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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop high strength biodegradable polymers with mechanical properties sufficient to function as fracture fixation devices in high load bearing applications. The majority of fractures today are fixed with metallic devices but to prevent bone atrophy, these may require a second surgery to remove the device after bone healing has ...

THE RESEARCHERS PROPOSE TO DERIVE EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR MULTI-PHASE FLUID FLOWS USING VARIOUS LEVELS OF COARSE-GRAINING ON THE MICROSCOPIC DYNAMICS AND THEREBY OBTAIN DYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT AND USEFUL DESCRIPTIONS OF THEMACROSCOPIC FLOW BEHAVIOR. THE RESULTS OF THIS ANALYSIS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER CODES FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THESE MULTI-PHASE FLOWS. THE SPECIFIC COARSE- ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a gas permeation process and membrane to separate olefin/paraffin mixtures in which a multilayer multifunctional membrane configuration ensures high selectivity, high olefin productivity, good mechanical stability, excellent impurity tolerability, and long-term operational reliability. Hollow fiber m ...

The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will develop active, fouling resistant nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. Commercially available NF and RO membranes for desalination of brackish water will be surface modified by graft polymerization of nanolayers. Thus, the modified membranes will possess excellent antifouling properties, and will be easi ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a new class of in-fiber chiral polarizers based upon chiral fiber gratings. A double helix variation of the effective refractive index will be formed by twisting fibers with a noncircular core as they pass through a miniature oven. These chiral fiber polarizers will be created from specially prepared glass performs in a l ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (STTR) Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative optical chiral fiber sensor (CFS) technology. A double helix structure with pitch greatly exceeding the wavelength will be imposed by twisting glass fibers with noncircular cores as they pass through a miniature oven in a twisting tower with enhanced temperature and motion control. The ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase I project will address the feasibility of producing low attenuation, ultrahigh bandwidth perfluorinated polymer optical fibers (POF) by a low-cost continuous extrusion process. Currently, there is an unmet need for a very simple, easy to use optical medium for multi-Gb/s networks in applications such as hospital systems, educational institutions, ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will advance the technology for reliably manufacturing low attenuation, ultrahigh bandwidth, graded-index, perfluorinated polymer optical fibers (GI-POF) by a low cost continuous extrusion process. Currently there is an unmet need for an easy-to-use, rugged medium that allows the migration of data communications to speeds of 10 Gigabi ...

AMORPHOUS SILICON-CARBIDE MATERIALS ARE PROPOSED TO BE INCORPORATED INTO ELECTROLUMINESCENT THIN-FILM DEVICES. THESE MATERIALS, DUE TO THEIR NON-CONSERVED MOMENTUM TRANSITIONS OFFER HIGH LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCIES, AND VARIABLE EMISSION WAVELENGTHS, DEPENDING ON THE CARBON CONTENT OF A-SI1-XCX:H. AT LEAST TWO DEPOSITIONMETHODS, RF GLOW DISCHARGE DEPOSITION AND PHOTO-CVD, ARE TO BE USED TO COMPARE T ...

UNITED STATES SEMI-TRAILER VANS EXPEND OVER 10,000,000,000 GALLONS OF DIESEL FUEL PER YEAR MOVING AIR AROUND THE VEHICLES. THIS NEEDLESS WASTE OF FUEL INCREASES OUR IMPORT OIL DEPENDENCY, AS WELL AS ADDS NEEDLESS DIESEL EXHAUST CARCINOGENS INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. RECENTLY, CONGRESS HAS ENACTED LEGISLATION WHICH PERMITS TRACTOR/SEMI-TRAILER LENGTH LIMITS TO BE EXCEEDED IF THE PURPOSE IS TO IMPROVE FUE ...