Abstract: Emulsion breaking and phase separation is achieved by droplet adhesion. An emulsion breaking device includes a channel having distinct adjacent zones with distinctly different surface wettability characteristics, namely, solvophilic and solvophobic surfaces. The device is positioned such that the upstream portion of the device is configured to be wetted by the continuous phase of the emulsion, and the downstream portion of the device is configured to be wetted by the dispersed phase of the emulsion. As the emulsion flows from the upstream zone to the downstream zone, the change in surface wettability characteristics promotes adhesion of the dispersed phase as the dispersed phase wets the surface of the downstream portion of the channel, which results in breaking of the emulsion. Subsequent collection of the broken emulsion in a collection vessel results in separation of the disparate phases to facilitate their recapture and recycling.

Abstract: An interconnect is disclosed with enhanced immunity of electrical conductivity to defects. The interconnect includes a material with charge carriers having topological surface states. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating such interconnects. Also disclosed is an integrated circuit including such interconnects. Also disclosed is a gated electronic device including a material with charge carriers having topological surface states.

Abstract: A method for removing tattoos using two laser beams and a multi-photon process is disclosed. A 0.1 to 100 nsec pulse secondary laser beam focused to 108 W/cm2 creates a temporary channel from the skin surface to the tattoo pigment. A 100 fsec pulse main laser beam is then guided through the channel to the pigment and focused to sufficient intensity, i.e., 1012 W/cm2 or more, to initiate a multi-photon process that breaks up the pigment, disrupting its light reflecting properties. The channel allows the main laser beam unobstructed passage to the pigments, resulting in efficient use of the main laser. The pigment fragments escape through the temporary channel or diffuse into the blood stream. A suitably configured Ti/Sapphire laser beam is split into two components, with an uncompressed component used as the secondary laser beam, and a compressed component as the main laser beam.

Abstract: A method for protecting an electronic device comprising an organic device body. The method involves the use of a hybrid layer deposited by chemical vapor deposition. The hybrid layer comprises a mixture of a polymeric material and a non-polymeric material, wherein the weight ratio of polymeric to non-polymeric material is in the range of 95:5 to 5:95, and wherein the polymeric material and the non-polymeric material are created from the same source of precursor material. Also disclosed are techniques for impeding the lateral diffusion of environmental contaminants.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions that include therapeutic agents including miRNA nucleic acid sequences are provided. Methods of diagnosing and treating a subjects suffering from a bone degenerative diseases including osteolytic bone metastasis are described.

Abstract: The various inventions disclosed, described, and/or claimed herein relate to the field of methods for n-doping organic semiconductors with certain bis-metallosandwich compounds, the doped compositions produced, and the uses of the doped compositions in organic electronic devices. Metals can be manganese, rhenium, iron, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, or iridium. Stable and efficient doping can be achieved.

Abstract: A field programmable gate array (FPGA) and method of reconfiguring a FPGA are disclosed. The FPGA includes a plurality of logic elements interconnected with reconfigurable switches and at least horizontal and vertical direct links A memory is coupled to the reconfigurable switches, the memory being configured to store at least two run time configurations. The reconfigurable switches are reconfigurable based on a selected run time configuration stored in the memory. The memory may be a nanoelectronic random access memory (RAM). The memory may be configured to store the at least two run time configurations for at least four logic elements. Each logic element may include a look-up-table (LUT), a flip-flop, inputs and outputs. Each logic element may include dedicated carry logic.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to energy storage devices and associated methods of manufacture. In one embodiment, an energy storage device comprises an electrolyte. An anode is at least partially exposed to the electrolyte. A selectively permeable membrane comprising a graphene-based material is positioned proximate to the anode. The selectively permeable membrane reduces a quantity of a component that is included in the electrolyte from contacting the anode and thereby reduces degradation of the anode.

Abstract: The invention provides an article of manufacture, and methods of designing and making the article. The article permits or prohibits waves of energy, especially photonic/electromagnetic energy, to propagate through it, depending on the energy band gaps built into it. The structure of the article may be reduced to a pattern of points having a hyperuniform distribution. The point-pattern may exhibit a crystalline symmetry, a quasicrystalline symmetry or may be aperiodic. In some embodiments, the point pattern exhibits no long-range order. Preferably, the point-pattern is isotropic. In all embodiments, the article has a complete, TE- and TM-optimized band-gap. The extraordinary transmission phenomena found in the disordered hyperuniform photonic structures of the invention find use in optical micro-circuitry (all-optical, electronic or thermal switching of the transmission), near-field optical probing, thermophotovoltaics, and energy-efficient incandescent sources.

Abstract: Printed electronic device comprising a substrate onto at least one surface of which has been applied a layer of an electrically conductive ink comprising functionalized graphene sheets and at least one binder. A method of preparing printed electronic devices is further disclosed.

