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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will continue developing a method for incorporating Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNT) into nylon to act as reinforcement. Their incorporation will be achieved by wrapping the SWNTs with a functionalized polymer that interacts with the SWNTs mechanically, but is not chemically bound to them. The polymer will be chemically bound to the nyl ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project aims to build a prototype of a rapid-deployment, three-dimensional (3-D), seismic reflection system for near-surface exploration. Although the 3-D seismic reflection method enjoys tremendous commercial success in marine applications, 3-D seismic systems for land-based geophysical exploration have been limited because cost-effective an ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project focuses on developing nanocrystalline soft ferromagnetic materials for various end use applications such as Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) suppression, magnetic bearings and inductors. Phase I clearly established the feasibility of producing these materials via a patented microwave plasma technique. In addition, these nanomaterials were ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a new generation of fluorescence amplifying reagents based on poly (phenylene ethynylene (PPE)) nanoparticles. Because of the role of the amplifying polymer in the enhanced sensitivity of these compounds, these compounds are called Amplimer reagents. The project will develop and launch two types of Amplimer reagents: mic ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop electron transfer methods for the recovery of the giant, insoluble fullerenes that comprise about half of the fullerenes made by the hydrocarbon combustion route. Of the fullerenes produced by the combustion process developed at TDA, and practiced at the tons/year scale, ca. 20 % of the raw soot weight is recovered as fu ...

The near chiral purity of the biosphere leads to a vast array of chiro-specific physiological responses. This chiro-specificity, in turn, gives rise to the need for the manufacturing of enantiomerically pure chiral chemicals, such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, food additives, pigments, etc. Critical to the efficacy of both chiro-specific biology and chiro-synthesis/separation are the interfacial ...

We will develop a compact external cavity stabilization system, which will employ independent electro-optic control over the optical path length of the cavity and a wavelength-selective element. The system should be able to cover a 30 nm range and give mode-hop-free tuning over 20 nm intervals. The design of the feedback system will be compatible with any commercially available laser diode from 63 ...

THERE IS A NEED TO MANAGE BETTER THE INPUT OF POLLUTANTS WHICH ADVERSELY AFFECT THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT. ALTHOUGH MANAGEMENT PRACTICES CURRENTLY USED HAVE PROVIDED INFORMATION ON TOXICITY POTENTIAL THROUGH THE USE OF BIOASSAYS DONE ON DISCRETE SAMPLES, MORE VALUABLE INFORMATION WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS IF CONTINUOUS REAL-TIME BIOMONITORING WERE EMPLOYED. THE MAJOROBJECTIVES OF T ...

THE LONG RANGE SCIENTIFIC GOALS OF THIS RESEARCH ARE TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CORRELATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE WITH PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) PHASES, AND TO TEST STRATEGIES FOR DESIGN OF NEW MATERIALS. SPECIFICALLY, THE WORK IS AIMED AT INVENTINGNEW FLC MATERIALS HAVING LOW BIREFRINGENCE AND LOW ABSORPTION AT UV WAVELENGTHS. SUCH FLC MATERIALS WOULD HAVEAP ...

INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS SHOW PROMISE FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING BY TAILORING INSTRUCTION TO EACH STUDENT'S NEEDS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH REPRESENTS TWO INNOVATIONS OVER CURRENT INTELLIGENT TUTORING METHODOLOGY. THE FIRST INNOVATION IS INTEREST-BASED TUTORING. INSTRUCTION WILL BE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF A MODEL OF THE STUDENT'S INTERESTS. THE SECOND INNOVATION IS THE USE OF MULTI ...