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Aircraft fuel tanks use explosion suppression foams to mitigate the explosion effects as part of the protection system. However, considering technical challenges in maintenance protocols and relatively high fuel displacement/retention volume percentages coming along with current material solutions, the target application segment requires lightweight and high-performance innovative explosion suppre ...

Natural fiber welding (NFW) is a disruptive bioengineering platform that has broad applications to manufacturing high performance materials and composites from abundant natural materials. By careful control of NFW process conditions, native order and structure of biopolymers is retained thus creating strong composites without glue while preserving the impressive native physical characteristics of ...

This Phase II project will extend the investigation of Phase I effort to further enhance and mature a sealant technology to limit or prevent environmental degradation of aircraft exhaust coatings that provide thermal and corrosion protection to the underlying substrate. The environmental degradation problem is a severe and urgent problem faced by DoD across many advanced aircraft platforms resulti ...

The goal of this project is the formulation a rigid, insulating, low-density wood composite, with physical and thermal properties comparable to fossil fuel derived foams. _x000D_ _x000D_ To achieve energy conservation standards mandated by certification agencies such as Passive House and LEED, high performance buildings require multiple shells of insulation – an inner shell that contains electri ...

EPIR and Brimrose propose to design and fabricate multiband infrared adjunct (MIRA) sensors to enhance the detection/identification capability of the existing aviation-threat warning systems. Four spectrometers, arranged in a linear array, are designed to cover the wavelength range from ultraviolet to long-wave infrared. Each spectrometer is an integration of an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) ...

Driving ground vehicles in heavily degraded visual environments brings significant risk since course corrections cannot be made safely without visual cues. Infrared imagery can improve visibility in degraded visual environments, however when heavily degraded, this method alone is insufficient. Obscurants and noise can be rapidly categorized and suppressed in real-time by having an artificial intel ...

In this Phase I SBIR, Microlink Devices in collaboration with Prof. Jeehwan Kim of MIT will develop a low cost, flexible, radiation hard dual junction InGaP/GaAs solar cell using graphene assisted epitaxy for space application.The innovation in this Phase I SBIR is the development of low cost, light weight, flexible epitaxial lift-off (ELO) InGaP/GaAs dual junction (DJ) solar cells with improved b ...

Our objective is to design a multi-aspect Battlefield Effects Replication (BFER) system, assess its feasibility and technical merit, and lay the framework for future prototyping and development. In Phase I, we will develop a modular BFER system comprising a portable, ruggedized cradle with universal docking system for easy installation, reconfiguration and control of multiple "plug-n-play" modules ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are adsorbents that show promise in toxic chemical remediation, medical oxygen storage, high-value gas recovery, and multiple other military and civilian applications. However, a lack of quality-controlled supply limits these materials to laboratory environments. This work will borrow from industrial Quality practices to ensure supplied material conforms to specific ...

CDJ Technologies is an additive manufacturing (AM) company with technology that enables rapid printing over large build volumes. Thisresultant production throughput is differentiating within the AM technology space and enables the adoption of AM technology to addresslimited production-runs. There exist many items where the ability to customize a single component of a system can add substantial val ...