-lab-wants-to-eliminate-air-pollution-by-turning-it-to-dust/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAIR Labs dust-transforming process uses an infusion of ozone and UV light into pollutant gas to magnetize particles and get them to collect on a surface, which can then be cleaned. This method could be focused on residential cities, helping to diffuse pollution to create areas of better quality air for the population to breathe easy. 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Converting carbon into hydrogen and methane would decrease greenhouse gases and create cleaner fuel. Plants photosynthesize with up to 2 percent efficiency, but this research shows it's possible to produce hythane with 20 percent efficiency. Someday, this could lead to solar storage without batteries.\n \nConverting carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and a blend of hydrogen, or better yet, to a mix of hydrogen and methane would offer the twin benefits of providing a cleaner fuel and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Such techniques mimic natural photosynthesis, but take the idea fartherplants range in efficiency from 0.5 to 2 percentcurrent technology bumps that up to approximately seven percent, but the researchers at Lawrence Berkeley believe it can be pushed much higher. They have been working under a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and hope to have a prototype within five years. In this latest work the team looked at four different types of artificial photosynthesis techniques, three of which rely on photoelectric cells (with different numbers of p-n junctions) the other involves a photovoltaic electrolyzer, which is a system where the photovoltaic component lies outside of the reaction chamber. As part of the study, they also looked at using copper or silver cathodes in the reactions. 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Teaching synthetic biology through doing, rather than with textbooks, is the aim. The mini-biolab allows users to grow and care for living cells, inject them with DNA, and make products even medicine, starting with a living nightlight.\n \nAll living cells have DNA in them that tell the cells what to create, how to grow, and how to interact with their environment. DNA is kind of like a software program for living cells, and the cells are like the mini-factories that run the DNA programs. At Amino, we think of DNA programs like an Android or iPhone \"Apps\" for living cells. [Citation: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/amino-desktop-bioengineering-for-everyone#/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAmino replaces traditional bulky lab equipment with a self-contained desktop system -- what is special about the technology behind Amino is that it reduces what usually costs thousands of dollars to just a few hundred. And with the automated data capture, you'll learn more about how your cells are growing than it is possible with present-day lab equipment. [Citation: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/amino-desktop-bioengineering-for-everyone#/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\nAmino is a general platform that allows you to buy different Amino Apps to grow and take care of different living systems in your Amino! This means that whatever Amino One unit you end up buying, you will be able to run different Amino Apps as we develop them. Apps will be priced between $150 and $400, depending on the DNA program and number of components. Amino also comes with an automated cleaning system to allow you to run a new app, and you will also be able to buy food refills to keep your apps growing longer and brighter! [Citation: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/amino-desktop-bioengineering-for-everyone#/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Innovation in Education"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Amino Labs Is Making Bioengineering Available To The Masses"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Community Action"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation222ae373-a3fc-4411-b8e9-d2ed2cd3ad32"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Amsterdam, known for its hundreds of bridges, will merge its history and futuristic manufacturing with the world's first 3D printed steel bridge. The pedestrian bridge will be built by two onsite MX3D printers on either side of the water, meeting in the middle to complete the project.\n \nKey to their progress has been robotic 3D printing technology that makes it possible to draw in mid-air. They will use what they describe as \"multi-axis\" industrial robots. [Citation: https://techxplore.com/news/2015-06-mx3d-3d-print-steel-bridge-amsterdam.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe plan: \"It is hoped that the robots used will print their own supports and gradually move across the water, creating the bridge as they go. The robots will begin printing the bridge on one side of the canal and will create rail-supports as they go,\" according to video notes published on Friday. They will be able to gradually slide forward on supports, literally creating the bridge upon which they are crossing the canal. [Citation: https://techxplore.com/news/2015-06-mx3d-3d-print-steel-bridge-amsterdam.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWhat distinguishes our technology from traditional 3D printing methods is that we work according to the 'printing outside the box' principle,\" said the CTO of MX3D, Tim Geurtjens, \"By printing with 6-axis industrial robots, we are no longer limited to a square box in which everything happens.\" [Citation: https://techxplore.com/news/2015-06-mx3d-3d-print-steel-bridge-amsterdam.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"MX3D To Print Bridge In Amsterdam In 2017"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Public Infrastructure"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationf4efc05b-bbe2-42f9-93f5-abc953c084fa"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"An Australian company, BioPower Systems has developed fishtail-inspired electric generators that source energy from tidal currents."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Bioinspired Hydro Generator"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2008"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In Commercial Development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationfff8a3dd-7ec5-411a-9cfb-cf09d35972ac"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, led by Balamurugan Ramalingam, have created a ruthenium catalyst that does not dissolve in solution and this could lead to green route that is key to molecular building blocks that delivers a continuous stream of products. The team has developed an efficient catalyst that can help in producing greener or environmentally friendlier molecular building blocks that can be found and used in creating many pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Materials Science"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Producing Substitute Amines With Less Waste For Medicine And Food Production"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation192285be-1d75-49b8-bfa2-796a917f0b0e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Line-Haul Railroads "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"An engineer who enjoys birdwatching came to a realization about the beak of the kingfisher. The design of the beak, mimicked on the 500-series Shinkansen train, reduces noise, and as a result, energy consumption. At the same time, having less resistance allows the bullet train to travel even faster, all while using less power."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Vehicle Design"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy-Efficient Bullet Train"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"1997"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation32e05d5f-09a4-4c5a-9588-1fefc8f603a8"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"An experimental fuel cell uses a process in which one stage emits carbon dioxide and another stage absorbs it."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Fuel Cell Captures Co2 Emissions From Gas Plants"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation92506651-2ce0-4c96-8ccc-c51a10469751"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"An experimental test can tell every virus a person has been exposed to with only one drop of blood. It uses antibodies to detect viruses and has been tested on over 500 humans so far, with region playing a large role in results. Applications include medical, environmental and pharmacological research, disease tracking and personalized medicine.\n \nNew technology developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers makes it possible to test for current and past infections with any known human virus by analyzing a single drop of a person's blood. The method, called VirScan, is an efficient alternative to existing diagnostics that test for specific viruses one at a time. [Citation: https://www.hhmi.org/news/your-viral-infection-history-single-drop-blood, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWith VirScan, scientists can run a single test to determine which viruses have infected an individual, rather than limiting their analysis to particular viruses. That unbiased approach could uncover unexpected factors affecting individual patients' health, and also expands opportunities to analyze and compare viral infections in large populations. The comprehensive analysis can be performed for about $25 per blood sample. The test is currently being used only as a research tool and is not commercially available. [Citation: https://www.hhmi.org/news/your-viral-infection-history-single-drop-blood, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n\n\"VirScan works by screening the blood for antibodies against any of the 206 species of viruses known to infect humans. The immune system ramps up the production of pathogen-specific antibodies when it encounters a virus for the first time, and it can continue to produce those antibodies for years or decades after it clears an infection. That means VirScan not only identifies viral infections that the immune system is actively fighting but also provides a history of an individual's past infections.\" [Citation: https://www.hhmi.org/news/your-viral-infection-history-single-drop-blood, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Diagnostic"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Virscan Yields Infection History From One Drop Of Blood"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationce0df612-2207-4213-8bfe-271b2aff5be9"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"An extract from European chestnuts leaves can stop staph infections without boosting the infections of drug resistance. The extract halts communication between bacteria, preventing spread. After success in healing MRSA lesions on mice, the team of ethnobotanists will pursue FDA approval. Applications could include coatings or spray-on products for athletic gear, medical devices, and hygiene items.\n \nThe use of chestnut leaves in traditional folk remedies inspired the research, led by Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-chestnut-yield-deadly-staph-bacteria.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWe've identified a family of compounds from this plant that have an interesting medicinal mechanism,\" Quave says. \"Rather than killing staph, this botanical extract works by taking away staph's weapons, essentially shutting off the ability of the bacteria to create toxins that cause tissue damage. In other words, it takes the teeth out of the bacteria's bite.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-chestnut-yield-deadly-staph-bacteria.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAntibiotic-resistant bacteria annually cause at least two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MRSA infections lead to everything from mild skin irritations to fatalities. Evolving strains of this \"superbug\" bacterium pose threats to both hospital patients with compromised immune systems and young, healthy athletes and others who are in close physical contact. 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For pigs, duckweed, a plant that grows in water, could provide protein, and it doesn't compete with food or biofuels for arable land. Because one acre holds more protein than an acre of soy, its attractive for future research as well."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Food Preparation and Processing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Duckweed Plant Offers New Source of Protein for Animal Feed"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation554c7211-55a9-42e2-8ec1-a61eefceb57b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Animal-source gelatin contains collagen, a critical component of the brain's white matter and the cells shaping the heart. But not all collagen is created equal and no less than 28 types have been identified, out of which the most important categories can only be recovered from animal tissue - until now. Geltor (formerly Gelzen) uses synthetic biology to create animal gelatin without the animal. Besides obvious humanitarian and ecological considerations, such as methane-producing cattle herds, the technology cuts the costs of breeding and feeding by skipping this step altogether. Incorporated in food, cosmetics, and medicine, biologically manufactured gelatin has immense potential for commercial and medical applications.\n \nIf you think producing gelatin from a genetically engineered micro-organism in fermentation tanks doesnt sound like something Grandma would do; hydrolyzing collagen from animal skin, bones and connective tissues on an industrial scale isnt exactly a food marketers dream either, observes the CEO of Geltor (formerly Gelzen): Youre basically dropping shards of animal waste into an acid or alkaline bath. [Citation: https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2016/08/16/Gelzen-seeks-to-disrupt-gelatin-market-with-vegan-alternative, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nIf the 20th Century was about chemistry, were leading the 21st into a new era in biology by designing consumer proteins with the best high-performance ingredients nature has to offer. By building on advances in biology, medicine, and computer science, were creating the worlds first sustainably-produced, animal-free, GMO-free proteins. 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Their discovery may hold the key to re-establishing control over bacteria that develop such resistance by dramatically reducing the amount of time and effort needed to identify new agents that can work to effectively circumvent these evolved defenses. No longer will it be necessary to identify the precise molecular signature of compounds that may prove useful in this microbiological arms race, which would make the process faster and more efficient.\n \nThe researchers, who published their findings in this week's edition of the Journal of Antibiotics, say their latest discovery could permit chemists and others to understand how mixtures of potential antibiotics from microorganisms work without first purifying them. It builds on their development two years ago of a new way to rapidly identify new compounds capable of killing bacteria. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-method-scientists-screen-natural-products.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \n\"Our initial discovery allowed us to perform the equivalent of an autopsy on bacterial cells and is changing the way industry searches for new antibiotics from collections of pure chemicals,\" said Kit Pogliano, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research team. \"But we didn't know if it would work for identifying antibiotics found in natural product extracts, which are very complex mixtures frequently filled with multiple types of antibiotics.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-method-scientists-screen-natural-products.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Techniques"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"New Method Allows Scientists To Screen Natural Products For Antibiotics"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationdbca5202-edd8-49a4-84f8-05a7330dd2a2"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are evolving faster than new drugs are reaching the market. To slow the development of resistance, it is important that doctors can rapidly identify if an infection is caused by bacteria that are drug-sensitive or drug-resistant. With this knowledge, newer drugs such as daptomycin or cubicin can be reserved for drug-resistant bacteria. Biologists and biomedical researchers at UC San Diego have developed a fast and accurate susceptibility test for Staphylococcus aureus (which causes 60% of hospital-acquired infections) using cell autopsy. Doctors can know within hours if a patient's infection can be treated with conventional antibiotics (the bacteria are susceptible) or newer drugs (the bacteria are resistant). The research team is investigating the suitability of the test for other types of bacteria.\n \nThe interdisciplinary team at UC San Diego was composed of two infectious-disease specialists in the School of Medicine, Victor Nizet, MD, and George Sakoulas, MD; two biologists in the Division of Biological Sciences, Kit and Joe Pogliano; and Diana Quach, a bioengineering graduate student. The scientists applied a method previously developed in the Pogliano laboratories for drug discovery to antibiotic susceptibility testing. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160122194359.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nExamining single cells has two key advantages over other testing methods, say the researchers. First, it is rapid, cutting days off the time for typical culture-based assays. It often takes days for a doctor to receive information on resistance, and this means that patients with life-threatening infections are often treated with the assumption that the infection is drug-resistant. Second, this method does not rely on having any detailed understanding of the bacterium causing the infection, or of the genes that convey resistance. This is particularly important in this case since resistance to the drugs used to treat MRSA infections arise by several evolutionary pathways via different combinations of mutations, and it could also provide rapid treatment information for newly emerging bacterial pathogens, such as that which caused the infections transmitted by endoscopes. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160122194359.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Diagnostic"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Testing Antibiotic Effectiveness With Precise Diagnostics"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2bbabba5-2bfa-4d18-95a6-40584cb7aed5"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"AOBiome considers skin itself as a resource for good skin. Traditional soaps kill bacteria even the good kinds, associating clean with sterile, which may not be necessarily healthy. The bacterial biome that each person carries with them is essential to good health and even brain function. Rather than slather on many products daily to prevent odor and breakouts, AOBiomes Mother Dirt line revolves around a mist of live ammonia-oxidizing bacteria spritzed onto the skin that hack the skins beneficial germs.\n \nIt feels like water, says Jasmina Aganovic, AOBiomes general manager for consumer products, when asked how it feels on the skin. She recommends you use it after showering (or bathing). A 100 ml bottle lasts about one month, provided you apply it on the key areas where you have the most sweat glands. [Citation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3050054/what-if-you-could-get-clean-without-soap-using-just-your-microbiome, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe mist, part of a line called Mother Dirt, contains an ammonia-oxidizing bacteria that make energy from ammonia secreted from the skin. These beneficial bacteria keep your skin in balance, AOBiome says, without you needing to scrub the whole surface clean and applying more chemicals. [Citation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3050054/what-if-you-could-get-clean-without-soap-using-just-your-microbiome, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nYou can order the mist here, along with two other products from the company: a cleanser for the face and body, and a shampoo. Neither of the second two contains actual bacteria, but their ingredients have been screened for any harm they could do your skins micro-life, apparently. All three products can be purchased for a stately $69. [Citation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3050054/what-if-you-could-get-clean-without-soap-using-just-your-microbiome, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Packaged Goods"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Aobiome: Replacing Soap With Microbiome"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation56fcf96d-0d7c-4b1e-9e3b-daae3a208049"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Supply and Irrigation Systems "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"AquaFresco is a filter that can make nearly any commercial washing machine capable of re-using 95 percent of its wastewater. The absorption filtration system not only saves water but also detergent from entering waterways. The first application will likely be domestic and hotel industries but could extend to car washing and even space travel.\n \nAquaFresco was created by MIT doctoral candidates Sasha Huang, Alina Rwei, and Chris Lai, who study materials science and engineering. When a sustainability competition opened up in their department, the trio made the prototype for what would become AquaFresco. In the process, they became de facto experts on the water consumption associated with laundry. [Citation: https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/11/how-washing-machines-could-use-a-lot-less-water/416961/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWhat AquaFresco does is filter out the small amount of waste and recycle the clean water and detergent for further cleaning cycles. If it works as Huang, Rwei, and Lai hope, you could use essentially the same batch of water to wash laundry for up to six months (replenished by the small percent thats not recycled). In turn, this would mean much less detergent being released into the groundwater supply. [Citation: https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/11/how-washing-machines-could-use-a-lot-less-water/416961/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAn AquaFresco filter would allow hotels to adapt almost any commercial machine to use far less water than a tunnel washer. It would be an appealing option for hotel owners unwilling to invest in new machines or unable to find space for them. It would also cut their water bills substantially. [Citation: https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/11/how-washing-machines-could-use-a-lot-less-water/416961/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Conservation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Aquafresco: A Filtration Technology For Wastewater Regeneration"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Innovation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life Below Water; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb2b8c7b1-1bef-43a4-9134-629e63f3264e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Washington, D.C.-based startup Aquanta installs onto your existing water heater, converting it from a dumb energy consumer to a smart, energy saver. The company costs $150, works for both electric and natural-gas-powered water heaters, and takes about 45 minutes and a fair amount of handiwork to install. Their device includes a sensor that measures the energy coming into and out of the water in the tank, a controller that can turn the heating system on and off, and Wi-Fi to connect to your home router, and from there to your computer or smartphone.\n \nUsing Aquantas app, users can check on how much hot water they have left, turn the water heater on and off, and receive leak detection and maintenance alerts. But its real selling point is the ability to analyze water heating against household hot water usage, and fine-tune how that energy is used to reduce the amount thats wasted. [Citation: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/aquanta-wants-to-be-the-nest-of-smart-water-heaters#gs.qr3vur, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nAquanta was first launched as part of a Kickstarter campaign in late 2014. Weve had units in the field since last spring -- weve been piloting this thing for a long time, Carlson said. The best studies out there have [included] around 10 to 20 households, thats what their data set is -- which is really not that great. While he wouldnt say how many devices its installed to date, suffice it to say weve got a lot more out there than that -- and this is all preproduction. [Citation: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/aquanta-wants-to-be-the-nest-of-smart-water-heaters#gs.qr3vur, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Aquanta: Data Processor Reduces Fuel Consumption By Tracking And Matching Hot Water Supply To Use Habits"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation86d4f5ec-fce8-446b-ad44-b3eb2aaf0f88"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Waste Collection "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Artist Nienke Hoogvliet designed functional home decor using fishing waste. Taking the tossed skins from fish shops, she made leather, which she then translated into a stool and rug. The project, RESEA-ME, is a response to the plastic waste circling oceans instead of dumping wasted resources, closing loops could offer valuable objects at less of an environmental cost.\n \nRE-SEA ME is a continuation of Nienkes earlier project, SEA ME, a rug made from sea algae yarn, that also highlights the contrast between the abundance of plastic waste in the oceans and overlooked ocean resources. Nienke created her fish-leather pieces by hand, using an old time-consuming tanning technique to produce a strong and sustainable material without the use of any chemicals. Though almost any kind of fish skin can be used, the Delft-based designer chose unwanted salmon skins collected from local fish shops. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/beautiful-fish-leather-furniture-made-from-salmon-skins-underscores-plastic-ocean-waste/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nBoth of the RE-SEA ME pieces show off the skins natural textures, colors, and shapes. With the stool, Nienke stretches out two long pieces of tanned skin suggestive of the length and shape of an actual salmon. The conceptual rug comprises scale-shaped fish leather pieces sown into a discarded fishing net. Although each piece was crafted by hand through a laborious process, Nienke believes fish leather could be produced at a larger scale. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/beautiful-fish-leather-furniture-made-from-salmon-skins-underscores-plastic-ocean-waste/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Furniture"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Nieke Hoogvliet: Fishing Waste Becomes Home Décor"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0abef512-c61d-42e9-b628-a9822cac666b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Plastics Bottle Manufacturing"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"As companies anticipate regulatory action and respond to customer demand, they continue to push ahead with bioplastic development. Coca-Cola introduced a bioplastic bottle in June 2015. Corn syrup and sugar as feedstocks show increasing viability, but products that aren't land-hungry are also in the works: Novomer uses CO2. Price and replacing novel forms such as the microbeads in soaps remain challenges.\n\nIts a bit like making yogurt, says Oliver Peoples, chief scientific officer of Metabolix, Inc.\" [Citation: https://qz.com/469642/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-make-eco-friendly-plastic-out-of-corn-syrup-and-bacteria/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe Cambridge, Massachusettsbased company where bioplastics take shape in laboratory-scale fermentation chambers is one of a growing number of businesses and institutions working to develop cost-competitive, more environmentally friendly replacements for conventional plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, fail to decompose and are turning our oceans into seas of floating plastic. [Citation: https://qz.com/469642/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-make-eco-friendly-plastic-out-of-corn-syrup-and-bacteria/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nWeve seen this huge increase in production in plastic that results in an increase in the waste stream as well, says Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineering faculty member at the University of Georgia. Unlike material that biodegrades, plastic has all of these issues. It easily travels into waterways, it physically fragments into smaller pieces which are extremely hard or impossible to collect, and [it tends to] absorb chemical contaminants that are already in the environment. [Citation: https://qz.com/469642/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-make-eco-friendly-plastic-out-of-corn-syrup-and-bacteria/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Plastics Production"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Metabolix: Bioplastics From Corn Syrup"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2dc5fada-3f34-4f2e-a0a7-98ba6df803eb"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"New Multifamily Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"As more people move to urban areas, the desire for customization and the need for good, environmentally-sound design increases in cities. In Vijayawada, India, a modular high-rise, with prefab homes that can be inserted into existing spaces fits the bill. Residents can choose the layout, vegetation, and some finishes; the building and vegetation help with graywater management and facilitate natural ventilation.\n \nThis highly customizable project, designed by Beijing-based architecture studio Penda, allows residents to decide on the type of plants, floors and facade elements they want to include in their homes. The tower also features a  gray water management system, rainwater collection, natural ventilation and lots of greenery. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/residents-of-this-prefab-living-tower-in-india-can-choose-a-modular-apartment-from-a-catalog/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe architects created a framework that can be filled with the chosen configuration, which is fabricated off-site and then inserted into the structure. Indian residential developer Pooja Crafted Homes commissioned Penda to design the Vijayawada Garden Estate so to allow residents to personalize their homes. The building is meant to be located on a corner plot near the Krishna River, and will provide fantastic views of the surroundings. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/residents-of-this-prefab-living-tower-in-india-can-choose-a-modular-apartment-from-a-catalog/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nThe architects found inspiration in their previous project-a small storage space designed for a Beijing cafe-and decided that the only constant elements in the building should be the structural grid and the infrastructure. All other components can be fully customized thanks to the use of prefabricated modules. Large amounts of vegetation will populate the terraces and will be irrigated using rainwater. Optimal configuration of modules will facilitate natural ventilation, while the plants will help preserve fresh air and the natural appearance of the high-rise. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/residents-of-this-prefab-living-tower-in-india-can-choose-a-modular-apartment-from-a-catalog/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Architectural Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Customizable Modules For Indian Residential Estate Tower"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation382f7fce-060a-48e2-bf67-68bb83b92d4e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Oil and Gas Pipeline and Related Structures Construction "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"As regulations tighten concerning oil transport, oil companies could use continuous remote monitoring to assure they meet standards and avoid spills. SmartPipes, sensor-equipped, self-monitoring undersea oil pipes, transmit real-time data about pipe thickness, vibration, temperature and more. The Norwegian research group that developed SmartPipes has tested and is ready to pilot the project.\r\n\r\nThe SmartPipe comes equipped with sensors and electronics which will enable them to continually transmit real-time data about their condition to shore. The sensors, which monitor pipe wall thickness, tension, temperature and vibration, are contained within belts located every 24 metres along the length of the pipeline. Electronics are concealed within a layer of polypropylene which covers the steel pipe. The pipes were recently tested in Norways Orkanger Harbor: 200 meters of pipeline was submerged into the seawater and, despite some sensors being destroyed, SINTEF is confident that some small modifications would remedy this and regards the tests as successful, meaning the SmartPipe project can now move into its pilot phase. [Citation: https://www.springwise.com/intelligent-undersea-oil-pipes-self-monitoring/, Accessed: 6/11/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Sensor Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"SmartPipe: Self-monitoring Undersea Oil Pipelines"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2006"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation376257e6-e982-47e2-a1ae-c93bfcee5475"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"As U.S. regulations and attitudes around cannabis shift, hemp has renewed attention for its potential across industries. In Asheville, N.C., an architect has built a house using hempcrete, an insulation made from hemp, lime and water. The material captures carbon and pollutants protecting inhabitants, and has a high thermal mass that helps keep temperatures in the house from fluctuating."