67 results about "Soft matter" patented technology

The present invention provides a battery cell, comprising: (a) an anode comprising an active metal or a metal ion storage material (e.g., an intercalation compound that accommodates lithium ion); (b) a cathode structure; and (c) an ionically conductive protective layer on a surface of the anode and interposed between the anode and the cathode structure. This protective layer comprises a porous membrane having pores therein and a soft matter phase disposed in at least one of the pores, wherein the soft matter phase comprises oxide particles dispersed in a non-aqueous alkali, alkaline, or transition metal salt solution. Most preferably, this battery cell is a lithium metal secondary cell that is essentially free from dendrite and exhibits a safer and more stable cycling behavior. Such a high-capacity rechargeable battery is particularly useful for powering portable electronic devices and electric vehicles.

Disclosed herein is a composite comprising an elastomer with an embedded network of liquid metal inclusions. The composite retains similar flexibility to that of an elastomer but exhibits electrical and thermal properties that differ from the properties of a homogeneous elastomer. The composite has applications for wearable devices and other soft matter electronics, among others.

A general method is provided for electronically reconfiguring the internal structure of a solid to allow precision control of the propagation of wave energy. The method allows digital or analog control of wave energy, such as but not limited to visible light, while maintaining low losses, a multi-octave bandwidth, polarization independence, large area and a large dynamic range in power handling. Embodiments of the technique are provided for large-angle beam steering, lenses and other devices to control wave energy.

A method and system for micromanipulation of objects of any shape. The method and system creates various forms of holographic optical traps for a variety of commercial purposes. Some alternate forms of traps include a dark form of optical traps, optical vortices with different helical winding numbers and optical traps with variable phase profiles imprinted thereon.

The invention provides a combined device for small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering and an experiment test method of the combined device. The device adopts a microfocus X-ray source used for providing parallel, high-brightness and high-quality X-rays. Three four-knife-edge-slit collimating light paths are arranged to precisely define the light spot pattern and filter off stray lights. A one-dimensional linear detector and a two-dimensional multi-wire gas detector are combined to respectively detect wide-angle and small-angle X-ray scattered signals so as to obtain a material structure from 0.1 nanometers to 100 nanometers. Different lengths of vacuum pipes and different sizes of direct light barriers are arranged in the device, so that the device can adjust the distance between a sample and the detector and can ensure high luminous flux and spatial resolution of the scattered signals under the premise of meeting the requirement on angle testing. The device provided by the invention has the advantages of large test range, easiness in adjustment and so on, and is very suitable for in-situ detection, so that the device is a good tool for studying high polymer materials, inorganic nano-materials, biomedical materials, other soft materials and so on.

The invention discloses a soft matter comprehensive measuring device based on novel hybrid optical tweezers, comprising a laser, a first planoconvex spotlight, a second planoconvex spotlight, a first reversible reflector, a first reflector, a liquid crystal spatial light modulator, a second reversible reflector, a third planoconvex spotlight, a fourth planoconvex spotlight, a first dichroic mirror, a microscope objective, a two-dimensional electric platform, a halogen lamp, a microscope imaging tube mirror, a second dichroic mirror, a position detector imaging lens, a position detector, a camera and a computer, wherein the device can effectively work in the modes of high precision single optical tweezers and holographic optical tweezers, and the computer is respectively connected with theliquid crystal spatial light modulator, the camera and a position sensor signal inception system through signal lines. According to the invention, the measurement of simultaneous capture operation and interaction of a plurality of particles in liquid phase can be realized, and the measurement of broadband rheology characteristics of a microfluid by using a single particle probe can be realized.

The present invention relates to colon soluble hard medicine capsule disintegrated in colon and its production process. The colon soluble hard hollow capsule includes skeleton layer and coating layer. The production process includes the following steps: dipping the skeleton layer material solution with mold and stoving; coating the skeleton layer material with coating layer; stoving and curing; demolding; cutting; matching; and inspection. The colon soluble hard hollow capsule has stable quality, may be disintegrated in fixed position, and suitable for colon administration. The hollow capsule may be filled with medicine, solid, liquid and soft matter, which are released in colon.

