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Ohio. Just another link on the industrial Rust Belt, you say? A wasteland littered with yesterday's technology?
Bite your tongue.
• R&D award-winning products that changed lives
Ohio's 10 winners for 2008
• Multidimensional contact angle measurement device, from NASA Glenn Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute. The technology will find use in life-support systems being developed for future space missions but also could apply to the development of new adhesives and nonfluid devices as well as special sensors.
• Harmonic Focus Curved Shear with Harmonic Blue Hand Piece, from Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc., Cincinnati. Ethicon's Harmonic line includes surgical tools that work on principles of ultrasound, allowing more precise cutting, grasp, blood coagulation and versatility. The device also won an award from BusinessWeek Magazine in the category of best global design of 2008.
• 4x4 Multiple-in, Multiple-out (MIMO) RF Test System, from Keithley Instruments Inc., Cleveland. As electronic monitors and communications devices have become more complex and data-intensive, so has the process of testing how accurately they generate and receive signals. Keithley's MIMO test system shows how precisely the devices operate.
• Environmentally Benign and Reduced Corrosion Runway Deicing Fluid, from Battelle, Columbus; Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton; and other labs. This is a nontoxic and biodegradable fluid that can de-ice and remove snow from aircraft, runways and roads. It also keeps snow from sticking to the de-iced surfaces.
• Simultaneous Non-Contact Precision Imaging of Microstructural and Thickness Variation in Dielectric Materials, from NASA Glenn and other government research centers. The technology paves the way for nondestructive evaluation approaches for pharmaceutical, biomedical, security, material analysis and aerospace use, including damage assessment on spacecraft surfaces.
• Multi-Scale Materials: Integrated Processing Method, from Battelle in collaboration with other labs. Researchers outlined the most efficient conditions for using very tiny structures (nanowires, extremely thin films and micro-droplets) in manufacturing. Chemical qualities, temperature and pressure all play a role in the success of these operations, and this process maps their relationship.
• Velocys-FT: Fisher-Tropsch Fuels using Velocys Microchannel Technology, from Battelle and research partners. This is a technology that greatly reduces the size and cost of second-generation biofuel production facilities, those that make biofuels from nonfood plant
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