Abstract: A novel small molecule antagonizes two types of acyl homoserine lactone receptors: membrane-bound and cytoplasmic. A focused library of analogs and derivatives of the original antagonist was synthesized. Analog and derivative molecules harbor a range of activities. The novel small molecule and most potent antagonist protects the eukaryote Caenorhabditis elegans from quorum-sensing-mediated killing by the bacterial pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum. The saving of C. elegans demonstrates the use of these molecules as small molecule antimicrobials.

Abstract: Systems and methods for remote and/or portable detection are provided. The system can include a source of coherent laser pulses, components for converting the coherent laser pulses into first beam pulses at a first wavelength value, second beam pulses at a second wavelength value, and third beam pulses at a third wavelength value. Systems can further include optical components configured to delay at least one of the first beam pulses, the second beam pulses, and the third beam pulses in order to create delayed beam pulses, and a focusing component configured direct a substantially collinear combination of the delayed beam pulses and two of a set of: the first beam pulses, the second beam pulses, and the third beam pulses, onto a sample.

Abstract: A method and system for calculating the frequency-dependent regularization parameter (FDRP) used in inverting the analytically derived or experimentally measured system transfer matrix for designing and/or producing crosstalk cancellation (XTC) filters relies on calculating the FDRP that results in a flat amplitude vs frequency response at the loudspeakers, thus forcing XTC to be effected into the phase domain only and relieving the XTC filter from the drawbacks of audible spectral coloration and dynamic range loss. When the method and system are used with any effective optimization technique, it results in XTC filters that yield optimal XTC levels over any desired portion of the audio band, impose no spectral coloration on the processed sound beyond the spectral coloration inherent in the playback hardware and/or loudspeakers, and cause no (or arbitrarily low) dynamic range loss.

Abstract: Systems and methods for lasing molecular gases, and systems and methods of detecting molecular species are provided. The systems and methods can include the use of an excitation laser tuned to a wavelength associated with oxygen or nitrogen. The lasing can occur in both the forward and reverse directions relative to the excitation laser beam. Reverse lasing can provide a laser beam that propagates back toward the excitation laser source, and can provide a method for remote sampling of molecular species contained in the air. For example, systems and methods of detecting a molecular species of interest can be achieved by using the properties of the backward or forward propagating air laser to indicate a change in a pulse from the source of laser pulses caused by a modulation laser tuned to interact with the molecular species of interest.

Abstract: A system and method for initial ranging in wireless communication systems is provided. A plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) blocks are received by an OFDMA base station transceiver from a plurality of remote user devices in wireless communication with the base station. A ranging subchannel is extracted from the OFDM blocks. The number of active codes in the ranging subchannel is determined, active codes are identified, and carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) are estimated for each active code. Timing delays and power levels for each active code are then estimated. The estimated CFOs, timing delays, and power levels are broadcasted by the base station to the remote user devices, so that the user devices can utilize same to adjust transmission parameters to optimize power levels and synchronize communication with the base station.

Abstract: This disclosure provides, among other things, a microfluidic device for detecting an analyte in a liquid, comprising: a substrate; a fluidic channel on a surface of the substrate; and a nanosensor at a location of the channel, the nanosensor comprising: a nanostructure, the nanostructure comprising at least one nanostructure element, each element comprising at least two metallic structures that are separated by a gap, and a capture agent deposited on a surface of the nanostructure, wherein the capture agent specifically binds to the analyte. The nanosensor amplifies a light signal to and/or from the analyte or a light label attached to the analyte, when the analyte is bound or in proximity to the capture agent.

Abstract: A source channel encoder, source channel decoder and methods for implementing such devices are disclosed herein. The source channel encoder includes a linear transform encoder configured to generate a plurality of source components. A successive refinement quantizer is configured to generate a plurality of bit planes based on the source components. A systematic linear encoder configured to map the bit planes into channel-encoded symbols. The linear transform encoder may be configured to apply a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) or a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The linear transform encoder may be configured for differential encoding.

Abstract: A device is provided, having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoactive region disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The photoactive region includes a first photoactive organic layer that is a mixture of an organic acceptor material and an organic donor material, wherein the first photoactive organic layer has a thickness not greater than 0.8 characteristic charge transport lengths; a second photoactive organic layer in direct contact with the first organic layer, wherein the second photoactive organic layer is an unmixed layer of the organic acceptor material of the first photoactive organic layer, and the second photoactive organic layer has a thickness not less than about 0.1 optical absorption lengths; and a third photoactive organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and in direct contact with the first photoactive organic layer.

Abstract: An automated protein preparation technology that may use magnetic microparticles to isolate proteins in their native state from specific genomic loci of interest via the chromatin to which they are bound is described. After extraction, the targeted proteins may be purified for downstream analysis by quantitative mass spectrometry or ELISA. The identification of DNA-bound proteins, histones and their post-translational modification is of high scientific and pharmaceutical importance due to the role of DNA-binding proteins in the cauzation and development of human disease; in particular, cancer.

Abstract: Coatings comprising functionalized graphene sheets and at least one binder. In one embodiment, the coatings are electrically conductive.