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Thin Bilayer Paints to Enable Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling (Case No. 2026-014)

Intro Sentence: UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have formulated a novel bilayer coating that enables high-performance passive daytime radiative cooling. Background: Conventional technologies for cooling buildings are highly energy-intensive, consuming about 19% of U.S. residential electricity and contributing...

Published: 11/17/2025 | Inventor(s): Aaswath Raman, Aryan Zaveri, Justin Louie

Keywords(s): advanced thermal control materials, advanced thermal paint, alternative cooling, background radiation, concentrated solar radiation, energy conversion, energy conversion applications, Energy Efficiency, Energy Generation & Storage, Energy Generation, Transmission, or Storage, energy management, Energy Management System, energy-efficient cooling, heat dissipation, infrared (IR) radiation, infrared-reflectance, Paint, paint architecture, passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC), photothermal materials, pigmented coating, real-time thermal management, Renewable Energy, Renewable energy sources, solar reflectance, thermal control, thermal control materials, Thermal Energy Storage, thermal management, thermal management systems, thermal metamaterials, thermal stability, ultraviolet reflectance, visible reflectance

Category(s): Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Transmission, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Chemical, Chemical > Coatings, Adhesives & Inks, Chemical > Industrial & Bulk Chemicals, Energy & Environment > Thermal

Charge Storage Device Architecture for Increased Energy and Power Density (Case No. 2009-392)

Summary: UCLA researchers have developed a novel electrochemical capacitive energy storage device with high energy and power density, addressing limitations in current energy storage technologies and meeting the demands of increasing electrification. Background: Current energy storage devices, such as lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors,...

Published: 10/24/2025 | Inventor(s): Bruce Dunn, George Gruner, John Wang, Sarah Tolbert, Torsten Brezesinski

Keywords(s): battery-less, battery-less IoT, Capacitor, Charge Carrier, charge collection efficiency, charge extraction, charge sharing, charge summing, charge-transfer, clean energy, electric vehicle charging, energy conversion, Energy Density, Energy Efficiency, Energy Harvesting, energy management, Energy Management System, Energy positive, energy-efficient, grid energy, Lithium Battery, Lithium-Ion Battery, material characterization, Nanoelectronics, Nanomaterials, Nanoparticles, Nanostructure, nanostructured materials, Nanotechnology, Rechargeable Battery, Rechargeable Battery Thermal Conductivity, Renewable Energy, Renewable energy sources, Solar Energy, supercharger, Surface Charge, Thermal Energy Storage, wireless energy harvesting

Category(s): Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage, Electrical, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors

Functional Allometric Structure Thermal Storage (FAST-Storage) (Case No. 2022-240)

Summary: Researchers in UCLA’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed an innovative thermal storage system that dynamically adapts to thermal fluctuations of phase change materials, significantly enhancing heat transfer efficiency. Background: Phase change materials (PCMs) are used to store and release thermal energy...

Published: 2/24/2025 | Inventor(s): Hossein Kavehpour, Jonathan Hopkins, Leyla Mirmomen

Keywords(s): Consumer Electronics, efficiency enhancement, Energy Density, Energy Efficiency, Energy Generation & Storage, Energy Generation, Transmission, or Storage, energy management, energy-efficient, heat control, heat controlling devices, Heat Transfer, phase change materials, Thermal Energy Storage, thermal management systems, thermal stability

Category(s): Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage, Energy & Environment > Thermal, Mechanical > Heat Transfer, Mechanical

Synaptic Circuits Made From Transistors and Memory Capacitors (UCLA Case No. 2023-092)

Summary: UCLA researchers from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a novel circuit architecture that emulates neural synapses for concurrent parallel computing. Background: Almost all modern computer chips consist of computing and learning processes that are implemented sequentially. To improve computing power,...

Published: 8/20/2025 | Inventor(s): Yong Chen, Zixuan Rong

Keywords(s): Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, Artifical Intelligence (Machine Learning, Data Mining), artificial electromagnetic materials, Artificial Intelligence, artificial intelligence augmentation, Artificial Neural Network, Artificial Neural Network Artificial Neuron, artificial-intelligent materials, autonomous control, computational efficiency, edge computing, Electronics & Semiconductors, Energy Efficiency, energy management, Integrated Circuit, Medical artificial intelligence (AI), Neuromorphic circuits, parallel processing, parallel signal processing, processor design, Semiconductor, semiconductor chip foundries, Semiconductor Device, Semiconductors, synaptic resistor (synstor)

Category(s): Electrical, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Electrical > Signal Processing, Materials, Materials > Semiconducting Materials, Software & Algorithms, Software & Algorithms > Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning