4 results about "Molecular charge" patented technology

A photovoltaic structure includes a transparent substrate and a transparent bottom electrode provided over the substrate. The transparent bottom electrode includes a first set of metal lines in contact with a first conducting layer. The first set of metal lines is characterized by an average height (H) of at least about 150 nm, an average width (W), and an aspect ratio H / W of at least about 1 / 250. A self-assembled molecular charge selective layer (SAM-CSL) is disposed over the transparent bottom electrode. A perovskite absorber layer overlays the SAM-CSL, an upper carrier transport layer overlays the perovskite absorber layer, and a top electrode overlays the upper carrier transport layer.

The sustenance of life is driven by recognition of and access to energy sources. This process has remained unchanged over billions of years, guiding cellular nutrition through molecular recognition, akin to the food pyramid. At the atomic or nanoscale, chemotaxis enables organisms to identify ingestible matter and is driven by their need for fuel, rather than from the sustenance itself. Chemotaxis, one of nature's most potent yet invisible organic forces, operates independently of molecular charge dynamics to locate and identify microscopic sustenance. Infectious organisms, such as pathogenic microbes and parasites, depend on chemotactic pathways to locate nutrition across all scales. This invention leverages this phenomenon by “baiting” these pathways with nutritive matter that encapsulates biocidal agents that are harmless to humans but lethal to infectious organisms once ingested. These nutritive biocidal agents could be employed as topical, oral, injectable, or aerosolized formulations, as well as hydrogel or slow-release implants.

Electrophoresis identifies presence of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in a patient sample based on one or both of a charge state and a mass of a HbA1c complex, which is HbA1c conjugated to a binder having a controlled charge and / or mass. The controlled charge and / or mass of the HbA1c complex generates a controlled migration velocity and / or migration pattern over a period of time of the HbA1c complex when an electric potential is applied to a substrate on which the HbA1c complex is applied. The controlled migration velocity and / or migration pattern can be adjusted to separate the HbA1c complex band from other hemoglobin bands, markers, and / or other compounds. The disclosed systems and methods identify presence of and optionally quantification of HbA1c based on the HbA1c complex band and one or both of its migration pattern and the migration velocity.