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公开(公告)号:US11505467B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-22
申请号:US16182371
申请日:2018-11-06
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Intak Jeon , Timothy M. Swager
IPC: C01B32/225 , C01B32/21 , C01B32/194 , G01N27/327 , G01N33/53 , B82Y40/00 , B82Y30/00
Abstract: Carbon-based materials, and associated methods and articles, are generally provided. In some embodiments, a carbon-based material comprises a carbon-based portion and a functional group bonded to the carbon-based portion. The functional group may be capable of forming a reversible covalent bond with a species. Carbon may make up greater than or equal to 30 wt % of the carbon-based portion. The carbon-based portion may comprise graphene, and a ratio of a total number of functional groups in a plurality of functional groups bonded to the graphene to a total number of carbon atoms in the plurality of carbon atoms of the graphene may be greater than or equal to 1:50. The carbon-based portion may comprise graphene, and greater than or equal to 70% of the graphene sheets may be spaced apart from their nearest neighbors by a distance of greater than or equal to 10 Å. A method may comprise applying a voltage to a carbon-based material. The voltage may be applied in the presence of a combination of solvents comprising a dissolved species. The combination of solvents may comprise a solvent stable at voltages of greater than or equal to −3.15 V and less than or equal to −2.2 V and/or may comprise a solvent with a surface tension within 25% of a surface tension of the carbon-based material. The voltage may be a decreasing voltage that decreases at a rate of greater than or equal to 2 μV/s and less than or equal to 40 μV/s and has a value of greater than or equal to −2.2 V and less than or equal to −3.15 V at at least one point in time.
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公开(公告)号:US11472915B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-18
申请号:US16435397
申请日:2019-06-07
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Yuan He , Zachary Smith , Sharon Lin , Francesco Maria Benedetti
Abstract: Porous compositions such as flexible polymers with side chain porosity are generally provided. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a flexible polymer backbone and a plurality of rigid side chains. In some embodiments, the rigid side chains form pores. In some embodiments, the rigid side chains may comprise two or more [2.2.2] bicyclic cores (e.g., formed by a ring opening metathesis polymerization. The compounds and methods described herein may be useful in various applications including, for example, gas separation.
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公开(公告)号:US10672988B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-02
申请号:US15305076
申请日:2015-04-17
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Eni S.p.A.
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Vladimir Bulovic , Ggoch Ddeul Han , Andrea Maurano , Riccardo Po , Andrea Pellegrino
Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide functionalized carbon nanostructures for use in various devices, including photovoltaic devices (e.g., solar cells). In some cases, the carbon nanostructures are fullerenes substituted with one or more isobenzofulvene species and/or indane species. Devices including such materials may exhibit increased efficiency, increased open circuit potential, high electron/hole mobility, and/or low electrical resistance.
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公开(公告)号:US10545093B2
公开(公告)日:2020-01-28
申请号:US14246008
申请日:2014-04-04
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Joseph M. Azzarelli , Kathleen R. White
Abstract: A detector can detect an analyte including a carbon-carbon multiple bond moiety and capable of undergoing Diels-Alder reaction with a heteroaromatic compound having an extrudable group. The detector can detect, differentiate, and quantify ethylene.
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公开(公告)号:US10466218B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-05
申请号:US14635995
申请日:2015-03-02
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Sophie Liu , Graham Sazama , Alexander R. Petty , Jan M. Schnorr
Abstract: A sensor can include a conductive region in electrical communication with at least two electrodes, the conductive region including a conductive material and an alkene-interacting metal complex.
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公开(公告)号:US20190184356A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US16284722
申请日:2019-02-25
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Edmundo Daniel Blankschtein , Lauren Dell Zarzar , Vishnu Sresht , Ellen Sletten , Julia Ann Kalow
CPC classification number: B01F17/00 , A23V2002/00 , B01F17/0014 , B01F17/0035 , B01F17/0071 , C08L35/02
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for forming droplets and/or emulsions. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods comprise two or more components miscible at a first temperature and immiscible at a second temperature, dispersed in an outer phase.
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公开(公告)号:US20190170736A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-06
申请号:US16201961
申请日:2018-11-27
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Qifan Zhang
IPC: G01N33/543 , G01N21/59 , C12Q1/6834 , G01N21/77
Abstract: Embodiments described herein may be useful in the detection of analytes. The systems and methods may allow for a relatively simple and rapid way for detecting analytes such as chemical and/or biological analytes and may be useful in numerous applications including sensing, food manufacturing, medical diagnostics, performance materials, dynamic lenses, water monitoring, environmental monitoring, detection of proteins, detection of DNA, among other applications. For example, the systems and methods described herein may be used for determining the presence of a contaminant such as bacteria (e.g., detecting pathogenic bacteria in food and water samples which helps to prevent widespread infection, illness, and even death). Advantageously, the systems and methods described herein may not have the drawbacks in current detection technologies including, for example, relatively high costs, long enrichment steps and analysis times, and/or the need for extensive user training. Another advantageous feature provided by the systems and methods described herein includes fabrication in a relatively large scale. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be used in conjunction with a detector including handheld detectors incorporated with, for example, smartphones (e.g., for the on-site detection of analytes such as pathogenic bacteria).
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公开(公告)号:US10160715B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-25
申请号:US15249061
申请日:2016-08-26
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
IPC: C07C67/293 , C07C69/604 , B01D53/02 , B01J20/26
Abstract: Methods for mechanochemically synthesizing compositions comprising bridged bicyclic-based compounds such as iptycene-based compounds are generally provided. In some cases, two or more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons may be mechanochemically reacted such that the product comprises the bridged bicyclic-based compound. In some embodiments, the product (e.g., the bridged bicyclic compound) may comprise two or more [2.2.2] bicyclic cores. In certain embodiments, the mechanochemical reactions described herein may produce higher order bridged bicyclic-based compounds such as oligoiptcyenes or poly-iptycenes. In certain embodiments, the bridged bicyclic based compound comprises a molecular cage.
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公开(公告)号:US20180330897A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-15
申请号:US15774642
申请日:2016-11-09
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor: Jeffrey H. Lang , Timothy M. Swager , Vladimir Bulovic , Farnaz Niroui , Ellen Sletten
Abstract: Devices comprising at least two electrodes with a layer disposed therebetween are disclosed. In some embodiments, the layer disposed therebetween may be an insulator. In some embodiments, the layer may be capable of being deformed. Deforming the layer may cause a change in one or more materials properties of the device, such as the electrical properties and/or the optical properties of the device.
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公开(公告)号:US20180067065A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-08
申请号:US15681313
申请日:2017-08-18
Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventor: Timothy M. Swager , Birgit Esser , Jan M. Schnorr
CPC classification number: G01N27/12 , G01N27/125 , G01N27/127 , G01N33/0047 , Y10T29/49117 , Y10T436/216
Abstract: A sensor device can include a transition metal complex capable of interacting with a carbon-carbon multiple bond moiety. The sensor can detect the fruit-ripening hormone ethylene with high sensitivity.
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