Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide booster mechanisms suitable for a liquid container. The booster mechanism may include a liquid storage assembly. A tail end of the liquid storage assembly may be provided with a strike space. The strike space may be provided with a movable assembly. The movable assembly may be capable of performing an axial movement along the strike space. The tail end of the movable assembly may be provided with a booster assembly and a deformation space. A front end of the booster assembly may be provided with a deformation trigger assembly. A deformation gap may be between the deformation space and the deformation trigger assembly.

Abstract: A seating device has a seating platform and at least one leg supporting it in its elevated position.

Abstract: A seating device has a seating platform and at least one leg supporting it in its elevated position.

Abstract: A gas storage assembly that has an enclosure within which are disposed at least about 100 inorganic tubules are present for each cubic micron of volume of the enclosure. The assembly has a storage capacity of at least 20 grams of hydrogen per liter of volume of the enclosure.

Abstract: An assembly for shielding an implanted medical device from the effects of high-frequency radiation and for emitting magnetic resonance signals during magnetic resonance imaging. The assembly includes an implanted medical device and a magnetic shield comprised of nanomagnetic material disposed between the medical device and the high-frequency radiation. In one embodiment, the magnetic resonance signals are detected by a receiver, which is thus able to locate the implanted medical device within a biological organism.

Abstract: Disclosed in this specification is an apparatus for storing hydrogen which is comprised of molecular hydrogen, halloysite rods, and a supporting substrate wherein hydrogen is stored within the lumen of the halloysite rods.

Abstract: Filter and/or absorbent materials comprising an open cell foam having a surface, wherein the surface of the open cell foam is at least partially coated with a layer comprising photocatalytic titanium dioxide; methods for making such materials comprising: (a) providing a mixture comprising photocatalytic titanium dioxide in a binder; (b) immersing an open cell foam article in the mixture; (c) removing the article from the mixture and removing excess mixture from the article; and methods of treating gases or liquids by passing the gas or liquid through such a material wherein the material has been activated by UV radiation are described.

Abstract: An implantable medical device comprised of a lumen. When the device is, at different points in time, exposed to two different radio frequency electromagnetic radiations, one of whose frequencies differs from the other by a factor of at least 1.5, at least 90 percent of each of the radio frequency electromagnetic radiations penetrates to the lumen of the device.

Abstract: An assembly that contains a medical device and biological material within which the medical device is disposed. The assembly has a direct or alternating current magnetic susceptibility within the range of from about plus 1×10?2 centimeter-gram-seconds to about minus 1×10?2 centimeter-gram-seconds.

Abstract: A shielded medical device implanted in a biological organism. The device has a magnetic shield, and the magnetic shield contains a layer of nanomagnetic material; such layer has a morphological density of at least 98 percent; and it is bonded to the medical device by means of an interlayer with a thickness of less than about 10 microns. The nanomagnetic material in such layer has a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers.

Abstract: An inorganic tubular structure comprised of a nanomagnetic material, wherein said nanomagnetic material has a saturation magnetization of from about 2 to about 3000 electromagnetic units per cubic centimeter and is comprised of nanomagnetic particles with an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers, and wherein the average coherence length between adjacent nanomagnetic particles is less than 100 nanometers

Abstract: A magnetically shielded assembly with a medical device located near biological tissue. The assembly contains a device for limiting the amount of current flowing through the biological tissue, and a magnetic shield. The magnetic shield is located over at least a portion of the medical device, and it contains nanomagnetic material.

Abstract: A cylindrical sputtering target including a cylinder of a first material wherein the inner wall of the cylinder has embedded within it a pattern of small pieces of one or more different materials, whereby such target produces a spatially and compositionally uniform coating on a substrate in a cylindrical sputtering process. The molar ratio of the multiple materials in the coating composition is influenced by the size, shape, and geometrical pattern of the material pieces embedded in the inner cylinder wall.

Abstract: A shielded medical device implanted in a biological organism. The device has a magnetic shield, and the magnetic shield contains a layer of nanomagnetic material; such layer has a morphological density of at least 98 percent. The nanomagnetic material in such layer has a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers.

Abstract: A gas storage assembly that has an enclosure within which are disposed at least about 100 inorganic tubules are present for each cubic micron of volume of the enclosure. The assembly has a storage capacity of at least 20 grams of hydrogen per liter of volume of the enclosure.

Abstract: A coated assembly with an inductance of from about 0.1 to about 5 nanohenries and a capacitance of from about 0.1 to about 10 nanofarads. The coated assembly contains a stent and a coating. When the assembly is exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic radiation with a frequency of from 10 megahertz to about 200 megahertz, at least 90 percent of the electromagnetic radiation penetrates to the interior of the stent.

Abstract: A high magnetic susceptibility nanomagnetic material that may be attached to recognition molecules and other therapeutic biological materials so as to be targeted to specific biologic tissues, thereby enabling the presence of the targeted tissue to be detected under magnetic resonance imaging with much greater sensitivity. Also a stent coated with such nanomagnetic material to enable artifact free imaging of such stent under magnetic resonance imaging.

Abstract: An assembly for shielding an implanted medical device from the effects of high-frequency radiation and for emitting magnetic resonance signals during magnetic resonance imaging. The assembly includes an implanted medical device and a magnetic shield comprised of nanomagnetic material disposed between the medical device and the high-frequency radiation. In one embodiment, the magnetic resonance signals are detected by a receiver, which is thus able to locate the implanted medical device within a biological organism.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a composition of matter comprised of about 90% by weight of particles smaller than about 100 nanometers comprised of magnetic atoms. These nanomagnetic particles have a first magnetic moment between about 2 to about 3,000 emu per cubic centimeter, and a magnetic durability such that after about 6 months the magnetic moment does not vary by more than 5%. The nanomagnetic material, when used with implantable medical devices, upon exposure to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiation, reduces the eddy currents, improves the imageability, cancels the positive susceptibility, improves the magnetic field about such devices, and may be used to modify the magnetic susceptibility of such devices.

Abstract: A nancomposite material containing nanomagnetic material disposed within a matrix. The nanomagnetic material has a saturation magentization of from about 2 to about 3000 electromagnetic units per cubic centimeter and contains nanomagnetic particles with an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers; the average coherence length between adjacent nanomagnetic particles is less than 100 nanometers.