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Architectural Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Push House: Hempcrete Outside, Purepanel Inside For Healthy, Safe House"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2010"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione7e3453c-e986-4667-812d-01f757f159f8"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Supply and Irrigation Systems "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"As water tables drop in agricultural heartlands, precision watering could make food production more responsible. Another way is to look at crops that are heartier and thrive in dry environments as exemplar systems, and even as foods or crops. Scientists are beginning to study crassulacean acid metabolism, a special kind of photosynthesis that plants like cacti and agave to do.\n \nPlants that use CAM, which include cacti and agave, are typically found in the dry environments. Increasing agricultural production to accommodate society's growing population might be achieved by developing CAM crops as new sources for food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy or by engineering non-CAM crops to use CAM strategies to improve their water use efficiency and yield. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-cactus-scientists-insights-future-global.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \n\"CAM research is an emerging scientific discipline with tremendous potential for applications, and it attracts growing interest from both academia and industry. This roadmap is a result of collective work by CAM researchers around the world,\" said Dr. Xiaohan Yang, lead author of the New Phytologist article. \"It could serve as a blueprint for future collaborative research to realize the potential of CAM crops and will likely lead to increased funding opportunities for CAM research.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-cactus-scientists-insights-future-global.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Conservation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Cactus Photosynthesis: Blueprint For Future Crops"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Innovation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa5710a0a-2ba5-4528-9983-22a7d130b340"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"As workspaces become increasingly diffuse, mobile and modular office tech will likely increase in popularity and necessity. Sony's nearly-HD mobile projector is smartphone-sized and laser-based, which lets it bring images into focus even on uneven surfaces. The $350 projector will go on sale in October. Someday soon, smartphones could come with built-in projectors eliminating TVs and screens.\n \nFor a pico projector, the pocketable MPCL1 has some impressive traits. Its a laser projector, which helps make it slimmer, quieter, and sharper than competing LED and DLP pico projectors. Still, its not quite full HD resolutionthis little unit has an odd resolution of 1920x720but thats still pretty high-res for a pico projector. Even in our age of technological wizardry, most pocket projectors top out at WVGA (800x480) resolution. [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/stuff-big-screen-pocket-tiny-projector/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nSony announced its first product that incorporates PicoP display technology licensed from MicroVision. The MP-CL1 has all the hallmarks of laser beam scanning technology: focus-free, high contrast ratio, HD image, power-efficient, and a very small form factor perfectly suited for mobile applications. As the pioneers of laser beam scanning technology and close partners to Sony on their display module development, we are excited to see this commercial product launch. 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Using this method could help track disease and bacteria _as _they travel and spot regional trends. Though this particular effort isn't likely to scale well (or be efficient), other projects, such as studying sewage within a particular city, could offer similar results more effectively.\n \nBack in the lab, the researchers turned the samples into DNA soup and fed them through a sequencing machine. Out the other end came antimicrobial resistance genes and potential pathogensall traceable to the individual planes country of origin. [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/airplane-poop-help-track-global-disease-outbreaks/, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nHuman populations worldwide are increasingly confronted with infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance spreading faster and appearing more frequently. Knowledge regarding their occurrence and worldwide transmission is important to control outbreaks and prevent epidemics. Here, we performed shotgun sequencing of toilet waste from 18 international airplanes arriving in Copenhagen, Denmark, from nine cities in three world regions. An average of 18.6Gb (14.8 to 25.7Gb) of raw Illumina paired-end sequence data was generated, cleaned, trimmed and mapped against reference sequence databases for bacteria and antimicrobial resistance genes. An average of 106,839 (0.06%) reads was assigned to resistance genes with genes encoding resistance to tetracycline, macrolide, and beta-lactam resistance genes as the most abundant in all samples. We found significantly higher abundance and diversity of genes encoding antimicrobial resistance, including critical important resistance (e.g. blaCTX-M) carried on airplanes from South Asia compared to North America. Presence of Salmonella enterica and norovirus was also detected in higher amounts from South Asia, whereas Clostridium difficile was most abundant in samples from North America. Our study provides the first step towards a potential novel strategy for global surveillance enabling simultaneous detection of multiple human health threatening genetic elements, infectious agents and resistance genes. [Citation: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11444, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Innovation in Thinking"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Airplane Bathrooms Used As Clinical Collection Samples For Disease Tracking"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation2da01441-01b5-44e0-bcfa-716bbd4a14c4"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Textile and Fabric Finishing Mills "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Cornell University, led by chemical and biomolecular engineer Juan Hinestroza, are applying nanotechnology to develop textiles that can do a whole range of new and useful tricks. The researchers are adding tiny bits of metal into fibrous material like cotton that can produce light, kill disease-causing microbes or act as a filter to trap harmful gas.\n \nWe want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional and that can be customized to any demand, Hinestroza said. We are chemists, we are material scientists, we are designers, we want to create materials that will perform many functions, yet remain as flexible and as comfortable as a t-shirt or an old pair of jeans. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/124674416850/engineered-cotton-makes-magical-garments-a-cornell, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nLab contributors and students have produced innovative garments that could provide a glimpse into the future of wearable technology. One published study showed the antibacterial effectiveness of a metal-organic framework embedded within cellulosic fibers like cotton or linen. Another used metal-oxide-embedded fibrous membrane to filter a powerful and highly toxic insecticide called parathion from a solution. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/124674416850/engineered-cotton-makes-magical-garments-a-cornell, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nCotton is one of the most fascinating  and misunderstood materials, said Hinestroza. Previous technologies have achieved similar functionalities, but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing, and knitting. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/124674416850/engineered-cotton-makes-magical-garments-a-cornell, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Synthetic Textiles"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Engineered Fibers Make Multi-Purpose Textiles"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationfd1445af-1674-407e-b927-000a9433aef4"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"At WhalePower, scientists have discovered that the tubercles on humpback whales' fins lead to less stall and more efficient control when swimming. This technology, when applied industrially, could lead to more efficient wind turbines. The WhalePower fins have already been used to create energy-efficient industrial fans by a company called Altra-Air."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Tubercle Technology"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2008"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa1090995-e8be-4a8e-aead-9a98ab054cc4"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Athletic performance monitoring has underpinned the development of wearables. However, the pace of this development has been partly determined by the need to power the sensors and related technology that makes wearables attractive. Replacing batteries with wire-shaped micro-super-capacitors made from titanium, carbon nanotubes and a solid electrolyte allowed researchers at Case Western Reserve University to develop a wearable, flexible power source which can be used for a range of sensors.\n \nIn this new design, the modified titanium wire is coated with a solid electrolyte made of polyvinyl alcohol and phosphoric acid. The wire is then wrapped with either yarn or a sheet made of aligned carbon nanotubes, which serves as the second electrode. The titanium oxide nanotubes, which are semiconducting, separate the two active portions of the electrodes, preventing a short circuit. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/when-wearable-electronics-devices-disappear-into-clothes, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nTheyre very flexible, so they can be integrated into fabric or textile materials, said Liming Dai, the Kent Hale Smith Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering. They can be a wearable, flexible power source for wearable electronics and also for self-powered biosensors or other biomedical devices, particularly for applications inside the body. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/when-wearable-electronics-devices-disappear-into-clothes, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n\n\"The scientists published their research on the micro supercapacitor in the journal Energy Storage Materials this week. The study builds on earlier carbon-based supercapacitors.\" [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/when-wearable-electronics-devices-disappear-into-clothes, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Battery Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Titanium Microsupercapacitors: \"Invisible Thread\" Powers Wearables"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8e981903-6d18-4b65-82f5-3f441c49a1ac"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Atmospheric gases may be trapped in minerals that crystallize below the Earth's crust and are subjected to high pressure as rocks form. Scientists at Syracuse University have documented this process and verified it in Papua New Guinea. Minerals now found at the surface of the exploration site were formed approximately 8 million years ago, some 90 kilometers below the Earth's crust. Analyzing the isotopic composition of these minerals will help us understand how gases originate.\n \nA new study by Suzanne Baldwin, the Michael G. and Susan T. Thonis Professor of Earth Sciences, and Jayeshkumar Das, a research associate of Earth sciences, brings insight to how atmospheric noble gases, in particular argon and neon, cycle from the surface to the Earth's mantle, and back to the surface again. Their study, 'Atmospheric Ar and Ne returned from mantle depths to the Earth's surface via forearc recycling,' is in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]\n \nArgon and neon are noble gases that have been around since our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, from a vast cloud of gas and dust. The Earth formed from an accumulation of gas, dust, and small planetary objects. Because noble gases are chemically inert at conditions relevant to processes on Earth, they don't react with other elements. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/22/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Resource Detection Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Ancient Rocks Show How Gases Get Trapped"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa1c55419-0811-4cca-96dd-d1a2c7f47144"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Automobile Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Audi is using tech from gaming so its engineers can build their virtual 3D designs. This allows kinks to be worked out earlier in the process and reduces waste in the manufacture, transportation, and inventory of new vehicle product launches. The gesture-control armband lets them test for usability, something a 2-D or scaled-down image can't do. While sensors have hit R&D, other auto companies are working to incorporate the tech into the final product, such as eye-activated dash monitors.\n \nAudi's team currently uses a manual controller to manipulate components in the company's virtual testing space  known as the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/10/audi-gesture-control-technology-test-vehicles-virtual-reality-3d-design/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \n\"We want to make picking up and moving the components more intuitive in the future,\" said Audi's development engineer Katharina Kunz. \"Technologies from the gaming world are ideal for us because they are relatively inexpensive and are being developed rapidly.\" [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/10/audi-gesture-control-technology-test-vehicles-virtual-reality-3d-design/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nUsing a wearable device called Myo in conjunction with a virtual-reality headset, engineers and designers working inside CAVE will have the ability to interact with components more freely. According to Audi, the system will also allow designers to test the usability of their concepts. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/10/audi-gesture-control-technology-test-vehicles-virtual-reality-3d-design/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Vehicle Design"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Audi: Virtual 3D Design"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb01a0629-2ea6-4a8b-b585-d59e87361c8a"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Bottled Water Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Austrian designer Kristof Retezr has developed a range of water bottles that condense water from the surrounding air. One model, the Fontus, can generate half a liter of water in an hour in ideal conditions, whereas its counterpart the Ryde, condenses moisture while a rider pedals a bike. The third model in the range is the Airo for hikers, which uses a small fan to condense water. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to further develop the range of bottles, adding carbon filters, expanding the range of environments where the bottles can be used and reducing the price.\n \nThe Fontus uses solar energy to power a small cooler or a condenser that works by the so-called Peltier effect. This condenser creates a temperature differential drawing heat from one side of the device to the other. This leaves two chambers: one cold and the other hot. Air flows into both these chambers separately, but when air passes over the hot side, the slight cooling of that chamber causes the cold chamber to chill even more. That means that the air passing through the cold chamber rapidly condenses like droplets on the outside of a cold glass. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/water-bottle-refills-itself-from-moisture-air-180957986/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Harvesting Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"The Fontus Bottle: Water Bottle Condenses Water From Air"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Water Innovation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0df58957-6182-4dce-880f-76b6803a2898"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Autonomous Robots are changing the way humans do business and build for the future. Simbe Robotics has designed Tally, the retail robot that is able to monitor grocery store stock and inventory to ensure all items are stocked and priced correctly. David Dorhout is pushing the creation of Prospero bot, a hoard of robots able to efficiently and quickly plant the whole field to not only speed up the farming process but also improve it. The future of autonomous robotics will affect the economy in just a few years and the above examples are simply the tip of the iceberg.\n \nDorhout currently works in the biotech industry, but his side project and passion for the last few years have been robotics. Built as the test platform for a larger robotic farming system, Prospero is just one of what will eventually become a swarm of planting, tending, and harvesting robots running game theory and swarm behavior algorithms to help optimize every inch of arable space in a given field. Dorhout has launched his own company, Dorhout R&D, to pursue this vision, and he's hoping that as the larger robot revolution unfolds that farmers will once again be at the forefront of a technological revolution. [Citation: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-06/future-agriculture-swarm-farmbots-can-manage-field-plant-plant/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nDorhout points to technologies that we now take for granted--things like the diesel engine, modern statistics, genetic engineering--that trace their origins back to a common impetus: the need to reliably grow more and better food. The ongoing robotics revolution is leaving its mark on agriculture already, as self-driving, GPS-equipped tractors now till land autonomously and another existing farm machinery becomes increasingly computerized and automated. A single human farmer can now maintain well more than 1,000 acres of farmland each year, using bigger and better farm equipment to increase productivity. [Citation: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-06/future-agriculture-swarm-farmbots-can-manage-field-plant-plant/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Robotics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Prospero Robot to Plant a Field"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation5368b262-9c34-473f-b187-9f6e4ab39c20"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Autonomous robots are transforming supply chains and delivery methods in diverse industries. Starship Technologies will launch autonomous robots that deliver small packages and groceries.\n\nStarship Technologies, the new venture by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, is introducing autonomous robots to a street corner near you. Designed to address the last mile  the notoriously difficult final leg of the delivery process  the Starship bots will deliver groceries and small packages to suburban homes. Operating autonomously 99 percent of the time, each robot uses high-resolution navigation software to pinpoint its location, and a camera and radar to avoid obstacles. The mini-fridge-sized vehicles will have speakers and microphones to chat with humans, and their six-wheel treads can even climb small staircases. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/17/autonomous-robots-are-changing-the-way-we-build-and-move-products-around-the-world/, Accessed: 6/11/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Robotics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Autonomous Robots"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa0480774-bd22-4111-a78b-e0bd3dedbdd4"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Broom, Brush, and Mop Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Available in Asia and Europe, Misoka is a toothbrush with nanocoated bristles that protect enamel and whiten teeth without paste. The bristles clean between teeth and ions are activated when the head is dunked in water. Eliminating toothpaste would reduce water treatment needs, as well as water use during brushing, plus packaging and production needs.\n \nThe Misoka toothbrush, created in collaboration with Osaka technology company Yumeshokunin, features bristles coated in nano-sized mineral ions measuring one billionth of a meter in diameter. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/10/misoka-toothbrush-nanotech-ions-kosho-ueshima-yumeshokunin-milan-2015/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n\nThe toothbrush features bristles that measure just 0.178 millimeters in thickness, and which are tapered at the ends. This allows them to clean in the gaps between the teeth. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/10/misoka-toothbrush-nanotech-ions-kosho-ueshima-yumeshokunin-milan-2015/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \n\"Misoka\" is Japanese for \"the last day of the month\" since the bristles weaken, making the brush ineffective after around one month, at which point it should be replaced. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/10/misoka-toothbrush-nanotech-ions-kosho-ueshima-yumeshokunin-milan-2015/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n\n\"Tooth brush MISOKA, which is produced by Yumeshisha Co., Ltd., can be cleaned with water only. By applying nano mineral coating technology Nanosion Dream Technology applied to the hair, it is possible to wash the dirt cleanly simply by brushing the hair tip with water. It is a revolutionary toothbrush to give. As a toothbrush that can brush teeth with a full glass of water and can contribute to the protection of the global environment, it has been sold more than 4 million in various countries including Asia.\" [Citation: https://www.misoka.jp/html/page2.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Packaged Goods"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Misoka: Toothbrush Cleans Teeth With Ions Not Toothpaste, Lasts One Month"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation9be1f9ab-3b27-4a49-8b21-0f85da4f4a49"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Petroleum Refineries"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Aviation accounts for 2 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, but filling planes with biofuel has many production obstacles, namely viability. But researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have found sugarcane waste could serve as the right biomass for jet fuel. It doesn't compete with food production, meets quality standards and can be commercially-scaled. This method of sugar-fuel production could reduce aviation emissions by 80 percent.\n \nThat crop, unlike the sugar beet, can be grown on marginal lands so it does not displace food production  a major concern that has tempered enthusiasm for biofuels in general. Jet fuel, which is responsible for roughly 2 percent of all carbon emissions, has been difficult to synthesize from biomass because of its stringent quality requirements. Biofuels were approved for commercial aviation as recently as 2011, and researchers have been seeking a viable production method for nearly a decade. [Citation: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/jet_fuel_from_sugarcane_cuts_aviation_carbon_emissions_study_says, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nFor fuel to be useful in jets, it must be free of oxygen, because it adds mass that is not used as fuel, thus, it does nothing but take up precious space in gas tanks. The fuel must also be stable at extremely low temperatures, i.e. not gel at high altitude temperatures in the -40C range. It must also have just the right boiling point and a certain degree of lubricity so it will not cause wear on turbines. Another problem with developing fuel from plant matter is the problem of converting cropland to use for fuel, that is why the researchers with this new effort chose sugarcane. 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Fast detection of bacteria and targeted antibiotic drug therapies are critical for effective patient care. Typically, culture analysis of wounds for the presence of bacteria takes up to 24 hours, with newer therapies requiring hours. A medical team at George Washington University and an engineering team at Northeastern University are collaborating on a sensor that can detect bacteria in less than a minute. The results look promising, and the team is now working to improve the accuracy of the detection as well as broadening the number of types of bacteria detected, and bringing the technology into clinical use.\n \nGoluchs lab at Northeastern University in Boston developed the miniaturized sensor that detects the presence of pyocyanin, a metabolite produced by Pseudomonas bacteria. Pyocyanin is called a quorum-sensing molecule that sends identifying signals indicating the presence of Pseudomonas bacteria. Goluch and colleagues are designing microfluidic, or lab-on-a-chip, sensors that detect quorum-sensing molecules with a combination of electronic and chemical methods. [Citation: http://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=28466, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe research team in this study took samples of fluid from wounds of individuals taking part in Wound Etiology and Healing or WeHeal project being conducted by Shanmugams lab in Washington, D.C. The WeHeal study aims to uncover interactions among the immune system, microbial colonies, and pain in healing chronic wounds. 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But the answer may lie inside the coffee plant itself: Researchers from the University of Michigan found parasites that feed on fungus in leaf samples, and further study could lead to a natural crop protectant.\n \nUsing an old-fashioned handheld paper punch, U-M researchers collected leaf samples from both infected and uninfected coffee leaves at coffee farms in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Puerto Rico. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151113144513.htm, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThey found up to 69 fungal species living on a single quarter-inch-diameter leaf disc from uninfected leaves and up to 62 species on rust-infected leaf discs, according to Timothy James, a U-M mycologist and lead author of a paper scheduled for online publication Nov. 13 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151113144513.htm, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nIn the study, leaf samples were collected from three coffee farms in Chiapas and five farms in Puerto Rico's central mountain region. DNA was extracted from 46 leaf discs, amplified using polymerase chain reaction, then sequenced using single-molecule DNA sequencing. 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Triboelectric charging generates electricity through fiction between structurally different neighboring layers of material. Scientists in China combined biodegradable polymers in the lab and simulated body motion at 1Hz. They obtained 40 volts and a current of 1 A, thus proving that small implanted devices can be successfully powered. First tests have shown that the patches are also biocompatible, show no signs of implant rejection, and dissolve in 72 hours.\n \nThe triboelectric generation process is not new and can be applied to objects on the macro-scale. Triboelectric generation occurs by compressing and releasing materials differing in frictional properties, not unlike how electrodes must differ on a galvanic series in order for a current to result between them. [Citation: https://www.asianscientist.com/2016/03/tech/body-powered-batteries-dissolve/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nBy experimenting with biodegradable polymers and mimicking biomechanical motion at a frequency of 1 Hz, the team generated an open circuit voltage of up to approximately 40 volts, with a corresponding short-circuit current of 1 Asufficient energy to power small implanted devices. [Citation: https://www.asianscientist.com/2016/03/tech/body-powered-batteries-dissolve/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n\n\"Other constraints such as voltage output, integration and power management systems that will need to take place between the device and the generator, must be overcome before widespread application of the teams generator can be implemented. The team is currently working toward addressing them, in hopes that the potential applications can one day become a reality.\" [Citation: https://www.asianscientist.com/2016/03/tech/body-powered-batteries-dissolve/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Triboelectric Energy Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"NCNST: Dissolvable Implants"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationc25212dd-9a66-4b09-a28b-321b34394069"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Because bacteria can grow inside tumors naturally, a synthetic biologist thought up edible probiotic bacteria that detect cancer. Successful in mice, the bacteria signal through the urine whether liver cancer is present. This targeted approach could harness quorum sensing essentially a big, smart group of bacteria to also fight cancer with therapeutic molecules, shrinking tumors from the inside out."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Healthcare Nanotechnology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Bacteria Could Detect Cancer By Quorum Sensing"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2010"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation7be66385-e1ed-44a7-a9a7-3df984614d07"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Because bone stem cells are hard to isolate, coming up with lab-grown bone is still a challenge. One team of researchers can extract stem cells from bone marrow and coat them on 3D printed scaffolding for personalized implants and lessening the likelihood of rejection. The goal is to commercialize in the UK in three to five years.\n \n\"It should be simple  we know the cell that makes bone (called an osteoblast), but bone is a complex tissue requiring a blood supply and has unique mechanical properties. In addition, the bone stem cell is also extremely rare to isolate,\" Professor Richard Oreffo, University of Southampton. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-bone-lab.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nStem cells are basic tissue building blocks, with a unique ability to become different types of cells. Professor Oreffo and team harness bone stem cells from bone marrow, and differentiate them to become bone, cartilage or connective tissue. This is then combined with a synthetic, 3D printed scaffold to which the cells coat. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-bone-lab.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nWith an increasingly aging population, there are already a number of clinical applications seeing bone marrow cells being applied by orthopedic surgeons. In 2014, two operations in Southampton were completed using Oreffo's 3D printed hips, and within 5-7 years this could be a simple procedure for patients in the NHS. 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A vacuum sucks the gas from each well-head, but this must be done manually. Any error could damage the product. Enter Loci Controls, which invented a remote monitoring system for the wells with algorithms that fine-tune vacuum pressure. The result of real-time data? A 25 percent energy output increase."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Sensor Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Loci Controls Simplifies Remote Management of Methane Harvesting From Landfill"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2013"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation86c847e5-1635-4cb5-8612-8697e82c2211"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Being able to produce artificial organs that could speed up the drug and medical device research, while greatly reducing the danger and cutting the need for transplant waitlists. The protein in spiders silk, spidroin, could be a viable scaffolding material and has worked in tests to generate rat heart tissue. Though years off, this nontoxic, super-strong material could help increase human longevity.\n \nBut, as described in a study published recently in PLOS ONE, genetically engineered fibers of spidrointhe protein that builds cobweb strandsmight just fit the bill when it comes to human heart tissue. Spidroin fibers have already proven themselves a useful substrate for growing tendons and cartilages. Researchers at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology decided to see whether spidroin grown in the lab via genetically modified yeast cells can also be used to grow cardiomyocytes, the cells that form heart tissue. [Citation: https://gizmodo.com/in-the-future-spider-silk-may-help-grow-your-replaceme-1697072593, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nFor their experiments, the researchers seeded a spidroin fiber matrix with neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Within 3 to 5 days, a layer of cardiac cells had formed. Follow-up tests determined that this tissue was able to contract synchronously and conduct electrical impulses, just like the normal heart tissue should. 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However, manufacturing these interfaces is a major technical challenge. A team at UC Berkeley has developed a fabrication and sintering technique using inkjet printing to produce flexible gold electrodes.