The invention relates to a method for collecting, transporting and disposing household garbage in a classification way. In the method, after being produced, the household garbage is collected and stored in corresponding classification special family and outdoor garbage collection devices respectively according to different categories of food, soft matter, hard matter and fragile matter; then, the garbage is transported to corresponding garbage disposal department by corresponding classification special transportation devices by environmental protection workers; finally, the garbage can be disposed respectively by the garbage disposal departments according to the different garbage categories, and the special garbage collection devices and the special transportation devices are in different colors to distinguish the categories of the stored garbage. The invention also provides a family garbage can applied in the method for disposing the garbage in a classification way. The family garbage can comprises a box rack and four garbage cans, wherein the surfaces of the garbage cans are in four colors. The family garbage can is convenient for people to classify the produced household garbage at the first time.

The invention relates to a polyelectrolyte elastomer as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: reacting ionic monomers or/and polymers in water in the presence of an initiator, and drying, thereby obtaining the product. The ionic monomers refer to one or more selected from 3-(2-methacryloyloxyethyldimethylamino) propyl sulfonate,acrylic acid, acryloyloxyethyl trimethyl ammonium chloride, methacryloyloxyethyl trimethyl ammonium chloride, methacrylic acid and sodium p-styrenesulfonate; the ionic polymers refer to one or more selected from poly-dimethyl diallyl ammonium chloride, polyacrylic acid, poly-dimethyl diallyl ammonium chloride and poly (4-styrenesulfonic acid sodium). The obtained bionic smart skin is capable of simulating mechanical behaviors of biological tissues, has perceptive functions of multiple kinds of outside stimulus, can be applied to the fields of medical bionic electronic devices, soft matter robots, internet-of-things sensing equipment and the like and has wide industrial application prospects.

The invention relates to a target body structure for automatically scoring BB bullets or bullet bodies. The target body is provided with at least one target area, at least one infrared induction device and at least one electric display scoring device, wherein the surface of the target area is provided with sticky soft matters, and the at least one infrared induction device is arranged at a proper position near the target body surface; the electric display scoring device is provided with a microcomputer CPU, the infrared induction device, when the BB bullets or bullet bodies are ejected and thrown to the front of the surfaces of the sticky soft matters of the target area, detects and induces the BB bullets or bullet bodies accurately and generates an induction signal, the induction signal is transferred to the microcomputer CPU, and the microcomputer CPU judges whether the BB bullets or bullet bodies hit right coordinate positions of the target surface and automatically scores, and thus, the shooting or throwing of the BB bullets or bullet bodies can be added with effects of voice and light, sound and music and various automatic scoring game mode display functions of LEDs, LCDs, backlight LCDs, liquid crystal screens and backlight plates.

The invention discloses a high-speed rotary type automatic injection device for a liquid sample. The high-speed rotary type automatic injection device comprises a base plate, a rack, a two-dimensional mobile platform arranged on the rack, a sample injection assembly, a sample injection table, a sample bottle and a waste liquid bottle, wherein the two-dimensional mobile platform comprises a horizontal sliding rail assembly driven by a motor and a vertical sliding rail assembly driven by the motor; the sample injection assembly comprises a sample injection needle and a sample injection needle fixing seat; the sample injection needle fixing seat is arranged on the two-dimensional mobile platform; a piston rod of the sample injection needle is connected with a power source; the sample injection table comprises a rotary sample table driven by the motor and a sample filling tube. The device can be used for uniformly adding the liquid sample into a soft matter; in addition, when a sample solution is injected into the sample filling tube by using the sample injection needle, the problems of unsteady motion, jitter, injection failure and the like are solved by rotating the sample injection table at high speed. Meanwhile, a circuit control system is added on the device, so that automation of injection is realized, and the problems of lower accuracy, stability and working efficiency of manual injection and the like are solved.

The disclosure describes a soft-matter electronic device having micron-scale features, and methods to fabricate the electronic device. In some embodiments, the device comprises an elastomer mold having microchannels, which are filled with an eutectic alloy to create an electrically conductive element. The microchannels are sealed with a polymer to prevent the alloy from escaping the microchannels. In some embodiments, the alloy is drawn into the microchannels using a micro-transfer printing technique. Additionally, the molds can be created using soft-lithography or other fabrication techniques. The method described herein allows creation of micron-scale circuit features with a line width and spacing that is an order-of-magnitude smaller than those previously demonstrated.

Provided herein is technology relating to collecting samples of soft matter compositions, and particularly, but not exclusively, to devices and methods for collecting stool samples.

