Patents

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Ardo, S; Shaner, M; Coridan, R; Strandwitz, N.C; McKone, J.R; Atwater, H.A; Lewis, N.S and Fountaine, K. Semiconductor Structures for Fuel Generation. Full Text: Google Patent

Atwater, H.A; Darbe, S; Escarra, M.D; Hofmann, C.E; Kosten, E.D; Feist, R.K; Stevens, J.C; Mills, M.E. and Ramesh, N. Photovoltaic System with Stacked Spectrum Splitting Optics and Photovoltaic Array Tuned to the Resulting Spectral Slices Produced by the Spectrum Splitting Optics. Full Text: Google Patent

Atwater, H.A; Eisler, C.N; Hofmann, C.E; Kosten, E.D; Feist, R.K; Stevens, J.C; Mills, M.E; Ramesh, N; Zhou,W. and Warmann, E.C. Spectral Light Splitting Module and Photovoltaic System including Concentrator Optics. Full Text: Google Patent

Atwater, H.A; Flowers, C.A; Hofmann, C.E; Kosten, E.D; Warmann, E.C; Lloyd, J.V; Feist, R.K; Stevens, J.C; Mills, M.E; Ramesh, N. and Zhou, W. Photovoltaic System Including Light Trapping Filtered Optical Module. Full Text: Google Patent

Boville, C.E; Romney, D.K; Almhjell, P.J and Sieben, M.M. Improved Method For The Synthesis Of Tryptophan Analogs In Aqueous Solvents At Reduced Temperatures. Full Text: Google Patent

Buller, A.R; Koch, P; Prier, C.K; Romney, D.K; Brinkmann-Chen, S; Scheele, R and Boville, C.E. Methods And Enzyme Catalysts For The Synthesis Of Non-Canonical Amino Acids. Full Text: Google Patent

Buller, A.R; Koch, P; Prier, C.K; Romney, D.K; Brinkmann-Chen, S; Scheele, R and Boville, C.E. Beta-Substituted Non-Canonical Amino Acids. Full Text: Google Patent

Davoyan, A.R and Atwater, H.A. Perimeter Control Architecture For Phased Array Antennas And Metasurfaces. Full Text: Google Patent

Eisler, C.N; Zhou, W; Kosten, E.D; Warmann, E.C; Hofmann, C.E; Atwater, H.A; Feist, R.K. and Stevens, J.C. Spectral Light Module and Photovoltaic System. Full Text: Google Patent

Fedorov, A; Toutov, A.A; Swisher, N.A; Grubbs, R.H and Betz, K.N. Reactions Of Aromatic Substrates With Base-Activated Hydrosilanes-Silylations And Reductive Cleavage. Full Text: Google Patent

Finke, C.E; Cid, C.A; Hoffmann, M.R; Hanan, A.K; Vanier, M.C and Pinkston, D.H. Maintenance Self-Diagnosis and Guide for a Self-Contained Wastewater Treatment System. Full Text: Google Patent

Finke, C.E; Hoffmann, M.R; Jasper, J; Kasmaee, L.M and Omelchenko, S. Tuning Electrode Surface Electronics with Thin Layers. Full Text: Google Patent

Finke, C.E. Process To Convert Reduced Sulfur Species And Water Into Hydrogen And Sulfuric Acid. Full Text: Google Patent

Finke, C.E, Leandri, H.F. Process to Make Calcium Oxide or Ordinary Portland Cement from Calcium Bearing Rocks and Minerals: Google Patent

Grubbs, R.H; Miyake, G.M; Piunova, V and Weitekamp, R. Chiral Polymers for the Self-Assembly of Photonic Crystals. Full Text: Google Patent

Hunter, B.M and Gray, H.B. Hydrocarbon Oxidation by Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts in Non-Aqueous Solvents. Full Text: Google Patent

Jones, S.C; Davis, V.K; Bates, C.M; Grubbs, R.H; Momcilovic, N; Savoie, B.M; Webb, M.A. and Miller, T.F. Non-Aqueous Fluoride Salts, Solutions and Their Uses. Full Text: Google Patent

