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2022-276 A Self-Powered Bioelectronic Stent Sensor for Postoperative Blood Flow Rate Monitoring

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Bioengineering have developed a miniaturized bioelectronic stent sensor that provides continuous, real-time, and reliable hemodynamic monitoring. Background: Diseases caused by arterial atherosclerosis are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, affecting over 4.6 million...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Jun Chen, Geoffrey Colby, Guorui Chen

Keywords(s): Atherosclerosis, Biomaterial 3D Printing, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiovascular, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Rate , Medical Device, Medical Devices and Materials, Medical Physics , Nanotechnology, Sensors, Smart medical device, Stent, wearable medical device

Category(s): Mechanical, Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Medical Devices, Electrical > Mems

2007-405 Massively Parallel Assembly of Composite Structures using Depletion Attractions

Summary: Scientists in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA have identified a way to selectively order and assemble solid microcomponents dispersed in liquids into larger composite devices using attractive interactions that are geometry-dependent. This technique enables the systematic parallel fabrication of complex microstructures...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Thomas Mason

Keywords(s): Composite Material, Composite Materials, Lithography, Manufacturing, MEMS, Microelectronics, Microelectronics Semiconductor Device Fabrication, Nanotechnology

Category(s): Materials > Composite Materials, Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Mechanical, Electrical > Mems

SHAPE-CONTROLLED PARTICLES HAVING SUBPARTICLE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES

SHAPE-CONTROLLED PARTICLES HAVING SUBPARTICLE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES UCLA Case No. 2015-375 SUMMARY UCLA researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a photolithographic method for the high-throughput, parallel production of microscale and nanoscale objects with tailored shapes and dimensions using a single photomask. BACKGROUNDThe...

Published: 11/22/2023 | Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Kenny Mayoral

Keywords(s): MEMS, Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology

Category(s): Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Electrical > Mems, Platforms > Drug Delivery > Nanoparticles

2009-438 Localized Droplet Heating with Surface Electrodes in Microfluidic Chips

Localized Droplet Heating with Surface Electrodes in Microfluidic ChipsSUMMARYResearchers at UCLA have developed a low-cost, fully miniaturized lab-on-a-chip system that is capable of localized temperature control without the need to interface with macroscale tubes, thus taking full advantage of miniaturization via microfluidic protocols.BACKGROUNDMicrofluidics...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Chang-Jin Kim, Wyatt Nelson

Keywords(s): Diagnostic Platform Technologies (E.G. Microfluidics), MEMS, Microfluidics And Mem's

Category(s): Life Science Research Tools > Microfluidics And Mems, Electrical > Mems, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies

Plasma-Functionalized Bandpass Switch

SummaryUCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a device that combines the performance of a bandpass filter and gas-discharge switch into a single device.BackgroundModern technology has led to great signal interference between devices. To navigate through congested signaling networks, devices must filter...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s):

Keywords(s): Electronics & Semiconductors, Mechanical Systems, MEMS

Category(s): Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Mechanical > Mechanical Systems, Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Electrical > Mems

2010-309 Membraneless Fuel Cell with Self-Pumped Fuel and Oxidant

Membraneless Fuel Cell with Self-Pumped Fuel and OxidantSUMMARYResearchers at UCLA have developed a miniaturized membraneless fuel-cell system where the whole system can be reduced down to the millimeter scale without sacrificing output power.BACKGROUNDFuel cells are promising energy sources with higher theoretical energy densities than batteries. Despite...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Chang-Jin Kim, Janet Hur, Desheng Meng

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Category(s): Chemical, Mechanical, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage, Electrical > Mems

2018-449 An Actuator Device Driven by Electrostatic Forces

SUMMARY Researchers in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed an electrostatically actuated device with reversible high-frequency operation that consumes low power and has low fabrication costs. BACKGROUND Actuated devices, which use an input force to cause a desired motion, have numerous applications. For instance,...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Qibing Pei, Rujun Ma, Ziyang Zhang

Keywords(s): Mechanical Systems, MEMS

Category(s): Mechanical > Mechanical Systems, Electrical > Mems