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For nuclear physics research, thin film isotopic specialty targets are often requested for the use and in charged-particle-induced experiments. There are also tens of radioisotopes that are of interest for medical imaging, industrial and R&D uses. The targets of interest include B, O, Si, and Cr; isotopes of refractory metals, such as Re, Os, Ir are good examples. However, many of the isotopes can ...

Ethylene demand is expected to increase by 50% domestically and worldwide over the next 5 years. Much of this and future growth is likely to be met from shale gas based ethane. Dr. Anne Gaffney of the US-DOE has invented a mixed metal oxide catalyst, M1, for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (C2- ODH) to ethylene at high conversions and very high selectivities. A major hurdle for commercial ...

Synchrotron-based science has had a great scientific impact and will continue to have great impact going forward. In spite of the large investment in the 3rd generation light sources, most beam lines do not preserve the source’s phase profile or brightness all the way to the sample. For these high brightness light sources, errors are almost completely due to distortion ...

There exists a need to obtain near-real-time information in a wireless tool configuration to be used in dynamic geothermal well conditions, such as when drilling is in progress. A tool which can provide this near real-time information from sensors located near the bit of the drill string will help reduce the hazards and costs associated with geothermal well development by allow ...

A method to visualize where the proppant load is distributed within a fracture has yet to be realized. Without this information it is difficult to determine whether a set of hydraulic fracture conditions has resulted in complete penetration into a particular energy deposit. Therefore it is impossible to tell whether all of the resources will be completely extracted. An emerging electromagnetic tec ...

Solid oxide fuel cells hold the greatest potential among fuel cell technologies due to their efficiency, scalability, and fuel flexibility. The primary barriers to commercialization of this technology are the cost and stability of the solid oxide fuel cells. To lower the cost and improve the robustness of solid oxide fuel cells, cell operating temperatures should be reduced to 500-700 °C which wi ...

Applied Diamond will make large area particle detectors of CVD diamond for use in nuclear physics experiments at DOE and other laboratories. These detectors will reduce the operating expense and increase the capabilities of these facilities accelerating advances in nuclear science.

There is a need for carbon isotope targets for low energy nuclear physics research. The proposed program will exploit recent advances in carbon nanomaterials and low-cost manufacturing techniques to generate carbon foils that can be used current and future accelerators.

This program develops a novel membrane module which produces low cost oxygen enriched air. This program will 1) reduce energy requirements for small or medium size furnaces by up to 60% and 2) provide high CO2 concentration exhaust streams for enhanced concentrating of CO2 for CO2 sequestering.

Crossfield Technology is developing a software-driven network architecture for synchronous data acquisition and Event Building. The architecture features an Instrumentation Gateway that supports time-synchronous data acquisition, real-time digital signal processing, and data streaming across an Ethernet network to a High Performance Computer system.