\n \nBioelectronic interfaces require electrodes that are mechanically flexible and chemically inert. Flexibility allows pristine electrode contact to skin and tissue, and chemical inertness prevents electrodes from reacting with biological fluids and living tissues. Therefore, flexible gold electrodes are ideal for bioimpedance and biopotential measurements such as bioimpedance tomography, electrocardiography (ECG), electroencephalography (EEG), and electromyography (EMG). However, a manufacturing process to fabricate gold electrode arrays on plastic substrates is still elusive. In this work, a fabrication and lowtemperature sintering (200 C) technique are demonstrated to fabricate gold electrodes. At lowtemperature sintering conditions, lines of different widths demonstrate different sintering speeds. Therefore, the sintering condition is targeted toward the widest feature in the design layout. Manufactured electrodes show a minimum feature size of 62 m and conductivity values of 5  10 6 S m1. Utilizing the versatility of printing and plastic electronic processes, electrode arrays consisting of 31 electrodes with electrodetoelectrode spacing ranging from 2 to 7 mm are fabricated and used for impedance mapping of conformal surfaces at 15 kHz. Overall, the fabrication process of an inkjetprinted gold electrode array that is electrically reproducible, mechanically robust, and promising for bioimpedance and biopotential measurements is demonstrated. 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The technology currently relies on a hydrogen peroxide bath and blue light. But if successfully developed to work within the body, this has major biotech implications. Such technology could unclog arteries or target specific organs for drug-delivery.\n \nThis isnt the first time researchers have developed biomimicking particles, but self-propulsion has caused a problem in the past. To make these particles, the researchers wrapped hematite, an iron-based mineral, in a thin, pale polymer. Under regular conditions, the particles simply float when theyre in a solution. But if the particles are exposed to blue light, the hematite conducts electricity and, in a bath of hydrogen peroxide, starts splitting the oxygen from the hydrogen. The result is a chemical gradient on which the particle can flow, irrelevant of the direction the solution is moving, called a persistent random walk. In the natural world, parasites and marine plankton move in the same way through the body and ocean respectively. [Citation: https://www.popsci.com/life-nanoparticles-could-swim-upstream-human-body/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nClearly, these particles can't yet be used in the human body, because the human body lacks pools of hydrogen peroxide and blue light. But the researchers are confident that, as they continue to fine-tune this technique, it could be used in various medical applications. \"If you can design particles that can feel their environment, and you went one step further into 'smart' particles that could direct themselves towards specific organs, you could think of particles that swim against the bloodstream to fix clogged arteries,\" said lead author Jeremie Palacci, a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, in a press release. Though he also added that this type of application is \"clearly further down the road.\" [Citation: https://www.popsci.com/life-nanoparticles-could-swim-upstream-human-body/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Healthcare Nanotechnology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Smart Nanoparticles Could Become Medical Tools"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd214c445-2db1-4aa2-b021-a2bcc4156fb5"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Laboratories "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Biomatrica has looked at extremophiles in nature to study how they survive extremely dry conditions. The company has developed around that technology to create a system for preserving samples with a thermo-stable barrier. Biomatrica is one of the leaders in room temperature biological sample stabilization. This company is based in San Diego and they offer innovative technologies for stabilizing, processing, storing, shipping and assaying biological samples at room temperature."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Scientific Equipment and Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Biomatrica: Storing Samples in Extreme Conditions"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2004"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6aee4cbe-611a-4873-bcf8-ff04ed8eaf1b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Biomass Electric Power Generation "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Biosyncaucho plans to create technology to produce tires from biomass. Currently, tires (and other plastics, such as raincoats) rely on 1,3-butadiene, a petrochemical that has been linked to disease, particularly among workers at rubber manufacturers. The company plans to use non-food sugars to create a renewable resource for its production, potentially reducing oil dependence and health concerns. \n \nToday, 1,3-butadiene is obtained as a by-product of various petrochemical processes. However, the petrochemical industry is heading towards a reduction in the use of these fractions and is producing less of this by-product. This trend will lead to a fall in the offer of this compound on the market and, as a result, a price increase. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-rubber-renewable-raw-materials-alternative.html, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nIn a market context in which a shortage of 1,3-butadiene is anticipated, Biosyncaucho will be manufacturing an alternative compound using renewable resources, thus providing economically viable and greener alternatives for tyre makers (Bridgestone, Dunlop, Firestone, Goodyear, Pirelli, Michelin), sugar producers (AB Sugar, ACOR, Sued/Nord Zucker, Cosan, MitrPhol, etc.) or for the chemical industry itself (Repsol, Shell, Basf, Exxon, Dow Chemical, Ube, etc.). [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-rubber-renewable-raw-materials-alternative.html, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nBiosyncaucho has emerged in a context in which all the synthetic rubber available on the market has its origin in petrochemical processes. It is an enterprise that bases its technology on the synthesis of non-food sugars, in other words, raw materials of renewable origin. 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Biological labs need not be housed in hard to access buildings with technology. The BPU can hold and stimulate biological materials, and measure the biological responses. Prototype BPUs were deployed in science museums and graduate courses. One allowed visitors to interact with Euglena, a freely swimming pond microorganism. Another created a robotic biology lab powered by LEGO Mindstorms. This liquid-handling robot traveled over a flatbed photo scanner that held petri dishes containing the slime mold Physarum, which eats oatmeal. Using remote- control interfaces on their smartphones, students ordered the robot to drop oatmeal onto specific petri dishes. The software allowed them to choose different droplet patterns. The scanner recorded the Physarum's chemotaxis behavior in sniffing out chemical cues in the petri dishes.\n \nRiedel-Kruse also used the light-sensitive Euglena as the model organisms in the class he taught on biotic game design. Nate Cira, the bioengineering doctoral student who led that effort, says the goal was to create a biotech version of popular robotic and video game challenges. [Citation: http://www.futurity.org/biotechnology-biotic-processing-units-905512/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nIn a second and similar effort, Riedel-Kruse developed a project to teach students how to design bioengineering devices by creating so-called biotic games using cells. This class also touched on the ethical principles of interacting with microorganisms for educational or entertainment purposes. 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The quasi-random pattern texture that allows high-capacity data storage also increases efficiency for solar cells. This not only helps boost solar powers prowess but could limit e-waste when Blu-Ray DVDs take a backseat to the next video technology."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Solar Products"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Random Information Patterns On Used Blu-Ray Disks Improves Solar Cell Efficiency"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8ef3a4f6-68fa-484a-a240-2e30d9ddd46c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Automobile Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"BMW has unveiled BMW Vision Next 100, a car meant to create a personalized futuristic experience. The Vision Next offers two driving options: \"The Boost Mode\" allowing for hands-on maneuvering and \"In Ease Mode\" whereby the chairs rotate to face each other and the augmented reality-ready windshield can display entertainment transforming the driver into a passenger. During rides, the Companion - Visions on-board AI - can assist the driver with advice or complete some chores while the shape-shifting Alive Geometry splits the exterior into 800 adjustable triangles for flawless aerodynamics.\n \nThe BMW Vision Next 100 is an ambitious concept that isnt production-ready but does offer a stimulating glimpse of what cars could look like in the future. The vehicles designers drew upon digital technology to enhance a drivers experience and performance. Our goal was to create a very personal vehicle. There will always be that highly emotional connection between a BMW and its driver, said Karim Habib, Head of BMW Automobile Design. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/bmws-crazy-shape-shifting-future-car-is-straight-out-of-a-science-fiction-movie/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nPerhaps the feature most akin to science fiction is the Companion, artificial intelligence which gathers information on the cars driver to provide advice and even accomplish some chores. If, as a designer, you are able to imagine something, theres a good chance it could one day become reality, said Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW Head of Design. 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This could make mass customization from shoes to mattresses to medical devices affordable and achievable. BodyLabs lifelike avatars simulate users, movement and even aging. Shoppers won't be the only benefactor's corporations could create niche lines from BodyLabs aggregate data of measurements.\n \nThe Body Labs platform, which is based on a comprehensive set of data culled from thousands and thousands of scans of the human body, has a grisly origin story. In 2002, Michael Black, the co-founder of Body Labs, was researching how to create a reliable statistical model of the human body and gearing up to teach a course on computer visiona robot analog of human vision, in which visual information on video is analyzed by computersat Brown University. Before the start of the course, the Virginia state police contacted him, hoping to enlist his expertise. There had been a robbery and a murder at a 7-Eleven, and law enforcement officials wanted to try to use computer vision to help identify the perpetrator in the surveillance video. Michael basically said, Im changing the course syllabus,' OFarrell says. Were going to break into teams and try to figure out this problem of how to accurately identify a human being through computer vision techniques. Ultimately, the classs use of computer vision vindicated some of the evidence in the caseit helped confirm the perpetrators height, for example. 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The new UV lights can dispose of 99.99% of the micro-organisms living in airplane bathrooms by using special light frequencies. Promoted as self-cleaning lavatories, the new Boeing bathrooms feature many touch-less features, such as automated trash flaps, soap dispensers, faucets, and even toilet seats. The sanitizing effect will come from a UV light harmless for humans, which is different from the A and B types found in tanning beds.\n \n Far UV light is only harmful to microbes and is different from the type used in tanning salons. Still, the bathroom only activates its lights if sensors indicate that there's nobody inside. As soon as you close the door, the lights pulse and zap germs you might leave behind; the toilet cover even automatically pops up to ensure thorough cleaning. It only takes three seconds to finish the whole process. [Citation: https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/04/boeing-self-cleaning-bathroom/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nA toilet that cleans itself could help save airlines maintenance costs down the line. Besides, it could convince germaphobes bitten by the travel bug to finally take that trip to the other side of the planet. Then again, according to tests conducted in 2015, the dirtiest surface on a plane isn't anywhere in the bathroom -- it's actually the tray table. 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As regulations change, this database ensures compliance with existing laws while saving time, labor, and worry which could be useful across industries. It has introduced a new tool for the e-tech industry to meet EU standards and bypass inapplicable ones.\n \nBOMcheck is a centralized database that helps companies manage supply chain compliance with the European UnionsRestriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), REACH and other substance regulations around the world. The system works with the IEC 62474 materials declaration standard to implement European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Guidance on Requirements for Substances in Articles recommendations for the electrotechnical industry. [Citation: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2015/11/screening-tool-reduces-chemical-compliance-burden-by-66/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nArticle 33 of the REACH Regulation requires companies that supply products containing more than 0.1 percent by weight of any REACH Candidate List Substance to provide their customers with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe use of the article including, as a minimum, the name of that substance. [Citation: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2015/11/screening-tool-reduces-chemical-compliance-burden-by-66/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nBOMchecks REACH Candidate List screening helps companies reduce compliance time and costs by screening out 95 substances that are not normally found in electrotechnical industry parts and materials. Electrotechnical companies can use the screening to reduce the number of REACH Candidate List substances they need to investigate from 163 down to 68. 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The company is the global leader in microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) sales, and so these sensors could boost medical and communications tech. However, upscaling production methods will be a hurdle for commercialization. The company is interested in the use of the two-dimensional material in its pressure, magnetic, humidity, gas, and sound pressure devices and they are looking for different methods.\n \nTop-down approaches to graphene device fabrication such as mechanical and chemical exfoliation would not work on a commercial scale, so Bosch focussed instead on bottom-up techniques such as the thermal decomposition of silicon carbide, and chemical vapor deposition onto metal surfaces. The latter is certainly suited to mass production, and the former possibly so. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-graphene-breakthrough-bosch-magnetic-sensor.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nBosch's magnetic sensors are based on the Hall effect, in which a magnetic field induces a Lorentz force on moving electric charge carriers, leading to deflection and a measurable Hall voltage. Sensor performance is defined by two parameters: (1) sensitivity, which depends on the number of charge carriers, and (2) power consumption, which varies inversely with charge carrier mobility. It is high carrier mobility that makes graphene useful in such applications, and the results achieved by the Bosch-led team confirm this. 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But an equally stubborn scientist devised a method to leach the mineral of uranium without high heat or high acid concentration. What's more, the process could be commercially developed in less than three years, pumping $108 million more into uranium mining annually. This process was discovered by Murdoch University researchers.\n \nThe new knowledge could boost extraction by up to 15 percent, which using 2013 export data, could equate to 1000 tonnes, or approximately $108 million per annum in added value for the industry. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-metallurgists-stumble-uranium-millions.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nPh.D. candidate Rorie Gilligan says the discovery started from simple curiosity about where uranium volume was lost in extraction, which led him to the overlooked and notoriously stubborn brannerite. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-metallurgists-stumble-uranium-millions.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe research fits into an ongoing project at Murdoch's School of Engineering and Information Technology headed by Dr. Aleks Nikoloski aimed at understanding uranium extraction, which he terms one of the most challenging processes in the field because of its complex geology. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-metallurgists-stumble-uranium-millions.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nDr. Nikoloski says the research is a feather-in-the-cap for Murdoch's Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy, which has a top-level ranking of 5 (Well Above World Standard) in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings. 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Users track air quality throughout the day and are alerted if toxicity reaches dangerous levels. They can choose to add their data paired with location to a central database, helping fellow commuters and travelers make decisions based on air quality. Aggregated, such data could influence environmental regulations."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Internet Enabled Devices"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Wearable Technology Allows For Location-Sensitive Air Quality Monitoring By Average Pedestrian"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Sustainable Cities and Communities"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8a852ece-6075-4deb-b9d7-d3b2e9953f4c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Brite Solar has developed a transparent solar panel that can be used in greenhouses, as well as other commercial and residential buildings. 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They can maintain their viscous state even at relatively cool temperatures, which allows them to be shaped by methods typically reserved for glass or plastics. Their random assembly of atoms versus the crystalline structure of other metals is what gives it this unique quality.\n \nBulk metallic glasses are made of multiple components, including zirconium, copper, nickel, aluminum, gold, and platinum. They exhibit very high strength. If you tear, bend or press a piece of one of these metals, it is so strong that deforming it permanently is very difficult. It can store much more deformation energy than any other metals, making it an ideal spring material. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-jumbled-atoms-bulk-metallic-glasses.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nBut what makes bulk metallic glasses unique is that their great strength is combined with the ability to flow like a thick liquid when in a special supercooled liquid state that regular metals cannot reach. When heated to a certain temperature range, they flow like a viscous liquid. This makes it possible to mold these special metals by hot-forming processing typically used for traditional glasses and plastics. In principle, you can even blow the metals as you would with bottle glasses. 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However, electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego found nonconductive materials may solve both of these problems. In a computer simulation, a thin sheet of Teflon and ceramic was able to cloak and give the illusion of a flat surface. Applications include solar energy, optical communications, and the military.\n \nInvisibility may seem like magic at first, but its underlying concepts are familiar to everyone. All it requires is a clever manipulation of our perception, said Boubacar Kant, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the senior author of the study. Full invisibility still seems beyond reach today, but it might become a reality in the near future thanks to recent progress in cloaking devices. 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The startup claims its windows deliver 50 times more energy than solar panels. The windows could turn skyscrapers into energy powerhouses, rather than inert, resource-hungry infrastructure. The secrets in the organic coating, which can be applied after glass manufacturing rather than interrupting production.\n \nSolarWindows Technologies is a different story. Todays webinar mentioned that the coatings would be primarily organicmade mainly from carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygenbut was vague on the scientific details. However, if SolarWindows is expected to produce 50 times the energy of traditional PV cells we can probably assume theyll be converting visible light into electricity as well. There are a number of different layers in the coating, but the most important ones the company touched on are the Active layer, where electricity is generated by absorption of light, and the Transparent conductors, which allow the electricity to be extracted. The liquid coatings would be applied at ambient pressures and dried at low temperatures to produce transparent films. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/revolutionary-transparent-solar-cells-could-produce-50-times-more-energy-than-conventional-solar/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe SolarWindows coatings would be applied to the inside of a glass-insulated window unit, not on the outside in order to protect the solar cells from the elements. To cut down costs, the coatings are developed for seamless integration into existing glass manufacturing processes. To generate 50 times the power of conventional photovoltaics, the SolarWindows would be applied to all sides of the building rather than just the roof. Invisible wires in the glass convert photons into electricity and help provide a visual reference to prevent birds from crashing into the glass. 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Infrastructure and road issues can keep residents living in remote areas from receiving treatment. A commercial line of delivery drones will financially support the medical line. The project, which will transport aid for a 100-kilometer radius, will commence in 2016. This project named Droneport was developed by Foster + Partners, led by Lord Foster, Chairman and Founder of Foster + Partners. They also collaborated with Afrotech.\n \nHundreds of thousands of Africans die every year from malaria and sickle cell disease due to a lack of access to medical supplies and aid. Poor transportation infrastructure poses one of the biggest obstacles to aid distribution. Many Africans live in remote areas and only a third of the population live within two kilometers of an all-season road. However, cargo drone routes can surmount these challenges by navigating airspace, rather than the ground, and can carry blood and life-saving supplies over a 100-kilometer distance at minimal cost. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/foster-partners-unveils-droneport-proposal-to-help-save-lives-in-east-africa/, accessed 2019-June-18]\n \nThe project will run on two parallel networks: a Redline that uses smaller drones for medical and emergency supplies; and the commercial Blueline to transport larger payloads, such as spare parts, electronics, and e-commerce. The Blueline proceeds would help subsidize the Redline network. The project will initially deploy 3-meter wingspan drones capable of carrying payloads of 10 kilograms. Drones with 6-meter wingspans, capable of carrying payloads of 100 kilograms, will be deployed by 2025. 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The coating is a mix of pectin (a naturally-occurring sugar used for canning), chitosan (a protein in shrimp) and pullulan paired with potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate also decreased microbial growth and softening while maintaining color and texture.\n \nA team of researchers from Mexico discovered that EACs incorporated with sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate reduced fruit softening, reduced microbial growth, preserved the color, flavor, and texture of strawberries, and increased the shelf life of strawberries from six to 15 days. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-edible-coatings-quality-shelf-life.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nEdible active coatings (EACs) based on pectin, pullulan, and chitosan incorporated with sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate were employed to improve the quality and shelf life of strawberries. Fruits were washed, disinfected, coated by dipping, packed, and stored at 4 C for 15 d. Application of EACs reduced (P < 0.05) weight loss and fruit softening and delayed alteration of color (redness) and total soluble solids content. In contrast, pH and titratable acidity were not affected (P > 0.05) throughout storage, and ascorbic acid content was maintained in pectinEAC coated strawberries. Microbiological analyses showed that the application of EACs reduced (P < 0.05) microbial growth (total aerobic counts, molds, and yeasts) on strawberries. 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The coating method can be readily integrated into existing steel production processes. Applications include MedTech, as well as potentially shipping, which would reduce fuel demands, repair needs and carbon footprint. This method was developed by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) researchers, led by Professor Joanna Aizenberg of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.\n \nThe material joins a portfolio of other non-stick, anti-fouling materials developed in the lab of Professor Joanna Aizenberg of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Prof Aizenbergs team developed Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) in 2011 and since then has demonstrated a range of applications for the super-slick coating. [Citation: http://www.materialsforengineering.co.uk/engineering-materials-news/super-slick-material-makes-steel-stronger/109973/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nProf Aizenberg said the biggest challenge in the development of this surface was to figure out how to structure the steel to ensure its anti-fouling capability without mechanical degradation. The team solved this by using an electrochemical technique to grow an ultrathin film of hundreds of thousands of small and rough tungsten-oxide islands directly onto a steel surface. 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Aside from cost reductions, it would also lower greenhouse gases by using the power that's essentially being wasted. However, finding the right tools to act on these findings remains difficult. Researchers from Bangor University and Trinity College Dublin have highlighted the potential for further cost savings from micro-hydropower.\n \nA 1 million ERDF Ireland-Wales Programme (INTERREG IV)-funded research project investigated whether placing hydropower turbines within the water system could save the water industry, and water customers, money. The research looked at the current efficiency of the water supply system, the best technology and how much it might cost, the environmental benefits, and which groups need to collaborate to enable the water industry to reap the greatest benefits from installing micro-hydropower into their systems. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-micro-hydropower-electricity-industry-millions.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe results proved positive, showing in Wales, for example, that Dr Cymru Welsh Water could ultimately save a further 1 million every year by generating around 10 million kilowatts of electricity using micro-hydropower. That is enough electricity to power at least 2,000 homes in Wales, simply by harnessing water already flowing around the system. Similar potential savings were found for water companies in Ireland. This would not only save money but would also prevent around 10,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas from being released into the atmosphere by the generation of electricity. 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By mimicking the V-formation of a cabbage white butterfly's wings before the flight, solar energy systems stand to gain almost 50 percent more power. In the same way, this position increases the butterfly's thorax temperature to flex muscles, it concentrates energy. Rearranging panels rather than making more or different kinds could help increase solar fields while taking up less space.\n \nCrucially, by replicating this 'wing-like' structure, the power-to-weight ratio of the overall solar energy structure is increased 17-fold, making it vastly more efficient. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150731070212.htm, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nProfessor Tapas Mallick, lead author of the research said: \"Biomimicry in engineering is not new. However, this truly multidisciplinary research shows pathways to develop low-cost solar power that have not been done before.\" [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150731070212.htm, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe team of scientists, therefore, investigated how to replicate the wings to develop a new, lightweight reflective material that could be used in solar energy production. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150731070212.htm, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe team found that the optimal angle by which the butterfly should hold its wings to increase the temperature to its body was around 17 degrees, which increased the temperature by 7.3 degrees Centigrade compared to when held flat. 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Yet, this has proven cost-prohibitive or unlikely. But for about $1,000, bioengineers used open-source software to hack a store-bought printer into making coronary arteries, using collagen and gels as ink. The new method prints one gel into another more rigid gel protecting the first from collapse. The semi-rigid gel melts away at body temperature.\n \nOn Friday, Science Advances published research from a team of bioengineers at Carnegie Mellon University who developed a new bioprinting technique which was shown to be capable of printing coronary arteries using store-bought printers that were modified and loaded with soft materials such as collagen and other tissue engineering gels. [Citation: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xagwg/how-to-hack-a-normal-printer-to-3d-print-coronary-arteries, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe new technique, known as Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH), may have just eradicated both of these obstacles in a single blow, however. [Citation: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xagwg/how-to-hack-a-normal-printer-to-3d-print-coronary-arteries, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nFRESH works by printing one gel inside of another gel, the outer gel working as a semi-rigid scaffold ensuring that the softer gel on the inside doesn't collapse under its own weight. What's more, the support gel melts away at roughly body temperature, which means that it won't damage the sensitive bio-material that comprises the core structure. 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They're adaptive and responsive, making them better models for simulations and experiments. Applications include synthetic biology and basic science but could also someday include medicine and biotech offering precision and abundance of specimens for clinical trials and testing.\n \nThe membranes we created, though completely synthetic, mimic several features of more complex living organisms, such as the ability to adapt their composition in response to environmental cues, said Neal Devaraj, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego who headed the research team, which included scientists from the campus BioCircuits Institute. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nMany other scientists have exploited the ability of lipids to self-assemble into bilayer vesicles with properties reminiscent of cellular membranes, but until now no one has been able to mimic natures ability to support persistent phospholipid membrane formation, he explained. We developed an artificial cell membrane that continually synthesizes all of the components needed to form additional catalytic membranes. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe scientists said in their paper, published in the current issue of  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that to develop the growing membrane they substituted a complex network of biochemical pathways used in nature with a single autocatalyst that simultaneously drives membrane growth. In this way, they added, our system continually transforms simpler, higher-energy building blocks into new artificial membranes. 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The smell predates our ability to diagnose. This led scientists to earlier research linking the disease with the sebaceous glands and could lead to noninvasive diagnostics that work much earlier, including medical detection dogs or breath analysis.\n \nMilne, a super-smeller from Perth, Scotland, wanted to share her ability with researchers. So when Tilo Kunath, a neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh, gave a talk during a Parkinsons UK event in 2012, she raised her hand during the Q&A session and claimed she was able to smell the disease. I didnt take her seriously at first, Kunath says. I said, No, I never heard of that, next question please. