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Novel cermet composite for nuclear waste immobilization
1.5-inch diameter cermet synthesized using hot uniaxial sintering
Invention Summary:
Nuclear power generates ~10% of electricity globally and ~20% in developed economies. High-level waste, expected to be produced at the back end of advanced reactor fuel cycles, includes metals, oxides, halide salts, and carbon/graphite...
Published: 10/9/2024
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Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel, John Vienna, John McCloy, S Sundaram, Aditya Kumar, Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Jake Amoroso
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy & Battery, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Polymers/Composites/Materials
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Ion‐exchangeable transparent and opaque glass‐ceramics
Photos of heat-treated glass-ceramics
Invention Summary:
Recently, the display glass industry is transitioning from using glass to glass‐ceramic due to its higher mechanical strength. Similarly, instead if aluminum, glass-ceramic is becoming the preferred material for back covers of smartphones and other devices to enable effective wireless...
Published: 8/23/2024
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Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel, Qianhui Qin
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Polymers/Composites/Materials
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Hard and crack-resistant glass
Invention Summary:
Brittleness of glass has been perceived as its gravest handicap in the glass technology space. While the glass industry has always strived to design a "hard" and "crack-resistant" glass, it has been generally accepted by glass scientists that it is hard to achieve both these properties in the...
Published: 10/22/2024
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Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel, Anjali Yadav
Keywords(s): Glass & Ceramics
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering
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Damage Resistant Glass-Ceramic
This material has better hardness and crack resistance than any commercially available glass
Invention Summary:
Rutgers University researchers have developed an Al2O3 rich damage resistant glasses and glass-ceramics, which exhibit Vickers hardness of >7 GPa and do not crack at loads as high as 2000 gf (19.6 N).
The resistance to fracture is...
Published: 6/13/2024
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Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel
Keywords(s): Glass & Ceramics, Manufacturing
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering
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