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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Newborn screening (NBS) is a national public health initiative directed at identifying genetic or metabolic disorders in newborns which, if left untreated, are associated with significant morbidity or mortality. The role and scope of NBS is rapidly expanding given technological advances. Concurrent with this expansion is a widening gap in educational, emotional ...

We propose a comprehensive computational and experimental program to investigate the charac-teristics and dynamic behavior of nano-size aluminum in novel energetic materials. Two classes of advanced propellants will be considered. The first will be composite propellants, consisting of solids including AP, HMX, RDX, or nano-aluminum with a suitable binder such as HTPB. The second will be a nanoscal ...

Current computational fluid dynamics simulations produce large amounts of data. These data have become so large that traditional methods employing manual inspection and visualization cannot effectively process the information. Thus the value of these simulations is diminished because the information they contain is not fully utilized. We proposed to couple leading edge feature detection algorithms ...

Impact Technologies and The Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements at The Ohio State University propose to develop a sensing system for determining the presence of vapors from explosives or chemical agents (CWA). Such agents include nerve agents Sarin, blister agents (e.g. mustard gas) and choking agents (phosgene, chlorine). The basic sensing material will be ion-exchanged zeolites. Pre ...

Impact Technologies, LLC in collaboration with Georgia Tech, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and our commercialization partner Boeing, is proposing to develop a bio-inspired autonomous Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) platform capable of agile flight operations in cluttered urban environments. Building upon the experience of this team with UAV controls and autonomous urban operations, we will devel ...

EDEN PARK ILLUMINATION, INC. and the University of Illinois have formed a team to pursue the demonstration and commercialization of large arrays of microcavity plasmas capable of producing visible emission with luminous efficacies above 20 lumens/W. Originally developed in the Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering at the University of Illinois, microplasma array technology has recently ad ...

We propose to develop GaN based multicolor FIR/THz cameras with detector elements and readout, signal processing electronics integrated on a single chip.  The active detector elements will be submicron gated channels with 2 dimensional electron gas (2DEG). The devices with gated 2DEG (commonly known as field-effect transistors) respond to the incoming FIR radiation due to the rectification of rad ...

The goal of the Phase I program is to demonstrate the feasibility of our technical approach to grow AlInN lattice Matched Barrier HEMTs on low defect Bulk and quasi-bulk III-Nitride Substrates (GaN). This will be accomplished using our pulsed MOCVD growth technique to deposit AlInN films at a higher growth temperature than conventional MOCVD deposition methods, resulting in better material qualit ...

Development of a compliant microfabricated heat exchanger to work with thermoelectric devices as a means of power generation for hypersonic vehicles is proposed. Polymer-based materials provide to provide compression on the thermoelectric module, to ensure optimal thermal contact, while allowing for compliance to allow for the change in materials expansion without exceeding the failure point of th ...

The goal of the proposed work is to refine and scale-up the production of high strength continuous threads prepared from ultra-long carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The NanoTechLabs, Inc. (NTL) team will work to produce fibers spun from NTL’s ultra-long CNTs. Significant challenges remain that are primarily related to the development of scalable methods for making high strength, CNT threads for the prod ...