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Volume 7, Issue 6 (Suppl) J Nanomed Nanotechnol
ISSN: 2157-7439 JNMNT, an open access journal Nanotek 2016
December 05-07, 2016
December 05-07, 2016 Phoenix, USA
13th International Conference on
Nanotek & Expo
J Nanomed Nanotechnol 2016, 7:6 (Suppl)
Indium Nanoparticles – technology assessment for commercialization and innovation opportunities
using patents as indicators
Ruchica Kumar
Novocus Legal LLP, India
Indium Nanoparticles – Technology Assessment for commercialization and innovation opportunities using patents as indicators:
This research postulates a mechanism to identify new commercialization avenues for an inter-disciplinary technology portfolio
through innovation mapping. The mechanism may be deployed for adding leverage to influence or market power of an existing
technology as well. Patent informatics in form of technology spill-over analysis and technology competitiveness assessment is used
herein. Both these factors are known innovation drivers and can be leveraged for mapping innovation and commercialization
opportunities. Patents are a good indicator because inter-disciplinary technologies like nanotechnology progress through identifiable
patterns of scientific, technological and economic developments and there is a time lag between different stages. Accordingly, patent
documents can be used for studying technology influence and market power of portfolios and innovation network can be derived
thereupon. Example of Indium Nanoparticles has been used to demonstrate aforementioned statement through a multi-dimensional
analysis at a primary level and involving patent citations, family size, technical applications and bibliographic information provided
in 1623 relevant patent documents. The analysis lead to mapping of technology spill-overs and competitiveness, which were later
compared and remapped at secondary and tertiary levels to form detailed innovation map for the technology. Indium Nanoparticles
have applications as a material for superconductivity, and as a semiconductor. The innovation map created through assessment
presents evidence of possible applications and opportunities of innovation for indium nanoparticles in electrical, magnetic, optical,
biomedical and bioscience sectors. These opportunities may be leveraged through various strategic decisions thereby opening a
plethora of commercialization avenues like technology pooling, cross-licensing etc.
Graphene and carbon nanotube thermoelectric transducers
Serhii Shafraniuk
Northwestern University, USA
Using the local thermoelectric cooling on nanoscale enables exploiting of the low-temperature phenomena at ambient temperatures
with no needs in bulky and expensive refrigerating equipment, thereby opening new horizonts for many approaches and
methodologies.The key idea is to apply an energy-efficient cooling to individual transistors or quantumdots with a pin-point precision,
concentrating on small limited areas, thereby dropping the necessity to refrigerate bulky devices. We conduct the experimental study
and theoretical modelling of thermoelectric cooling observed in the Carbon Nanotube (CNT), whose opposite ends contain the
charge carriers of opposite sign, either electrons or holes, created by doping with using of the local gate electrodes. Finite source-drain
electric bias voltage V causes change of the local effective electron temperature Te at the middle of CNT, owing to the Peltier effect,
whilst the magnitude is deduced from the change in the position and width of spectral singularities, which is manifested in the
experimental curves of the source-drain electric conductance. We find that using the electrode doping, one achieves a sharp rise of
both, the electric conductivity and Seebeck coefficient, while the thermal conductivity tumbles. Such the effect of thermal transistor
improves the figure of merit of the thermoelectric transducing circuits. Depending on the sign of V, the thermoelectric effect causes
either cooling or heating of the electron subsystem inside CNT, with the Te change ~70 K. The value of deduced figure of merit is
ZT~10 and the cooling power density is ~ 80 kW/cm2.