Featured UA Technology

View UA's full portfolios of 150 active patents and 111 recently published applications, learn more about UA's licensing process or check out featured technologies:

• Biotech & Biomimicry
• Chemistry
• Computers, Sensors & Devices
• Energy & Green Tech
• Medical
• Nanotechnology
• Polymers

Current exciting technology projects

• Artificial pancreas – coin-sized polymer device filled with insulin-producing cells that could replace finger prick tests and insulin injections for diabetics
• Silvamist™ – silver based drug candidate that can fight cancer and infections, now in clinical trials
• Gecko tape – super-strong tape modeled after the tiny foot hairs geckos use to climb up walls and across ceilings, a UA nanotechnology project
• Spider silk muscle – based on the UA discovery that spider silk contracts when wet, thin strands can be used to lift heavy objects
• Clean coal fuel cell – coal and air react with the help of catalysts to generate power twice as efficiently as coal burning power plants and easily trap carbon dioxide
• Glucose sensing contact – diabetics could monitor their blood sugar levels with this prototype contact lens which changes colors as sugar levels rise
• Fast Fourier Transform – greatly speeds up a computer’s ability to process pictures and sound, through a new mathematical formula
• Polymer for medical devices – newest in a line of UA developed polyurethanes for medicine boasts unprecedented biostability when implanted