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The proposed Ph-II research project will be led by Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation, in collaboration with Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) and Norfolk State University (NSU) via subcontracts. This team covers the gamut of fundamental research into new Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) materials: (i) to first characterize the materials properties such as morphology, grain siz ...

There are numerous fields in which fast pulses of supersonic gas jets are useful. One such application is for the laser wakefield acceleration of electrons. Currently, valves with opening times on the order of hundreds of microseconds and closing times that are even longer are used to supply the gas or small capillaries that are used to control the gas density. This project will develop techno ...

High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps are used extensively for large area lighting ¿ such as for parking lots, streets, and warehouses ¿ and are increasingly being used for general lighting in stores and homes. Improving the efficiency of HID lamps would result in significant energy savings. This project will develop an inexpensive, robust coating that is applied to the outside of an HID lamp a ...

Semi-volatile organic compounds are a significant, but poorly characterized fraction of atmosphere aerosols. Many are formed through photochemical processing of more volatile organics, and once oxidized tend to form less volatile compounds that condense into the particulate phase. Knowledge at the molecular level of their abundance and vapor-particle phase partitioning is needed to understand th ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will study the feasibility of developing and instrumenting specific interactive visualizations that effectively support learners understanding of core concepts in mathematics and science and that increase their motivation to explore these concepts deeply. The key innovation is creating and instrumenting specific visualizations and related ta ...

The next generation of silicon-based detectors for tracking charged-particles in high energy physics experiments will impose demanding requirements. One of these requirements involves the need for thermally efficient, low mass, dimensionally-stable support structures exposed to high radiation fields. This project will develop specially processed carbon foam for use in sandwich structures that su ...

SPMs are a strategically vital tool for nanotechnology research constituting a $250 Mill/yr industry while enabling several multi-Billion downstream industries like Materials and Pharmaceuticals. However, their single biggest drawback is their inability to obtain any chemical information on their samples. As our letters of support reiterate, this impacts DOE researchers in the Genome to Life; Or ...

Cost effective enzymatic lignin degradation could play a key role in enabling commercially viable processes for producing fuel ethanol from woody feedstocks, such as corn stover, switchgrass, hybrid poplar, willow, loblolly pine, and eucalyptus. This project focuses on the identification, production, and eventual commercialization of one important class of these enzymes, lignases, which catalyze ...

For the U.S. to reach its future energy objectives, ultra-clean and highly efficient energy plants must be built. The control and optimization of coal-fired power plants is highly dependent on coordinated and integrated sensing, control, and actuation technologies and products. Prior efforts to develop novel sensing and control technologies have been successful, but little work has been devoted ...

The International Linear Collider (ILC) will need hundreds of modulators to power the 10-MW, long pulse (1.4 ms) klystrons. A Marx modulator controlled by solid-state switches promises higher efficiency, longer lifetime, and reduced cost compared to existing hard tube modulator options. However, voltage droop is one of the critical challenges that limit the application of the Marx modulators. T ...