Patents by Inventor Victoria R. Medinilla

Victoria R. Medinilla 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).

  • Publication number: 20170050888
    Abstract: Traditionally, the manufacturing of ceramic metal oxide membranes is often expensive and extremely labor intensive due to the often necessary post-processing steps. The present invention discloses to a novel single-step process, to produce ceramic metal oxide membranes. More specifically, this invention relates to reactive electrospinning where a sol-gel solution containing alkoxides is electrically charged and formed a Taylor cone at the tip of a needle in an environment controlled chamber, and the Taylor cone rejects a continuous stream of alkoxide nanofibers which polymerized to form a ceramic metal oxide membrane (with and without a polymer substrate present). The manufactured membranes may be used for various applications, including dye sensitized solar cells and for carbon dioxide capturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc.
    Inventors: Keith M. Forward, Victoria R. Medinilla, Cynthia V. Jimenez, Fransisca Oei, Susana Vargas