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Trackable Quorum-Sensing Molecules for Diagnostic Applications

Princeton Docket # 17-3325-1High quality medical imaging technology has been one of most important developments in clinical care and personalized medicine. Pinpointing the source and cause of disease in a patient allows targeted and optimal treatment, saving time and money. Applying this type of imaging accuracy to the identification of bacterial pathogens...
Published: 3/25/2022   |   Inventor(s): Bonnie Bassler, Howard Stone, Min Kim, Aishan Zhao, Tom Muir
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Category(s): Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices/Diagnostics

Separation of Particles in Suspensions by Contact With Gas Phase

Princeton Docket # 16-3249-1Researchers at Princeton in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a method for concentrating suspended particles in suspensions that could be used to attract/repel particles to/from a surface. Methods for concentrating particles suspended in a liquid are useful for many industrial and scientific...
Published: 3/8/2018   |   Inventor(s): Orest Shardt, Sangwoo Shin, Suin Shim, Howard Stone, Patrick Warren
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Category(s): Mechanical

Control of the Drying Stress in Colloidal Suspensions by Choosing a Distribution of Particle Sizes

Princeton Docket # 16-3236-1Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University have developed a process for enhancing the properties of films made from particle suspensions such as colloids. Films and coatings produced using this method benefit from reduced delamination and deformation.Coatings and films are...
Published: 1/29/2018   |   Inventor(s): Francois Boulogne, Yong Lin Kong, Janine Nunes, Howard Stone
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Category(s): Mechanical, Ceramics/Material Sciences

Gating of a Mechanosensitive Channel by Fluid Flows

Princeton Docket # 16-3177-1Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University have proposed a method to control the opening and closing of mechanosensitive (MS) channels on a cell membrane.MS channels are membrane proteins that can be gated by membrane tension, and they play major roles in mechano-sensation...
Published: 3/6/2018   |   Inventor(s): Howard Stone, YuaN-Nan Young, Shravan Veerapaneni, On Shun Pak, Gary Marple
Keywords(s): drug delivery, fluid mechanics
Category(s): Civil/Environmental Engineering

A Method for Producing Large Lipid Vesicles

Princeton Docket # 15-3172-1Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University have developed a method to produce large unilamellar lipid vesicles with controlled size.Fusion between suspended lipid vesicles is difficult to achieve without membrane proteins or ions, because the vesicles have extremely low equilibrium...
Published: 2/28/2018   |   Inventor(s): Sangwoo Shin, Jesse Ault, Howard Stone
Keywords(s): drug delivery, fluid mechanics
Category(s): Mechanical, Civil/Environmental Engineering

Injectable Hydrogels From Microfiber Suspensions

Princeton Docket # 15-3163-1Researchers at Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have developed a new hydrogel material.This invention describes a new type of hydrogel material composed of flexible hydrophilic microfibers. A concentrated suspension of the microfibers undergoes irreversible gelation using a simple...
Published: 1/29/2018   |   Inventor(s): Janine Nunes, Antonio Perazzo, Stefano Guido, Howard Stone
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Category(s): Ceramics/Material Sciences

Method for Uniform Deposition of Particles on Absorbing Gels

Princeton Docket # 15-3152-1Researchers at Princeton in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have designed a novel method that allows homogeneous deposition of particles onto absorbing gel substrates.Current approaches used to deposit on these “soft” substrates often rely on the modification of the liquid phase that contains...
Published: 1/29/2018   |   Inventor(s): Francois Boulogne, Francois Bernard Ingremeau, Laurent Limat, Howard Stone
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Category(s): Civil/Environmental Engineering

Surfaces for Drag Reduction

Princeton Docket # 15-3149-1Researchers at Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have developed a method to reduce the drag on solid objects opposed to fluid flow. Most liquid repellent surfaces are superhydrophobic, which contain pockets of air within surface roughness. Traditional air-water drag reduction surfaces...
Published: 3/5/2018   |   Inventor(s): Marcus Hultmark, Alexander Smits, Howard Stone, Matthew Fu, Brian Rosenberg, Jason Wexler, Ian Jacobi
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Category(s): Ceramics/Material Sciences

Inhibiting Quorum Sensing of Bacteria in Healthcare and Industrial Devices Through Conjugation of Anti-Quorum Sensing Molecules to Surfaces

A surface-coating approach for bacteria-free health-care and industrial devices Docket # 15-3136 Bacteria frequently act as members of collectives to create surface-attached communities called biofilms and to synchronously activate the production of virulence factors. Bacterial group behaviors are regulated by a cell-cell communication process called...
Published: 2/5/2018   |   Inventor(s): Min Kim, Aishan Zhao, Howard Stone, Bonnie Bassler, Tom Muir
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Category(s): Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices/Diagnostics

A Localized Coating Method With a Binary Mixture and Polymer Additive

A single-step method for uniform material coating on a localized surface Princeton Docket # 15-3120-1Researchers at Princeton in The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have designed a model liquid with a binary solvent mixture, a surfactant, and a polymer additive to obtain a uniform material coating on a substrate.This invention is...
Published: 3/15/2018   |   Inventor(s): Hyoungsoo Kim, Francois Boulogne, Howard Stone
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Category(s): Mechanical
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