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Octopus-Mimetic Adhesives for Wet Surface Attachment
THE CHALLENGE
The challenge in creating effective underwater adhesion systems lies in bridging a critical gap between advanced materials science and real-world usability, especially for industries like marine robotics, offshore maintenance, and biomedical handling. Traditional solutions either bond too permanently, require ideal flat surfaces, consume...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Chanhong Lee
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Biomedical, Technology Classifications > Biotechnology, Technology Classifications > Robotics
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Sensorized Adhesive Skins for Underwater Grasping of Objects
THE CHALLENGE
Underwater manipulation is essential for tasks like marine research, infrastructure repair, environmental monitoring, and resource extraction—where precise, reliable interaction with submerged objects is critical yet technically challenging. Currently, there is a lack of reliable, efficient, and adaptable gripping technologies...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika, Eric Markvicka
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials
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Conductive and Adhesive Liquid Metal Copper Paste
THE CHALLENGE
The growing market for wearable tech, soft robotics, and flexible displays is driving urgent demand for printable conductive materials that work reliably on bendable or stretchable surfaces—without the need for high heat or complex processing. However, current solutions force businesses into tough trade-offs: silver and copper...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials
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Additive Manufacturing of Functional Emulsions
THE CHALLENGE
The core challenge in advancing additive manufacturing for soft composite materials lies in the inability to precisely control the internal microstructure during production—a critical factor that directly impacts a material’s thermal, electrical, and mechanical performance. This limits the scalability and reliability of manufacturing...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika, Eric Markvicka, Aaron Haake
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Tough Bonding of Liquid Metal-Elastomer Composites for Multifunctional Adhesives
Challenges:
The rapid advancement of electronics, thermal management systems, and flexible devices has heightened the demand for innovative materials that combine mechanical flexibility with efficient thermal conductivity. Liquid metal-elastomer composites have emerged as promising candidates in this field due to their unique ability to provide both...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Dohgyu Hwang, Edward Barron III, Tyler Pozarycki
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials
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Morphing Drone Through Shape Change for Multimodal Vehicles
THE CHALLENGE:
The field of robotics has seen significant advancements in unmanned vehicles for various applications, including search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and transportation. These diverse applications often require vehicles to operate in complex environments with varying terrains, necessitating adaptable locomotion capabilities....
Published: 11/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Brittan Wilcox
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Robotics
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Increased Control Over Additive Manufacturing of Functional Emulsions
THE CHALLENGE
Functional emulsions are an emerging material architecture that can be cured into an elastomer composite with embedded liquid phase fillers. Techniques to control local composite microstructures and material composition in emulsions, which ultimately govern material properties and performance of the cured elastomer composite, are lacking.
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Published: 6/26/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika, Gwyneth Schloer, Eric Markvicka, Aaron Haake
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Additive Manufacturing, EXPERIMENT--DO NOT USE
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