UbiQD was lately awarded a new small stage business contract bridge by NASA , the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration , for optimization and scale - up of extruded UbiGro nursery films for encourage harvest yield in both space and terrestrial applications . The novel NASA declaration leverages matching funds that were provided by secret investor . Additionally , the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) has granted the ship’s company a central letters patent on its greenhouse technology .
“ Our UbiGro internal merchandise , which set up under the cap , has been democratic with growers having shew great productivity enhancements , and now our squad is worked up to wrap out a full - book binding product , called UbiGro Cover , ” enjoin Matt Bergren , Chief Product Officer at UbiQD . “ The progress that we ’re making on extruded pic is enabling a whole fresh grade of products for the keep in line surroundings agribusiness industry . ”
UbiGro Cover utilizes a new quantum Elvis ( QD ) polymer system grow by UbiQD that led to multiple edict of magnitude improved fluorescence sunshine durability . Historically , nanomaterials have struggled to last the high temperatures involve for twin - screwing compounding and blown picture show extrusion . These QD films sustain high idle - conversion efficiency exceeding 90 % over thousands of hours of accelerated aging . works trials are afoot , and the benefits are look to be as good or better than those seen with UbiGro Inner . The work builds on late NASA financial support and may also gain other applications , including solar .
to boot , the UbiQD patent program US16/612,344 by Bergren et al . titled “ Luminescent optical element for agricultural program ” ( May 2017 priority engagement ) has been give up by the USPTO . A number of other global patent of invention applications in this field are pending for UbiQD .
“ We ’re thankful to have the continued support of NASA and investor , particularly at a clip when our patent of invention portfolio is expanding , and the manufacture is desperately demand energy efficiency , ” state Hunter McDaniel , UbiQD Founder , and CEO . “ Growers have been require for UbiGro Cover , and we ’re frantic to deliver . ”
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