Invention Description Corrosion of steel in industrial environments such as oil and gas, water treatment, and marine systems leads to significant economic losses and infrastructure damage. Many conventional corrosion inhibitors are petroleum-based, non-biodegradable, and pose environmental and safety concerns. Additionally, these chemicals may not...

Invention Description As technology advances in the military, aerospace and electric vehicle sectors, there is increasing demand for electrical conductors capable of operating at high temperatures. Copper is the most common electrical conductor used in various applications ranging from communication cables and power distribution grids, to electrical...

Invention Description High-voltage power electronic devices require materials and designs that can handle large electric fields while maintaining low power loss and high efficiency. Traditional diode structures often face trade-offs between breakdown voltage, leakage current, and on-resistance, limiting their performance in demanding applications....

Invention Description Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems increasingly rely on real-time data aggregation through advanced communication frameworks such as Over-the-Air Computation (AirComp) in emerging 6G-IoT environments. However, these systems are vulnerable to signal interference and jamming attacks, which can disrupt data transmission and compromise...

Invention Description Solving systems of linear equations (Ax = b) is a fundamental yet computationally intensive task in engineering applications, especially in power system simulations, where such operations often dominate execution time. Current power system simulators predominantly rely on LU decomposition-based linear solvers for transient simulations,...

Invention Description Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs) are poised to be the next generation high-energy density storage media of choice for various applications. However, they are currently plagued by failure due to dendrite propagation at high charge/discharge rates. One of the most sought-after technologies for dendrite propagation prevention in LMBs...

Invention Description The advancement of technology in the field of electronics, communication, transportation and renewable energy is significantly dependent on the development of energy storage media which are reliable on the metrics of performance, economic feasibility and safety. Lithium-ion batteries have been the dominant market choice for energy...

Invention Description Lithium-ion batteries serve as energy-storage media for electric vehicles, grid-scale storage systems, mobile communication devices, and equipment used in hazardous environments. However, existing lithium-ion batteries cannot yet be produced at low cost, in a scalable manner, while also meeting the requirement of being free from...

Various technologies have been developed to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve net-zero energy sectors. One common method is carbon capture and storage, which traps CO22 using special materials. However, they are facing challenges in handling the captured CO2 for long-term storage and potential secondary emissions. Converting CO2 into useful products...

Invention Description There is a well-recognized need to broadly decrease the amount of water used for evaporative (wet) cooling in many applications, especially in power generation, but also in emerging cutting-edge technologies, such as data and supercomputing centers. The main challenge in dry cooling using ambient air is the inevitable temperature...