Description:
Integrated Biofuel Cell with Aligned Nanotube Electrodes and Methods of Use Thereof
NJIT Case No. 06-039
Inventors: Zafar Iqbal, Yubing Wang
Intellectual Property & Development status: US Patent Protection is pending. Patent Publication No. US 20080160384 A1
NJIT is currently seeking commercial partners for the further development and commercialization of this opportunity.
Technology Brief: Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science invented a method of forming, producing or manufacturing functionalized and soluble nanomaterials, most specifically carbon nanotubes on a substrate, which can be used in the production or manufacture of biofuel cells.
Published Patent is available at https://www.google.com/patents/US20080160384
Inventors Bio:
Zafar Iqbal: Before joining the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dr. Zafar Iqbal was Senior Principal Scientist/Program Manager at Honeywell´s Corporate Research Laboratory in Morristown, New Jersey. He obtained his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Cambridge, England in 1967 and was a Science Research Council Fellow in Molecular Sciences at the University of Warwick, England between 1967-69. In 1969 he joined the US Army´s Feltman Research Laboratory in Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, as a research scientist where he remained till 1977. Prior to joining Honeywell (then AlliedSignal) in 1983 he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz in Germany (1977-79), and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in the University of Zurich, Switzerland and guest Research Professor at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (1979-83). He received the US Army Science Paul A. Siple Medal, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and numerous research and development awards from both Picatinny Arsenal and Honeywell-AlliedSignal. He has published over 250 papers in refereed journals, including articles in Science, Nature and Scientific Reports-Nature with 10,920 Google Scholar citations to date and H index of 42. He has edited two monographs, and is currently completing a book on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology for Cambridge University Press. He holds 25 US patents and 1 South Korean patent, on a wide range of technologies. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Contact:
Sangeeta Bafna
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Office of Research • (973) 642-4295• bafna@njit.edu