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An innovative, minimally intrusive temperature and composition sensor concept, proven in Phase I, will be developed into a prototype and tested in a high-pressure combustor in Phase II. The sensor, designed to monitor the hot gas stream at the turbine inlet in advanced, high performance turbine engines, uses passive fiber-optical probes and a remote readout device to collect and analyze the spatia ...

During the NASA program, we will transition the semiconductor nanomembrane self-calibrating cryogenic and minimum pressure sensors from their current concept and prototype TRL 4-5 demonstration stage, to near-term instrumentation products of use to NASArsquo;s propulsion system facilities, other NASA instrumentation programs, academic researchers and industrial technologists. NanoSonic will again ...

Propulsion systems require rigorous and highly instrumented testing to enable a comprehensive analysis of performance and to minimize risks associated with space flight. Current testing instrumentation methods can be replaced with embedded sensor systems that are used for monitoring remote, hazardous, or inaccessible locations, while reducing cabling and power consumption. The additional informati ...

Today’s prevailing methods of visual track inspection tend to be expensive, disruptive to operations, and have potential to be less thorough than preferred. To help address these issues, machine vision technology emerged in the rail sector over a decade ago; however, the technology has not achieved its expected potential due to the uncontrolled nature of rail environments. Recent findings have s ...

The objective of the proposed NASA Sequential Phase II STTR program is to continue the development of mechanically flexible piezoresistive sensors for the measurement of long-term creep strain in inflatable habitat webbing.nbsp; During the Phase I and base Phase II programs, NanoSonic has worked with the Electronic Textiles Laboratory at Virginia Tech to demonstrate the technical feasibility of fa ...

Abstract Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a chronic condition characterized by compulsive alcohol use, loss of control over alcohol use, and a negative emotional state when not using alcohol, with such use associated with a range of medical, psychological, social, economic, and personal problems. AUD is global and prevalent; in a survey of over 36,000 adults in the US, AUD had a 12-month prevalence o ...

Project Summary Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting roughly 1 in 10 people over the age of 65. In 2017, the total cost of AD in the United States was estimated at $259 billion and is predicted to climb to $1.1 trillion by the year 2050. Despite enormous efforts invested in finding a cure, it has proven extremely difficult to develop treatments for AD. C ...

There is a clear scientific consensus on the role of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in the unusually wild fluctuations of global climate patterns over the last century. To that end there has been an exponential growth of investments in “clean tech”, and mainly in direct air capture (DAC). Verdox, Inc. aims to introduce a radically novel technology to the field which presents a paradigm ...

There is a clear scientific consensus on the role of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in the unusually wild fluctuations of global climate patterns over the last century. To that end there has been an exponential growth of investments in “clean tech”, and mainly in direct air capture (DAC). Verdox, Inc. aims to introduce a radically novel technology to the field which presents a paradigm ...

This project develops a potentially faster and cheaper approach to fusion energy that would result in reduced energy emissions. In plasma jet driven magneto-inertial fusion (PJMIF), an array of discrete supersonic plasma jets is used to form a spherically imploding plasma liner, which then compresses a magnetized plasma target to fusion conditions. With funding from ARPA-E’s ALPHA program and fr ...