NeuroMANCER
Dynamics-based deep learning methods to modernize current scientific computing methods. Neuromancer is currently capable of solving inverse problems for a system of ordinary differential equations The functionality includes system identification and constrained optimal control of unknown or partially known ODEs.
Visually Dynamic Scientific Publishing
Non-traditional formats for publication of research can dramatically elevate visibility of breakthrough scientific research being performed at the lab. Some examples of high-profile research pages showcasing these types of articles include Christopher Olah's site (https://colah.github.io/) which includes his famous article on Long Short-Term Memory, "Understanding LSTMs"; Andrej Karpathy's site (http://karpathy.github.io/) which includes his famous article on character-based recurrent neural network language models, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks"; and Berkeley AI Research's page (https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/). These scientific articles are exemplified by their rich visual content which enables the dissemination of advanced scientific topics and complex AI algorithms to the general community beyond the small set of experts in a particular discipline. In recent years, it has become the norm for high profile AI research labs to release these interactive, visualization enriched articles alongside the now-common practice of posting preprint publications on the ArXiv preprint server.Here we present a simple prototype framework to empower researchers across a breadth of domains with tools to build rich, interactive research articles.
Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Apparatus and Process for High-Resolution in Situ Investigation
A large-sample-volume constant-flow magic angle sample spinning (CF-MAS) NMR probe is reported for in situ investigating the reaction dynamics, stable intermediates/transition states, and mechanisms of a catalytic reaction. In our approach, the reactants are flowed into the catalyst bed using a fixed tube at one end of the rotor while a second fixed tube linked to a vacuum pump is attached at the other end of the MAS rotor to form a flow inside the catalyst bed by utilizing the pressure difference at both ends of the catalyst bed inside the sample cell space. The formation of the flow through the catalyst bed improves the diffusion of the reactants and products, allowing the use of large sample volume for enhanced sensitivity and thus permitting in situ 13C CF-MAS studies at natural abundance. As an example of application, we show that reactants, products and reaction transition states associated with 2-butanol dehydration reaction over heteropoly acids supported on mesoporous silicalite materials (HPA/meso-silicalite-1) can all be detected in a single 13C CF-MAS NMR spectrum at natural abundance. Coke products can also be detected at natural 13C abundance and under stopped flow condition. Furthermore, we show that the surface functional groups of HPA/meso-silicalite-1 can be identified under the condition of in situ drying using 1H CF-MAS NMR. We also show that the reaction dynamics of 2-butanol dehydration using HPA/meso-silicalite-1 as catalyst can be explored using 1H CF-MAS NMR.
MultiSpeaker/server source - OPEN SOURCE
MultiSpeaker is a software application that parses wsdl and xsd files that define the MultiSpeak protocol. The MultiSpeak protocol (www.multispeak.org) is a SOA-based integration architecture that defines the complex communications between various endpoints of a utility company. MultiSpeaker parses the files and presents an easy to read and understand representation of the underlying protocol. The user may then use visual clues to know what message elements are required, descriptions for the elements along with valid entries. The user may then edit or modify the payload of the actual messages. MultiSpeaker also provides a mechanism for scheduling multiple modified protocol messages. There currently is nothing that I am aware of that provides the ease of use and features of MultiSpeaker.
Hydrological Emulator
The hydrological emulator (HE) was built to mimic complex global hydrological models (GHMs) at a range of spatial scales. The HE was written in MATLAB and utilizes a genetic algorithm to calibrate the a, b, c, d, m parameters from the ABCD runoff algorithm to observed runoff from GHMs when forced by the same climate data. The HE employs two methods to choose from when processing basin data: lumped (by basin) and distributed (gridded). Both methods can be evaluated using the built-in Kling-Gupta efficiency as a measure of model performance when compared to the outputs from the more complex GHM. Testing shows that the HE is 7 orders of magnitude faster then the widely used Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) GHM.
HIGH-ENERGY METAL AIR BATTERIES
Disclosed herein are embodiments of lithium/air batteries and methods of making and using the same. Certain embodiments are pouch-cell batteries encased within an oxygen-permeable membrane packaging material that is less than 2% of the total battery weight. Some embodiments include a hybrid air electrode comprising carbon and an ion insertion material, wherein the mass ratio of ion insertion material to carbon is 0.2 to 0.8. The air electrode may include hydrophobic, porous fibers. In particular embodiments, the air electrode is soaked with an electrolyte comprising one or more solvents including dimethyl ether, and the dimethyl ether subsequently is evacuated from the soaked electrode. In other embodiments, the electrolyte comprises 10-20% crown ether by weight.
Using Bi-Directional Communications in a Market-Based Resource Allocation System
A hierarchical system of market-like structures are assembled in which producers and consumers of resources negotiate for delivery and access to these resources at various points in time. The system described here provides a single conceptual framework for assemble a wide-area system for managing the allocation and distribution of multiple resources over time.
Basin Assessment Spatial Planning Platform - Open Source
The tool intended to facilitate hydropower development and water resource planning by improving synthesis and interpretation of disparate spatial datasets that are considered in development actions (e.g., hydrological characteristics, environmentally and culturally sensitive areas, existing or proposed water power resources, climate-informed forecasts). The tool enables this capability by providing a unique framework for assimilating, relating, summarizing, and visualizing disparate spatial data through the use of spatial aggregation techniques, relational geodatabase platforms, and an interactive web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Data are aggregated and related based on shared intersections with a common spatial unit; in this case, industry-standard hydrologic drainage areas for the U.S. (National Hydrography Dataset) are used as the spatial unit to associate planning data. This process is performed using all available scalar delineations of drainage areas (i.e., region, sub-region, basin, sub-basin, watershed, sub-watershed, catchment) to create spatially hierarchical relationships among planning data and drainages. These entity-relationships are stored in a relational geodatabase that provides back-end structure to the web GIS and its widgets. The full technology stack was built using all open-source software in modern programming languages. Interactive widgets that function within the viewport are also compatible with all modern browsers.
SYSTEMS FOR DIRECT GENERATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS AND METHODS THEREOF (iEdison No. 0685901-23-0018, CIT iEdison No. 1073501-22-0055 )
The concept of this invention is to take a material that works for a specific application and modify it so that it can also be used for a new application simultaneously with the other existing capability. An example of this process would be to take a metal-loaded porous material that has demonstrated capacity for iodine gas capture (e.g., silver zeolite, silver aerogel, silver xerogel) and add functional groups to it so it can also be used to capture mercury gas at the same time. Functional groups that have been demonstrated to capture Hg gas include sulfur-containing species. These could be added using thiolation processes or by embedding elemental sulfur into the materials. Other materials could be used as well for these dual (or multi)-purpose applications.
A Universal Parsing Agent System and Method
The Universal Parsing Agent (UPA) is a software application tool that provides the capability to process text documents, extract information, and store that information in an XML markup file for further use by a database or other software products, The tool is unique because it takes advantage of a documents inherent structure to identify it and break it down and extract, by parsing, important information out of it independent of understanding a language. The UPA tool looks at patterns and symbols rather than the meaning. All that is needed are pattern descriptions in the appropriate character set. The benefit of the UPA tool is that it allows multiple document types to be parsed into a single common format to enable later investigation and manipulation of the data.