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NanoSD, Inc. with its partners will develop a transparent, nanostructured thermally insulating film that can be applied to existing single-pane windows to reduce heat loss. To produce the nanostructured film, the team will create hollow ceramic or polymer nanobubbles and consolidate them into a dense lattice structure using heat and compression. Because it is mostly air, the resulting nanobubble s ...

Density functional theory is used by many researchers funded by the Department of Energy as a method for predicting the behavior of chemicals and materials used in energy applications. However, results of these calculations are often not standardized and, even when they are, expert-level understand of the methods is needed in order to properly perform a simulation. The energy research community a ...

A key requirement for microalgae biofuels production is a very low cost harvesting technology. Commercially available solidliquid separation technologies applicable to microalgae, such as chemical coagulation, membrane separations and centrifugation, are too costly for biofuels production or other lowcost microalgae processes, such as wastewater treatment. A low cost harvesting process is bio floc ...

Metal photoinjector cathode development has shown recent promise with nano-patterning technology. However, in order to be competitive with semi-conductor cathodes, a further enhancement in efficiency is needed. TECHNICAL APPROACH Specific nano-patterning of sub-wavelength features to produce antennae provides coupling of incoming laser light with the surface of the metal cathode. Bowtie nano-anten ...

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is one of the primary tools for biological and materials characterization and has many important research applications. There is an overarching need to improve the temporal resolution of TEMs. State-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art single shot TEM only achieve 10 nanoseconds temporal resolution. Technical Approach UCLA and RadiaBeam Tec ...

Laser based advanced accelerators can achieve very high accelerating gradients, but their duty cycle is limited by the laser power availability and media recovery time. Inverse Free Electron Laser (IFEL) is a vacuum farfield laser accelerator scheme which does not rely on a medium (plasma) or a structure (metal or electric) and therefore is potentially capable of accelerating charged particles ver ...

No long-lived gamma-ray calibration sources exist with energies above 3.5 MeV, which is an impediment to the calibration of high-purity-germanium and scintillation detectors used in homeland security, nuclear physics and astrophysics. Recent advances in Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis with guided neutron beams have led to the precise calibration of neutron-capture gamma ray sources with ener ...

The development of high-efficiency thermoelectric ,TE, devices represents an opportunity to cost-effectively exploit industrial waste heat and provide industrial process refrigeration. The key to developing these devices is to first develop a TE material with a high figure of merit, ZT. Therefore, this project will develop a low-cost scalable approach for producing a novel class of high-ZT therm ...

Short-lived isotopes are expected to play a key role in unraveling the unanswered questions in nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics and fundamental interactions at low energies. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams under consideration for construction in the U.S., will have unique capabilities to develop exotic beams to facilitate these studies. The DOE-FRIB program is seeking advances in producti ...

In order to reduce the capital equipment and operating costs involved in the printing of specialty solid state lighting devices, a new LED (light-emitting diode) device structure, based on the use of a doped polymer, has been developed. This project will advance this concept through degradation analysis and material and process development, in order to achieve additional performance and process i ...