Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 4013 Annual Report 2016 13 Methods of Forming Single Source Precursors, Methods of Forming Polymeric Single Source Precursors, And Single Source Precursors Formed by Such Methods Molecules containing all of the elements, and having the correct stoichiometric ratio needed to form the final product are called single source precursors. Nanoparticles arising from thermal decomposition of single source precursors are useful for the manufacture of thin film semiconductors, superconductors, or electrically insulating materials. Such thin film structures have applications in electronics, pharmaceuticals, and as catalysts in the making of advanced materials. There is a need for improved methods to form single source precursors for use in forming multilayered semi- conductive nanomaterials. The method described in this patent uses supercritical fluids (carbon dioxide at a pressure and temperature where it has the density and solvent properties of a fluid, but the viscosity and diffusivity of a gas) for controlled thermal decomposition of single source precursors to form nanoparticles having uniform composition and structure. Patent No. 9,315,529 Docket No.: BA-389D2 - Grant Date: 2016-04-19 Inventors: Robert V Fox, Rene G Rodriguez, Joshua J Pak, Chivin Sun, Kelsey Margulieux, Andrew Holland Methods, Apparatuses, And Computer-Readable Media for Projectional Morphological Analysis of N-dimensional Signals Classical mathematical morphology, a method for nonlinear processing of images and signals based on filtering the images with simple geometrical shapes, was originally developed in the 1960s for binary images. There is a need for methods and apparatuses that provide a new outlook at mathematical morphological analysis that should be considered supplementary to the more traditional approach. In this patent, the so-called “projection” variant of mathematical morphology was developed. In many cases, it allows generalizing the problem of signal/image analysis and establishing its rigorous mathematical formulation in the form of variational problems. The morphological methods that were developed are applicable to multispectral signals/images or arbitrary dimensionality. Patent No. 9,342,876 Docket No.: BA-481 - Grant Date: 2016-05-17 Inventors: Michael V Glazoff, Kevin L Gering, John E Garnier, Sergey Rashkeev, Yuri P Pyt’ev