Welcome to DOepatents, the U.S. Department of Energy's central collection of patent information, where research and development intersect with innovation and invention. This collection demonstrates the Department's considerable contribution to scientific progress from the 1940s to today. http://www.osti.gov/doepatents http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:14:50 -0400 evansd@osti.gov Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:46:19 -0500 evansd@osti.gov FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.0) http://www.feedforall.com <a href="http://www.pnl.gov">Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</a> (PNNL) has developed an innovative technology that quickly and easily reduces or removes mercury content without creating hazardous waste or by-products, and that can be disposed of as a nonhazardous waste. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://samms.pnl.gov/">SAMMS</a>^TM (Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Supports) is simple, inexpensive and easy to use; it is highly adaptable for use in reducing and removing metal contaminants from aqueous and non-aqueous materials; and it has numerous applications, including water treatment, waste stabilization, and metal processing and finishing.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is also significantly faster, more effective, and far less expensive than other mercury removal methods used in the past. http://www.osti.gov/doepatents/featured.jsp 8B024A70-32FC-4D92-B423-05D01D862D9F Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:56:40 -0400