The invention relates to a method and system used to observe the evolvement procedure of dynamic structure of non-ergodic system under strong electric field with higher voltage fraction by using a high speed CCD image system to measure the diffused spectrum. There is no suitable method to measure said evolvement procedure by using prior art technique. Through auto-correlation function and diffused transmittance of measured specimen and observing formation of structure of electricity rheological liquid system, the conclusion obtained is that at least two factors play important roles in electricity rheologic procedure: interaction of net change, interaction of dipole. Thus it gives a good explantation for each electricity rheologic mechanism. The system is neat, particular suitable to soft matter with quick response structure such electricity rheologic, magnetism rheologic liquid and blood.

The invention discloses a high-altitude projection and flame failure protection bomb. The high-altitude projection and flame failure protection bomb comprises a connection body, a sealing cartridge case, an ignition device and a soft matter storage container, wherein the soft matter storage container is arranged at the bottom of the connection body, and is internally provided with a fire extinguishing media containing cavity for storing a fire extinguishing media temporarily or for a long time; the sealing cartridge case is arranged on the connection body and partially protrudes the bottom face of the connection body; the ignition device is connected with the sealing cartridge case. Compared with the spraying manner of the traditional airplanes, the high-altitude projection and flame failure protection bomb provided by the invention rapidly damages fillers and thin films by using shock waves generated by propellant powder, and stirs fire extinguishing media to form far extension gasdynamic flow with strong airflow carrier, so that a cone-shaped pulse vortex is formed. Therefore, high-altitude and low-altitude fire can be efficiently extinguished. An aerial carrier has no need of low-altitude flight in a fire field, so as to avoid the conditions of oxygen deficit, strong smoke or upflow caused by the fire, and the security of fire extinguishing can be improved.

The invention relates to a mouth cleaning toothbrush, which comprises a brush handle and a brush head, wherein the brush head is made of a material having a water-absorbing soft matter and a rough surface. The mouth cleaning toothbrush adopting the brush head made of the material which has the water-absorbing soft matter and the rough surface instead of a brush head with hairs can clean the inner wall, alveolar sockets, the tongue and other parts of the mouth while cleaning teeth.

The invention discloses a natural stone paste picture and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises: (a) collecting stones and fine sands and washing the stones and the sands to be clean; (b) cutting the stones into stone peels; (c) making a sketch on a baseplate with pencil; (d) spraying a glue layer according to the sketch; (e) sticking at least one layer of the fine sands and the cut stone peels in different positions according to the sketch so as to form various stereoscopic patterns; (f) spraying a moisture proof layer and a fixing layer on the stereoscopic patterns; and (g) decorating the picture by a picture frame. When the stones are cut, the stones are supported by a soft bag filled with the fine sands or other fine soft matters so as to ensure that rugged parts on the cut stones can sink into the soft bag, and the stones are put in a correct place. Then, the stones are tightly held and cut. Because the stone patterns in the picture are formed by the stone peels cut from the natural stones, the sticking surface is smooth and convenient to stick, and the weight of the picture is greatly lightened so that the picture is convenient to carry and hang.

The invention discloses a device for preparing ceramsite cat litter from urban sludge. The device structurally comprises a sludge putting hopper, a control displayer and the like. In order to overcome the defects of the prior art and solve the problems that a large amount of urban sludge is accumulated, solid waste in the sludge is likely to cause secondary pollution under the action of microbial degradation, coal cinder and ceramsite cannot be fully mixed in a production process, and the preparation quality is low, the device for preparing the ceramsite cat litter from urban sludge has the advantages that the sludge putting hopper, a sludge waste separation mechanism, a screening purification mechanism and a deep mortar and pestle mechanism are designed, accumulation of sludge is reduced, a reasonable outlet is found for the sludge, solid waste and soft biological humus are separated from the sludge to ensure that soft matter cannot be scattered or mixed with the sludge during natural filtration, waste materials are effectively recycled, and secondary pollution is thus avoided; the effect of improving the production quality of the ceramsite cat litter is achieved by using a motor and a pestle for grinding to fully mix coal cinder with sludge ceramsite.

The invention discloses a water flow impact buffering device and belongs to the technical field of water conservancy equipment tools. The water flow impact buffering device comprises a connection pipe, wherein the tail end of the connection pipe is connected with a buffering device by a connection rod; the surface, accepting the flow impact, of the buffering device is provided with a soft matter with greater friction force. The water flow impact buffering device has a simple structure and a reasonable design; the water flow impact force is weakened by using the effect of buffering and wearing the soft matters, so that crops are protected and the economic losses are alleviated.