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	Patent Title	Inventor(s)	Issue Date	Patent Number	Full Text
	A method for recovering catalytic elements from a fuel cell membrane electrode assembly is provided. The method includes converting the membrane electrode assembly into a particulate material, wetting the particulate material, forming a slurry comprising the wetted particulate material and an acid leachate adapted to dissolve at least one of the catalytic elements into a soluble catalytic element salt, separating the slurry into a depleted particulate material and a supernatant containing the catalytic element salt, and washing the depleted particulate material to remove any catalytic element salt retained within pores in the depleted particulate material. Method for recovering catalytic elements from fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies	Shore, Lawrence , Matlin, Ramail , Heinz, Robert	06/26/2012	8,206,682
	Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals are detected in microtesla fields. Prepolarization in millitesla fields is followed by detection with an untuned dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. Because the sensitivity of the SQUID is frequency independent, both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spectral resolution are enhanced by detecting the NMR signal in extremely low magnetic fields, where the NMR lines become very narrow even for grossly inhomogeneous measurement fields. MRI in ultralow magnetic field is based on the NMR at ultralow fields. Gradient magnetic fields are applied, and images are constructed from the detected NMR signals. Squid detected NMR and MRI at ultralow fields	Clarke, John , McDermott, Robert , Pines, Alexander , Trabesinger, Andreas Heinz	05/15/2007	7,218,104

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