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-woman-s-ability-to-sniff-out-parkinson-s-offers-hope-to-sufferers/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nMilne may not be the only person with this ability. Since her story was revealed on BBC late last week Tilo and his collaborator, Perdita Barran, a chemist at the University of Manchester, have received e-mails from around 20 people who claim they also have this ability. Kunath and Barran hope to test these individuals to further validate the Parkinsons scent. 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The club is particularly interesting, as the mantis shrimp can use it to strike prey thousands of times without breaking. This helicoidal structure can be used to lightweight automobiles and airplanes."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Materials Science"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Strong Material Inspired by Shrimp"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation593b11ca-92fb-4275-b530-3b18581d0283"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Remediation Services "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"California-based company BioWorld uses microbes to break down chemicals into harmless byproducts. This technology has been used to clean up oil spills. BioWorld has been successful to their bioremediation technology as well. Their technology and products are environmentally friendly and efficient. 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The technology, which uses spectrometry to analyze how photons interact, has applications in food safety, Medtech, and potentially detecting pollutants in the home. Optokey was able to develop a miniaturized sensor based on Raman spectroscopy that can detect substance or chemicals at the molecular level.\n \nThe miniaturized sensors use a microfluidic control system for lab on a chip automated liquid sampling. The company is taking a page from the semiconductor industry in making its chip. Were leveraging knowledge acquired from high-tech semiconductor manufacturing methods to get the cost, the volume, and the accuracy in the chip, said VP of Manufacturing Robert Chebi, a veteran of the microelectronic industry who previously worked at Lam Research and Applied Materials. Were also leveraging all the knowledge in lasers and optics for this specific Raman-based method. [Citation: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40966.php, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nChebi calls Optokeys product a biochemical nose, or an advanced nanophotonic automated system, with sensitivity to the level of a single molecule, far superior to sensors on the market today. Todays detection and diagnosis methods are far from perfectdetection limits are in PPM (parts per million) and PPB (parts per billion), he said. Also, our system can provide information in minutes, or even on a continuous basis, versus other methods where it could take hours or even days if samples have to be sent to another lab. 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Easy to source and cost-effective, capacitors made from peanut shells and sodium open the door for applications requiring controlled pulsed power - from digital circuits to weapons - by offering the best charge rate and cycling retention currently available for the materials incorporated in the device. Anodes and cathodes made from peanut-shell-origin nanosheet carbon perform comparably to graphene, but cost much less. At 88% capacity retention after 100k cycles, the technology is a strong competitor for Li ion capacitors, with much less environmental impact. However, the prototype requires considerable further testing before it can scale to production levels."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Peanut Shells Make Super-Efficient Green Capacitor"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation081087b4-dc28-49bf-ae81-6dc209c71a7e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials Recovery Facilities "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Carbon fiber is congealed with thermoset resin, often epoxy, which prevents recycling. Mining those materials from defunct cars and planes would save money and resources. Connora Technologies Recyclamine bath breaks apart the bonds and leaves thermoplastic and carbon fiber behind. In their pending commercial launch, they will target sporting goods manufacturers, and aim to scale up to the auto industry."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Green Chemistry"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Connora: Recycling Carbon Fiber With New Epoxy Resin"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation3a247f52-9252-4685-be61-48a1d9fd97f0"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Caught between pledges to 2030 environmental targets and the need to maintain low costs, China is looking for cleaner ways to produce materials such as PVC. In China, plastic manufacturing uses mercury chloride, a toxic and volatile compound, as a catalyst. A new catalyst uses soluble sulfur-bound gold molecules and could replace acetylene hydrochlorination in the PVC manufacturing process. The gold-based catalyst is four times as long-lived as the ones based on mercury, which is key to maintaining cost-effectiveness as well as reducing toxicity.\n \nA gold-based catalyst over 30 years in the making is set to help fight the harm Chinas polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic industry is causing the countrys environment. The technologys development was originally initiated in 1982 by Graham Hutchings, now at Cardiff University, UK, to replace a toxic mercury compound used in making vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). Having established a production unit in Shanghai in 2015, UK catalyst vendor Johnson Matthey is in advanced negotiations to supply the gold material into commercial operations. This eventual realization of Hutchings idea to cut mercury pollution shows you should never give up hope, he tells Chemistry World. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-catalyst-can-reduce-mercury-emissions/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nTogether, Hutchings and Johnson Matthey researchers found that gold complexes with sulfur-containing ligands were stable enough to be dissolved in water, enabling a far cheaper process. Using just 0.6% gold by weight, the resulting catalysts could also achieve higher conversion rates and remained stable for longer. Gold is more expensive than mercury, so we needed to reduce the gold content and achieve a much longer lifetime so that clients have to change catalyst less frequently, van Haandel observes. This lasts at least four times longer than the standard mercury catalyst, Hutchings adds. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-catalyst-can-reduce-mercury-emissions/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Plastics Production"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"China Uses Gold As New Catalyst To Reduce Mercury Emissions"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation8d56a6ad-9744-46b3-a7ee-3c9bcbd1e2e4"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"CellScope clicks onto the bottom of the phone, which films the blood and searches for movement. It then predicts how many Loa loa (literally worm worm) bacteria are in the patient's bloodstream. Expansion and commercialization of this easy-to-use, one-touch, no-training-required system could help get lifesaving treatment to patients in remote areas, eradicating parasitic diseases, such as TB or malaria.\n \nThe team in the most recent research, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the US National Institutes of Health, used a modified smartphone to automate the process. [Citation: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-32610097, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe software predicts the number of Loa loa parasites in the blood and tells the healthcare workers whether they are suitable for drug treatment. [Citation: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-32610097, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThis point-of-care device automatically captures and analyzes videos of microfilarial motion in whole blood using motorized sample scanning and onboard motion detection, minimizing input from health care workers and providing a quantification of microfilariae per milliliter of whole blood in under 2 min.  To validate the performance and usability of the mobile phone microscope, we tested 33 potentially Loa-infected patients in Cameroon and confirmed that automated counts correlated with manual thick smear counts (94% specificity; 100% sensitivity). Use of this technology to exclude patients from ivermectin-based treatment at the point of care in Loa-endemic regions would allow resumption/expansion of mass drug administration programs for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in Central Africa. [Citation: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/286/286re4, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Interactive Electronics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Cellscope: Parasites Diagnosed By Cellphone"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation40bed4cc-e35c-4c6b-a697-dc870f0ce843"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Electric Power Generation "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Celtic Renewables aims to re-invigorate an old fermentation process with an abundant raw material for biofuel. In whiskey production, spirits are only 10 percent of output. By combining the rest, which includes byproducts such as pot ale and draff, with a microbe, researchers were able to produce acetone, butanol and ethanol. This diversifies revenue for the highly regulated whiskey industry while eliminating byproduct disposal costs, waste and petroleum-dependency."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Bacterial Energy Harvesting"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Celtic Renewables Biofuel From Whiskey Waste"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation04be7227-66a0-47b5-80a6-ea46a641cd1c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Chameleons rapidly project their tongues to capture their prey. Brown University biologist Christopher Anderson has discovered that the smaller the chameleon, the faster and more powerful it's tongue. In a recent experiment, he measured the speed and power of the tongues of 20 species of chameleon and noticed that the smallest of them had the most powerful tongue. The likely explanation of this is that smaller chameleons need more energy than their larger counterparts, so they have adapted to be able to compete effectively for the energy they need. Anderson believes this principle - that smaller organisms might have higher performance values as a matter of survival - will prove useful in modeling new designs for energy technologies.\n \nAndersons findings, published in Scientific Reports, suggest the motion has the highest acceleration and power output produced per kilogram of muscle mass by any reptile, bird, or mammal and is the second most powerful among any kind of vertebrate (only a salamander outdoes it). The total power output of the plucky R. spinosus chameleons tongue was 14,040 watts per kilogram. [Citation: http://www.futurity.org/chameleon-tongue-speed-1083272/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe secret of chameleons is that they dont just use spontaneous muscle power to fling their tongues. They preload most of the motions total energy into elastic tissues in their tongue. The recoil of those tissues greatly augments what muscle alone can do on the flyto catch a fly. 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The chemicals that serve as sunscreens in typical formulations are made up of dissolved organic compounds that are soluble in fats. The new method could serve as the basis for new sunscreens and other cosmetics that are water-soluble and that do not require fats that are hard to clean off. The innovation could help mitigate some of the current long-term effects of existing sunscreen products on human health and the environment.\n \nSuntan lotions mitigate the harmful effects of the ultraviolet fraction of ambient sunlight by absorbing it before it reaches the skin. The chemicals that serve as sunscreens in these formulations are made up of dissolved organic molecules or inorganic colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles. The organic compounds used in these lotions are relatively lipophilic, i.e. they are preferentially soluble in fats. Hence they are normally used in conjunction with fat-rich media. \"We have now found a way to incorporate lipophilic organic light-absorbing substances into organic nanoparticles that form colloidal suspensions in aqueous media,\" says Professor Heinz Langhals of the Department of Chemistry at LMU. \"These nanoparticles could, therefore, be utilized as the basis for the development of novel water-soluble sunscreens and other skincare products.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-10-extremely-tiny-hugely-versatile-nanoglobules.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Packaged Goods"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Light-Absorbing Organic Molecules For Water-Soluble Sunscreens"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6eb57301-92fa-4ee1-afda-b824dc965240"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Satellite Telecommunications"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Children citizen scientists will be keeping NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite honest. The SciStarter program will equip kids in all 50 states with materials to collect and weigh soil samples, heat-dry them and re-weigh to determine soil moisture. Comparing these data points with the satellites will calibrate the tech, and that information will be made available to policymakers across the country.\n \nOn mornings when SMAP is scheduled to fly over a team's site, the team will take soil samples from the top 5 cm (2 inches) of soil, weigh it, dry it under a heat lamp, and weigh again. The decrease in weight is equal to the mass of water that was in the sample  its soil moisture. Measurements are simple to take and appropriate for all citizen scientists, including youth. Each participating team will commit to providing several measurements per month starting in September and wrapping up in June 2016. Several teams are forming \"SMAP clubs\" to provide clusters of 10 measurements covering an area 10 km in radius and report data more frequently. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-citizen-scientists-soil-moisture-conditions.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nBrian Campbell, a member of the SMAP team at NASA, emphasized the importance of the measurements that will be taken on the ground. \"Having citizen scientists collect data is vital to the SMAP Mission. Their data can be compared to the SMAP satellite data and used as a source of validation. This validation will allow for a much more robust and accurate dataset, giving an optimal understanding of global soil moisture.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-07-citizen-scientists-soil-moisture-conditions.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Storage Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Soil Moisture: NASA And Citizen Scientists Map Global Data"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation06aebe22-b646-4a52-a24b-a538a3fb8962"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Children's' brains form thousands of synapses, and as they grow, they the less important ones. Computational scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Carnegie Mellon University tested whether algorithms would be effective if they copied this biological pruning method. In simulations of flight patterns, algorithm pruning resulted in travelers using the most effective routes. This could make wireless and sensor networks much more cost-effective and efficient.\n \nThe researchers first determined key aspects of the pruning process by counting the number of synapses present in a mouse models somatosensory cortex over time. After counting synapses in more than 10,000 electron microscopy images, they found that synapses were rapidly pruned early in development, and then as time progressed, the pruning rate slowed. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-inspired-algorithms-may-make-for-optimized-computational-networks, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nThe results of these experiments allowed the team to develop an algorithm for designing computational networks based on the brain pruning approach. Using simulations and theoretical analysis they found that the neuroscience-based algorithm produced computer networks that were much more efficient than the current engineering methods. The flow of information was more direct, and provided multiple paths for information to reach the same endpoint, minimizing the risk of network failure. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-inspired-algorithms-may-make-for-optimized-computational-networks, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nWe took this high-level algorithm that explains how neural structures are built during development and used that to inspire an algorithm for an engineered network, says Alison Barth, a professor in Carnegie Mellons Department of Biological Sciences and member of the universitys BrainHubSM initiative. It turns out that this neuroscience-based approach could offer something new for computer scientists and engineers to think about as they build networks. 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The startup just raised $1.3 million for its yeast that produces chickenless egg whites. This takes the strain off land and animal care and avoids major fluctuation in price, which has been seen with the recent outbreak of bird flu in the Midwest.\n \nFounders Arturo Elizondo, David Anchel and Isha Datar ginned up a wild experiment inside biotech accelerator IndieBio this summer to produce a genetically identical, lab-grown egg white liquid using a proprietary batch of manipulated yeast. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/clara-foods-cooks-up-1-7-million-in-funding-to-make-egg-whites-from-yeast-instead-of-chickens/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nIf Clara Foods can get this idea to scale, it could significantly reduce the cost and time spent raising chickens, procuring eggs and then separating the egg whites. That would be attractive to companies that use egg whites in their products such as pasta and condiment brands. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/clara-foods-cooks-up-1-7-million-in-funding-to-make-egg-whites-from-yeast-instead-of-chickens/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nOur goal is to be in the B2B space as an ingredient since egg whites are used in large proportions in meat substitutes, baked goods like meringues, macarons, angel food cakes, confectionaries, and protein powders and supplements, Elizondo told TechCrunch. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/clara-foods-cooks-up-1-7-million-in-funding-to-make-egg-whites-from-yeast-instead-of-chickens/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n\n\"The process also side-steps diseases associated with egg production such as Avian flu and salmonella  as well as animal welfare issues  without compromising an egg whites taste or nutritional value, according to Clara Foods.\" [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/clara-foods-cooks-up-1-7-million-in-funding-to-make-egg-whites-from-yeast-instead-of-chickens/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Agricultural Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Engineered Yeast Grows Liquid Egg Whites"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd1f325ef-92ff-4ab7-ac55-b347e039cc35"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Boat Building "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Clemson University researchers found a robot prototype, that copies the seahorse tail square prism architecture, is more difficult to destruct than cylindrical designs. The sharp angles caused some restriction in movement, which could be a bonus for robotic grip. Future applications include military and robotic armor and search-and-rescue drones.\n \nResearchers found that the square prototype was stiffer, stronger and more resilient than the circular one when crushed. The square prototype was about half as able to twist, a restriction that could prevent damage to the seahorse and give it better control when it grabs things. Both prototypes could bend about 90 degrees, although the cylindrical version was slightly less restricted. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nPorter said the seahorse tail could inspire new forms of armor. It could also lead to search-and-rescue robots that move on the ground like a snake and are able to contract to fit into tight spaces. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThere are a few popular biomimetic robotic snakes on the market but this design would allow a robot to fold up without losing structural integrity. The robotic seahorse could withstand a solid whacking with a hammer while similar cylindrical designs folded at the point of impact. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-minerals-papua-guinea-secret-recycling.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Robotics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Biomimetic Robotic Seahorse Tail"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation5b9fe327-967f-4597-80f9-61f396e7004d"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Electronic Component Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Clinical trials are an expensive component of bringing new drugs to market. Koniku is developing more precise lab-on-chip tools that allow for efficient and accurate cell culture analysis. Since this method preserves the cells in the culture, it is much easier to measure short-term efficacy of new drugs, as well as the long-term effects of their application."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Healthcare Nanotechnology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Clinical Trials Accelerate By Improved Lab-On-Chip Technology"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2013"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationac139824-1b66-4420-b2f0-9f5aeb7847f2"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Satellite Telecommunications"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Clusters of low Earth orbit nano-satellites could keep the Internet constantly available, even when ground infrastructure fails. Terran Orbitals tech can protect communications and data collection after disasters or during the attack and increase the Internet of Things reliability. With $80 sensors, the satellites power small batteries or generators to do everything from helping governments move resources to help farmers track livestock.\n \nTerran is launching small satellites that orbit at only 600 kilometers. That lower altitude makes it practical for low-powered, even disposable, sensors to use a satellite data link, says Previte. [Citation: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538726/nano-satellites-work-with-ground-sensors-to-offer-new-eye-on-disaster-relief-and/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nThe connection is designed to be more reliable than it is fast. The U.S. army is to use Terran sensors to track vehicles and troops that transmit at tens of kilobytes per second. But Terran expects lower-powered sensors to send up data at about a tenth that speed. [Citation: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538726/nano-satellites-work-with-ground-sensors-to-offer-new-eye-on-disaster-relief-and/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nJordi Puig-Suari, Terrans chief science officer, is one of two inventors of the CubeSat, a generic blueprint for miniaturized satellites that are typically a cubic liter in size. Different payloads can be installed in a CubeSat using off-the-shelf electronic components (satellites traditionally have custom-built electronics). Further cost savings come from the way the small satellites can be fitted into unused space inside rockets launching larger satellites or space vehicles. 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Some parts of a cockroach's body can support 900 times its body weight without injury, and some cockroaches are capable of fitting through cracks that are one quarter the width of their bodies. The mechanics of how they do that have been studied closely by researchers at the University of California Berkeley with a view to using similar techniques to develop search and rescue robots.\n \nResearchers have subjected cockroaches to obstacle courses and full-body stress tests that would turn lesser animals to jello. The results show that despite their hard exoskeleton, roaches are remarkably flexible and use that flexibility to navigate spaces that are a fraction of their normal body size. Inspired by their results, the authors have built the first generation of a robot series based on cockroach mechanics. [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/researchers-squish-cockroaches-in-order-to-design-a-robot/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n\nYou'd expect that increasing the friction created by the surface of the crevice would slow the roach down, but you'd only be partly right. Jayarama and Full found that increasing the friction against the roach's back slowed it down and shortened its stride. But when changing the friction of the bottom surface, they found that a small increase gave the roach a burst of speed, but a larger one slowed it down again. 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They will study whether white clover or white clover mixed with grass could serve as an attractant for bees, while simultaneously reducing the need for nitrogen-based fertilizers. This would also reduce material inputs and ease water treatment.\n \nGregg Munshaw, UK turf extension specialist, and Dan Potter, UK entomology professor, are studying the benefits of white clover as a habitat for pollinators and as a way to reduce nitrogen fertilizer applications. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-environmentally-friendly-lawns.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nIn the project about increasing pollinator habitats, they are looking at three different smaller varieties of white clover to see which attracts the most pollinators. Their research plots consist of only white clover, only turf and a mixture of turf and clover. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-environmentally-friendly-lawns.html, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe researchers will survey the test plots for bees and compare their findings of bee populations and species diversity with those found on the more commonly occurring larger white clover yards and the pollinators that visit only grass plots. They will also sample the soil of the small white clover test plots for common lawn pests, such as white grubs. If the smaller varieties of white clover prove to be more resistant to the insects than other lawns, it could help reduce the needs for lawn pesticides. 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The lightweight composite of steel, tungsten, and vanadium can absorb the energy from high impact-collisions and block gamma and x-rays and neutron radiation. Although it is not yet quite as effective as lead, it is non-toxic and lighter. North Carolina State University researchers have discovered that lightweight composite metal foams.\n \nThe researchers found that the high-Z foam was comparable to bulk materials at blocking high-energy gamma rays, but was much better than bulk materials  even bulk steel  at blocking low-energy gamma rays; it outperformed other materials at blocking neutron radiation, and was better than most materials at blocking X-rays. It was not quite as effective as lead, but with the advantages of  being lightweight and more environmentally friendly. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/metal-foams-found-to-excel-in-shielding-x-rays-gamma-rays-neutron-radiation, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nHowever, we are working to modify the composition of the metal foam to be even more effective than lead at blocking X-rays, and our early results are promising, Rabiei says. And our foams have the advantage of being non-toxic, which means that they are easier to manufacture and recycle. In addition, the extraordinary mechanical and thermal properties of composite metal foams, and their energy absorption capabilities, make the material a good candidate for various nuclear structural applications. 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But CSEMs white solar panels allow camouflage to fit designs. The plastic, color-customizable covers overlay existing panels, letting infrared light in. The lighter color keeps the panel cooler, increasing efficiency. 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That milk would be for vegan cheeses that taste as good as natural options. If lab-generated animal byproducts caught on (especially plausible if tastier than real alternatives), it could reduce. agricultures water consumption, land usage, and even greenhouse gas emissions.\n \nWhat were making is identical to the animal protein, chemist Benjamin Rupert tells Wohlsen. Hes part of a team that isnt satisfied with vegan cheeses, which lack a certain something when compared to cheese made from cows milk. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forget-fake-meathow-about-fake-milk-180954996/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nIf the experiment works, the team will still face a few hurdles on the road from mail-order DNA to authentically delicious cheese. Next, they will have to hack the animal-based lactose and animal fats that give the cheese its heft and texture and figure out how to make the cheese taste great. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forget-fake-meathow-about-fake-milk-180954996/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nWhether or not the experiment works, writes Wohlsen, carefully engineered foods are the wave of the future. Were approaching a world where the divide between the natural and the artificial collapses, where amateurs in their kitchens can fiddle with life to make edible substances that are both artisanal and the most radically processed foods ever made, he writes. Translation: watch out, cows...your days of cheese dominance could be numbered. 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A hantavirus version treated hamsters effectively. Now, human survivors donate blood to farm for antibodies, but that's not nearly enough to help during an epidemic. This could revolutionize pharmaceuticals and global health response times. However, using cows as living factories raises other concerns. Geneticists from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Cedar Industries, Aldevron LLC, and SAB Biotherapeutics Inc have been studying and finally succeeded in making cows made human antibodies. \r\n\r\nIn this recent study published in Science, they finally succeeded in making cows who, in turn, made human antibodies. They took pieces of human chromosomes 14 and 2, which contain the genes for making the antibody for hantavirus, and combined them into an artificial chromosome that was inserted into cows. This silenced the corresponding bovine genes for hantavirus, so the cows only made human versions of the antibody. 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The secret mechanism: data. Infrared sensors on the devices take the temperature of the leaf canopy, and a computer compares that with weather data. This lets farmers save money, time and water, irrigating only where necessary. This system was developed by Susan OShaughnessy, a research agricultural engineer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Bushland, Texas.\n \nOShaughnessy is helping make center-pivot systems even more efficient by developing infrared sensors. Shown being adjusted by OShaughnessy and colleague Nolan Clark in the photo, these hang from the center-pivot arm to measure temperature in the leafy canopy of the crop below and provide data farmers can use to apply water only when and where needed. Such data are a better indicator of plant health than traditional soil-moisture readings, she said, which are commonly used to determine irrigation settings. [Citation: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/farm-sensors-software-and-growing-more-food-less-water, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nIn OShaughnessys system, an onsite computer  the brains of the $3,000 system  processes data from the infrared sensors along with weather information. The computer compares these data against stress thresholds for that particular crop to determine how much to irrigate. Different zones within the circle may have unique thresholds based on soil type, drainage characteristics, and other factors, and will get different amounts of water. 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Plus, they adjust throughout the day to take advantage of natural light, further increasing efficiency. The design exploits the LEDs power, rather than replacing old designs with new kinds of bulbs. The LN bounces much of the light toward the ceiling, illuminating while reducing harsh glare.\n \nThe electronic drone of row upon row of fluorescent office lights are quickly becoming a site and sound of the past, as LED bulbs replace traditional lighting. Along with the transfer to efficient LED bulbs, LED light fixtures themselves to have an opportunity to be updated. CREEs LN suspended luminaire projects light in a different way, focused on a point source, rather than the old fashioned tubes of fluorescent lighting. With what they call WaveMax technology, the LEDs are bounced against a waveguide that reflects and refracts light, creating a warm, evenly distributed glow. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/cree-reimagines-fluorescent-office-lighting-that-dims-to-take-advantage-of-natural-light/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nWith the LN suspended luminaire, 60 percent of the LEDs glow bounces upward toward the ceiling, while just 40 percent is faced toward work areas, desks, and the floor. This means less harsh light, creating a more comfortable work environment. With modern architecture playing up natural lighting, the lights can also adjust, allowing dimming during peak sunlight times, saving on energy costs, but also providing better quality light. 