Jones, S.C; Davis, V.K; Bates, C.M; Momcilovic, N; Grubbs; R.H; Murphy J; Savoie, B.M; Webb, M.A. and Miller, T.F. Organic Synthesis Applications of Non-Aqueous Fluoride Salt Solutions. Full Text: Google Patent

Kelzenberg, M.D; Atwater, H.A; Pellegrino, S; Hajimiri, S.A; Warmann, E.C; Naqavi, A; Loke, S; Roy, T; Vinogradova, T; Messer, A; Leclerc, C; Gdoutos, E and Huang, J.S. Ultralight Photovoltaic Power Generation Tiles. Full Text: Google Patent

Lee, Z.J; Li, T; Low, S.H; Sharma, S.B. Systems And Methods For Adaptive EV Charging. Full Text: Google Patent

Liu, Y; Stoltz, B.M; Grubbs, R.H; Fedorov, A. and Kim, K.E. Palladium-Catalyzed Decarbonylation of Fatty Acid Anhydrides for the Production of Linear Alpha Olefins. Full Text: Google Patent

Miller, T.F; Welborn, M.G; Cheng, L; Husch, T; Song, J; Kovachki, N; Burov, D; Anandkumar, A; Ding, F; Lee, S.J.R; Qiao, Z; Lale, A.S; Teh, Y.S. Systems And Methods For Determining Molecular Structures With Molecular-Orbital-Based Features. Full Text: Google Patent

Miyake, G; Weitekamp, R; Grubbs, R and Piunova, V. Photonic Structures from Self Assembly of Brush Block Copolymers and Polymer Blends. Full Text: Google Patent

Muller, A.M; Hunter, B.M; Winkler, J.R and Gray, H.B. Highly Active Mixed-Metal Catalysts Made by Pulsed-Laser Ablation in Liquids. Full Text: Google Patent

Needell, D.R; Bauser, H.C; Atwater, H.A; Alivisatos, A.P; Nuzzo, R; Ilic, O; Bukowsky, C; Koscher, B.A and Phelan, M. Micro-Grid Luminescent Solar Concentrators And Related Methods Of Manufacturing. Full Text: Google Patent

Needell, D.R; Bronstein, N; Alivisatos, A.P; Atwater, H.A; Nuzzo, R; Bauser, H.C; Ilic, O; He, J and Xu, L. Luminescent Solar Concentrators And Related Methods Of Manufacturing. Full Text: Google Patent

Popczun, E; Read Rodriguez, C.G.; Roske, C.W; Lewis, N.S and Schaak, R.E. Highly Active Electrocatalysis of the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction by Cobalt Phosphide Nanoparticles. Full Text: Google Patent

Portela, C.M; Vyatskikh, A and Greer, J.R. Fabrication And Design Of Composites With Architected Layers. Full Text: Google Patent

Savoie, B.M; Webb, M.A; Grubbs, R.H; Miller, T.F; Coates, G.W. and Zheng, Q. Anion-Coordinating Polymer Electrolytes and Related Compositions, Methods and Systems. Full Text: Google Patent

See, K.A and Martinolich, A.J. Solid State Ion Conduction In Znps3. Full Text: Google Patent

Segalman, R.A; Russ, B; Brown, D; Lynch, J; Day, T; Coates, N; Sahu, A; Snyder, G.J; Forster, J.D. and Urban, J.L. Graded Thermoelectric Materials And Application Thereof. Full Text: Google Patent

Stoltz, B.M; Virgil, S.C; White, D.E; Yurino, T; Liu, Y; Behenna, D.C; Duquette, D and Eidamshaus, C. Quaternary Heteroatom Containing Compounds. Full Text: Google Patent

Subhas, A.V; Adkins, J.A; Berelson, W; Rollins, N.E and Erez, J. Method and Apparatus for CO2Sequestration. Full Text: Google Patent

Thorne, J.S; Kudo, A; Vyatskikh, A; Greer, J.R; Narita, K; Citrin, M.A and Zhang, X. Three-Dimensional Architected Pyrolyzed Electrodes For Use In Secondary Batteries And Method Of Making Three-Dimensional Architected Electrodes. Full Text: Google Patent

