Basic Sciences Technologies Available for Licensing

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's scientists and engineers have developed innovative basic science technologies that meet the clean energy market needs for inexpensive alternative fuels, photovoltaics, fuels and energy systems made from biomass and hydrogen, and advanced energy storage and transmission systems. A number of NREL's basic sciences technologies have been patented and are available for licensing.

Intellectual Property Items

U.S. Patent 6,805,999 - Buried anode lithium thin film battery and process.
U.S. Patent 6,830,778 - Direct printing of thin-film conductors using metal-chelate inks
U.S. Patent 5,377,037 - Electrochromic-Photovoltaic Film for Light-Sensitive Control of Optical Transmittance
U.S. Patent 6,441,942 - Electrochromic Projection and Writing Device
U.S. Patent 5,708,735 - Fiber Optic Device for Sensing the Presence of Gas
U.S. Patent 5,198,263 - High Rate Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Films Using Fluorinated Gases
U.S. Patent 6,277,589 - Method and Apparatus for Rapid Biohydrogen Phenotypic Screening of Microorganisms Using a Chemochromic Sensor
U.S. Patent 5,807,533 - Method for Charging a Hydrogen Getter
U.S. Patent 6,420,071 - Method for Improving the Durability of Ion Insertion Materials
U.S. Patent 6,103,942 - Method of High-Purity Silane Preparation
U.S. Patent 5,202,150 - Microwave Impregnation of Porous Materials with Thermal Energy Storage Materials
U.S. Patent 5,223,634 - Molecular Water-Oxidation Catalyst
U.S. Patent 6,723,566 - PD/NI-WO3 Anodic Double Layer Gasochromic Device
U.S. Patent 5,250,427 - Photoconversion of Gasified Organic Materials Into Biologically Degradable Plastics
U.S. Patent 4,919,813 - Photoenhanced Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Acids
U.S. Patent 6,156,395 - Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Depositions (PECVD) Method of Forming Vanadium Oxide Films and Vanadium Oxide Thin-Films Prepared Thereby
U.S. Patent 5,789,348 - Preparation of Superconductor Precursor Powders
U.S. Patent 5,871,952 - Process for Selection of Oxygen-tolerant Algal Mutants that Produce H.sub.2
U.S. Patent 5,840,443 - Redox Polymer Electrodes for Advanced Batteries
U.S. Patent 6,369,934 - Self Bleaching Photoelectrochemical-Electrochromic Device
U.S. Patent 5,346,729 - Solar-Induced Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond-Type Carbon Films
U.S. Patent 5,716,736 - Solid Lithium-Ion Electrolyte
U.S. Patent 5,384,653 - Stand-Alone Photovoltaic (PV) Powered Electrochromic Window
U.S. Patent 6,448,068 - System for Rapid Biohydrogen Phenotypic Screening of Microorganisms Using a Chemochromic Sensor
U.S. Patent 5,834,137 - Thin Film Method of Conductin Lithium-Ions
U.S. Patent 5,489,321 - Welding/Sealing Glass Enclosed Space in a Vacuum

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