Products + Solutions

Materials + Structures

Advances in materials science and nanotechnology offer entirely new approaches and structures, leading to brand new applications, markets, and products. SRI has numerous products and technologies to help clients capture new opportunities.

Products

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High-Sensitivity Proximity Assays

Ideally, biological assays will yield quick, clear results through sensitive and selective detection in complex mixtures. Proximity assays are favored for facilitating high-throughput screening and revealing relative distances between analytes.

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Membranes for Water Desalination

Membranes created at SRI address new applications in water desalination.The prospect of large-scale, affordable desalination holds hope for increasing municipal supplies of drinking water, and supplying purified water to portable and shipboard systems.

Services

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Epitaxial MOCVD Growth and III-V Wafer Processing Services

SRI provides customer-focused foundry services for epitaxial growth and fabrication of compound-semiconductor optoelectronic devices.

Technologies for License

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Anti-Corrosion Coatings

Financial damage from corrosion to the transportation, marine, construction, machinery, and consumer appliance industries reaches tens of billions of dollars each year. Risks associated with metal corrosion range from marring aesthetics to serious structural instability.

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Anti-Smudge Coatings

Anyone who has held a mobile phone or handheld game knows that in a short period of time, the glass display becomes visibly dirty. SRI offers a solution.

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Blast Protection for Windows

SRI’s patented “soft catch” technology, available for license, retrofits windows to block shards of glass from entering after an exterior explosion.

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Ceramic Composites

The demand for fiber-reinforced composites is growing rapidly in the aerospace, wind power, and automotive markets as advanced technologies increasingly require lighter, tougher materials.

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Electroactive Polymer “Artificial Muscle”

SRI has patented a thin, flexible, smart material dubbed “artificial muscle” because it behaves much like a human muscle. Artificial muscle, available for license from SRI for a variety of application areas, uses a breakthrough technology called electroactive polymers.

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Electroadhesion

SRI’s breakthrough electroadhesion technology, available for license, allows electrically controlled reversible adhesion
 to most surfaces.

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Hydrolytic Polymers

SRI has developed a decomposable plastic, available for license, that is useful in applications such as garbage bags, food packaging, and diapers, as well as for medical equipment and supplies.

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Low-Cost Process for Solar-Grade Silicon

Demand for solar energy is growing rapidly due to concerns about energy independence and the environment. Propelled by consumer interest and favorable public policy, there is a growing need for ample and affordable sources of silicon to create solar cells.

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PERMIX Efficient Chemical Reactor

Chemical process industries require better control inside their reactors to improve the yield and purity of desired products with minimized waste product formation.

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Seismic Testing by SRI RESCUE (Repeatable Earth Shaking by Controlled Underground Expansion)

The most devastating damage from earthquakes often results from structural collapse. SRI’s novel technology, RESCUE (Repeatable Earth Shaking by Controlled Underground Expansion), tests the stability of full-sized buildings in response to earthquake-like ground motion.

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SensorTags to Detect Over-Temperature Conditions

As buildings, bridges, and vehicles age, the effort to detect and remedy corrosion, stress fractures, and other damage can be lengthy and costly. SRI offers SensorTags—embeddable wireless microsensors to continuously monitor structural "health" from the inside out.

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