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Motivated by the need to save expensive precious metals (platinum, palladium, Rhodium) used in emission control systems, this research project investigates a novel emission control honeycomb capable of providing reduced use of precious metals. The novel honeycomb has the potential to further reduce emissions, fuel consumption, vehicle weight and manufacturing costs, in all providing an appealing v ...

The overarching goal of this project will be to accelerate SSL adoption through two key InnoSys is an Original Design Manufacturer of drivers for the LED lighting Original Equipment Manufacturing industry with a large patent portfolio around intelligent lighting and power management. As such, InnoSys will develop a novel luminaire that improves efficiency and experience in commercial environments ...

A recent report of the 25-member Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) recommends funding cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments under all budget scenarios, specifically, the next-generation ground-based CMB experimental program whose aim is to provide definitive measurements of the early universe. For this program, large focal plane arrays with ~100,000 detectors and associate ...

High temperature superconductors are becoming increasingly more viable candidates for plasma fusion, high-energy accelerators, and industrial/medical applications. Due to defects within the high temperature superconducting materials during the manufacturing and assembly process, quenching is still an important problem. Quench detection needs to be fast and, ideally, should identify the location of ...

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Fast, reliable, real-time control of plasma is critical to the success of magnetic fusion science. Fast feedback and control driving high current supplies is needed to mitigate instabilities in all experiments as well as disruption events in large scale tokamaks for steady-state operation. In order to rapidly change the current in a coil, high voltage is required. The high voltage solid-state swit ...

Stratus and stratocumulus clouds with low drop concentration and large drop diameter are scientifically very important, because this is the regime in which drizzle drops are formed. The formation of drizzle can lead to a rapid modification of the cloud droplet size distribution, which in turn has a strong influence on the cloud's radiative properties. Because stratus and stratocumulus clouds cover ...

Membranes for gas separation represent a significant opportunity for reduced energy consumption and improved efficiencies in a wide range of industrial applications by replacing typical energy intensive processes with energy efficient processes. The ideal structure for carbon membranes is a mechanically robust porous support structure with a thin active membrane fabricated on the surface. While ma ...

Next generation advances in subsurface technologies will enable access to large amounts of clean, renewable geothermal energy, as well as safer development of domestic natural gas supplies. The subsurface also provides hundreds of years of safe storage capacity for carbon dioxide (CO2) and opportunities for environmentally responsible management and disposal of hazardous materials and other energy ...

Significant improvements in the technology to monitor greenhouse gases are required. In particular there is need to be able to simultaneously monitor both small (~m) and large area sites (~ 100km) and in rugged/inaccessible terrain. For example, sensitive, accurate, and real-time monitoring of hydrobiogeochemical processes are needed in subsurface environments, including soils, the rhizosphere, se ...