Patents by Inventor Elsa Reichmanis
Elsa Reichmanis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230268493Abstract: A composite electrode comprising a charge-conducting material, a charge-providing material bound to the charge-conducting material, and a plurality of single-walled carbon nanotubes bound to a surface of the charge-providing material. High-capacity electroactive materials that assure high performance are a prerequisite for ubiquitous adoption of technologies that require high energy/power density lithium (Li)-ion batteries, such as smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices and electric vehicles (EVs). Improved electrode performance and lifetimes are desirable. The disclosed electrode can have a Coulombic efficiency of 99% or greater, and a stable capacity retention after 100 cycles or more. Methods of making a composite electrode are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Yo Han Kwon, Elsa Reichmanis
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Patent number: 11699785Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite electrode comprising a charge-conducting material, a charge-providing material bound to the charge-conducting material, and a plurality of single-walled carbon nanotubes bound to a surface of the charge-providing material. High-capacity electroactive materials that assure high performance are a prerequisite for ubiquitous adoption of technologies that require high energy/power density lithium (Li)-ion batteries, such as smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices and electric vehicles (EVs). Improved electrode performance and lifetimes are desirable. The disclosed electrode can have a Coulombic efficiency of 99% or greater, and a stable capacity retention after 100 cycles or more. Also disclosed herein are methods of making a composite electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Yo Han Kwon, Elsa Reichmanis
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Publication number: 20230038915Abstract: Devices and methods relating to stretchable electronics. A stretchable electronic film includes an insulating polymer and less than 1 wt % of a semiconducting polymer. Manufacturing a multi-layered, stretchable electronic device characterized by a single peel-off step for integrating the components of the device rather than a multi-peel synthesis of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Guoyan ZHANG, Michael MCBRIDE, Ping-Hsun CHU, Elsa REICHMANIS, Nils Erland PERSSON
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Patent number: 11508919Abstract: Devices and methods relating stretchable electronics are disclosed. Some disclosed embodiments relate to a stretchable electronic film comprising an insulating polymer and less than 1 wt % of a semiconducting polymer. Other disclosed embodiments relate to manufacturing a multi-layered, stretchable electronic device characterized by a single peel-off step for integrating all components of the device rather than a multi-peel synthesis of the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Guoyan Zhang, Michael McBride, Ping-Hsun Chu, Elsa Reichmanis, Nils Erland Persson
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Publication number: 20210075007Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite electrode comprising a charge-conducting material, a charge-providing material bound to the charge-conducting material, and a plurality of single-walled carbon nanotubes bound to a surface of the charge-providing material. High-capacity electroactive materials that assure high performance are a prerequisite for ubiquitous adoption of technologies that require high energy/power density lithium (Li)-ion batteries, such as smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices and electric vehicles (EVs). Improved electrode performance and lifetimes are desirable. The disclosed electrode can have a Coulombic efficiency of 99% or greater, and a stable capacity retention after 100 cycles or more. Also disclosed herein are methods of making a composite electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Yo Han Kwon, Elsa Reichmanis
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Publication number: 20200381637Abstract: Devices and methods relating stretchable electronics are disclosed. Some disclosed embodiments relate to a stretchable electronic film comprising an insulating polymer and less than 1 wt % of a semiconducting polymer. Other disclosed embodiments relate to manufacturing a multi-layered, stretchable electronic device characterized by a single peel-off step for integrating all components of the device rather than a multi-peel synthesis of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Guoyan ZHANG, Michael MCBRIDE, Ping-Hsun CHU, Elsa REICHMANIS, Nils Erland PERSSON
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Patent number: 9236160Abstract: Described herein are improved methods of forming polymer films, the polymer films formed thereby, and electronic devices formed form the polymer films. The methods generally include contacting a polymer with a solvent to at least partially solvate the polymer in the solvent, exposing the at least partially solvated polymer and solvent to ultrasonic energy for a duration effective to form a plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer in the solvent, and forming a solid film of the polymer, wherein the solid film comprises the plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Avishek Aiyar, Rakesh Nambiar, David M. Collard, Elsa Reichmanis
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Publication number: 20140046012Abstract: Described herein are improved methods of forming polymer films, the polymer films formed thereby, and electronic devices formed form the polymer films. The methods generally include contacting a polymer with a solvent to at least partially solvate the polymer in the solvent, exposing the at least partially solvated polymer and solvent to ultrasonic energy for a duration effective to form a plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer in the solvent, and forming a solid film of the polymer, wherein the solid film comprises the plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Avishek Aiyar, Rakesh Nambiar, David Collard, Elsa Reichmanis
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Patent number: 8603705Abstract: Described herein are improved methods of forming polymer films, the polymer films formed thereby, and electronic devices formed form the polymer films. The methods generally include contacting a polymer with a solvent to at least partially solvate the polymer in the solvent, exposing the at least partially solvated polymer and solvent to ultrasonic energy for a duration effective to form a plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer in the solvent, and forming a solid film of the polymer, wherein the solid film comprises the plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Avishek Aiyar, Rakesh Nambiar, David Collard, Elsa Reichmanis
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Publication number: 20120088901Abstract: Described herein are improved methods of forming polymer films, the polymer films formed thereby, and electronic devices formed form the polymer films. The methods generally include contacting a polymer with a solvent to at least partially solvate the polymer in the solvent, exposing the at least partially solvated polymer and solvent to ultrasonic energy for a duration effective to form a plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer in the solvent, and forming a solid film of the polymer, wherein the solid film comprises the plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Avishek Aiyar, Rakesh Nambiar, David Collard, Elsa Reichmanis
