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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 ...

New regulations and advisory levels for perfluoroalkyl substances have resulted in increased drinking water treatment costs or abandonment of drinking water sources. Treatment technologies are needed that can achieve low parts-per-trillion levels. Presently, there are insufficient treatment technologies that can destructively remove perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and/or perfluorooctane sulfonic aci ...

To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

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 ...

The primary goal of this Phase II effort is to design, fabricate, and evaluate a compact, lightweight, demonstration LWIR hyperspectral imaging sensors enabled by an innovative design form and dispersing element technology that is suitable for use on uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). An alignment and test procedure will be developed for the assembly and integration of the spectrometer and imagin ...

Based upon the successful completion of the Phase I program, the Phase II program aims to continue to development of the voltage tunable inductors (VTIs). The program will improve the Phase I textured magnetics approach and develop models that accurately describe the relationship between the material properties, tunability, and geometry. From these results, optimized VTIs will be manufactured and ...

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 ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

MaxPower believes that the introduction and successful development of a lithium metal anode based liquid ammonia battery system would be able to meet the power requirements for medium caliber fuze applications, especially the IRAP grenade application. The merging of established magnesium liquid ammonia and other lithium metal reserve battery technologies will provide the fundamental basis for the ...