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Semiconductor Crystals Grown At UT Being Licensed For Research

 


 

Electrical wires small enough they can only be seen through a microscope may sound like something only possible in a science fiction movie, but that's just one of the many applications for the two-dimensional semiconductor crystals being grown at the University of Tennessee and licensed to research institutions around the world.

 

Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in UT's College of Engineering have successfully grown four combinations of these crystals which are being used by the scientific community for cutting edge research in solar energy, dry lubrication, energy storage, nitrogen monoxide sensors, lithium ion batteries and flexible electronics.  

 

 

 

QuickSod Wins $30K in the UTRF Tennessee Venture Challenge

 

Pictured from left to right: David Millhorn, UT Executive Vice President and UTRF President; Richard Magid, UTRF Vice President at the UT Health Science Center; John Sorochan; Ryan Kemp; and Stacey Patterson, Vice President of the UTRF Multi-Disciplinary Office and UT Assistant Vice President and Director of Research Partnerships.


 

QuickSod swept the first ever Tennessee Venture Challenge (TVC), claiming both the $25,000 overall prize and the $5,000 Crowd Favorite Award at the TVC Pitch Competition held by the UT Research Foundation (UTRF) Thursday, April 3 at The Foundry in Knoxville.

 

TVC is a business plan competition for the University of Tennessee community. To be eligible for the competition, potential startup companies must be commercializing intellectual property created at a UT campus or institute.

 

 

 

UTRF Activity

7/1/13 - 5/12/14     

 

Disclosures.........................126

Patents Filed .......................79

Patents Issued.....................25

Licenses & Options..............10

Startups................................3

 

 

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UTRF Welcomes Andreana Leskovjan

 

 

Andreana Leskovjan has joined UTRF's Knoxville office as a licensing assistant. She will focus primarily on commercializing technologies developed in the College of Engineering in Knoxville.

 

Prior to joining UTRF, Andreana was a postdoctoral research associate studying Alzheimer's disease in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Stony Brook University. During her graduate studies, she also worked extensively at the synchrotrons at Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories. Andreana holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Stony Brook University and is also a registered patent agent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.