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It has the potential for beneficial genetic modification - for example, to control insect borne diseases such as malaria or Zika - and is being investigated for several agricultural applications. However, it has complex effects on populations - animal and human - and needs a nuanced, broad and inclusive governance program that maximizes benefits and reduces risks for everybody. 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It can also be grown without killing animals. Memphis Meats, in San Francisco, has developed cultured meatballs that smell and sizzle like the real thing. The company is in the process of scaling up production as it currently can only be produced in thin layers.\n \nWe watched how the meatball reacted in the pan, we heard the sizzle, we smelled the meat and it was exactly how you would expect a meatball to smell, Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti says in a video showcasing the companys signature lab-made meatball. This is the first time a meatball has ever been cooked with beef cells that didnt require a cow to be slaughtered. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/biotech-company-growing-meatballs-lab-180958051/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nIn comparison, Valeti says Memphis Meats beef production uses 90 percent less land and water and 50 percent less energy than conventionally-raised beef, and doesnt need antibiotics, Michal Addady reports for Forbes. All that, plus the added comfort of knowing that the process of making your hamburger didnt hurt as much as a fly makes for a compelling case for proponents of the technology. [Citation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/biotech-company-growing-meatballs-lab-180958051/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nAside from the technical difficulties, Memphis Meats will still have to convince consumers that cultured meat is just as tasty as the real stuff. However, the company is going for it whole-hog, so to speak, and plans on starting by supplying its product to barbecue joints in meat-loving Memphis, Tennessee. If it can catch on there, who knows what the future of lab-made meat will hold. 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As clinicians wait for test results, patients may receive a broad spectrum of antibiotics or nothing at all, both options being potentially harmful. Dr. Victoria Shanmugam and her team reduced the 24 hours to mere seconds by using an electrochemical sensor capable of sniffing pyocyanin, found in bacteria breath exhaled from chronic wounds by _Pseudomonas aeruginosa_. The sensor was able to achieve a presence detection accuracy of 71 percent and an absence detection accuracy of 57%.\n \nIn tests so far, the sensor has successfully detected the presence of the bacterium 71 percent of the time, while accurately detecting its absence 57 percent of the time. It is hoped that as the technology is developed further, those rates will significantly improve. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/electrochemical-sensor-wound-bacteria/41720/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \n\"Being able to detect Pseudomonas and other infectious organisms at the time of the clinic visit will greatly enhance our ability to take care of patients,\" says Shanugam. \"We would not have to wait for culture results before making a decision about antibiotics, and this would allow us to better tailor therapies for our patients.\" [Citation: https://newatlas.com/electrochemical-sensor-wound-bacteria/41720/, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Healthcare Nanotechnology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Electrochemical Test Cuts Wait Times for Infection Diagnosis."},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0f148da1-3a7d-42aa-a84f-007ad968e6ea"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Currently, LEGO blocks are made of petro-based plastic, and the company made 60 billion bricks in 2014. A Greenpeace campaign encouraged LEGO to reconsider its relationship with Shell Oil company. While the plans are still in the conceptual stages, consumer demands pushed this corporation to reconsider its use of petroleum to make the blocks and has announced a line of toys that will be sustainable by 2030 - including making bio-based building blocks. The company invested DKK 1 billion dedicated to research, development, and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials to manufacture LEGO elements as well as packaging materials.\n \nThe investment will result in the establishment of the LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre. The center will be based at the LEGO Groups headquarters in Billund, Denmark, and include all current functions and employees working to find alternative materials. In addition, the LEGO Group expects to recruit more than 100 specialists within the materials field during the coming years to work on this challenging ambition. [Citation: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2015/june/sustainable-materials-centre, accessed 2019-June-18]\n \nThe LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre organisation will be established during 2015 and 2016, and it is expected that it will include satellite functions located in relevant locations around the globe. In addition, the centre will collaborate and develop partnerships with relevant external stakeholders and experts. [Citation: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2015/june/sustainable-materials-centre, accessed 2019-June-18]\n \nWhen the LEGO Group is ready to introduce new materials it is vital that it does not compromise the quality or safety standards set by the LEGO Group and expected by parents. Consequently, the LEGO Group will continue to seek extensive research and robust data to ensure that all aspects of safety and quality are considered. 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Their code prints using a rigid polymer printed as dots into a softer polymer. Compression changes the material's texture to bumpy, smooth, and patterned. Its applications include camouflage, changing surfaces to repel water, altering surfaces to become more or less aerodynamic, and so on.\n \nThe project was originally about camouflage, says lead author Mark Guttag, a Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who conducted this study as part of his masters thesis. Cuttlefish are cephalopods with large, elongated bodies and tentacles around their mouths. They often hide from predators by altering skin color and patterns to closely blend in with their surroundings. Even more intriguingly, they can match their skins texture to that of surrounding surfaces. Octopuses and other cephalopods similarly camouflage themselves. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cuttlefish-camouflage-inspires-new-shape-shifting-materials/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nInspired by these aquatic masters of disguise, Guttag and co-author Mary Boyce, dean of engineering at Columbia University, wanted to create their own artificial surfaces with adjustable textures. To do so, they developed a 3-D printing process that uses two types of polymers: one rigid, one flexible. The printer inserts an array of the rigid polymers into a bed of squishy material composed of the more flexible type. When the material is compressed, its naturally smooth surface takes on a patterned texture that depends on the spacing and shapes of the embedded rigid polymers. It can be smooth, ridged, bumpy or even form more complicated patterns. When the material is released, it reverts to its original smooth texture. 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The technology is already being utilized by the military, but will soon be available to the masses. In the future, this technology might have applications in larger motorized devices, for sustained power.\n \nOn the one hand, CyPhy is about to start mass-producing its Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) drones, which can fly as high as 500 feet in the air and hang there for 100 hours at a time. How? Theyre tethered to the ground with a highly specialized microfilament that both powers them and acts as a secure communications link. As an added bonus, the tether keeps the robots from flying away in sandstorms and other harsh conditions. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/13/drone-maker-cyphy-raises-22-million-to-chase-businesses-and-consumers/#.q9xmln:YJq1, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe PARC system has mostly been used to date by the U.S. military, which employs them at combat posts to monitor compounds. The drones can also accept a variety of payloads. But now that the FAA has begun more freely authorizing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for non-governmental purposes, Greiner is expecting enterprise customers of all kinds to start ordering them, from mining to port security to construction to even media companies. 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Many residents still rely on pit latrines, which are emptied by private companies. The expense stymies regular disposal, causing hygiene and health issues. An Uber-like system allows citizens to text when one should be emptied, then the companies bid. This has brought down the cost of waste management by 40 percent. This system was developed by Janicki Bioenergy under the backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is a $1.5m omniprocessor that dries fecal waste and burns it, to drive steam through turbines to produce electricity.\n \nDesigned by Janicki Bioenergy under the backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the $1.5m omniprocessor dries faecal waste and burns it, to drive steam through turbines to produce electricity. Meanwhile, the steam produced when drying the sludge is filtered, condensed and treated to produce drinkable water. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/12/poo-uber-sms-senegal-sanitation, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nThe omniprocessor can produce a net power of 250KW of electricity  which could run 25,000 households  and around 80,000 liters of drinking water per day (enough for about 35,000 people)  which could be sold to the national grid or bottled like mineral water. 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The concept is analogous to Googles autocomplete, except it would intuit what piece of code should come next. PLINY will sift through big data mountains of open-sourced code, and apply machine-learning algorithms. Such software would save companies time and money, plus catch bugs and security breaches."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Plny: Indexed Database Of All Programing Code Ever Written For Programmers"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb2c94cb6-b052-4dd1-a7bd-b8308dad3f71"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"DARPA won the title in the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit. Translation: DARPAs exponentially increasing electronics power gains to keep pace with future tech. How fast? A terahertz, a trillion cycles, a second. Applications range from spectrometry and medical imaging to telecom and security."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Circuits and Electronic Components and Materials"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Fastest Solid State Integrated Circuits"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation48ac80fa-b6b5-495f-bf96-e69f94c88b68"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Data networks have already shifted from copper wire to optical fiber - enabling the transmission of more data using less power. Attempts to replicate this efficiency saving in computer chips have been hampered until now by the physical limitations of silicon and the processes used to develop circuitry. A team at UC Berkeley has created a chip capable of optical and electrical processing. Work remains to bring this chip up to speed with memory and bandwidth available using older technologies, however, the roadmap is now clear.\n \nNow, a research team has put together a single chip that handles both optical and electrical processing and uses an optical connection to its main memory. While the bandwidth remains low, the entire system was manufactured using standard CMOS processes. And it incorporates a small RISC processor that's able to run standard text and graphical programs. [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/big-first-step-single-chip-handles-both-optical-and-electrical-signals/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nPutting together a mixed electronic and optical chip required figuring out a whole series of similar approaches to work around limitations. In locations where the silicon waveguides leaked light into surrounding materials, for instance, the surrounding materials had to be etched away. The efficiency of the modulators varied with temperature, which varied with the chip's workload. So researchers created a feedback system that detected falling light levels and triggered a resistance heater to crank up the local temperature as needed. 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While recycling or mining e-waste helps, it only subtracts from rather than eliminates the problem. What if they disappeared? With nanotech, organic semiconductors can work with blue light-emitting polymers potentially enabling biodegradable smartphone screens. Next, they'll need to make the semiconductors compatible with red and green polymers.\n \nUniversity of Missouri researchers are using organic components in screen displays to develop biodegradable electronics. The researchers advancements could one day help reduce e-waste in the worlds landfills. [Citation: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2015/10/are-biodegradable-iphone-displays-next/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n \nThe Missouri researchers collaborated with a team from the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in Brazil to develop organic semiconductors that could be used to light handheld device screens. Using peptides, or proteins, researchers demonstrated that when combined with a blue light-emitting polymer (top layer, pictured), the tiny organic structures could successfully be used in displays. [Citation: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2015/10/are-biodegradable-iphone-displays-next/, Accessed: 7/23/2019]\n  \nBased on selfassembly and mimicking strategies occurring in nature, peptide nanomaterials play a unique role in a new generation of hybrid materials for the electronics of the 21st century. This report describes the functionalization of diphenylalanine (FF)based micro/nanostructures with blueemitting conducting polymers of the polyfluorene (PF) family. The FF:PF polymer nanocomposites are synthesized by a liquidvapor phase method. Electron microscopy images reveal dioctylsubstituted PF (PF8) to bind better to the FF micro/nanotubes in comparison with ethylhexyl PF (PF2/6), which influences its optical properties. 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The bacteria live deep in the sea, often near volcanoes, and, therefore, are already capable of withstanding lots of heat. Scientists from the University of Florida have figured a way to lab-generate the bacterium without the help of the ocean and are focused on upscaling.\n \nThe researchers say that the bacterium living near hydrothermal vents, usually found in areas with volcanic activity, has been perfected by evolution to withstand extreme temperature and pressure. This special feature makes it is naturally adapted to handle conditions found in an industrial setting. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/deep-sea-bacteria-remove-carbon-dioxide/40017/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe carbonic anhydrase enzyme that the bacterium produces can catalyze a chemical reaction between carbon dioxide and water. This interaction converts carbon dioxide into bicarbonate, which could then be processed into products such as baking soda and chalk. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/deep-sea-bacteria-remove-carbon-dioxide/40017/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nFurther research will focus on scaling up the production of the enzyme to meet the huge demands of industrial use. The researchers have already devised a way to produce the enzyme in a lab without having to harvest Thiomicrospira crunogena from the sea, using a genetically engineered version of the common E.Coli bacteria. 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In large part, spider silk owes its exceptional strength - meaning its ability to absorb a large amount of energy before failing - to the particular molecular structure of the protein chain of which it's composed. The mechanical origin of its strength drew the interest of researchers at the Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics in Polytechnique Montreal's Department of Mechanical Engineering. The silk protein coils upon itself like a spring. Each loop of the spring is attached to its neighbors with sacrificial bonds chemical connections that break before the main molecular structural chain tears kind of like when you pour a thread of honey onto a piece of toast. Depending on the instability determined by the way the fluid runs explained Professor Gosselin, who along with his colleague Daniel Therriault is co-supervising Renaud Passieux's master's research work. He added: \"To break the protein by stretching it you need to uncoil the spring and break each of the sacrificial bonds one by one which takes a lot of energy. This is the mechanism we're seeking to reproduce in laboratory. Their project involves making micrometric-sized microstructured fibres that have mechanical properties similar to those of spider silk. \"It consists in pouring a filament of viscous polymeric solution toward a sub-layer that moves at a certain speed. So we create an instability said Renaud Passieux. \"The filament forms a series of loops or coils the fibre presents a particular geometry. It forms regular periodic patterns which we call instability patterns. \" The fibre then solidifies as the solvent evaporates. Some instability patterns feature the formation of sacrificial bonds when the filament makes a loop and bonds to itself. At that point it takes a pull with a strong energy output on the resulting fibre to succeed in breaking the sacrificial bonds as they behave like protein-based spider silk. \"This project aims to understand how the instability used in making the substance influences the loops' geometry and as a result."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Electronics and Computing Materials Science Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Bioinspired Polymer Mimics Spider Silk"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation029f99d7-8682-4492-aeee-2f6332c0e6f7"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Despite the buzz around 3D printing full dwellings, printing structural units is probably more useful now. WASProject began with the aim of 3D printing a house, but has narrowed down to shrinking carbon impact infrastructure and construction by cutting concrete, and therefore CO2 emissions, by 50 percent. The lightweighted beams are undergoing stress-testing."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Building Construction and Design Element Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printed Reinforced Construction Beam Cuts Concrete And Emissions By 50%"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation726b296f-2095-4eae-bdb0-094eb01a1b5c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Despite the buzz around additive manufacturing, expense and slowness have kept it from ubiquity. Company Carbon3D has announced using the tunable photochemical process for Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP), which appears to pull printed objects from a pool of ink rather than laying them layer-by-layer. CLIP works 25 to 100 times faster than typical resin 3D printing processes. In talks with the likes of Ford, the CEO hopes that one day 3D printed parts won't just be for prototyping but for end products allowing rapid production and more customization.\n \nCarbon3D is reinjecting excitement into the field. Its CEO and co-founder, Joseph DeSimone, a 51-year-old entrepreneur, and chemistry professor on leave from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, came up with a new way to print objects in 3-D so quickly and precisely that Sequoia Capital partner Jim Goetz (the sole backer of WhatsApp) led an $11 million Series A round and lured him to Redwood City, Calif. from his tenured chair in Chapel Hill. The company has since raised more than $140 million, including a $100 million round in August led by Google Ventures. Its valuation is already estimated to be above $1 billion without releasing anything more than a product for early customer trials. \"The industry is dominated by mechanical engineers who print two-dimensional objects up layer by layer,\" DeSimone says. \"Let's not do this layer by layer--let's grow these parts.\" [Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2015/11/04/how-carbon3d-plans-to-transform-manufacturing/#23bdec1c3caa, Accessed: 7/24/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"3D Printing Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Carbon3D: Layerless 3D Printing"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation577726e8-eb85-43bd-9672-39192945edb2"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Despite the widespread use of robots in manufacturing, they do not support flexible production and short runs. This is because traditional programming requires a step-by-step, repetitive path for the robot to follow. VTT of Finland has developed an interactive industrial robot control system that enables greater flexibility and shorter programming. Combining sensors, cloud data and internet monitoring for enhanced analytics with a control stick that allows human operators to adapt the robot's performance in real-time, VTT has produced a control system that will appeal to robot manufacturers and industries where flexibility and speed are critical to success. This process could improve quality control and reduce waste from imperfect production runs.\n \nThe unique features of the new control system include, for instance, the use of two force/torque sensors, when traditionally robotic systems have one or none at all. The purpose of a force/torque sensor is to recognize the pressure on the tool. In the VTT solution, one sensor is attached to a wireless control stick by which the robot can be steered through the operation step by step. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160111092600.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]\n \nThe control stick and the control system operating in real-time make it possible for a human controller to work in the same working space with the robot and control the robot's movements directly using a control stick attached to the robot or the load. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160111092600.htm, Accessed: 7/15/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Robotics; Manufacturing Equipment and Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"New Robot Control System Supports Human Interaction And Flexible Manufacturing"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing; Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation98d90840-55b9-409c-a354-2827af9ef73c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Devices and products that have become central to our lives are manufactured using 62 metals or metalloids, amongst other components. Thomas Graedel and his team at Yale University examined the scarcity of these elements and discovered that there are no satisfactory substitutes for some major metals, and that many alternative or substitute materials would lead to degraded performance. This is a clarion call to materials scientists to develop new materials that perform as well or better than the existing elements, as well as a clear signal to supply chain managers that supply shortages and element depletion are real, major threats to their businesses."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Materials Science"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Metals Scarcity To Drive Materials Innovation"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2013"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation49b89ce9-e90f-44fd-a3a3-0a8846a11d55"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Diabetes is a growing global health problem, affecting more than 300 million people today. Management of Type I diabetes requires constant monitoring of blood glucose. Researchers at Oregon State University have used an e-jet printer on thin plastic film to produce a light, flexible, low-cost sensor that can be wrapped around a catheter. Unlike existing management systems, this could lead to a single point of entry to the body and a blood glucose management toolset that is cheaper and more comfortable for users.\n \nA key advance is the use of an electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet printing) to make the sensor, which detects glucose concentration based on electric current flow. Conceptually, e-jet printing is a little like an inexpensive inkjet printer, but it creates much finer drop sizes and works with biological materials such as enzymes, instead of ink. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/additive-manufacturing-could-greatly-improve-diabetes-management, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe technology would create an artificial pancreas using a single point of bodily entry, or catheter, replacing existing systems, which require four entry points, usually packaged in a belt worn around the waist, according to Greg Herman, an OSU associate professor of chemical engineering. [Citation: https://www.kurzweilai.net/additive-manufacturing-could-greatly-improve-diabetes-management, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nDiabetes management systems provide constant monitoring of blood glucose concentrations and are matched with portable infusion pumps. They control the delivery of the hormones insulin and glucagon, and maintain safe levels of glucose in the blood. 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Researchers from Tohoku University, led by Professor Yasuo Ando of the Graduate School of Engineering - in collaboration with Konica Minolta, Inc., have harnessed hi-res biomagnetic power to make a sensor with an extended range that works at room temperature. Their tunnel magnetoresistance tech could someday increase the accuracy of diagnoses and free up space (no more large protective rooms), lowering costs and heightening quality outcomes in healthcare.\n \nIn a world first, the group led by Professor Yasuo Ando of the Graduate School of Engineering - in collaboration with Konica Minolta, Inc. - succeeded in detecting the heart's magnetic field by using the TMR device. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-high-sensitivity-high-resolution-magnetocardiography-room.html, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nThis device enables cardiac electric activity to be measured in a non-aggressive way so that the diagnosis of heart conditions such as coronary heart disease or arrhythmia can be greatly improved. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-high-sensitivity-high-resolution-magnetocardiography-room.html, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nIn the future, a special shield room for detecting the bio-magnetic field would be unnecessary because this device has a large field range. This would mean that heart conditions can be measured and treated in a more relaxed environment. 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The diamonds spring from mined-diamond substrate essentially a culture subjected to the extreme heat of 8,000F. The results have the same molecular structure as mined diamonds and can grow up to nine carats in two weeks, as opposed to centuries. This could eliminate the human and land capital expended on mining the jewels while maintaining price points.\n \nThe Santa Clara startup, created by Nanosolar founder Martin Roscheisen, wanted to grow \"real\" diamonds in a lab. Unlike synthetic diamonds, these would be hatched from a sliver of a natural, mined diamond as the substrate. [Citation: https://www.businessinsider.com/diamond-foundry-raises-money-from-leonardo-dicaprio-and-other-billionaires-to-grow-diamonds-2015-11, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nDiamond Foundry has closed three rounds of financing from individuals including actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Twitter/Medium founder Evan Williams, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, One Kings Lane co-founder Alison Pincus, SUN Microsystems founder Andreas Bechtolsheim, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, former Facebook COO Owen van Natta, Marc Benioff's private-investment manager Mark Goldstein, David Spector, former eBay President Jeff Skoll, Scott Banister, Vast Ventures, Caspian VC Partners, and many others. [Citation: https://www.businessinsider.com/diamond-foundry-raises-money-from-leonardo-dicaprio-and-other-billionaires-to-grow-diamonds-2015-11, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nWhile Diamond Foundry is making the diamonds, it isn't designing jewelry. Instead, it has a marketplace with about 200 partnering designers who buy the crystals from Diamond Foundry, put them in their rings, bracelets, and necklaces, then sell them straight to consumers online. The designer purchases are currently the startup's only source of income. 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Hybrid and electric vehicles reduce emissions from driving, but auto manufacturing (and fuel production) are greater sources of emissions per vehicle. Divergent envisions a world where cars are made in 'micro-factories' using its lightweight 3D printed chassis components. This would enable \"small batch\" carmakers to create lighter faster cheaper vehicles. The prototype Blade runs on gasoline and compressed natural gas however the emission and cost reduction of the manufacturing process is the greater benefits of this technology.\"\n \nIn essence, Divergent is a DIY-platform for small-batch carmakers. For as little as $4 million, an aspiring carmaker can get the tools and know-how to set up a micro-factory. (A traditional auto factory costs around a billion dollars before the doors even open.) By using an ultralight chassis made from printed parts, would-be carmakers can reduce materials and costs. To lure clients, Czinger set up a facility in Torrance, California, to build the Blade, which runs on gasoline and compressed natural gas. At 1,400 pounds, it is more than three times lighter than a Tesla Model S and blazingly fast (zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds). More to the point, it took only seven months to go from design to car (no expensive tool-and-die shop, no delays from parts suppliers). That's a win by any measure. 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A team at Karolinska Institute, led by Dr. Bjorn Hogberg,  is investigating the use of DNA as a scaffold for manufacturing computer chips. As it does not conduct electricity well, DNA strands are mixed together to form a tube-like structure to which nano-sized particles can be attached. As research proceeds, the team will attempt to attach all the components needed to build a semiconductor. The benefit of this technology would be a significantly lower cost for chip fabrication.\n \n\"What we wanted to do was to create a design paradigm that could very closely mimic polygonal 3D shapes, like the ones that you get in computer 3D models,\" said senior author Dr. Bjorn Hogberg, of the Karolinska Institute, in Sweden. [Citation: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33628183, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nKnown as \"DNA origami\", this type of assisted folding is not new; it has already been used to build various shapes and even prototype drug-delivery \"robots\". [Citation: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33628183, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nWorking with collaborators from Aalto University in Finland, Dr. Hogberg's team has demonstrated the system with a range of shapes, from rods and balls to a bottle, a bunny and a tiny person. 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Named for the .1 percent of DNA that differentiates each human from another, the company mails out and collects DNA swabs from customers then translates them into colorful geometric designs. This delivers value through engagement and customization. DNA as a personalization tool could someday cross industries. Royal College of Art graduate Iona Inglesby has launched this company.\n \nCustomers take a cheek-swab sample with a home kit, which is then sent on to a laboratory to extract their unique DNA profile. Dot One then applies a computer algorithm to the DNA data that generates a unique pattern, which can be turned into prints or woven textiles. [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/09/dot-one-dna-data-graphic-prints-patterned-textiles-family-trees/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \n\"We assign a particular color to every possible value in the range of genetic data,\" Inglesby told Dezeen. \"When we look at a DNA profile then whatever genetic data is in that sample the corresponding colors appear.\" [Citation: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/09/dot-one-dna-data-graphic-prints-patterned-textiles-family-trees/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nInglesby came up with the idea for the business while working on a project called Dreamweaver at the RCA, which saw the designer use her relatives' DNA data to create a family tartan. After visitors to the graduate show requested their own tartans, Inglesby founded Dot One. 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Someday, the needle extract plus silver nanoparticles in a chitosan solution could sterilize even nanodevices, saving hospitals money and readmissions from infection, as well as keeping all those Christmas trees from going to waste at years end."