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To address the Chemical and Biological Defense programs (CBDs) need for medical countermeasures against mycotoxin intoxication, PhysicalOptics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Mycotoxin Neutralization Treatment (MyNT). This proposed solution is based on neutralizingmycotoxin from its deleterious effects by acting on multiple levels of mycotoxin metabolism through the novel combination o ...

This development is to address the current limitation in respiratory protection neck seal designs. The developed system will allow for a smart splitneck seal design that allows for donning versatility, improved comfort, and will provide feedback to the user regarding seal performance. Theapplication of smart technology will help balance comfort with protection in ensuring that a hermetic neck seal ...

The Department of Energy and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility provides information needed for future climate projections, used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other policy-making activities. Current climate models include assumptions on the size and 3D spatial distribution of cloud particles. Existing cloud particle imagers allow for imaging only ...

Performance of high performance computers and data centers is limited by the bandwidth of the network that connects individual servers together. Electrical links, while inexpensive, push against the fundamental signal integrity limits and are limited in line rates. At the same time, optical solutions remain expensive, making them undesirable in the volumes that data centers and supercomputers requ ...

Microbial communities and their activities can greatly affect the mobility and other properties of subsurface contaminants. Specifically, microorganisms are used to degrade contaminants such as metals, radionuclides and organic contaminants as a part of bioremediation process at many DOE sites and elsewhere. However, despite advances in laboratory techniques for studying subsurface microbial commu ...

MicroBio Engineering, Inc. proposes a power plant flue gas CO2 utilization and conversion technology that uses filamentous microalgae to generate a commodity-scale animal feed. In the proposed process, large raceway ponds will be used to cultivate filamentous green algae, which have the major advantage of being easily harvested at low cost by wide mesh screens. Based on techno-economic analyses, s ...

Ceramic heat exchange components such as boiler tubes, heat exchangers, or recuperators are required to improve the performance of advanced fossil energy power generation systems based on steam or supercritical CO2, targeting temperatures in excess of 700°C. Some of these heat exchange environments contain very large pressure differentials (20-25 MPa), while others may contain periodic or occasio ...

High strength, high temperature ceramic to metal joining technologies are critical for leveraging the high temperature properties of ceramics in power generation systems. Ceramics enable higher operating temperatures that translate directly into higher thermal efficiency generators. More importantly, the superior corrosion resistance of ceramics compared to nickel based alloys will enable a transi ...

High performance computing (HPC) and network systems have been experiencing dramatic growth in information processing capabilities. However, meeting the demand for increased capacity (larger bandwidths and higher data transmission rates) should be balanced by lower cost and energy consumption has become a limiting factor in the performance of such systems. Furthermore, HPC systems will be increasi ...

Despite incremental improvements in the technology, polyfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) membranes are still not an ideal fuel cell membrane material and their drawbacks (e.g., high cost and low mechanical strength at high temperature) require development of alternative polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) for successful adoption of fuel cells as reliable and inexpensive energy conversion devices. The g ...