Thorne, J.S; Kudo, A; Vyatskikh, A; Greer, J.R; Narita, K; Citrin, M.A and Zhang, X. Three-Dimensional Architected Pyrolyzed Electrodes For Use In Secondary Batteries And Method Of Making Three-Dimensional Architected Electrodes. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Betz, K.N; Fedorov, A and Grubbs, R.H. Transition-Metal-Free Silylation of Aromatic Compounds. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Betz, K.N; Romine, A.M and Grubbs, R.H. Hydroxide-Catalyzed Formation Of Silicon-Oxygen Bonds By Dehydrogenative Coupling Of Hydrosilanes And Alcohols. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Betz, K.N; Romine, A.M and Grubbs, R.H. Preparation Of Aromatic-Substituted Silylamines By The Dehydrogenative Coupling Of Aromatic-Substituted Amine N-H And Si-H Bonds. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Fedorov, A and Grubbs, R.H. Methods For Aromatic C-X Bond Reduction. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Liu, W-B; Betz, K.N; Fedorov, A; Stoltz, B.M and Grubbs, R.H. Base-Catalyzed Silylation of Terminal Olefin C-H Bonds. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Liu, W-B; Betz, K.N; Fedorov, A; Stoltz, B.M and Grubbs, R.H. Silylation of Aromatic Heterocycles by Earth Abundant Transition-Metal-Free Catalysts. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Liu, W-B; Betz, K.N; Stoltz, B.M and Grubbs, R.H. Base-Catalyzed Silylation of Terminal Alkyne C-H Bonds. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Liu, W-B; Betz, K.N; Stoltz, B.M; Grubbs, R.H and Schuman, D.P. Silylation of Aromatic Heterocycles by Disilanes Using Potassium Alkoxide Catalysts. Full Text: Google Patent

Toutov, A.A; Liu, W-B; Schuman, D.P; Stoltz, B.M and Grubbs, R.H. Stable Silylating Reagents. Full Text: Google Patent

Vyatskikh, A; Delalande, S.J; Greer, J.R. Additive Manufacturing Of Architectured Materials. Full Text: Google Patent

Waldmann, C.M; Toutov, A.A; Murphy, J and Grubbs, R.H. Novel Heteroaromatic Silicon-Fluoride-Acceptors Useful for 18F Labeling of Molecules and Biomolecules and Methods of Preparing Same. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R and Grubbs, R.H. Birefringent Polymer Brush Structures Formed by Surface Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R and Grubbs, R.H. Functional N-Heterocycles for Solid-Supported Catalysis. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R and Grubbs, R.H. Photoinitiated Olefin Methatheis Polymerization. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R and Grubbs, R.H. Solvent-Free Enyne Metathesis Polymerization. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R; Grubbs, R.H; Atwater, H and Fakonas, J. Direct Photopatterning of Robust and Diverse Materials. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R; Sveinbjornsson, B; Miyake, G; Xia, Y; Atwater, H; Grubbs, R; Daeffler, C.S; Piunova, V; Russell, T; Hong, S.W and Gu, W. Rapid Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers to Photonic Crystals. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R; Tyagarajan, K; Berlin, J and Van Haute, D. Multiphoton Induced Direct Aggregate Scribing. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R. Electronic Devices Employing Aligned Organic Polymers. Full Text: Google Patent

Weitekamp, R. Photoactive Catalyst Compositions. Full Text: Google Patent

Wetekamp, R; Grubbs, R.H. and Atwater, H. Chemically Linked Colloidal Crystals and Methods Related Thereto. Full Text: Google Patent

Whitney, W.S; Sherrott, M.C and Atwater, H.A. Black Phosphorus Optical Modulators For Phase, Amplitude And Polarization Control. Full Text: Google Patent

Xia, Y; Sveinbjornsson, B; Grubbs, R; Weitekamp, R; Miyake, G; Piunova, V and Daeffler, C.S. Periodic Nanostructures from Self-Assembled Wedge-Type Block-Copolymers. Full Text: Google Patent

Zhang, R; Wohlschlager, L; Renata, H; Arnold, F.H and Chen, K. A Method For Enantioselective Carbenoid C-H Insertion Using An Iron-Containing Protein Catalyst. Full Text: Google Patent