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Devices"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Derivative Of Douglas Fir Trees Combats Deadly Bacteria On Medical Devices"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0da85af8-31d6-410a-9361-93e03429a54b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Aircraft Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Drones and satellites are becoming agricultural tools moving crop observation from ground to space. NASAs SMAP orbiter will soon open its water content data, which could help large-scale farms improve irrigation systems. Drones offer much more detailed images and info on soil drainage, water, even counting plants but cover only a few acres per charge."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Drone Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Drones Help Farmers Manage Crops, Soil And Water Per Square Inch"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation50b27a79-3525-49f5-ab03-c0933bdafbcb"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Aircraft Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Drones are particularly useful in situations that would be too costly or too dangerous for manned operations. This makes them a potential perfect vehicle for fighting fires. Fire-fighting drones could target grasses that would feed wildfires. It would drop flaming balls in a pattern as part of a prescribed burn, effectively starving wildfires.\n \nA new drone under development at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln could change the way wildfires are foughtand encourage the use of prescribed burns for conservation purposes. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-11-fire-starting-drone-aid-grassland-efforts.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe Great Plains, California and other places around the world are seeing an increasing number of bigger and more intense wildfires in recent years, said Dirac Twidwell, a team member and a range ecology expert and faculty member in the department of agronomy and horticulture. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-11-fire-starting-drone-aid-grassland-efforts.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \n\"Unmanned aerial devices have the potential to carry out key resource management strategies and could help us deal with something as big as the international increase in severe wildfires,\" Twidwell said. The drones could be a tool to battle Eastern Red Cedar, an invasive tree species viewed as one of the region's most serious ecological threats. It causes local extinctions of grassland plants and birds, collapses forage production important to the beef industry and contributes to dangerous wildfires. 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This could reduce waste by 60 percent. Plus, because WinSun Global will print parts onsite, distribution efforts are cut, saving time and fuel. The structure will illustrate how additive manufacturing is primed to disrupt construction.\n\nThe uses for 3D printing are seemingly endless. We've seen the tech used by doctors, to build cars and for construction. While parts of a building have been 3D printed before, the United Arab Emirates National Innovation Committee is working to use the method for an entire office building in Dubai. Working with WinSun Global and a few other companies, the committee plans to use a 20-foot tall 3D printer to make everything on-site rather than fabricate the pieces and have them transported for assembly. WinSun Global has already printed a six-story apartment building and a house in China. As you might expect, the structure is small, measuring 2,000 square feet. [Citation: https://www.engadget.com/2015/07/02/dubai-3d-printed-building-museum-of-the-future/, Accessed: 7/12/2019]\n\nTo print the 2,000 square foot building, engineers will use a 20-foot tall 3D printer, which will be assembled on the build site, located at a busy intersection right in the heart of Dubai. They will use Special Reinforced Concrete (SRC), Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP), and Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GRG) to fabricate the various structural and decorative components of the structure. Total construction time will be just a few weeks, while labor costs will be reduced by 50-80% and construction waste will be reduced between 30-60%. 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Harmless strains of E.coli will be modified to only survive in swarms and perish when they depart the group to venture alone into new areas. Thus, they can act as a medical tool by delivering drugs, regulating digestion, creating protective films, or colonizing regions of the human body for various medical reasons. Population control is achieved by secretion of a signaling molecule N-Acyl homoserine lactone or AHL by the swarm, which modifies the behavior of each individual microbe and triggers the production of antibiotic antidotes when bacteria are together. When the signaling molecule is no longer received, antibiotic antidote production stops and the adventurous individual organism dies.\n \nThe phenomenon is known as quorum sensing. Bacteria produce AHL when they come together in large enough concentrations. In response to the molecule, some bacteria shorten their tentacle-like appendages and modify their movement, so they all stick together as a slime-like biofilm. Other bacteria, like the luminescent Vibrio fischeri, only produce light when theyre in groups, and use AHL as a signal to know when they have a so-called quorum. [Citation: https://gizmodo.com/biologists-turn-bacteria-into-swarmbots-1762041052, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nScientists hope that these bacteria might be useful for all kinds of medical applications. The bacteria could make other proteins or even drugs, in response to the living body around them. When a system weakens enough to allow them to reach a population density, they might make chemicals that regulate the system and bring their own numbers down again. 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But biologists at the University of York found that removing a certain plant gene allows plants to safe harbor the contaminants in their cell walls. Because it's in the woody part of the plant, it won't likely be eaten, and the plants could be harvested for proper disposal.\n \nTNT has a significant impact on the diversity of soil microbial communities and the establishment of vegetation. The majority of TNT remains in the roots of plants, where it inhibits growth and development. In the U.S. alone it is estimated that some 10 million hectares of military land is contaminated with munitions constituents. [Citation: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2015/research/tnt-pollution-plants/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nProfessor Neil Bruce, who led the research, said: There is a lot of interest in natural mechanisms for the removal of recalcitrant toxic chemicals from the biosphere and because of the scale of explosives pollution, particularly on military training ranges, the remediation of polluted land and water as a result of military activity is a pressing global issue. [Citation: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2015/research/tnt-pollution-plants/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nProfessor Bruce added: This is an important additional finding as it is an increasing concern that although herbicide resistance has been increasing steadily since the 1970s, no new herbicide mode of action has been commercialized since the 1980s. 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Sakti3 claims its batteries will be more efficient than Teslas because they're essentially lightweight freed from any non-storage components. The company's success is due in part to considering upscaling from the beginning and working toward it whether through sourcing or partnerships.\n \nSakti3s technology is different from the lithium-ion batteries that Tesla (TSLA) is pioneering with its giant energy storage Powerwall batteries for businesses and utilities, or the batteries inside its electric cars, in that it eliminates any extraneous nonenergy storing elements inside the battery. That is what makes them solid-state and able to store more energy. [Citation: https://fortune.com/2015/09/28/battery-sakti3-brainstorm/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nWith Sastry now focused on scaling up her firms technology, she had some words of wisdom for entrepreneurs trying to commercialize technology out of a research lab or academia. Think about how to increase production from the beginning. She said that when she began researching how to build the solid-state battery, she told researchers they could not use metals like platinum or gold that would stymie the companys effort to scale even if they helped the battery hit short-term performance benchmarks. 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The plastic is processed in local plants and converted into plastic panels used in the homes. EcoDomum's plant uses about 5.5 tons of plastic each day to produce about 120 panels - enough for 1.5 houses. Each dwelling costs about $280 US and is about 430 square feet. EcoDomum plans to expand all over Mexico in 2016 and has already built over 500 recycled plastic homes."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Startup Ecodomum Recycles Plastic Waste Into Building Panels For Affordable Housing In Mexico"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2013"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationa6edfaff-6310-44cb-b2f3-ab3cbe5200ba"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Environmental Consulting Services"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"ecoLogic Studio has installed the Urban Algae Folly in Portugal. This structure uses micro-algae organisms inside a custom, digitally controlled structure that is responsive and adaptive to the presence of light, oxygen, and visitors. In six months, this structure has produced protein equivalent to a small cow. The Folly demonstrates the potential of urban landscapes to support food production (from an untypical source) and provide cleaner air (micro-algae can absorb four times more CO2 than trees).\n \nOriginally presented at the Milan Expo earlier this year, the Urban Algae Folly is a sculptural but functional piece of bio-digital architecture made of micro-algae organisms. Currently on display at the Praa da Repblica, Braga, in Portugal, it is both responsive and adaptive. When the sun shines on the structure, the algae flowing through a series of bags and tubes photosynthesize, constantly changing the appearance in response to the weather conditions of the day. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/urban-algae-folly-produces-the-protein-equivalent-of-a-small-cow-in-6-months/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe exceptional properties of microalgae organisms [Chlorella Vulgaris in this case] are enhanced by their cultivation within a custom-designed soft ETFE cladding system, the design studio explained to Inhabitat in an email report. A special CNC welding technology is at the core of it and enables ecoLogicStudio to design and control the morphology of the cushions under stress as well as the fluid dynamic behavior of the nutritious medium as it travels through it. 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It can print yardage or basic seamless clothing, such as a tank top, from a mold designed in CAD. Inventors have launched a crowdfunding campaign that doubles as an alpha testing event. If 3D printing fashion proves successful, it could eliminate much of the pollution, harsh chemicals and carbon footprint of the textile industry.\n \nThe Electroloom technology has been in development for around a year and a half at this point, and remains very much a work in progress, although the team has now launched a crowdfunding campaign with the aim of shipping a small number of alpha units (and a dev kit) to start getting outside feedback on the project. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/18/electroloom-is-a-3d-fabric-printer-in-the-making/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe garments they are currently able to print, such as the tank top and skirt pictured below, arent going to win any fashion awards. And their early fabric looks relatively thin  so probably isnt too warm to wear  so theres clearly a lot more development required for the tech and their technique to yield truly wearable clothes. But the potential for making clothes from sprayable fabrics certainly looks intriguing. 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A team of researchers at the University of Urbana-Champaign has developed multifunction sensors for the brain that are made of silicon, and that can be resorbed by the body, eliminating the need for extraction. The team conducted two experiments - one with an implanted sensor, the other with an external data transmission device - and found that both sensors performed to clinical standards. The devices can be adapted to many formats and locations in the body, and so could be widely used in clinical medicine.\n \nMany procedures in modern clinical medicine rely on the use of electronic implants in treating conditions that range from acute coronary events to traumatic injury. However, standard permanent electronic hardware acts as a nidus for infection: bacteria form biofilms along percutaneous wires, or seed haematogenously, with the potential to migrate within the body and to provoke immune-mediated pathological tissue reactions. The associated surgical retrieval procedures, meanwhile, subject patients to the distress associated with re-operation and expose them to additional complications. Here, we report materials, device architectures, integration strategies, and in vivo demonstrations in rats of implantable, multifunctional silicon sensors for the brain, for which all of the constituent materials naturally resorb via hydrolysis and/or metabolic action, eliminating the need for extraction. 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They may be able to protect active ingredients, such as probiotics, during the production process and in the digestive system. In the future, this could lead to lessened or edible packaging that extends sell-by dates and increases food nutrition and value.\n\nElectrospinning uses an electrical charge to draw very fine (typically on the micro or nanoscale) fibers from a liquid containing long-chain molecules  essentially providing a coating for health-promoting ingredients such as probiotics and vitamins. Electrospinning, and the related process of electrospraying show promise as novel delivery vehicles for supplementary food compounds such as probiotics because they can be carried out at room temperature, with aqueous solutions, and without complex coagulation chemistry. This means active ingredients can be better protected during the production process and as they pass through the digestive system. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-high-tech-nanofibres-nutrients-food.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nIn the journal Food Hydrocolloids, academics from the University of Lincoln, UK, and Research Institute of Food Science & Technology in Iran present a comprehensive review of the fundamentals of electrospinning to produce nanofibres suitable for food technology application. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-high-tech-nanofibres-nutrients-food.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \n \nCo-author Dr. Nick Tucker from the School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, has worked on nanofibre production and sustainable packaging materials for a number of years, having previously worked with the New Zealand seafood industry and Auckland Medical School to make skin scaffolds. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-06-high-tech-nanofibres-nutrients-food.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Food Preparation and Processing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Electrospinning Creates Nanofibers That Could Deliver Nutrients More Effectively"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation19137359-44b6-4f82-8464-c3443fa27c5b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Elemental Machines has developed a simulator that improves drug research by allowing better data analysis. This improves the reproducibility of experiments and helps researchers collect and visualize more lab data. The solution incorporates machine learning and distributed sensors to enhance the lab environment. This could reduce costs and speed up the time taken to develop new drugs and improve the treatment of disease.\n \nCEO Sridhar Iyengar compares the technology to having X-Ray vision in the lab. Were bringing technology from one world into another world, he told TechCrunch. We are giving scientists an easy, powerful, and cost-effective way to collect and visualize a variety of critical data that traditionally havent been taken into account  essentially to debug the lab environment. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/03/founders-fund-backs-smart-lab-tech-startup-elemental-machines-for-2-5-million/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nElemental Machines comes from a team of scientists with a strong background in wearables and data analytics- they built Misfit, which recently sold to Fossil, and consumer health tech company AgaMatrix, prior to shifting focus to the wet lab. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/03/founders-fund-backs-smart-lab-tech-startup-elemental-machines-for-2-5-million/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nThe idea is similar to another Founders Fund portfolio company  Emerald Lab Therapeutics. Emerald takes in cloud-based orders and runs them through its machines to glean information. Iyengar believes the two are more symbiotic than competitive and say Elemental Machines is really taking on bigger scientific machine operations such as Seimens and GE. [Citation: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/03/founders-fund-backs-smart-lab-tech-startup-elemental-machines-for-2-5-million/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Scientific Equipment and Technologies"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Elemental Machines: Drug Research Lab Software Simulator"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovatione9233765-59a3-464d-aa30-89eeaf0ad854"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Endothelium is the lining of an artery. When damaged or absent, arterial blockages or plaques are likely to form. Researchers have experimented with injecting cells into patients to stimulate repair of the endothelium, but circulation often washes these cells away. Researchers at Bonn University have combined the cells with magnetic nanoparticles and used an external magnet to guide the cells to the right place. The experiment showed that the technique was successful in mice. The next stage is to trial the technique in larger animals and humans. This technique could be used to improve healing after surgery (angioplasty) but in the longer term, could be used as a preventive measure for people susceptible to heart disease, which is a major cause of death worldwide.\n\nDaniela Wenzel, a physiology researcher at the University of Bonn, and her colleagues looked for a new way to direct-injected cells to the right place and keep them there. First, they packaged genes coding for a green fluorescent protein and a nitric oxide-synthesizing enzyme within a viral vector, commonly used to deliver genetic material into cells. They linked the vectors to magnetic, silica-iron oxide nanoparticles, and loaded the vector-nanoparticle combo into endothelial cells. The cells become magnetic so they can be positioned by external magnets, she says. [Citation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/magnetically-guided-gene-therapy-heals-blood-vessels/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nThe researchers then injected engineered cells into the carotid arteries of mice where the endothelial cells within those vessels had been removed. In half of the animals, they placed a magnet over the treatment site for 30 minutes. Two days later, the arteries of animals exposed to magnets showed green fluorescing cells attached to their inner surfaces, covering at least half of the circumference. In the other animals, blood flow had swept the introduced cells out of the arteries and deposited them in the brain. 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The Recharge product line uses recycled battery cells that have been previously depleted by consumer use. Claiming equal efficiency to classical batteries, these products reduce the environmental impact and waste. Incorporating old battery cells as 4% of the total, the Energizers use a wide range of sources, including hybrid electric car battery cells. The sizes are AAA, AA, C, D, and 9V. By 2025, the company plans to incorporate 25% of recycled materials into new batteries.\n \nWith the launch of the Recharge line, Energizer is using four percent post-consumer battery cells to make the new rechargeable batteries. They arent just made from old Energizer batteries, though. The company is sourcing all sorts of old, depleted batteries  even those used in hybrid electric cars. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/energizer-launches-worlds-first-recycled-rechargeable-batteries/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe Recharge line also includes other battery sizes, including C, D, and 9V. Looking to the future, the company aims to eventually use 40 percent recycled material by 2025. The introduction of rechargeable, recycled batteries marks a huge step forward in the small electronics market, and Energizers Recharge line is bound to be the greenest option readily available in stores for some time. 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This can be useful to non-medical personnel that doesnt have any medical skills.\n \nMany injuries in the battlefield are being treated by non-medical personnel (e.g. 42% of tourniquet applications are applied by non-medical personnel). Unfortunately, most non-medical personnel are not provided with opportunities to practice medical skills in a high-stress environment prior to completing them during live missions. This lack of practice of critical skills is related to a need to focus training on the Warfighters primary MOS when completing integrated training and the high cost of practicing with medical mannequins. To meet this training gap and provide a low-cost and flexible training tool that allows all Warfighters to practice first response medical skills during high stress force-on-force training exercises, the Network Enabled Medical Training (NetEMT) Toolkit will be designed and developed. The proposed platform will evaluate trainee performance and provide essential cues using simulated medical equipment instead of mannequins. The NetEMT Toolkit will be designed the integrate with the Army's Live Training Engagement Composition (LTEC) to allow for the flow of force-on-force exercises to continue through medical first response. The design of the proposed system will be driven by a task analysis, cue fidelity evaluation, and training needs analysis. 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So far, the Kenyan company has saved more than 825 tons of carbon emissions by keeping 350 acres of trees alive. This approach helps empty landfills and create jobs."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Toxic and Environmental Remediation"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecopost Limited: Construction Materials Made From Wood & Plastic Waste"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2010"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Life on Land; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation303f748b-dd78-4cf0-a791-01e71d34bf5e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Epson will sell the first in-office paper recycling and manufacturing system in Japan in 2016. The user inserts wastepaper into PaperLab, and three minutes later the machine prints 14 pages of recycled A4 paper per minute. The process, though protected, uses much less water, and because its onsite removes the usual costs of transporting wastepaper to recycling facilities. The machine combines the functions of shredding, disposal, and manufacturing, and is expected to cost at least $50,000.\n \nThe specs of the machine are truly impressive. Within three minutes of adding waste paper to the PaperLab, it starts pumping out perfectly white sheets of the new paper. The system can produce around 14 A4 sheets of paper per minute or 6,720 sheets in an eight-hour workday. The PaperLab can also produce A3 paper, and you can tweak the thickness and density of the paper as well: if you want really thin white paper, that's cool; if you want thicker paper for business cards, it can do that too. [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/epson-unveils-worlds-first-in-office-paper-recycling-system/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nEpson says that the PaperLab is the world's first paper production system to use a \"dry process.\" Paper-making processes usually require a lot of water, but the PaperLab requires only a tiny amount of water to \"maintain a certain level of humidity inside the system,\" so it doesn't need to be plumbed into the mains. Presumably, there's a small tank of water that needs to be filled up occasionallyhopefully with normal tap water, not 50-per-litre Epson Purified PrintXL Water. 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The printers make use of space inside tanks filled with about 20 cartridges worth of ink. This saves customers from the repeated purchase of pricey cartridges, adds value to the product, and cuts some distribution and packaging out of Epson's supply chain likely adding profit.\n \nThe five new EcoTank models range from $350 to $1,200 in price, depending on capacity and feature set, but even the most affordable version promises enough ink in its reservoirs to cover 4,000 black and 6,500 color pages before requiring a refill. This is an absurd amount of ink unless you are home-printing an outrageously popular zine, and even then you should be pretty well covered. [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/epson-printer-no-cartridge/, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\n \nBasically, the EcoTank is the Droid Turbo of printers: can't come up with better ink / battery technology? Just make things bigger. These printers don't come cheap, either  the least expensive EcoTank printer starts at $379. The good news is that replacement ink bottles are reasonably priced at $52 for a set of four different color bottles. I fortunately have reached a point in my life where I print so infrequently that replacing ink cartridges is a pretty minor inconvenience, and I hope the same can be said for you  but if that's not the case, these new printers might save you some ink-related headaches. 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Soitec, a French manufacturing company, says it has used techniques designed for making microprocessors to produce solar cells with a record-setting efficiency of 46 percent, converting more than twice as much sunlight into electricity as conventional cells."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Solar Cell Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Solar Cells Use Four Semiconductors To Capture 2X More Sunlight Than Conventional Cells"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationceab7c70-dbf0-4040-a594-5c21204d98cd"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Estimates that 50 percent of greenhouse gases are from livestock inspired one designer to imagine a cow's stomach as an engine. As silos fall, YiWen Tseng imagines biotech will draw more from industrial design3D printing re-engineered bovine digestive systems that intake grass to output methane as a fuel for electric cars.\n \nYiWens concept explores the possibilities of a distant future in which industrial design and biotechnology blend into onea world in which the 3D printers of tomorrow churn out complex organs and organisms at ease. Inspired by cattles impressive ability to transform grass into vast quantities of methane, Tsengs Digestive Car imagines that the digestive tracts of cows could be reengineered and artificially recreated to produce methane to power an electric vehicle, with only grass as fuel and little by way of the exhaust. [Citation: https://qz.com/459829/this-designer-wants-to-power-cars-with-cow-stomachs/, Accessed: 7/24/2019\n \nIn similarity to its bovine origins, the Digestive Car requires four separate stomachs to produce its powerthe organs on show in transparent shells to allow motorists to monitor the health of their vehicles digestion. Tsengs speculative designs also imagine that the forms of the organs may also be adapted by bioscientists to optimize for methane production efficiency. [Citation: https://qz.com/459829/this-designer-wants-to-power-cars-with-cow-stomachs/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nNot totally spurious, Tsengs research for the project did go as far as to intimate exposure with cow innardsmeticulously documenting the constituent parts with photography (beautiful and disgusting in equal measures) and denotation of functions. 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For instance, consumers are demanding transparency in material procurement and working conditions of laborers. Also, with a growing global population and a limited amount of natural resources, companies are focused on extending the life of raw materials. Fashion company Nau is addressing these marketplace realities by recycling materials integrating used down into its outerwear this season. Though more time-intensive, this saves on input-cost and passes on value via transparency to customers.\n \nPeter explained that his process always starts with understanding the characteristics of the material. For recycled down, this means thinking about how the feathers are going to be distributed in the garment. If you miss this step, all your feathers will fall to the bottom of the jacket. This is why most down jackets have a quilting or some sort of exoskeletonto make sure those feathers are distributed evenly throughout. Peter further explained, The designs for these styles were meant to marry the thermal diaphanous qualities of down with a weatherproof fully seam-sealed outer protective shell. The goal, he said, is to have the design feel like its perfectly balanced with features. The perfection of the subtle details, like pocket placement, will only become evident when you use them. 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But someday, farms of genetically-engineered cyanobacteria could be producing its own ethylene without having the added step of making bioethanol. Though about three times more expensive than its fossil-fuel-based counterpart, this process removes 3.14 tons of CO2 per ton of ethylene.\n \nHere's the future of ethylene production as Dr. Jianping Yu sees it. \"We envision some farms in the field that cover many acres. We will have cyanobacteria harvesting sunlight and C02 and then produce ethylene or ethylene derivatives,\" said Yu, a research scientist in the Photobiology Group at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. \"That's pretty far from where we are now, but that's the goal. If things work out, 10 years from now we should see some farms making petrochemical replacements.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-ethylene-production-sunlight-door-future.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nEthylene already can be made without fossil fuels through the conversion of bioethanol, but that requires making bioethanol plus an additional step. Yu's research showed ethylene could be made directly and continuously from cyanobacterium. Normally, algae convert carbon dioxide during photosynthesis into biomass or sugars. But Yu's method redirected the cyanobacterium to use a portion of the CO2 to produce ethylene. Ethylene rises to fill the headspace of a sealed glass tube or photobioreactor and can be easily captured. Since his initial discovery in 2010, Yu has managed to increase the amount of ethylene produced in the laboratory by more than a thousand-fold, to 35 milligrams per liter per hour. 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The distillation method used for this process burns energy and money. But silver ion hands can pluck ethylene from ethane 13 times more effectively, while significantly reducing the millions of megawatt-hours required to produce ethylene. Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder's next need to manipulate silver ions sensitivity to contaminants.\n \nApproximately 80 million metric tons of polyethylene are produced globally each year, making it the most common plastic in the world. An essential building block for manufacturing polyethylene is ethylene, which must be separated from a nearly identical chemical, ethane before it can be captured and used. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-technique-slash-energy-plastics.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \n\"This silver ion can be thought of as working like a hand,\" said Matthew Cowan, a CU-Boulder postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper. \"This 'hand' can tell the difference between ethylene and ethane and it 'grabs' the ethylene out of the mixture. When all the ethylene has been grabbed, the ethane is removed and the hand releases the ethylene.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-technique-slash-energy-plastics.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe new materialwhich has 13 times more separating power than previous materials used to separate ethylene and ethanerequires much less energy than the traditional distillation technique. In the United States alone, it now takes more than 46 million megawatt-hours of electricity a year to produce ethylene, about the same amount of energy produced by seven average-sized nuclear power plants. 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Everest leave behind is the human waste. Removed by porters, its dumped in Gorak Shep, Nepal. At best, this is rude, at worst a health hazard. To fix this problem, volunteer engineers have devised a solar-powered, insulated biogas digester able to function in cold temperatures. They plan to build in 2016.