Materials

Argonne’s innovations in high-tech materials are key to breakthroughs in biology, the environment, nuclear energy, transportation and national security.

Argonne continues to make revolutionary advances in the science of materials discovery and synthesis, and is designing new materials with advantageous properties — one atom at a time. Examples of these include Argonne’s technologies for nanoparticle applications, heat transfer and materials for advanced energy storage.

Intellectual Property

UNCD Films with optimized dielectric properties for advanced RF MEMS capacitive switches (ANL-IN-09-070C)

An efficient deposition process is provided for fabricating reliable RF MEMS capacitive switches with multilayer ultrananocrystalline films for more rapid recovery, charging and discharging that is effective for more than a billion cycles of operation.

Intellectual Property

Fabrication of Robust, Harsh Environment Compatible MEMS/NEMS Actuators Based on Electrically Conducting Diamond Films (ANL-IN-14-009)

Excellent chemical, mechanical and electrical properties, low intrinsic stress gradient

Intellectual Property

Materials

Innovating tomorrow’s materials today

UNCD Films with optimized dielectric properties for advanced RF MEMS capacitive switches (ANL-IN-09-070C)

RF MEMS Capacitive Switches With High Reliability (ANL-IN-09-053)

Graphene Layer Formation at Low Substrate Temperature on a Metal and Carbon Based Substrate (ANL-IN-11-055)

Surface Modification Agents for Lithium Batteries (ANL-IN-08-026)

Fabrication of P-N Junction Device Through Diamond/2D Materials Heterojunction (ANL-IN-15-097)

Fabrication of Robust, Harsh Environment Compatible MEMS/NEMS Actuators Based on Electrically Conducting Diamond Films (ANL-IN-14-009)

Filtration Membranes (ANL-IN-16-135)

Graphene Layer Formation on a Carbon Based Substrate (ANL-IN-12-024)

Heat Transfer Fluids Containing Nanoparticles (IN-08-066)

Hydrophilic, Light-Active Coating for Membranes (ANL-IN-15-102)

Technology Commercialization Opportunities