Innovation Overground

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Innovation Overground

We find all the cool academic innovations so you don't have to. Sponsored and produced by UNeMed, the technology transfer and commercialization office for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

  1. Innovation Overground: Print better plastics with carbon fiber (303)

    07/20/2020

    Innovation Overground: Print better plastics with carbon fiber (303)

    What’s light as plastic, strong as steel and less expensive per pound than the chassis of an Italian sportscar? Carbon fiber reinforced polymers, duh! Join the Overground as they extend their tour of the mind-bending world of materials science to the juncture of additive manufacturing, uncompromising structural rigidity and sustainable sourcing. It’s the only podcast in your feed that will point you in the general direction of building your own Pontiac Fiero chassis from locally sourced organic ingredients.  Featured Technologies: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/admt.201600084; https://patents.google.com/patent/US10406750B2/en?q=%22carbon+fiber+reinforced+polymers%22&assignee=university; https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180118901A1/en?q=%22carbon+fiber+reinforced+polymers%22&assignee=university+&page=1; https://www.antiquesnavigator.com/archive/2017/04/21/132158679285.jpg  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    18 min
  2. Innovation Overground: Carbon Nanotubes, churros and rebar (302)

    07/13/2020

    Innovation Overground: Carbon Nanotubes, churros and rebar (302)

    Join us as we explore further innovation involving sheets of carbon – rolled up into a delicious churro of nearly infinite reinforcing strength: carbon nanotubes. It’s awesome rebar, it’s the business end of a molecular analyzer, its formed from advanced chemical deposition, and scientists are cranking it out – by the centimeter.    Featured Technologies: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology/introduction/introduction_to_nanotechnology_22.php; https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191213142422.htm; https://patents.google.com/patent/US9896340B2/en?q=(%22carbon+nanotubes%22+%2fand)+(rebar)&assignee=university&oq=(%22carbon+nanotubes%22+%2fand)+(rebar)+assignee:university; https://patents.google.com/patent/US8961757B2/en?q=%22carbon+nanotubes%22&assignee=university&page=4  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    21 min
  3. Innovation Overground: Return to Graphene (301)

    07/06/2020

    Innovation Overground: Return to Graphene (301)

    We begin season three(!) as materials science makes astonishing leaps forward. Join the Overground as we shelter in place with a limited series on materials science innovation. First stop, friend of the show, Graphene! The crew discusses how graphene will be the optical interstate onramp to the rail network of our information science infrastructure... or something... and smart medical instruments that will measure your vitals while they save your life.   Featured Technologies: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140056551A1/en?q=graphene+%2fand&q=photonics&assignee=university; https://patents.google.com/patent/US7745528B2/en?q=(graphene+%2fand)+(thermal)&assignee=university&oq=(graphene+%2fand)+(thermal)+assignee:university;  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to M

    20 min
  4. Innovation Overground: Vaccines at warp speed (249)

    06/29/2020

    Innovation Overground: Vaccines at warp speed (249)

    What if the lasting legacy of COVID-19 is...not all bad? Leavening the horror of pandemic disease is the shockingly fast development of a vaccine. Right now, two COVID-19 vaccine candidates are roaring into full-on human testing, and may be ready to inoculate the world by 2021.   Featured Technologies: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/operation-warp-speed-finalists-funding-initiative/;  https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243; https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/Adenoviral-vectors-new-COVID-19/98/i19  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    19 min
  5. Innovation Overground: What we don’t know about COVID-19 (248)

    06/22/2020

    Innovation Overground: What we don’t know about COVID-19 (248)

    This week the OG crew discusses all that is unknown about COVID-19, and what that means. Still up the in air: basically all the complex biology, infectious rate, latency, immunity, co-morbidity and potential vaccine efficacy. But take heart, listeners because there are a few things science is confident about.   Featured Technologies: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267810/; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01824-5;   Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    17 min
  6. Innovation Overground: Sun Rockets! (247)

    06/08/2020

    Innovation Overground: Sun Rockets! (247)

    This week the Overground looks at solar power and rotating multi-chamber rockets. Join the crew as they contemplate how solar power is like a well-diversified retirement account, how to pronounce Elon Musk’s youngest child’s name and why is Joe so gosh darn insincere.    Featured Technologies: https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-cell-technology-has-toppled-three-new-records-just-this-month Rotating detonation rocket engine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010218019305838?via%3Dihub  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    21 min
  7. Innovation Overground: Brain Mysteries! (246)

    06/01/2020

    Innovation Overground: Brain Mysteries! (246)

    The Overground takes another week off from monitoring viral pandemics to get more personal – the mysteries of the human brain Join the crew as we luxuriate in the infinite mystery of the human mind: brain implants that cure blindness, the electromagnetic basis of the ego and the scientific feasibility of telepathy. Overground platinum members get double miles this week!  Featured Technologies: Brain implant  https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867420304967 new process of wireless, self-propagating neural communication: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP276904  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    17 min
  8. Innovation Overground: Physics Fun! (245)

    05/25/2020

    Innovation Overground: Physics Fun! (245)

    Join the Overground as we kick back and let the COIVD-19 Pandemic do its own thing a few weeks. That’s right, the crew is taking a Zoom to the poolside with a relaxing, frosty glass of...quantum physics. C’mon and join us—its Schroedinger’s cat somewhere! Possibly Australia and Austria -- at the same time!  Featured Technologies: Nuclear Resonance: https://www.sciencealert.com/in-an-accidental-discovery-australian-engineers-solve-58-year-old-quantum-mystery; Quantum radar: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-are-investigating-ways-to-use-entanglement-as-a-fancy-new-kind-of-radar; https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eabb0451  Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)   Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed  Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

    18 min
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We find all the cool academic innovations so you don't have to. Sponsored and produced by UNeMed, the technology transfer and commercialization office for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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    UNeMed
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2020
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