Abstract: A carbon-metal oxide composite material comprising: (i) carbon-carbon composite particles in which an amorphous carbon black core is bonded to crystalline graphitic carbon shells; and (ii) a metal oxide material bonded with said carbon-carbon composite particles, wherein said metal oxide material is included in an amount of at least about 10 wt. % by weight of said carbon-carbon composite particles and metal oxide material. Alkali-ion batteries containing the above-described composite as anode are also described. Methods for producing the above-described composite are also described. The method can include, for example, subjecting pulverized rubber tire waste to a sulfonation process and pyrolyzing the sulfonated rubber to produce the carbon-carbon composite particles, as described above, followed by admixing and compounding a metal oxide material with the carbon-carbon composite particles.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2015
Date of Patent:
July 16, 2019
Assignees:
UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennesse Research Foundation
Inventors:
Yunchao Li, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Amit K. Naskar, Kokouvi M. Akato
Abstract: A method for functionalizing cantilevers is provided that includes providing a holder having a plurality of channels each having a width for accepting a cantilever probe and a plurality of probes. A plurality of cantilever probes are fastened to the plurality of channels of the holder by the spring clips. The wells of a well plate are filled with a functionalization solution, wherein adjacent wells in the well plate are separated by a dimension that is substantially equal to a dimension separating adjacent channels of the plurality of channels. Each cantilever probe that is fastened within the plurality of channels of the holder is applied to the functionalization solution that is contained in the wells of the well plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2013
Date of Patent:
November 25, 2014
Assignees:
UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennesse Research Foundation
Abstract: A carbon monolith includes a robust carbon monolith characterized by a skeleton size of at least 100 nm, and a hierarchical pore structure having macropores and mesopores.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 15, 2013
Publication date:
May 23, 2013
Applicants:
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, UT-BATTELLE, LLC
Inventors:
UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennessse Research Foundation
Abstract: This invention provides SARM compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 23, 2013
Assignee:
University of Tennesse Research Foundation
Abstract: Disclosed is a novel cadherin peptide that enhances the toxicity of Cry proteins. A novel insecticide composition comprising an effective amount of cadherin peptide having SEQ. ID. NO:2 and an effective amount of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry protein wherein the cadherin peptide comprises a Cry3Aa toxin binding region from the full-length T. molitor cadherin and has synergistic characteristics of a binary toxin potentiating Cry3 and Cry1 toxins against coleopterans and lepidopteran species, respectively.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 18, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 15, 2013
Assignees:
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, The University of Tennesse Research Foundation
Inventors:
Brenda S. Oppert, Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, Jeffrey A. Fabrick, Cristopher Oppert
Abstract: Methods of analyzing data are provided. An expert system receives input from at least a first source. Data is imported and analyzed by an expert system, wherein the expert system makes at least one first decision, which characterizes the data based on a rule base. The at least one first decision is displayable and modifiable by a first input from a first source. In response to the first input from the first source, the rule base may be re-applied to make at least one second decision, wherein the at least one second decision is different from the at least one first decision, or the at least one first decision may be accepted. The at least one first decision or the at least one second decision is then displayable and modifiable in response to a first input from a second source.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2009
Date of Patent:
November 23, 2010
Assignee:
University of Tennesse Research Foundation
Inventors:
John Douglas Birdwell, Tse-Wei Wang, Dale V. Stansberry, Jared Pendleton