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Project SummaryTitle: An automated system for honey bee husbandry that enables high-throughput biologicalassaysPD/PI: Dr. Adam Hamiton; ForgeBeeSubaward PD/PI: Dr. Gene Robinson; University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignHoney bees are crucial for agriculture and serve as a model system for insect pollinatorecotoxicology. At the heart of a honey bee colony's health and productivity is a set of com ...

L¥kril Technologies is developing new processes for manufacture of bio-based industrialchemicals. Our lactic-to-acrylic technology provides corn-derived drop-in bio-based acrylic acidand acrylates at cost parity to today's petrochemical acrylics while providing at least 35%reduction in CO2 emissions. Once commercialized our process technology will be constructedand provide high-quality well-payin ...

In this project we aim to develop a novel iron-titanium redox flow battery with two detachableelectrolyte storage tanks. Iron-titanium batteries cost $80/kWh for energy storage—lower than$369/kWh of lithium-ion batteries and $399/kWh of vanadium flow batteries. An iron-titaniumbattery employs no self-igniting materials and its electrolytes are comprised of ~60% water— deeming it fire ...

PROJECT SUMMARYInstructions:The summary is limited to 250 words. The names and affiliated organizations of all Project Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PI) should be listed inaddition to the title of the project. The summary should be a self-contained specific description of the activity to be undertaken and should focus on:overall project goal(s) and supporting objectives; plans to accomplis ...

Sivananthan Laboratories in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida propose to model absorption in two dimensional materials and develop designs with structured materials for the amplitude modulation of emissivity. The optical simulations—with commercial COMSOL code--will be used in the calculation of the electric field distribution in the s ...

Long wavelength infrared (LWIR) imaging systems, owing to their advantages in adverse environments, are crucial for target-acquisition tasks in DoD missions. Current detection and imaging technologies that cover the LWIR spectral region typically operate at cryogenic temperatures of 77 K or lower, which require expensive and bulky cooling systems that increase the overall size, weight, and power, ...

Thermal imaging is an important tool for information gathering and situational awareness, especially in low light or visibly obscured conditions.  Warm objects that are emissive in the MWIR or LWIR bands can be observed, including the body heat of soldiers, exhaust gases from vehicles, rockets or firearms, residual heat in camouflaged vehicles or airframes, and many other objects critical to thre ...

Center pivot irrigation systems are the most widely used in the United States. Producersmake decisions for their center pivot systems including when and how much to irrigateprimarily based on experience and limited information such as coarse rainfallinformation/forecasts and field conditions. A cost-effective scalable timely and reliabledecision-making tool is urgently needed. This proposal aims t ...

Food waste is a critical challenge in the agricultural economy. To meet the EnvironmentalProtection Agency's goal of reducing food waste by 50% by 2030 substantial changes arerequired in the food system where 30% of food is never eaten. Here we target the potato cropthe 4 -largest crop in the United States by volume and a highly efficient per-acre generator ofcalories. A key driver in loss of pota ...

As we raise food in the US competent labor prepared to manage daily livestock mortalities andpotential depopulation catastrophes as agriculture faces now during COVID-19 maximizes theability for American producers to prosper. Knowing depopulation could happen again with ForeignAnimal Disease (FAD) our COVID-19 experiences underline the importance of innovativecompetency-based educational technolog ...