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Luna Innovations, teamed with North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Non-Wovens Institute (NWI), will meet the Army’s need to develop a novel wash durable, flame resistant, non-woven textile. This practical system will provide military uniforms with excellent flame resistant (FR) protection at a lower manufacturing cost without compromising performance such as durability, repellency, and vec ...

The goal of this development effort is to provide warfighters with inexpensive methods to view geospatial intelligence information on a hand-held tablet through their sense of touch. This allows eyes-free and silent operation without generating light. This proposal deals with two surface haptic display technologies. Variable-friction displays create haptic effects by varying the coefficient of fri ...

Developing a safe and effective malaria vaccine remains the hope for reducing the spread and resurgence of the disease. In recent years, vaccine research has broadened with subunit protein, and DNA vaccines due to their inherent safety, simpler storage and easier production at the expense of attenuated and inactivated organism based approaches. RTS, S/AS01, the most advanced subunit vaccine, has u ...

Technical Abstract (200 word limit): While state-of-the-art microbolometers demonstrate impressive capabilities for low-cost uncooled long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) imaging, there is currently a need for low-cost, mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) imaging systems capable of high performance with fast frame rates at high operating temperatures. HgTe colloidal quantum dot (CQD) focal plane arrays (FPA ...

Through previous grant awards from IES, researchers developed Graspable Math, a tablet-based intervention where middle and high school students create and manipulate complex expressions for basic operations as well as equations and equations systems and inequalities. In this project, the team will develop a prototype of Graspable Math Activities, an app with novel kinds of algebra practice and ass ...

Physically UnclonableFunctions (PUFs) have been proposed as central building blocks in cryptographic protocols and security architectures. PUFs are physical devices that exhibit a challenge/responsebehavior: when presented with a challenge, the device produces a response that is a random function of both the challenge and the physical properties of the device.In contrast to most digital designs, i ...

The objective of this program is to develop flexible, high-efficiency perovskite photovoltaic modules for incorporation onto future fabric-based Army packs, tents and shelters, as well as UAVs, drones and other platforms, to provide portable, renewable electrical power and reduce the need for warfighters to carry multiple heavy batteries. During Phase I, NanoSonic and Penn State analyzed approache ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are adsorbents that show promise in toxic chemical remediation, medical oxygen storage, high-value gas recovery, and multiple other military and civilian applications. However, a lack of quality-controlled supply limits these materials to laboratory environments. This work will borrow from industrial Quality practices to ensure supplied material conforms to specific ...

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 ...

Commercially available quad-copters could provide an innovative smart attack capability to existing military deployment platforms. This proposal demonstrates a plan to develop a payload for the ATACMS or GMLRS missile systems to deploy a "section" of UAS devices on the battlefield. Once there, these quad-copter UAS devices will navigate to and attack a target of interest using explosively formed p ...