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Patent number: 7569415Abstract: Techniques including steps of: providing a support body; forming an organic semiconductor composition body including an organic semiconductor composition on the support body, no more than 10% by weight of the organic semiconductor composition being pentacene; providing a first organic dielectric composition mobilized in a first liquid medium, the organic semiconductor composition being insoluble in the first liquid medium; and forming a first organic dielectric composition body from the first organic dielectric composition on the organic semiconductor composition body. Techniques in which an organic semiconductor composition body is formed on an organic dielectric composition body. Apparatus having an organic dielectric composition body on an organic semiconductor composition body.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignees: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., BASF Societas EuropaeaInventors: Florian Dötz, Howard E. Katz, Jimmy Granstrom, Elsa Reichmanis, Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Ingolf Hennig, Frauke Richter
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Patent number: 7488834Abstract: A molecule including a chain-like core region having two ends and having at least three conjugated aromatic rings; and including at the two ends, branched groups R1 and R2 respectively, each including a C5- to C20-alkyl group. A semiconducting composition including the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignees: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., BASF Societas EuropeaInventors: Florian Dötz, Howard E. Katz, Elsa Reichmanis, Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Ingolf Hennig
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Patent number: 7309876Abstract: A composition, comprising organic polymer molecules, and organic nonpolymeric molecules, wherein the composition is a semiconducting solid. The composition includes a distribution of crystal domains of the polymer molecules and inter-domain regions between the crystal domains, a concentration of polymer molecules being higher in the crystal domains than in the inter-domain regions, and a concentration of nonpolymeric molecules being higher in the inter-domain regions than in the crystal domains.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Elsa Reichmanis, Oleksander Sydorenko, Subramanian Vaidyanathan
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Publication number: 20070178374Abstract: An apparatus comprising a stack of layers, each of the layers having one or two surfaces that contact neighboring ones of the layers. At least one of the layers comprises a mesh layer, and, a shear thickening fluid is located within the mesh layer or in another layer of the stack of layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2006Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Elsa Reichmanis, Oleksander Sydorenko, Brijesh Vyas
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Publication number: 20070158646Abstract: A composition, comprising organic polymer molecules, and organic nonpolymeric molecules, wherein the composition is a semiconducting solid. The composition includes a distribution of crystal domains of the polymer molecules and inter-domain regions between the crystal domains, a concentration of polymer molecules being higher in the crystal domains than in the inter-domain regions, and a concentration of nonpolymeric molecules being higher in the inter-domain regions than in the crystal domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Elsa Reichmanis, Oleksander Sydorenko, Subramanian Vaidyanathan
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Publication number: 20070074540Abstract: Techniques for producing a glass structure having interconnected macroscopic pores, including providing a polymeric structure having interconnected macroscopic pores; providing polymerizable glass precursors; filling pores in the polymeric structure with the polymerizable glass precursors; polymerizing the polymerizable glass precursors to yield a filled polymeric structure; and decomposing the filled polymeric structure to produce a glass structure having interconnected macroscopic pores. Techniques for filling pores of such glass structure with a material having a high refractive index, and for then removing the glass structure. Structures can be produced having interconnected macroscopic pores and high refractive index contrasts, which can be used, for example, as photonic band gaps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: Lucent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gang Chen, Ronen Rapaport, Elsa Reichmanis, Shu Yang
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Publication number: 20070078267Abstract: A molecule including a chain-like core region having two ends and having at least three conjugated aromatic rings; and including at the two ends, branched groups R1 and R2 respectively, each including a C5- to C20-alkyl group. A semiconducting composition including the molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 5, 2007Inventors: Florian Dotz, Howard Katz, Elsa Reichmanis, Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Ingolf Hennig
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Publication number: 20070077681Abstract: Techniques including steps of: providing a support body; forming an organic semiconductor composition body including an organic semiconductor composition on the support body, no more than 10% by weight of the organic semiconductor composition being pentacene; providing a first organic dielectric composition mobilized in a first liquid medium, the organic semiconductor composition being insoluble in the first liquid medium; and forming a first organic dielectric composition body from the first organic dielectric composition on the organic semiconductor composition body. Techniques in which an organic semiconductor composition body is formed on an organic dielectric composition body. Apparatus having an organic dielectric composition body on an organic semiconductor composition body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 5, 2007Inventors: Florian Dotz, Howard Katz, Jimmy Granstrom, Elsa Reichmanis, Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Ingolf Hennig, Frauke Richter
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Patent number: 7168266Abstract: Techniques for producing a glass structure having interconnected macroscopic pores, employing steps of filling polymerizable glass precursors into pores in a polymeric structure having interconnected macroscopic pores; polymerizing the precursors; and decomposing the polymers to produce a glass oxide structure having interconnected macroscopic pores. Further techniques employ steps of exposing portions of a photosensitive medium including glass precursors to an optical interference pattern; polymerizing or photodeprotecting the exposed portions and removing unpolymerized or deprotected portions; and decomposing the polymerized or deprotected portions to produce a glass structure having interconnected macroscopic pores. Techniques for filling pores of such glass structure with a material having a high refractive index, and for then removing the glass structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Gang Chen, Ronen Rapaport, Elsa Reichmanis, Shu Yang
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Publication number: 20060099536Abstract: A process for forming a polymer template includes exposing a photoresist having polymer molecules to a light pattern and baking the photoresist to chemically react polymer molecules in portions of the photoresist that were exposed to light of the light pattern. The reacted polymer molecules have a different solubility in a solvent than chemically unreacted polymer molecules. The process also includes washing the baked photoresist with the solvent to produce a porous structure by selectively solvating one of the reacted polymer molecules and the unreacted polymer molecules. The porous structure can be used as template for forming porous structures of high refractive index materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Inventors: Elsa Reichmanis, Shu Yang