Featured UA Technology

 

View UA's full portfolios of 165 active patents and 157 recently published applications, learn more about UA's licensing process by contacting Susan Dollinger or Ken Preston

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