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Technology Commercialization Initiative
Relevant courses of Auburn
Students
- BUSI 2900 and INSY 7970 (sp- 2009): Intellectual Property Protection
and Patent Application Drafting
Successfully Licensed Inventions:
The commercialization initiative of the Center has enabled the licensing
of a chemical engineering process invented at the university. It has resulted in the
formation of Modular Carpet Recycling, Inc. (MCR), a new startup business to
exploit an Auburn University technology to recover nylon from used
carpets. This business was incorporated in June 2007. The
recycling plants will keep waste carpet from going to landfills and
produce 99+% pure nylon; this green technology will reduce the need for
crude oil which is the raw material for virgin nylon. About 5 billion
pounds of waste carpets are sent to landfills each year. The company has
raised about $3 million in private capital (fully subscribed).
Contact: swamidas@auburn.edu
Business Plans for interested investors
- Electro-Active
Polymer Actuators and Sensors.

- Non-Crystalline Cellulose for additive & pharmaceutical use.
Publications
Case Study
Guest Speakers
Graduate Interns:
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Pradeep Dandamudi, MS (EE) student -
Nataraju Gokeda, MS (INSY)
student -
Dohoon Lee, MBA student -
Michael Andrew Lushington, MBA student -
John
D. Snyder, MBA student
A Sample of Auburn University inventions evaluated or under evaluation
(Hot-linked items are available for licensing and/or joint technology development)
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An efficient process of carpet nylon recycling
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Magnetically elevated ring spinning system
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High Density 3-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube Structures.
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Preparation of High Energy Capacity
Ruthenium Oxide
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Improved Speech Recognition via Multiple Listening
Pathways
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Automatic Analog BIST with Pattern Generator and Analyzer
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Soil Liquefaction Abatement for Earthquake Mitigation
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Superior Removal of Arsenic from drinking water.
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Process for effective production of drug nanoparticles of reduced size.
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Motorized Orientation Mechanism for Wind Turbines,
Satelite Antennas etc.
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Estimating pore size distribution in soil and rock
samples.
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High Order Delta-Sigma Noise Shaping in Direct Digital Synthesis
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Precise and rapid size selection of nanoparticle populations
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Production of dense and uniform nanoparticle films
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Improved Destruction of Chlorinated Compounds in Soil and Groundwater
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In-situ
Immobilization/Containment of Mercury in Contaminated Soils and
Sediments
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Destruction of Perchlorate and Nitrate in Spent Ion-Exchange Brine
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Reformer for efficient production of ultraclean fuels
from hydrocarbons.
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A chaotic fermentor with vastly improved ethanol yields
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Method of hot filament chemical vapor deposition of diamond
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Method of Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of diamond
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Rapid Polishing and Shaping of Diamond and Diamond Films
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On-line handwritten character recognition
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A novel method of Biomass pretreatment for ethanol production
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System and Method for estimating reliability of components for testing
and quality optimization
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Freewill™: the Convertible, Portable Folding Bicycle-Scooter
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Modular Snap-On Display System
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A second channel between Cache and Memory for Decreased Queuing Delay
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Low Cost Electroactive Polymer
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Near Room Temperature for Bonding and Sealing Silicon
Devices using Indium Cold Welding.
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Free Piston Sterling Engine.
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A Method to Support Scan Based Delay Testing of ICs.
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Silicon Calibrated Tests for the Scan Based Delay
Testing of ICs.
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A Multimodal Electronic Voting System.
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Laser Light Scattering-Based FFT Analysis of
Biological Oscillators.
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GPS-Free geographic routing protocol for intelligent
vehicles.
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Protein Kinetic Chip.
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A method for performing the delay testing of ICs.
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A wireless network, random access point transmission
scheme for increasing security in secure localization.
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A wireless multiple-protocol, node-based architecture for connectivity
in heterogeneous networks.
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Transit messaging system.
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Modification of Smooth Polymeric Surfaces with
nanofibres using electrospinning.
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Fiber extrusion process for increased orientation and
strength.
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Liquefaction Abatement
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Indium Cold welding
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Automated reaction Kinetic Landscaper
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Drug delivery evaluation devices
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Personal GSM gateway for remote access VOIP
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Angle of Attack measurements using MEMS
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Lignin separation.
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Mechanical Bearing
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RESS Drug Nanoparticles.
- Super critical fluids .
- Integrated Microfluidic system to analyze stem
cell differentiation and related factors.
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Geo-textile Antennas
- Grating for Moiré Interferometry.
- Standardization of textiles.
- Alternate markets for ethanol.
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Non-crystalline cellulose with dramatically new properties.
b.
Inexpensive production of cellodextrins
- Interpenetrating Phase Composite
Metal Foam.
- Fuel Cell Control System.
* If you want more information on any of
the above inventions, send an email to the Director
swamidas@auburn.edu * For a complete list of Auburn
University
Technologies available for licensing
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