\n \nGarry Porter, a retired Boeing engineer based in Seattle, and his buddy Dan Mazur, a professional mountaineer, hatched the idea back in 2010. Mazur lives in Nepal and Tibet for half the year and regularly leads climbs up Everest, so he was well aware of the poop predicament. Porter became intimate with it in 2003 when he attempted to scale Everest. The Nepalese consider this their sacred mountain, and were defecating on it, he says. [Citation: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/engineers-attack-mt-everests-12ton-poop-problem, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nThousands of biogas reactors already operate at lower altitudes throughout Nepal, but temperatures at Gorak Shep prevent the needed waste-devouring bacteria from thriving. Recognizing this, Mazur asked Porter if he thought it would be possible to create a biogas digester that could function in the cold. Porter did, and the project was born. [Citation: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/engineers-attack-mt-everests-12ton-poop-problem, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nAfter recruiting about a dozen other engineer volunteers, Porter and his team began brainstorming a solution, keeping in mind that they could use only materials that are readily available in Kathmandu, Nepals capital. Rather than build something from scratch, they decided to figure out a way to insulate the preexisting design, a 6-cubic-meter model that, if kept warm enough, could process all the climber waste currently dumped in Gorak Shep. 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This can have dire effects on our health and environment. Massey University engineers, Dr. Asif Zia, together with Professor Subhas Mukhopadhyay, have created a device that utilizes microscopic sensors to detect trace amounts of potentially dangerous substances quickly and inexpensively. This is an important step towards solving the global problem of plastics contamination. The engineers called the device that they have created di(2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate or DEHP for short.\r\n \r\nDEHP is used to induce flexibility in the plastic products but, because of its molecular structure, it does not attach itself covalently to the plastic's lattice structure and may leach into the surrounding environment. It is classed as a teratogenic, or malformation causing, compound as well as an endocrine-disrupter, which interferes with the body's natural hormonal system. The World Health Organization refers concentrations of DEHP greater than six parts per billion as hazardous for human health. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-sensor-toxins-leaching-plastic.html, Accessed: 6/12/2019]\r\n \r\nDr Zia's tiny 2.5 mm by 2.5 mm sensor is able to be swirled through a liquid and detect concentration levels as low as two parts per billion, using a test that takes less than 10 minutes. The sensor is coated with a molecular imprinted polymer  essentially a type of chemical Velcro which selectively catches only DEHP molecules in liquids. The molecules \"stick\" by forming weak hydrogen bonds with the coating. After the sensor is rinsed, they pass electromagnetic fields through it (spectroscopy) to deduce the concentration of DEHP present. 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A multinational team of scientists has discovered an algorithm believed to deliver a significant speed boost to the difficult and ponderous process of locating individual gene sections. This is a breakthrough which, once refined, may prove an invaluable tool in helping doctors combat several of the deadliest diseases which plague mankind.\n \nThe development involves applications of the cross-disciplinary field of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics combines mathematics, statistics, and computer science to study biological molecules, such as DNA, RNA and protein structures. DNA, which is fundamentally an information molecule, is even sometimes depicted in the computerized form (see Fig. 1) in order to emphasize its role as a molecule of biological memory. Bioinformatics is a very topical subject; every newly sequenced genome raises so many additional questions that scientists simply do not have time to answer them all. So automating processes is key to the success of any bioinformatics project, and these algorithms are essential for solving a wide variety of problems. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2016-01-scientists-algorithm-dna-faster-accurately.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe algorithm proposed by the scientists determines which regions in the DNA are genes and which are not. The scientists used a Markov chain, which is a sequence of random events, the future of which is dependent on past events. The states of the chain, in this case, are either nucleotides or nucleotide words (k-mers). The algorithm determines the most probable division of a genome into coding and noncoding regions, classifying the genomic fragments in the best possible way according to their ability to encode proteins or RNA. Experimental data obtained from RNA give additional useful information which can be used to train the model used in the algorithm. Certain gene prediction programs can use this data to improve the accuracy of finding genes. However, these algorithms require type-specific training of the model. For the AUGUSTUS software program, for example, which has a high level of accuracy, a training set of genes is needed. This set can be obtained using another program  GeneMark-ET  which is a self-training algorithm. These two algorithms were combined in the BRAKER1 algorithm, which was proposed jointly by the developers of AUGUSTUS and GeneMark-ET. 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One option: mining e-waste for raw materials. But another is harnessing it as modular components with existing functionality. An Instructables user open-sourced his directions for building a $60 3D printer from e-waste, including floppy disk and DVD drives as the motor. The final device is made from 80 percent recycled parts."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Low-Cost 3D Printer Made From Electronic Waste"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Responsible Consumption and Production"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation48e0d658-70f9-49d2-bb34-5df6385681a9"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Fictiv brokers inventors need for inexpensive iterative prototypes and top 3D print shop downtime. Fictiv monetizes the supply chains slack, hunting for machinery that's not in use, negotiating low printing rates, then inspecting the printed products for delivery. The business model simultaneously increases prototyping access and reduces cost and lead times, while democratizing manufacturing.\r\n\r\nFictiv is at its essence a manufacturing platform powered by a distributed network of vendors that offer prototyping, development and manufacturing skills. Users leverage an online interface to get quotes, review manufacturing feedback and manage ordersall through a single service. [Citation: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3084593/fictiv-aims-to-reinvent-prototyping.html, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\r\n\r\nFictiv has a network of third-party 3D printing and CNC machining facilities to enable prototyping of hardware as close to the customer as possible. The idea being that the traditional hardware development cycle can be greatly reduced. Fictiv promises to provide 3D printed prototypes in 24 hours and deliver CNC machined parts in three days. And they have some high-profile and legendary support from Mercedes-Benz. 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The wooden mobile cubes are made with changing communities and desires in mind, and can be fairly easily adapted from dorms to hotel rooms or apartments. This idea disrupts demolition, construction and zoning, relying on far fewer resources and waste. 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For prototyping, startups, and tinkerers, this solves a big problem: the choice between subpar aesthetics or subpar performance under stress. Tough Resin which links chemical chains as it cures can withstand force without snapping and is only $175 a liter.\n \nFormlabs co-founder, Max Lobovsky, says of the new resin, Engineering and prototyping are a really important application of 3D printing. Were excited to release our new Tough Resin because now Form 1+ users can create high-resolution prints in a really durable, resilient material. Developing new high-quality materials continues to be a really important focus for us. Every time we release new material, we create new possibilities for every Form 1+ user and build a more compelling experience. [Citation: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/formlabs-3d-printed-rube-goldberg-shows-off-new-tough-resin-51732/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nFormlabs Tough Resin signals an exciting new development in 3D printing materials.  With light-based 3D printers, like the Form1+, capable of producing some stunning prints, seeing them also fabricate strong parts is an important step towards a true desktop manufacturing revolution.  The new Tough Resin material is already available in the companys web store and works with both the original Form 1 and the Form 1+ 3D printer. 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The system is called the FXTH87 tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). It weighs 0.3 grams, which is 50% less than any other tire monitoring system currently available. The system monitors pressure and temperature, and has a dual axis accelerometer architecture. The benefits to properly inflated tires range from fuel savings to life savings. The government estimates that there are thousands of accidents and hundreds of fatalities due to tire blow-outs caused by improperly inflated tires. The smaller package and custom firmware, along with the RF receiver, make for a cheaper more efficient product that will help to save lives."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Sensor Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Freescale Tire Pressure Monitoring System"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation16ec70ac-7153-484a-abdb-be2ffd0ce814"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Jewelry and Silverware Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"While smartwatches have yet to take off, Cicret interfaces a smartphone onto the skin via an eight-sensor bracelet. It works as an Android projector on the forearm. Though skin-touchscreens haven't been up-to-par in the past, a successful body touchscreen could have big implications for telecom and medicine. Cicret plans to launch its Cicret Bracelet in 2016.\r\n\r\nThe Bracelet comprises a pico projector and a row of eight proximity sensors that point towards the user's forearm. It operates as a standalone device and, when activated with a twist of the wrist, projects an Android interface onto the users arm, much like Chris Harrison's Skinput research. The proximity sensors detect where the user's finger or fingers are and allow them to interact with the interface as they would any other Android device. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/cicret-bracelet/35109/, Accessed: 6/11/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Interactive Electronics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Cicret: Wearable Technology Eliminates Screens"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation7fb0fb74-4305-4f3c-ae83-4363e2666625"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, and Chemical Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"French startup Poietis uses laser-printing to print high-resolution living cells. This process actually has a 100 percent cell viability rate. Industry giant BASF is partnering with the company to create Mimeskin tissue, with wound healing and cosmetic applications. Someday, bioprinted structures could replace animals and test patients in medical sciences, and speed up lead times.\n \nPoietis approach strays wildly from other companies like Organovo in that instead of using the typical extrusion model of printing that we are all used to seeing, they are working on laser-assisted bioprinting. This approach allows for incredibly accurate, high-resolution printing of living cells. In fact, they claim to be able to concentrate as many as 100 million cells per millimeter and print them at 20-micron resolutions. This results in a phenomenal 100% cell viability rate. [Citation: https://3dprint.com/80673/basf-3d-print-skin-mimeskin/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe way the technology works is that a laser is focused on a substrate containing the cells. This creates a jet of microdroplets that are focused then onto the build plate as the machine delicately prints these cells layer by layer, in three dimensions. They call this process 4D Bioprinting because a fourth dimension is utilized, and that dimension is time. Once the tissue is printed, time is required for the cells to communicate and self-assemble. 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Perfect for remote medicine, the tech could also be used for patients with chronic illness to monitor health or doctors to find problems earlier. The researchers have proven the concept in mice, and will next develop the needle for human testing. The researchers who have developed a miniature chemistry laboratory inside a needle are from the US and Singapore.\n \nThe patented design combines individual components from a chemistry laboratory into a single small package attached to a conventional 32-gauge needle, a size used for several simple injections. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/133602473075/laboratory-in-a-needle-promises-rapid-diagnosis, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nThe lab on a needle is designed to carry out several steps in testing a patients tissue sample for any particular medical condition. It extracts the sample; prepares it; amplifies the material in it called messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, a carrier of genetic material; and runs a process called the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, to detect the existence and concentration of the gene or genes related to the sought-after disease. [Citation: https://txchnologist.com/post/133602473075/laboratory-in-a-needle-promises-rapid-diagnosis, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nThe teams also plan to develop the necessary procedures for testing the needle in humans. Those tests will seek the same genetic markers as studies involving mice. But they will have to comply with much tighter government regulation. 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The software system gives scientists the power to organize, optimize, and automate their research. Scientists can design any genome-editing experiment in any cell line, and generate tailored CRISPR library designs for their research."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Software"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Start-Up Deskgen Offers Cloud-Enabled Crispr Enabling Bioinformatics To Impact Drug Discovery"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation9acc2bad-7d29-4ae1-8242-099b40724492"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Genetic sequencing company Illumina has spun out Grail, which aims to create a blood test that works as a pre-symptomatic cancer diagnostic. Clinical trials are set to begin in 2017, with a commercialization target of 2019. It would find tumor DNA shed into the bloodstream for extremely early detection and treatment potentially slashing mortality rates and cost from the healthcare system.\n \nGrail would operate as a separate company, majority-owned by Illumina, with more than $100 million in initial funding from a Series A round led by Illumina and Arch Venture Partners. Bezos Expeditions, Bill Gates, and Sutter Hill Ventures also participated in the round, according to a statement from Illumina. The company will be based in San Francisco. [Citation: https://xconomy.com/san-diego/2016/01/10/illumina-forms-grail-in-quest-for-ultimate-cancer-diagnostic/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nWith existing technology, tumor DNA circulating in the blood of a cancer patient can be detected and sequenced to determine the specific mutations that are driving the particular type of cancer in each patient. Such mutations vary widely, even in the same type of cancer, and the information can help cancer doctors select an optimal course of treatment precisely matched to specific mutations. [Citation: https://xconomy.com/san-diego/2016/01/10/illumina-forms-grail-in-quest-for-ultimate-cancer-diagnostic/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nGrail intends to develop technology that can detect and characterize circulating tumor DNA at extremely low concentrations. Detecting cancer at the earliest stages dramatically increases long-term survival, Illumina says, hence the successful development of a pan-cancer screening test for asymptomatic individuals would make the first major dent in global cancer mortality. 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Is there nothing it can't do? Scoop it up from nature and it makes alcohol. Fiddle with the genes and you can coax it to produce gasoline. Useful, but such synbio projects tend not to be cost-effective. Now, though, biochemists are genetically modifying yeast and algae to produce stuff with good enough [] The post Biochemists Are Turning Genetically Modified Yeast into Perfume and Opioids appeared first on WIRED."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Green Chemistry"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"GMO Yeast Produces Bio-Based Flavors And Scents"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2010"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd4508f7c-eefb-485b-a736-abdf3df2c616"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Nanotechnology"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Giant clams are one of several animals that create color. Scientists are studying how these clams produce color and use photosynthesis for energy. This could change how pixelated electro-optical displays generate color in the future - perhaps using ambient light instead of LEDs. The photosynthesis process in clams could also help guide the development of solar cell arrays that take up less space - a more energy-efficient light-harvesting system.\n \nIn a new study, scientists focused on iridescent cells in the exposed flesh of the clams. These cells, known as iridocytes, generate a dazzling array of colors, including blues, greens, golds and, more rarely, white. [Citation: https://www.livescience.com/53467-iridescent-clams-inspire-smartphone-screens.html, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nThe researchers are systematically investigating each color the clams produce to understand the mechanisms involved in producing the color and its biological significance. To learn more about the white color, the scientists analyzed live giant clams of the species Tridacna maxima and Tridacna derasa. [Citation: https://www.livescience.com/53467-iridescent-clams-inspire-smartphone-screens.html, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nIn addition, the researchers discovered that the two species of giant clams employed different methods for mixing colors to produce white. In Tridacna maxima, white comes from tight clusters of differently colored iridocytes. In Tridacna derasa, white results from iridocytes that are each multicolored and look white from a distance. 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Glaucoma is an eye disease and this is the leading cause of blindness which affects some 60 million people worldwide. Glaucoma is highly treatable especially if it is detected early. The disease happens when fluid pressure inside the eye rises, choking the optic nerve and causing irreparable damage. The contact lenses that the doctors developed has a wireless sensor that is attached in the eye and can send data to clinicians in real time."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Diagnostic"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Contact Lenses With Tiny Sensor Detects Changes In Eye To Avoid Glaucoma"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationb993c807-3a4a-438c-a9fd-12f603f74a8c"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Gleamfire is a handheld car-washing system that limits the amount of water used to 1.5 gallons. It filters the water like an aquarium. It also saves soap and prevents scratches from dirt lengthening the life of paint jobs. If filtration were applied to other water-needy areas, such as cooking or hygiene, contaminants and consumption would decrease.\n \nThe gadget, called Gleamfire, eliminates the need to rinse a sponge or mitt to keep it clean. Instead, you put your mitt inside a small plastic tube and pump a few times, creating jets of water that blast dirt off the cloth and into filters. In a single wash, from start to finish, the system uses only 1.5 gallons of water. The designers estimate that a traditional wash can use between 25 and 480 gallons, depending on whether someone uses a hose and how long they leave it on. [Citation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3045504/this-gadget-washes-your-car-with-less-water-than-you-probably-use-to-brush-your-te, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nEntrepreneur John Lohavichan was inspired while looking at the filters in an aquarium where he keeps fish. One day, while feeding my fish, I was thinking of how to clean my car with less water, he says. And then it just hit me: My fish are healthy because of their clean waterwhat if I did the same thing with car washing? I could use a lot less water if I could just keep the wash water clean. So the next day I took an empty soda bottle and put aquarium filtration media into it to see if it could workand it did. That set me down the road of prototyping and refining my designs. 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High school junior Raymond Wang decided to model 32 different airplane cabin airflow simulations to track how far a sneeze can go. Based on those simulations, he designed a device to optimize airflow creating personalized breathing spaces that enhance the HEPA filter's ability to reduce germ spread. It won Intel's Science and Engineering Fair.\n \nUsing computer simulations, Wang designed a device that can potentially curb disease transmission on planes by optimally directing airflow in a cabin. [Citation: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/14/413656376/science-fair-winner-designs-device-to-cut-virus-spread-on-planes, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nWang, a junior at St. Georges School in Vancouver, predicts the device can \"improve the availability of fresh air in the cabin by 190 percent and reduce the concentration of airborne germs by 55 times.\" [Citation: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/14/413656376/science-fair-winner-designs-device-to-cut-virus-spread-on-planes, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nHe found that the traditional airflow in a cabin continuously throws around contaminated air without giving it a chance to be absorbed into the HEPA filter. Wang's device fixes this by creating \"personalized breathing zones\" for each passenger, he says. It's essentially a wall of air stopping infectious particles from traveling in your personal space. [Citation: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/14/413656376/science-fair-winner-designs-device-to-cut-virus-spread-on-planes, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n\n\"Although Wang is on the right track with his device, Gendreau says, the issue is more complicated than just putting a device in the cabin's air system that will alter the ventilation pattern.\" [Citation: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/14/413656376/science-fair-winner-designs-device-to-cut-virus-spread-on-planes, Accessed: 7/24/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Aviation Design"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Altering Airplane Cabin Airflow Could Limit Viruses"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation537e7f38-0f84-41f5-ab87-794e2db34ea9"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Direct Life Insurance Carriers "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Good insurance companies act fast to help people recover from disasters. A new breed of insurance companies is proactive about helping people avoid disasters. South African agricultural insurance company Santam is funding Living Lands, an international non-profit that plants trees to stop land degradation and restore water catchments. Santam understands that proactive risk management is critical to the long-term sustainability of their industry, as well as of their clients' farms.\n \nRather than sit idly by and watch farmers lose untold acreage of croplands, Santam is working to actively reduce drought risk for its customers by funding Living Lands, an international nonprofit that has been active in South Africa since 2008. Working with government agencies, community organizations, and individual farmers, the project has planted more than 3.7 million trees so far in an effort to stop land degradation and restore the compromised water catchment system. All of this falls under a larger project intended to create a living landscape in the Baviaanskloof. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/south-african-insurance-company-backs-tree-planting-effort-to-reduce-effects-of-drought/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe city of Port Elizabeth, now home to 1.4 million residents, hopes to reap direct benefits from the tree-planting program. The city has doubled in size since 1997 and endured water restrictions on and off since 2007. Baviaanskloof area farmers report the rate of topsoil loss has slowed, indicating the runoff which causes erosion has been reduced. With any luck, Port Elizabeths water supply will also stabilize as the result of this unique approach to risk management. 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The Eagle-360 wheels are 3D printed into a spherical shape, and the manufacturing process relies on customization based on data taken from each driver's commute history. Held in by magnetic levitation, the tires are covered in absorbent ridges meant to prevent hydroplaning. The embedded sensors provide information to cars in the vicinity and inform the wheels when and how to re-align for uniform wearing. Aside from the above-listed advantages, such wheels will help save parking space, fuel, and drivers nerves via a novel version of lateral parking impossible for current cars.\n \nThe wheels are dubbed Eagle-360. According to the concept video, the wheels are held in place by magnetic levitation. Sponge-like grooves in the tries dampen when wet to resist hydroplaning. The spherical wheels shake off excess water like a dog. When dry, the sponge hardens and the wheels are again made for speed. Sensors in the tires read road conditions and communicate them to other cars. The spherical wheels will scan themselves for wear and tear and adjust alignments as needed so that its not wearing down the same strip of the wheel all the time. [Citation: https://www.popsci.com/goodyears-3d-printed-spherical-tire-concept-reinvents-wheel/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nEach set of 3D-printed wheels would be customized to the individual user, based on commute distance, likely weather conditions, and how often they go offroading. Wait, \"user,\" not the driver? Yes. These are made for autonomous, self-driving cars. One side-effect of these wheels, Goodyear hopes, is greater parking efficiency, so existing parking lots can accommodate more cars without taking up any more space. [Citation: https://www.popsci.com/goodyears-3d-printed-spherical-tire-concept-reinvents-wheel/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Vehicle Design"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Reinvented Wheel Features Adaptable Spherical Shape Laced With Sensors"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Sustainable Cities and Communities; Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation787f6b21-4f39-4e9a-b581-7aba8c951bf7"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Google Glasslike products will help optimize pharma supply chains. Companies are using the tech to see remotely, preventing human error or remote-troubleshooting. This means immediate action can be taken rather than slowing the line, saving money and labor. The software could also alert workers of safety issues or offer them procedurals for complex processes. The Google Glass-type tech will be adopted by Apprentice Field Suite, led by Angelo Stracquatanio.\n \nThe companys solution - and its most popular license - is a telepresence app named Tandem, which allows a supervisor working remotely to see what an operator wearing glasses is doing in real-time. The person off-site can communicate by voice and draw in the operators field of vision to point out critical errors. [Citation: https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2015/10/29/Pharma-manufacturers-using-smart-glasses-for-virtual-POV, Accessed: 6/11/2019]\n \nAnother offering allows workers to access standard operating procedures (SOPs) via their glasses, turning pages or watching videos with either a wave of the hand or voice command. This method avoids the possibilities for error associated with using paper SOPs - like printing off the wrong version - and frees up the operators hands for her task. Many operators end up working from memory because holding a binder while operating machinery is too cumbersome, said Stracquatanio. [Citation: https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2015/10/29/Pharma-manufacturers-using-smart-glasses-for-virtual-POV, Accessed: 6/11/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Interactive Electronics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Google Glass-Like Product For Environment, Health And Safety Applications"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0116df0d-344b-48a7-89b4-3f171f63b56f"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Aircraft Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Google is testing millimeter wave technology delivered by drones in New Mexico. The technology promises to deliver high-speed internet wirelessly, although there are many technical challenges to be overcome. The project is known as Skybender and is set to run until July 2016.\n \nIn a secretive project codenamed SkyBender, the technology giant built several prototype transceivers at the isolated spaceport last summer, and is testing them with multiple drones, according to documents obtained under public records laws. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/29/project-skybender-google-drone-tests-internet-spaceport-virgin-galactic, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nBased out of the site near the town called Truth or Consequences, Project SkyBender is using drones to experiment with millimeter-wave radio transmissions, one of the technologies that could underpin next-generation 5G wireless internet access. High-frequency millimeter waves can theoretically transmit gigabits of data every second, up to 40 times more than todays 4G LTE systems. Google ultimately envisages thousands of high altitude self-flying aircraft delivering internet access around the world. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/29/project-skybender-google-drone-tests-internet-spaceport-virgin-galactic, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nThe SkyBender system is being tested with an optionally piloted aircraft called Centaur as well as solar-powered drones made by Google Titan, a division formed when Google acquired New Mexico startup Titan Aerospace in 2014. Titan built high-altitude solar-powered drones with wingspans of up to 50 meters. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/29/project-skybender-google-drone-tests-internet-spaceport-virgin-galactic, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Drone Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Google Millimeter Wave Drone Tests"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Partnerships to achieve the Goal; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation10a8ea4a-3c0d-496a-b10d-c2b47f538206"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Nanotechnology"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Graphene has numerous potential and actual applications, yet its complexity poses many technical challenges. A group of researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory, led by Keith E. Whitener, Jr., has developed a way of transferring single-layer graphene between substrates while retaining its chemical functions. This has potential use in transmission electron microscopy.\n \nSingle-layer graphene chemically reduced by the Birch process delaminates from a Si/SiOx substrate when exposed to an ethanol/water mixture, enabling the transfer of chemically functionalized graphene to arbitrary substrates such as metals, dielectrics, and polymers. Unlike in previous reports, the graphene retains hydrogen, methyl, and aryl functional groups during the transfer process. This enables one to functionalize the receiving substrate with the properties of the chemically modified graphene (CMG). For instance, magnetic force microscopy shows that the previously reported magnetic properties of partially hydrogenated graphene remain after transfer. We also transfer hydrogenated graphene from its copper growth substrate to a Si/SiOx wafer and thermally dehydrogenate it to demonstrate a polymer- and etchant-free graphene transfer for potential use in transmission electron microscopy. Finally, we show that the Birch reduction facilitates delamination of CMG by weakening van der Waals forces between graphene and its substrate. [Citation: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05073, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"General Materials Science"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Graphene Manufacturing Process Improvement"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation58150206-f955-4d88-aa7d-c50c6720ccf5"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Food Crops Grown Under Cover "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Guayulea plant that produces natural rubber could someday compete with the rubber tree plants in Asia. The USDA will have mapped the plant's genome by the end of 2015. Guayule can be bred sexually to make stronger hybrid versions with preferred traits and asexually, essentially cloning itself. If successful, the plant could transform sourcing across industries, but especially for tire manufacturers. Yulex is a company that offers non-sensitizing, high performing, 100% plant-based, specialty natural rubber materials to consumers and brands.