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Mucus Targeting Particles (MTPs) Technology for Sustained Drug Delivery Applications (UCLA Case No. 2020-809)

UCLA researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have developed a robust nanoparticle technology for effective, sustained-release ocular drug delivery. BACKGROUND: Topically applied therapeutics are the common mode of delivery for treating ocular diseases, ranging from chronic conditions like glaucoma to acute inflammation...

Published: 10/24/2025 | Inventor(s): Nasim Annabi, Shima Gholizadeh, Reza Dana

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Category(s): Therapeutics > Ophthalmology, Materials > Nanotechnology, Platforms > Drug Delivery

Antibiotic Drug Eluting Patches for Treatment of Ocular Inflammation (UCLA Case No. 2022-157)

UCLA researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have developed an antibiotic drug eluting patch to treat eye diseases, including ocular infection and inflammation. It offers sustained drug delivery to enhance biocompatibility and antimicrobial effectiveness, and provides a localized, noninvasive, and patient-compliant method...

Published: 10/24/2025 | Inventor(s): Nasim Annabi, Shima Gholizadeh, Yangcheng Liu

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Category(s): Therapeutics > Ophthalmology, Chemical > Polymers, Materials > Nanotechnology

Doping of Thorium-229 Into High Bandgap Metal Sulfate Material (Case No. 2025-99Y)

Summary: A UCLA researcher in the Department of Physics has developed a novel method for creating high-bandgap materials doped with thorium-229, enabling the development of advanced nuclear clocks. Background: Thorium-229 is the only known isotope with a nuclear transition low enough to be measured using conventional optical techniques. The combination...

Published: 10/9/2025 | Inventor(s): Eric Hudson

Keywords(s): Clock Signal, high-powered laser systems, Laser, laser alignment, Laser Diode, lasers

Category(s): Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Optics & Photonics, Optics & Photonics > Lasers, Electrical, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Electrical > Signal Processing, Electrical > Sensors, Electrical > Instrumentation, Electrical > Quantum Computing, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Thermal, Materials > Nanotechnology, Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Materials > Semiconducting Materials

Spectral Kernel Machines With Electrically Tunable Photodetectors (Case No. 2025-105)

Summary: Spectral machine vision traditionally acquires dense 3D hypercubes (x, y, λ) of spatial and spectral information, which must be processed downstream. This imposes major computational burdens, tradeoffs in spatial/spectral resolution, frame rate, and power. The innovation embodied in spectral kernel machines (SKM) is a photodetector...

Published: 10/3/2025 | Inventor(s): Aydogan Ozcan, Yuhang Li, Dehui Zhang, Ali Javey

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Category(s): Optics & Photonics, Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Materials > Functional Materials

A Nanoengineered Immunosensor to Detect Multiple Circulating Biomarkers for Rapid Prediction of Acute Thrombosis (UCLA Case No. 2025-015)

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Published: 9/24/2025 | Inventor(s): Tzung Hsiai

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Category(s): Diagnostic Markers, Materials > Nanotechnology, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies, Therapeutics > Cardiovascular

Open Metal-Organic Frameworks With Exceptional Pore Apertures for Inclusion of Large Molecules (Case No. 2012-216)

Summary UCLA researchers have developed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)/isoreticular MOFs (IRMOFs) that have exceptionally large pore apertures, enabling improved capacity and performance in gas storage, separation, and related applications. Background MOFs are porous crystalline materials made of metal nodes and organic linkers; large aperture pores...

Published: 9/22/2025 | Inventor(s): Omar Yaghi, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Hexiang Deng

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Category(s): Materials, Materials > Metals, Materials > Functional Materials, Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Materials > Nanotechnology, Mechanical, Mechanical > Manufacturing

Lithography-Based 3D Microbattery (Case No. 2015-524)

Summary UCLA researchers have developed a 3D microbattery design that significantly increases energy storage for small-footprint devices. The battery uses a substrate with an array of vertical posts forming the first electrode, a conformal selectively-cured electrolyte coating, and a second electrode encasing the coated first electrode, yielding higher...

Published: 10/24/2025 | Inventor(s): Bruce Dunn, CJ Kim, Janet Hur, Leland Smith

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Category(s): Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Optics & Photonics, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Transmission, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage > Batteries, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage

Metal Chalcogenides for Pseudocapacitive Applications (Case No. 2016-178)

Summary Researchers at UCLA have developed nanocrystalline, defect-rich metal dichalcogenide materials with expanded interlayer spacing that enable pseudocapacitive charge storage for Li⁺, Na⁺, Mg²⁺, and Ca²⁺ ion systems. These materials deliver high rate performance, suppress deleterious phase transformations, and enable fast charging/discharging...

Published: 9/15/2025 | Inventor(s): Sarah Tolbert, Bruce Dunn, John Cook, Hyungseok Kim

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Category(s): Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Materials > Metals, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage > Batteries, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage

Nanocomposite Scintillators (Case No. 2024-203)

Summary UCLA researchers have developed a nanocomposite scintillator material combining high-atomic-number (high-Z) nanoparticles embedded in a plastic (polymer) matrix, with tunable nanoparticle loading, that delivers higher light output and ultrafast emission (nanosecond-scale) while maintaining low background radiation and environmental stability,...

Published: 9/15/2025 | Inventor(s): Qibing Pei, Ziqing Han, Isabelle Winardi

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Category(s): Electrical, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Materials > Functional Materials, Optics & Photonics, Optics & Photonics > Spectroscopy

Online Quantum Process Tomography for Orthogonal Random Unitary Channels (Case No. 2024-078)

Summary UCLA researchers have developed a new method for online quantum process tomography (QPT) that efficiently characterizes orthogonal random unitary channels, extending beyond Pauli channels to capture both incoherent and coherent noise effects in quantum devices. This approach combines efficient Pauli channel tomography with an online-learning...

Published: 9/26/2025 | Inventor(s): Prineha Narang, Scott Smart, Alexander Jurgens

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Category(s): Optics & Photonics, Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Electrical, Electrical > Quantum Computing, Electrical > Signal Processing

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