About Vice-Principal ResearchQueen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트 researchers have gained recognition for the discoveries they have made in medicine, engineering and the sciences, innovations that have improved the lives of people around the world. To make sure that the university and the public can continue to benefit from this work, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) promotes the discoveries of university researchers for the purposes of commercialization and whose work is ready for licensing and commercial application. QPI leads the commercialization processes, including the protection of the intellectual property, the creation of strategies to further its development, the search for funders, partners and licensees, the negotiation of terms, the management of relationships, the collection of licensing and royalty revenues, and disbursements to inventors.
Imagine a battery so small it could be built right in the wrist band of a smart watch 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ a battery that could also charge faster than a conventional battery. Or a power source so thin and flexible that it could be contained unnoticeably within the fabric of the coat, where it would power a heater that would keep the wearer warm for hours.
That카지노 게임 컬렉션™s what Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트 Professor Dominik Barz has developed. Much more than a battery, it is what Barz refers to as a supercapacitor-battery hybrid energy storage device. As a supercapacitor, it has the ability to take on an electrical charge quickly; as a battery, it can store this charge and then, release it more slowly. By combining both functions, the storage device might in the case of a heated ski jacket, for instance, recharge quickly when plugged in, but then power a heater that would keep the wearer warm for hours when moving around outside.
Dr. Barz, a chemical and a mechanical engineer, was originally interested in transport and interfacial phenomena 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ broadly the changes that occur when two different 카지노 게임 컬렉션śphases,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť a liquid and a solid for example, come together. But, he says, on joining the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 카지노 게임 컬렉션śI slowly went into the battery business,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션śOne of my students said we should do something like the vanadium redox flow battery without a flow. (Flow batteries work by storing electricity in tanks of liquid electrolyte. This is extracted by the fluids being pumped through electrodes.) As they worked, they experimented.
카지노 게임 컬렉션śI said we should use graphene as the electrode material,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť says Barz. 카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe made something that wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t a redox battery, but we didn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t know that at the time. And it turned out to be better than a redox battery.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
This new device, when operated as a supercapacitor, retains 95% of the initial capacity over 1000 cycles, far higher than many other capacitors. Operating as a battery, that loss in initial capacity can be electrically regenerated, an outstanding feature compared to conventional batteries. That, combined with its compact size and mechanical flexibility, suggested any number of applications.
Dr. Barz카지노 게임 컬렉션™s work came to the attention of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI). 카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe started working on this in 2018,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť says Jason Hendry, Partnerships Development Officer at QPI who works with Barz. 카지노 게임 컬렉션śWhat카지노 게임 컬렉션™s interesting about this technology is that we didn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t really see anything out there like it, so QPI카지노 게임 컬렉션™s patent team drafted and filed a patent application.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
That was 2019.
Potential end users have proven enthusiastic. Particularly in what is known as the wearables industry (these are the creators of jackets, sweaters and even long underwear that are heated electrically and can also feature sensors that monitor heart rate, activity sweat and so on.) But Barz and QPI face a major stumbling block. Citing the example of the wearables industry, Hendry says they can see the value of this new battery, but 카지노 게임 컬렉션śThey are not going to spend any of their resources designing new wearables that use this battery if they are not confident they are able to get it.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
To provide an end-user prototype is not something that Barz can do.
카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe are an academic lab. And making a commercial battery, that카지노 게임 컬렉션™s totally different. The packaging, the casing, that takes expertise we don카지노 게임 컬렉션™t have.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe applied for and received funding from NSERC카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Idea to Innovation program,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť says Hendry. The grant for $125,000 helped Barz and his team take the project past the level of pure research and closer to where it can be picked up commercially.
In the meantime, Barz and his group continue to work on their battery.
카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe have done a number of different things,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe use graphene for our electrodes, and it turned out that by functionalizing them with simple atoms like hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur, we got really good performance improvements. Right now, compared to our first prototype, we have probably four or five times more energy content. It카지노 게임 컬렉션™s getting really interesting for other applications, maybe for renewable energy, at least for short-term storage. Nowadays, if you have a lot of wind and produce a lot of electricity, if the electrical grid can카지노 게임 컬렉션™t take that up, then you just turn off the windmills.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
But his storage device could change that, thanks to its function as a supercapacitor.
카지노 게임 컬렉션śYou could use it to as an intermediate buffer to collect electricity and then release it into the grid as needed.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
What QPI and Dr. Barz hope to do, says Hendry, is to take the technology and 카지노 게임 컬렉션śfind a receptor company or a group of entrepreneurs who would be interested in forming a startup around it. Either approach is suitable for us.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe know we카지노 게임 컬렉션™ve got a unique technology, there are customers who have expressed an interest in it,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션śWe just need to find the right people to move it forward.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
Readers interested in licensing or learning more about Dr. Barz카지노 게임 컬렉션™s technology, should visit the and contact Jason Hendry at jason.hendry@muwangwooden.com.