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Oceanit proposes to develop a wearable capability for autonomous indoor navigation and tracking of first responders indoors in various types of building structures.

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 ...

Tracking both the extent of the induced fracture and the distribution of the proppant within the fracture are critical in understanding and optimizing the hydraulic fracture processes. Several groups are studying the use of electromagnetic methods and electrically conductive proppants to image the post-fracture proppant distribution. Interpreting these large-scale electromagnetic surveys will like ...

The detection of individual charged particles, photons and neutrons and estimation of their properties, momentum and direction of arrival is the basis for a wide range of scientific and commercial applications from high-energy, nuclear and astrophysics to medical imaging and diagnosis. We are targeting the data acquisition market for medium to large size scientific experiments in Nuclear Physics, ...

The Department of Energy and other federal agencies have made significant investments in high performance software engineering tools, yet these tools still lack advanced problem identification capabilities. At the moment, users must rely heavily on their own experience and intuition to interpret software performance data, identify the root cause of a software performance problem, and ultimately re ...

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.

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.

Future basic science, engineering and medical discoveries depend upon tools with ever more precise timing measurements. Our technology provides low-cost, low power solutions usable by scientists across multiple disciplines.

Neutron scattering is one of the most useful methods of studying the structure and dynamics of matter. Therefore, a number of new large neutron facilities have recently being constructed, upgraded or planned around the world. Examples include the new, 1.4 billion-dollars Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and upgrades of ORNL’s High-Flux Isotope React ...