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Increasing the cell wall and cellulose content in plants by mutating FKF gene and blue light.

Technology SummaryBiofuels are an integral part of the ever growing renewable energy landscape. As with any harvesting or manufacturing strategy, yield matters greatly in determining the viability and profitability of the process. This technology is a strategy to increase cellulose and cell wall content in plants, thereby increasing the percent yield...

Published: 11/28/2018 | Inventor(s): Venugopal Mendu, Ning Yuan, Vimal Kumar Balasubramanian

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Category(s): Agriculture, Biofuels, Plant Derivative, Fiber research, Biomass

Utilizing the complete Fibrogram for fiber quality evaluation

In the textile industry, there are different types of machines that are able to assess the quality of fibers, with the most common being the high volume instrument (HVI). HVI systems take parallel bundles of fibers and report on the mean length and uniformity index of the bundle. However, there is very little data reported concerning individual fiber...

Published: 12/13/2018 | Inventor(s): Brendan Kelly, Eric Hequet, Abu Sayeed, Zach Hinds

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Category(s): Fiber research

Composite body armor, ballistic protective composite shield and method of manufacturing

Most body armor available in the market is uncomfortable to wear because it is heavy and made of non-porus materials that do not allow proper air circulation. As a result, the body armor is worn only during emergencies or when there is an immediate threat.Needlepunched technology permits the manufacture of more comfortable ballistic protection shield...

Published: 7/2/2018 | Inventor(s): Seshadri Ramkumar

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Category(s): Fiber research

Machine vision system for simultaneous evaluation of shrinkage and soil release in fabrics

Soil release corresponds to the efficacy of the fabric in releasing stains after laundering, and shrinkage essentially quantifies the dimensional changes in the fabric post laundering. The invention comprises a machine vision that generates simultaneous, automatic and objective measurements of soil release and shrinkage in fabrics. Competitive Advantages This...

Published: 7/2/2018 | Inventor(s): Arunkumar Gururajan, Hamed Sari-Sarraf, Eric Hequet

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Category(s): Fiber research