\n \nAs we ride from the outskirts of Phoenix to a farm near Maricopa, about 40 miles away, Mathur explains how he and his company, Yulex, hope to break the Asian rubber monopoly using gene sequencing and an unassuming desert plant. It's a long story, and about halfway in, as a way of describing this grand plan, he tells me about his parents. His father was Indian, part of a family stretching back more than a hundred generations in South Asia, and his mother was Latvian, with roots just as deep in Eastern Europe. The chain around his neck is a Latvian heirloom, one of the valuables his mother's family buried outside their home near Riga as Russian troops approached in the opening days of World War II. [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/superplant-may-finally-topple-rubber-monopoly/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Techniques"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Bioengineered Guayule Could Replace Rubber"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationd81661a1-0013-439f-a0d7-f2451794820e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Harvard's Jennifer Lewis and her research team are studying 3D printed materials that evolve in time, without requiring further intervention. They have been experimenting with objects created from cellulose fibers interlaced with acrylamide hydrogel fibers, the latter behaving differently from cellulose when immersed in water. This behavior generates tension in the material, which bends and stretches into pre-planned, predictable shapes. Aiming to perfect the predictive calculations that coordinate the 4D shape evolution, researchers hope to ultimately overcome the current limitations of flat-printed organs by producing artificial hearts that spring into shape after being printed.\n \nJennifer Lewis and her team of researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have been using cellulose fibers from wood pulp to create glowing 3D printed flowers that bend and twist when placed in water. The secret to the flowers shape? The fibers are mixed with a jelly-like substance called acrylamide hydrogel, which expands when wet. Because the fibers can be printed to line up in a specific direction, the gel expands lengthwise, but not sideways. Using mathematical models, the team is able to create crisscross designs, aligning the fibers so that the flowers bend in specific, predetermined shapes. [Citation: https://inhabitat.com/4d-printed-flowers-could-be-the-first-step-toward-a-medical-breakthrough/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Electronics and Computing Materials Science Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Harvard: 4D Materials For Medical Applications"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation57460d37-536b-4d94-8424-272649a956b0"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Headphones allow users to immerse themselves in whatever they're listening to - but that can be a disadvantage or even a danger. Harman has developed Audio Augmented Reality (AAR), which allows users to specify trigger noises which cause the volume of their music to be turned down, and the external noise to be heard. The first application of this would be when the headphone wearer's name is called, but could also be linked to an app that would allow the wearer to specify up to 10 noises he or she wants to hear. The technology may find use in the workplace for environment, health and safety applications.\n \nHarman is debuting its new AAR technology in two pairs of prototype headphones at CES. The AKG N60 headphones are designed to lower the volume of what is being listened to when the wearer's name is called, making them well suited for use in an office. The JBL Everest headphones, meanwhile, have an accompanying app that allows users to specify up to 10 trigger sounds that will be relayed to the listener. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/harman-audio-augmented-reality-headphones/41224/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nHarman says it is planning to run an Indiegogo campaign to evaluate the market potential for the new technology, which it says is about 1-2 years away from being launched in a product. [Citation: https://newatlas.com/harman-audio-augmented-reality-headphones/41224/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Consumer Electronics"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Selective 'Hearing' For Headphones"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"General Retail"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation38c0032b-c291-4781-ba6d-d3ab1e208462"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Motorcycle, Bicycle, and Parts Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Hero MotoCorp located in northeast India is the world's largest two wheeler manufacturer of motorcycles. Situated in the arid region of Rajasthan, their manufacturing plant and parts facility focused on environmental safety. The roof is comprised of greenhouses that hold experimental plants for food production that will someday be used to feed the community. Rainwater captured on the roof acts as an irrigation system for the plants and helps to reduce air conditioning needs. The abundance of vegetation through bio-walls act to filter air impurities and cool the facility. It has solar panels that produce 1.5 megawatts of electricity along with movable louvers, LED lighting and sky-lighting that all work together to save energy."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Building Construction and Design Element Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Motocorp Sustainable Design Manufacturing Plant"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Actual system flight proven through successful mission operations"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Climate Action; Affordable and Clean Energy"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"On the market"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Traction Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0aa47147-df81-495c-86c4-0dd7b288f56e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Hibiscus and pineapple fiber may be materials of aerospace and auto composites in the future. In Malaysia, hibiscus is a commodity plant, and pineapple fibers are available as biomass. Though the bio-hybrids do contain petroleum-based polymers that act as fasteners, bio-sourcing signals a move in transportation industries toward a green chemistry approach. Prototyping and testing could begin in 2018. This research is conducted by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), led by Vice-Chancellor of UPM, Prof. Dato' Dr. Mohd Fauzi Ramlan.\n \nThe research in the use of robotic technology for the manufacturing process and composite material testing was carried out with the cooperation of the Malaysian Aerospace Innovation Centre (AMIC) and the Malaysian campus of the Nottingham University. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-materials-aerospace-automotive-application.html, accessed 2019-June-21]\n \nUPM's role is to identify the plants which are of potential to be used and determine any element of durability contained in the plants such as synthetic fiber which is water-proof and smoke-proof. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-materials-aerospace-automotive-application.html, accessed 2019-June-21]\n\n\"He said the creation of certain components in an airplane would be among the items expected to be produced from the research which tentatively will be ready by 2018. The components, however, will have to undergo several testing to ensure its safety features comply with the standards set by the aviation industry.\" [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-materials-aerospace-automotive-application.html, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Techniques"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Aerospace And Automotive Composite From Tropical Biomass"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Investigation"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Sustainable Cities and Communities; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation297db4c6-6ffc-4b56-b0fb-275f846fbb33"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Nanotechnology"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"High-performance temperature and infrared sensors have been produced using a solvent-free carbon nanotube, commercial pencil graphite, and recyclable, biodegradable paper. The team at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad announced that the sensors perform comparably to those produced using chemicals and clean room processes. This new process shows that electronics can be produced with lower cost, lower environmental impact materials, and techniques.\n \nThe temperature sensor shows a large negative temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) in the range of ?3100 ppm K?1 to ?4900 ppm K?1, which is comparable to available commercial temperature sensors, and activation energy of 34.85 meV. The IR sensor shows a high responsivity of 58.5 V W?1, which is greater than reported IR sensors with similar dimensions. A detailed study of the conduction mechanism in MWCNTs with temperature and the photoresponse with IR illumination was done and it was found that the conduction is due to thermally assisted hopping in-band tails and the photoresponse is bolometric in nature. The successful fabrication of these sensors on cellulose filter paper with comparable performance to existing components indicates that it is possible to fabricate high-performance electronics using low-cost, eco-friendly materials without the need for expensive clean-room processing techniques or harmful chemicals.\" [Citation: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-4484/27/9/095206/meta, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Domestic Appliance Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"High Performance Sensors From Low Impact Materials And Processes"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Commercial and Residential Real Estate"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation4046eb4d-4b40-4b6e-b804-26986bb09c5e"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, and Chemical Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Holograms hold the secrets to the future smart windows, data storage, smartphones, and art. But the expense has limited their ubiquity. Researchers led by Dr. Haider Butt at the University of Birmingham have developed a more affordable method for making holograms: printing them. With a single-pulse laser, they can print 2- or 3D objects on a variety of surfaces relatively fast. To showcase the process, they printed a 2-D signature and 3D coin.\n \nAs the researchers explain in their paper, traditional holography fabrication requires specialized knowledge, expensive equipment, and time-consuming recording techniques. Recently, scientists have developed an alternative technique that uses a laser pulse that is split into two beams to create an interference pattern on a surface, producing the characteristic 3D holographic pattern. However, this approach has its own challenges, as it requires precise alignment of the two laser beams and suffers from low light intensity after beam splitting. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-printable-holograms-widespread.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe scientists demonstrated the new technique by printing a holographic 2D signature and a holographic 3D coin. They expect that the method could be especially useful for printing holograms on sensors and \"smart\" materials that change in response to various stimuli. Printable holograms could also be integrated into smartphones, where, as the researchers explain, they can be used to interpret colorimetric data in pictures. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-printable-holograms-widespread.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Electronics and Computing Materials Science Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Laser-Printed Holograms Could Lead To Bio-Sensing Innovations"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Materials and Manufacturing Advances"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation00c7888a-3601-4252-a837-e466ea890829"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Primary Battery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from NOHMS Technologies, Inc., led by Surya Moganty, are developing a lithium battery that is using the non-flammable ionic liquid. They are trying to create a lithium metal or lithium battery that uses a solid electrolyte.\n \nNOHMs Technologies proposes to develop non-flammable, highly conductive ionic liquid-hybrid electrolytes that overcome safety concerns in Li-ion batteries. These electrolytes operate over a wide temperature range and are electrochemically stable to ensure long battery lifetimes. The proposed technology is based on innovative functional ionic liquid hybrid materials developed by NOHMs Technologies, Inc. They provide a platform for engineering electrolytes with both chemical and interfacial tunability that beyond improving safety, expand the range of available battery form factors available for US Air Force applications as well as military energy needs. Because of the intrinsic wide electrochemical stability windows of NOHMs electrolytes, we propose to use them to significantly enhance the operational temperature range and safety of state of the art, emerging high-voltage Li-ion batteries. [Citation: https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1514093, accessed 2019-June-21]\n\n\"NanoLyte SF Electrolyte is for battery safety improvement. NOHMs New Functional Materials prevents thermal runaway that leads to a battery fire, as shown in this temperature profile of cells undergoing nail puncture testing. Unlike other additives for battery fire prevention, NanoLyte SF Electrolyte has high ionic conductivity and meets the power performance of conventional electrolyte in PHEV cells at various states of charge (SOC).\" [Citation: http://www.nohms.com/products/nanolyte-sf-electrolyte/, accessed 2019-June-21]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Battery Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Lithium Based Battery Uses Nonflammable, Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid or Solid Electrolyte"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2018"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Peace and Justice Strong Institutions"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"CONCEPT"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovationde7ebb4e-c5c2-427c-bf07-49ffbe5ec61d"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Researchers from Biofactura, led by Darryl Sampey, are developing a process to manufacture an Antibody-based Therapy against Sudan Ebola Virus. The Ebola virus can be used in bioterrorism. That is why their goal is to develop a mammalian cell culture-based bioprocess for the rapid manufacture of antibody-based immunotherapy against the Sudan Ebola Virus.\n \nRecently we have observed a massive outbreak of the Ebola virus. This family of viruses causes a significant bioterrorism threat due to the high level of mortality, rate of transmissibility and the lack of an approved vaccine or therapy directed against it. The goal of this proposal is to develop, optimize and scale-up a mammalian cell culture-based bioprocess for the rapid manufacture of antibody-based immunotherapy against the Sudan virus. During this project BioFactura will generate two clonal suspension-adapted cell lines with high levels of specific and volumetric productivity (Qp >30 pcd and 1 g/L, respectively) using the StableFast Biomanufacturing Platform. The system uses a multiplex selection strategy coupled to an innovative means to facilitate high copy number thereby significantly increasing the level of productivity and reducing development timelines. A robotic automation system that enables a high-throughput screening combined with high-resolution imaging will be used to rapidly isolate and document high-performance clones. The innovative methods proposed herein will generate commercial-grade, highly productive mammalian NS0 cell lines that are rapidly scalable in single-use bioreactors for emergency surge supply. At the end of this project, 50 mg of antibodies will be produced from the lead and backup clones for each mAb component. 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From wearables and fabric to wireless devices, the resource to save the grid may come in the form of human biofuels. To harvest human energy, scientists experiments run the gamut from piezoelectric to thermoelectric to enzymatic biofuel cells. Applications include anything from sweatbands that power phones to contact lenses that run on tears for dynamic vision correction."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Medical Devices"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Piezoelectricity: Human Powered Devices"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2012"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Health"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Concept"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Idea Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation9abd3534-1c89-4d40-b260-cbf0ee598a0a"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Ship Building and Repairing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Hydroswarm, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinout, led by Sampriti Bhattacharyya, designs and markets artificial intelligence-enabled underwater drones. The Hydroswarms use swarms of small, autonomous, underwater sensor-equipped robots that can find new sources of oil, prevent illegal smuggling in container ships, or find underwater mines. The \"Autonomous Underwater Vehicle\" (AUV) is designed to work independently or as a swarm. Technologies like the hydroswarm are enabling visibility into areas previously invisible or dangerous for human investigation -- including monitoring and mapping underwater infrastructure whose structural integrity may be at risk.\"\n \nBhattacharyyas underwater device, about the size of a football, had been developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a tool to detect cracks or splits in nuclear reactor tanks. When Bhattacharyya saw that dolphins were being used to detect mines and locate equipment lost underwater, a world of possibilities opened up  among them mapping the ocean floor or scanning the hull of ships for contraband. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/31/the-innovators-hydroswarm-sea-drone-sniffing-out-drugs, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n\n\"Bhattacharyya is developing the prototype of an underwater drone which she hopes will provide a cheap way to map vast swaths of the ocean and chart the underwater landscape.\" [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/31/the-innovators-hydroswarm-sea-drone-sniffing-out-drugs, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n\nThe drones, named Evie (Ellipsoidal Vehicle for Inspection and Exploration), could also be used to search for plane wreckage, such as in the case of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, she says. [Citation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/31/the-innovators-hydroswarm-sea-drone-sniffing-out-drugs, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Drone Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Hydroswarm: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Auv) For Safer And Efficient Infrastructure Exploration And Repair"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Mobility and Transportation Vehicles"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation7a233c3d-c76a-4dbe-84a7-313f2cf168a3"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Nanotechnology"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"HZO! is a nanotechnology company that develops nanotechnology liquids that can help smartphones and other gadgets to survive any water damage and they are developing different technologies that can shield electronics and protect electronics from water. They are the generation of water protection. They offer different nano chemical solutions that can protect electronic components from accidental splashes, sweat, humidity, industrial liquids, and even full submersion.\n \nHZO provides weatherproof solutions for manufacturers and brands seeking to meet the consumer and business demand for product fortification. OEMs and ODMs engaged with HZO are able to maintain flexibility and innovation in product design while achieving scalable, end-to-end manufacturing results. The reality of a warrantable, protected digital device product is possible with HZO. [Citation: https://hzo.com/solutions/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe HZO Spectrum of Protection The HZO Spectrum of Protection is a wide range of PCB Parylene and conformal weatherproofing coating solutions engineered specifically to the needs of your digital devices. Whether it is protected from rain or sweat, to full submersion in water or hazardous chemicals, to weatherproofing against the worlds most corrosive environments  HZO has a PCB Parylene or conformal solution that meets the protection level, budget and manufacturing demands of your digital device. 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They help facilitate deep learning and algorithms that drive facial or language recognition software, but they use less space and less power. Applications include faster and smaller devices without giant data centers. Someday, with digital brains, smartphones and another tech could store its own data.\n\n\"He means the brain of a small rodentor, at least, the digital equivalent. The chips on the inside are designed to behave like neuronsthe basic building blocks of biological brains. Modha says the system in front of us spans 48 million of these artificial nerve cells, roughly the number of neurons packed into the head of a rodent.\" [Citation: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/ibms-rodent-brain-chip-make-phones-hyper-smart/, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n\n\"The architecture can solve a wide class of problems from vision, audition, and multi-sensory fusion, and has the potential to revolutionize the computer industry by integrating the brain-like capability into devices where computation is constrained by power and speed. These systems can efficiently process high-dimensional, noisy sensory data in real-time while consuming orders of magnitude less power than conventional computer architectures.\" [Citation: http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n\n\"On one hand, with portable devices: think smart phones, sensor networks, self-driving automobiles, robots, public safety, medical imaging, real-time video analysis, signal processing, olfactory detection, and digital pathology. On the other hand, with synaptic supercomputers: think multimedia processing on the cloud. In addition, our chip can be used in combination with other cognitive computing technologies to create systems that learn, reason and help humans make better decisions. Over time, our hope is that SyNAPSE will become an integral component of IBM Watson group offerings.\" [Citation: http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml, Accessed: 7/24/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Big Data Innovations"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Chip Architecture Mimics Human Brain"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Technology concept and/or application formulated"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2015"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Information Technology, Data Harvesting and Computing"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Research"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation1dd0258c-0836-4368-bb47-a7d4797895e5"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Testing Laboratories"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Identifying foods contaminated by E.coli and listeria prior to the products reaching consumers has been a challenge for most food manufacturers. The appropriately named Invisible Sentinel devised a test known as Veriflow that sniffs out harmful pathogens' DNA. Easy to use, the test displays one bar for negative and two for positive and what it shows is magnified DNA. Veriflow was tested for 6 months and is 2-3 times faster than similar products, encouraging a high adoption rate among food producers. Furthermore, Invisible Sentinel can set up local labs for $5,000 and teach personnel to use the equipment in under 24 hours.\n \nThe company, Invisible Sentinel, has developed a patented technology called Veriflow that uses a hand-held device to detect the DNA of micro-organisms like E. coli, salmonella and listeria quickly and at a relatively affordable price. The technology has been approved by AOAC International, an association that sets standards for microbial food testing. [Citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/business/smallbusiness/food-testing-start-up-looks-to-stand-out-with-a-new-wrinkle.html?_r=1, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \n \nToday, according to Invisible Sentinel, 114 companies in the United States and more than 50 internationally use the technology at more than 250 different sites in 18 countries. [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160111092600.htm, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n\n\"Invisible Sentinel can set up an in-house lab for about $5,000 and train almost anyone to use it in less than a day. It makes money by selling its proprietary test kits, which cost $240 for a package of 24 tests. The cost of $10 per test is higher than the industry average of $4 to $8, but Invisible Sentinel says competitors charge higher lab equipment costs.\" [Citation: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160111092600.htm, Accessed: 7/16/2019]"},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Food Preparation and Processing"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Invisible Sentinel: A Food Testing Device That Sniffs Microbial DNA"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2016"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Food and Nutrition"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Good Health and Well-being"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6a1a0249-bd95-4f99-a9de-4945f0be1a71"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)"},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"If a patient swallows a pill they can't remember or biological terrorists spread an unknown chemical agent, determining single molecules could be life-saving. Using a specialized form of spectrometry, scientists have discovered a method for identifying one molecule within a chemical compound. Self-assembling gold particles on a metal plate create trap-and-release hotspots that could help scientists detect single molecules.\n \nThe researchers from the University of New South Wales, Swinburne University of Technology, Monash University and the University of Parma in Italy used a chemical and biochemical sensing technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), which is used to understand more about the make-up of materials. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-11-smart-sensor-molecule-chemical-compounds.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe sensor was created using gold nanoparticles which self-assemble onto a gold- and silica-coated silicon base.  This approach means the nanoparticles find the perfect spacing to achieve lots of uniformly distributed hotspots on the surface. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-11-smart-sensor-molecule-chemical-compounds.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \n\"The sensor shows not only a good SERS reproducibility but also the ability to repetitively catch and release molecules for single-molecular sensing,\" postdoctoral fellow at Swinburne's Centre for Micro-Photonics, Dr. Lorenzo Rosa, said. [Citation: https://phys.org/news/2015-11-smart-sensor-molecule-chemical-compounds.html, Accessed: 7/24/2019]\n \nThe technique used in this work has various applications for other measurement and detection systems sensitive to humidity, pH and light. 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Sahara Forest Projects greenhouse in Qatar functions as a closed-loop system, transforming would-be waste into resources(e.g. water drip from pipes as irrigation). They use less water than typical greenhouses, promote the local economy and cut emissions associated with food imports."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Waste Harvesting and Resource Recovery"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Saltwater Greenhouse Model For Water Savings & Improved Agricultural Performance"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"System prototype demonstration in an operational environment"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2014"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Ecological Health and Improvement"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Zero Hunger; Clean Water and Sanitation"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"In commercial development"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Validation Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation0e6ac192-9e42-4d27-81bc-f53a93f37dd9"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"Illinois-based Impossible Objects has developed an inkjet printer that deposits a solution onto carbon fiber sheets, then polymer powder is added to the solution, and the whole is then heated and sandblasted to produce carbon fiber parts. The company was able to also launch a unique 3D printing approach called a composite 3D Printer with their Fortune 500 Customers which includes global manufacturing company Jabil.\n \nThe ability to print carbon-fiber parts will make 3-D printing much more useful for many industries, according to Robert Swartz, chairman, founder, and chief technology officer for Chicago-based startup Impossible Objects. Most of the plastic parts made using existing 3-D printing technologies dont perform well enough to be used, say, in a drone. Theres a real need for functionality, says Swartz, and that requires better materials. [Citation: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/546046/is-3-d-printing-the-key-to-cheap-carbon-fiber-parts/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nImpossible Objects developed a process that avoids the need to print carbon fiber. Instead, it begins with sheets of carbon fiber. On top of each sheet, an inkjet printer deposits a clear solution in precise design, according to digital instructions. Polymer powder is added, and it sticks to the printed design. The sheets are stacked and heated, causing the polymer to melt and bond to the fiber. A final sandblasting step removes the parts of the fiber sheets that arent bonded to the polymer. Impossible Objects makes parts to order, and is developing a machine it could sell to businesses that want to use the process to make their own parts. 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Three years later, another $100 million. And yet, no one seems to have any idea what the heck Gogoro does. Until now."},"ISICs":{"type":"literal","value":""},"CommonNames":{"type":"literal","value":"Battery Technology"},"Name":{"type":"literal","value":"Battery Swapping And Data Sharing For Electric Scooter Users"},"TRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept"},"emails":{"type":"literal","value":""},"year_of_innovation":{"type":"literal","value":"2011"},"officeNumbers":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BetaCategories":{"type":"literal","value":"Energy"},"UNSGs":{"type":"literal","value":"Affordable and Clean Energy; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"},"developmentStage":{"type":"literal","value":"Prototype"},"Organizations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"org_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"innovator_locations":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Material_Ingredients":{"type":"literal","value":""},"websites":{"type":"literal","value":""},"Innovators":{"type":"literal","value":""},"BRL":{"type":"literal","value":"Research Stage"}},{"innovation":{"type":"uri","value":"http://graphdb-service:80/repositories/dmass#Innovation6a2b1015-5f8a-407a-90fd-0fb0f8a57b4b"},"Industries":{"type":"literal","value":"Storage Battery Manufacturing "},"Description":{"type":"literal","value":"In 2016, car manufacturer Daimler will re-use the defunct lithium-ion batteries from e-vehicles for renewable energy storage. Essentially, the German facility with its 13MWhwill stabilizes the grid during outages instead of having it revert to fossil fuels. This extends the life of the part, reduces waste, helps meet customer demands and adds a potential revenue stream.\n \n\"Depending on the model, Daimler AG guarantees its electric vehicle customers a battery life of up to ten years,  the company wrote in a press release. \"However, the battery systems are still fully operational after this point, as the low levels of power loss are only of minor importance when used in stationary storage. It is estimated that the unit can operate efficiently in a stationary application for at least another ten years.\" [Citation: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/daimler-is-reusing-electric-vehicle-batteries-to-store-renewable-energy/, Accessed: 7/16/2019]\n \nThe company also noted that its working with a number of other companies to get the project off the groundits not as simple as wiring together a bunch of old batteries and calling it a day. Daimler said its subsidiary Accumotive will reprocess about 1,000 old lithium-ion batteries, wiring them into groups of 46, with each group providing 600kWh of energy. The storage unit will offer state-of-the-art battery management (according to Daimlers press release) and a water cooling system. 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