Patents

Our research may be best characterized as biophotonics, photonic materials and molecular engineering.

Patents

Particular emphasis focuses on the synthesis and characterization of nonlinear optical, photoresponsive, electrostrictive, and magnetostrictive nanostructured materials. Molecular self-assembly and development of new polymer grafting methods are being investigated to prepare stable, highly functionalized polymeric materials.

Title of Patent

Inventor and Documents

Two-photon Absorbing Water-Soluble Fluorescent Probe as a Near-Neutral pH Indicator

Kevin D. Belfield and Sheng Yao. Patents: US 8232303

Microwave-assisted Formation of Sulfonium Photoacid Generators

Kevin D. Belfield and Ciceron O. Yanez. Patents: US 8192590

FRET-Based Two-Photon Three Dimensional Optical Data Storage

Kevin D. Belfield. Patents: US 7964333

Two-Photon Ternary Optical Data Storage

Kevin D. Belfield. Patents: US 7608384 B1

Reactive Probes for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging

Kevin D. Belfield, Katherine J. Schafer. Patents: US 7282514, US 7253287 B1

Photosensitive Polymeric Material for WORM Optical Data Storage with Two-Photon Fluorescent Readout

Kevin Belfield. Patents: US 7001708, US7291442 B1, US 7524611, US 7598018, US 7611823

Stabilized Luminescent Polymer Composites

Kevin Belfield and Michael Bass. Patents: US 6844387