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The company has developed a silk-derived protein (SDP) for use as a novel ophthalmic formulation excipient that will help to treat the ocular injuries and dry eye pathology that affects over 40 million Americans annually and hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The SDP excipient is designed to enhance tear formulation comfort, longevity, and overall ocular health. This proposal builds on the ...

Functions like data format conversion and signal routing are ubiquitous in traditional communication networks, but need modification to be suitable for use in future quantum-enabled networks. In particular, quantum signals do not allow for electronic processing and certain metrics like insertion loss and noise are much more critical for quantum signals than traditional optical signals. We will inv ...

3D circuit integration improves performance, reduces cost, and enables new applications by intimate heterogeneous integration of best of class semiconductor devices. A necessary element for 3D assembly is Through Silicon Vias (TSVs), which provide vertical electrical connections in the stacked device. NHanced currently employs tungsten to fill its nanoscale TSVs (0.4 to 1.2µm diameter). Tungstenâ ...

Argonne National Laboratory has pioneered a new method for additively manufacturing MCPs and functionalizing their channels with atomic layer deposition. We will help extend their technology to particle detection at Nuclear Physics facilities for beam tuning, and test a prototype detector at the ATLAS facility. The following figure summarizes the 5x faster pulse response of our proposed detector: ...

As increasing individuals and organizations move their activities and services into online, network performance problems resulting in slow data communication speed becomes the significant obstacle for satisfactory user experience. Currently, there is a lack of a fully automated tool that can help network users to find the complicated network problems that degrade the performance of network applica ...

Advanced beam diagnostics are essential for reliable operation of high-performance accelerators and the intense beams produced by them. Non-invasive diagnostics can be used continuously with intense beams, while invasive techniques interfere with the beams and distort the beam profiles. In addition, traditional solid-based beam monitoring instrumentation produces unacceptable levels of radiation o ...

Under this Phase I SBIR DOE grant, NuMat will validate and evaluate the feasibility of air separation technology originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories. This promising technology employs oxygen selective metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Given their oxygen selectivity, this technology will enable more energy efficient air separation, higher oxygen recovery rates, with a smaller overal ...

Sivananthan Laboratories will develop the compressive sensing (CS)/inpainting algorithms and associated software to optimize the acquisition speed, image resolution/sensitivity, and data transfer/storage requirements for an ultra-high-speed camera used in (scanning) transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM) applications. Sivananthan Laboratories will leverage its CS expertise through collaboration ...

As modeling and simulation become even more prevalent and important in industry, government, and academic research, it becomes critical to enable tools for ensuring that the results of those simulations are accurate with quantified confidence. The sciences of sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, and optimization are active areas of research, but have known baseline techniques that sho ...

Detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms can include hundreds of species and thousands of reactions. Because each reaction occurs at a finite rate, the chemistry in a combustor is affected by the flow field. Due to the large number of species, detailed spatial effects are frequently ignored during key portions of mechanism reduction studies. The effect of this simplification is unclear in the producti ...