Mississippi State University – TechConnect Briefs

Athlete Engineering BaseLine Ecosystem: innovative technologies to enhance human performance

Luczak T., Burch R., Nelsen P., Freeman C., Chander H., Ball J., Jones J.A., Barlow J., Saucier D., Duclos M., Grice S., Taquino M., Mississippi State University, US

The Athlete engineering BaseLine Ecosystem (AeBLE) is a collection of integrated innovations impacting human performance, health, and wellness. AeBLE integrates artificial intelligence-driven mobile markerless motion capture, embedded wearable sensors, and augmented and virtual immersive technologies [...]

Surface Modification of Iron Oxide (Fe3O4) Micro- and Nano-particles with Stimuli Responsive Polymers

Vasquez E.S., Nicholson W.B., Walters K.B., Mississippi State University, US

In this work, the synthesis of stimuli responsive polymer brushes was carried out using surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) on iron oxide (Fe3O4) micro- and nano-particles. Bare Fe3O4 nanoparticles (20 nm nom. d(H)) were [...]

Hydrocarbon production via biomass pyrolysis and hydrodeoxygenation

Steele P., Gajjela S., Yu F., Gresham G., Mississippi State University, US

Bio-oils produced from pyrolysis of biomass are chemically complex compounds. As fuels they have a number of negative properties such as high acidity, water content, variable viscosity and heating values about half that of diesel [...]

Hydrocarbon production via biomass pyrolysis and hydrodeoxygenation

Steele P., Gajjela S., Yu F., Gresham G., Mississippi State University, US

Bio-oils produced from pyrolysis of biomass are chemically complex compounds. As fuels they have a number of negative properties such as high acidity, water content, variable viscosity and heating values about half that of diesel [...]

Incorporation of Nanoparticles into Soy-based Polyurethane Foam

Liang K., Mao A., Shi S.Q., Mississippi State University, US

Nanotechnology is one of the most effective ways to develop advanced materials. Nanophases including nanoclay, Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsequioxane (POSS), organic and inorganic nanofibers are often used to be incorporated into polymer resin systems to improve [...]

Impact of Biomass Based Distributed Generation on Electric Grid

Kumar A.A., Masannagari A.R., Srivastava A.K., Schulz N.N., Mississippi State University, US

Advances in technology and the push for alternative clean energy systems have created a new paradigm in the last ten to fifteen years. Small generating units based on alternative clean energy connected near the loads [...]

Direct Current Dielectrophoretic Characterization of Erythrocytes: Positive ABO blood types

Keshavamurthy S.S., Leonard K., Burgess S.C., Minerick A.R., Mississippi State University, US

This work adapts DC-DEP to a medical diagnostic application of sorting blood cells. Initial efforts focus on achieving separation and collection of red blood cells based on their positive ABO blood types. A significant separation [...]

Computational experiments on three-dimensional molecular diffusion in porous media

Alarcon V.J., Kingery W., Zhu J., Mississippi State University, US

Estimations of apparent diffusion coefficients usually consist of curve-fitting the output of one-dimensional models to experimental laboratory-measured data from porous aggregates shaped in different forms. In this research a computational exploration is presented on the [...]