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"The US imports over $300 billion dollars of oil every year. Electrification of the US fleet would reduce our dependency on foreign oil and could help curb carbon dioxide emissions through increased renewable energy integration. However, current battery technology is too expensive and offers insufficient range to drive broad market acceptance of electric vehicles. ARPA-E has responded by chall ...

"The US imports over $300 billion dollars of oil every year. Electrification of the US fleet would reduce our dependency on foreign oil and could help curb carbon dioxide emissions through increased renewable energy integration. However, current battery technology is too expensive and offers insufficient range to drive broad market acceptance of electric vehicles. ARPA-E has responded by chall ...

In the recently concluded STTR Phase I Topic OSD10-T005,"Roll to Roll Inkjet Printing of Sub-wavelength Photonic Devices", SI2 Technologies, Inc (SI2) and partner University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) successfully demonstrated a low cost, lithographic free manufacturing capability for integrating submicron-to- millimeter electronic-photonic devices on flexible substrates. Using this world ...

This Phase II STTR proposal seeks to enhance the throughput and resolution of LumArray"s maskless photolithography system, the ZP-150, so that it meets the needs of photonic systems for high-fidelity, long-range spatial-phase coherence, full-wafer coverage, 3D structuring, patterning on non-flat surfaces, and sub-100 nm resolution. The ZP-150 is designed for compatibility with research as well as ...

ABSTRACT: Networked PCs are critical to the success of data-driven missions, and the complex software they execute is both the source of their power and their primary vulnerability. Applications and services are often composed of multiple software components developed by different vendors or open source communitiesany of which may introduce a vulnerability. To help minimize the damage of potentia ...

ABSTRACT: Physical Sciences Inc. and Tufts University propose to apply innovative, ground-breaking RF microplasma technology to the development of devices to generate ozone and other energetic species for a variety of commercial, military, and research applications. The proposed work follows from our successful Phase I effort, which achieved the first implementation of a prototype single-board l ...

The U.S. has a pressing need to develop technologies to convert non-food biomass resources into fuels and chemicals. Current technologies have major disadvantages, including poor product distributions, slow reaction rates, and high costs. We are working on a new pyrolysis technology to convert lignocellulosic biomass into either alkenes or alkanes. A series of commercial and synthesized catalysts ...

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a key sink for atmospheric OH and thus changes in carbon monoxide concentrations have an impact on the abundance and chemistry of many other atmospheric gases. Monitoring the isotopic composition of atmospheric carbon monoxide (13CO, C18O and CO) is one of the most promising approaches to determining global sources and sinks of CO and closing the CO budget. There are no exi ...

Aerosol particles have important impacts on visibility, acid deposition, climate, and human health, although large uncertainties remain in quantifying their chemical composition and atmospheric transformations. A large fraction of the anthropogenic aerosol is generated from energy- related activities, and organic compounds are known to constitute a significant fraction of ambient aerosol mass. Rec ...

Gas phase nitric acid (HNO3) is an important aerosol precursor that is coupled to the removal of natural and anthropogenic NOx from the atmosphere. HNO3 is highly soluble and is extremely effective at increasing the cloud droplet number density, and has been implicated in the reduction of average cloud droplet size which increases cloud albedo. It can also decrease precipitation and increase the ...