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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1158106
Search Patents by Ming Zheng
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
A method of separating and extracting carbon nanotubes, the method includes introducing the carbon nanotubes into a two-phase system that includes a first component and a second component, the first component being different from the second component. The method includes introducing a chemical agent
This invention discloses a design of an array of micron-sized spectrometer units that can measure the spectrum of incoming light in the wavelength range of 200 nm to 2000 nm, with a spatial resolution comparable to the size of a single spectrometer unit. Each spectrometer unit is composed of a set