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Mason Group Website: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/Mason/BACKGROUNDNanoemulsions are oil-in-water (or vice versa) suspensions of nanoscale droplets that range in size from 15 to 100 nm and have a variety of applications including drug delivery, agriculture, personal care and food products. Nanoemulsions have many advantages over traditional...

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

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Category(s): Chemical > Instrumentation & Analysis, Chemical, Chemical > Emulsions, Chemical > Synthesis, Life Science Research Tools > Microfluidics And Mems, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies, Platforms > Drug Delivery, Platforms > Drug Delivery > Nanoparticles, Chemical > Chemical Processing & Manufacturing, Materials > Nanotechnology

Measuring Size Distributions of Small-Scale Objects

UC Case No. 2013-900Summary Dr. Thomas Mason and colleagues at UCLA have created a kit, method, and algorithm for measuring size distributions and pH-dependent electrophoretic mobility distributions, thereby revealing types of stabilizing surface groups, of dispersions of small-scale colloidal objects, including nanoparticles and nanoemulsions. Background...

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

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Category(s): Materials > Nanotechnology

2007-574 Process for Creating Stable Double Emulsions

SUMMARYUCLA Researchers in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Bioengineering have developed a process for creating double emulsions (droplets within droplets) for applications in pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, cosmetics, and personal care products. By contrast to more common double emulsions that have microscale droplet sizes, UCLA researchers...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Timothy Deming, Connie Wilking, Sara Harvey, Jarrod Hanson

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Category(s): Materials > Functional Materials

2008-625 Process for Recycling Surfactant In Nanoemulsion Production

SUMMARYUCLA researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a novel method to separate and recycle surfactants used in the manufacturing of nanoemulsions.BACKGROUNDNanoemulsions are oil-in-water (or vice versa) suspensions of nanoscale droplets that range in size from 15 to 100 nm, and have applications in drug delivery, as...

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

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Category(s): Chemical > Coatings, Adhesives & Inks

2014-182 Method of Making Multicomponent Nanoemulsions

SUMMARYResearchers from UCLA's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry have developed a novel method of making deformable, multicomponent oil-in-water nanoemulsions to create a single delivery system for multiple drugs or other insoluble molecules. Background A recent analysis estimates that the current cost of developing a new drug is approximately...

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

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Category(s): Chemical, Chemical > Emulsions

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

2019-545 REACTING MOLECULES AND COLLOIDS ELECTROPHORETICALLY

Reacting Molecules and Colloids ElectrophoreticallyUC Case No. 2019-545 SUMMARY:Researchers in UCLA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have harnessed gel electrophoresis in order to direct and program controlled collisional reactions between pulse-like bands of molecules and/or colloidal reagent species. BACKGROUND:Gel electrophoresis is a...

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

Keywords(s): Life Science Research Tools, Mechanical Systems, Microfluidics And Mem's, Research Methods, Targets And Assays

Category(s): Life Science Research Tools > Research Methods, Mechanical > Mechanical Systems, Diagnostic Markers > Targets And Assays, Life Science Research Tools > Microfluidics And Mems, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies

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

2013-076 Improved Treatment of Acute Metabolic Acidosis

Improved Treatment of Acute Metabolic AcidosisSUMMARYProfessors Thomas Mason and Jeffrey Kraut in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and School of Medicine, respectively, have developed improved materials and methods of treating acute metabolic acidosis.BACKGROUNDMetabolic acidosis is a condition in which blood pH becomes abnormally acidic. It can...

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

Keywords(s): Endocrinology, Metabolic Diseases, Therapeutics & Vaccines

Category(s): Therapeutics, Therapeutics > Metabolism And Endocrinology

Novel Multi-Scale Pre-Assembled Phases of Matter

UCLA Case No. 2018-362 SUMMARY UCLA researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and Physics have developed a novel method for creating multi-scale pre-assembled phases of matter with customizable symmetries, topologies, and degrees of order and disorder.BACKGROUNDMicroscale and nanoscale structures are important to many applications including biosensors,...

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

Keywords(s): Chemical Manufacturing & Industrial/Bulk Chemicals, Construction Materials, Software & Algorithms, Software Development Tools

Category(s): Software & Algorithms, Chemical > Industrial & Bulk Chemicals