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Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. (NFW) is developing revolutionary textile manufacturing processes that both increase performance of biodegradable natural fibers while decreasing manufacturing costs. Benefits of NFW’s technologies include greatly increasing the performance of cotton, including mechanically recycled cotton. Today there are billions of pounds of waste cotton textiles that are landfille ...

Recent advances in 3D structure printing and 3D direct printed electronics have widened the scope of possibilities for the Internet of Things (IoT). New near room temperature 3D direct ink writing (DIW) additive manufacturing (AM) printing processes allow many different type of sensors and they can be embedded anywhere in a structure, which offers several benefits. 1. Protection: sensors face degr ...

Synclesis, Inc., and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), under a Phase I and II STTR project, have developed a novel software framework for computationally efficient and accurate Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) analysis and assessment at the system level. The framework integrates commercially available full wave electromagnetic (EM), circuit simulation, and approximate, physi ...

This project will provide state-of-the-art predictive capabilities for simulating systems central to advancing the U.S. Army’s modernization priorities related to long-range precision fires and future vertical lift platforms. The goals of the project are to: (1) Produce geometry and meshing technologies that support the modeling and discretization techniques needed to explicitly track evolving/i ...

System reliability is a fundamental requirement for safety-critical weapons systems. A key challenge is identifying reliability problems early so that they can be fixed quickly and cheaply. Reliability problems are often integration problems: integration often reveals that flaws that seemed minor in isolated components but lead to serious system-wide reliability problems. The combination of static ...

Currently large capacity cryostats, capable of hosting experiments for many qubits, require expensive and hard to obtain liquid cryogens. A few small cryo-free systems exist but they are non-ideal for this use. An opportunity exists for a large scale, c

Currently large capacity cryostats, capable of hosting experiments for many qubits, require expensive and hard to obtain liquid cryogens. A few small cryo-free systems exist but they are non-ideal for this use. An opportunity exists for a large scale, c

This will facilitate the development of remedial approaches for existing facilities and assist in planning new facilities, logistics, and procedures to protect the environment without impairing critical mission functionality. The commercial application will include software distribution and updates.

We propose to design, analyze, implement, and evaluate a system that enables user-verifiable execution of code on untrusted computer systems in the presence of malware. Our system is based on a secure hypervisor that provides and enforces strong security

An eye-safe optically pumped laser based on a gas-filled hollow optical fiber will be demonstrated to lase at both near infrared (IR) and mid IR wavelengths. These lasers will be the first in a new class of IR lasers, based on the combination of hollow-f