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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a ceramic hydrogen fuel appliance (CHFA) using ceramic microreactor modules (CMMs) using a low-cost, net-shape manufacturing process, and a new material, that was developed in the Phase I project. The new material developed was demonstrated to have excellent capability for cost-effective microfabri ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project proposes to develop a testing application for intermediate and full scale boron nitride (BN) composites for a wide variety of wear applications with a focus on aircraft brakes. Viability of this material was demonstrated in Phase I where 3-dimensional needled carbon fiber/C-BN hybrid matrix composites displayed an order of magnitud ...

LIQUID PHASE PROCESSING OF CERAMICS, GLASS, SEMICONDUCTORS, AND OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS PROVIDES A ROUTE TO PRODUCING USEFUL FORMS OF THESE MATERIALS WHICH IS OFTEN BLOCKED BY REACTION WITH CONTAINERS. THIS RESEARCH EXPLORES A NOVEL CONTAINERLESS PROCESSING METHOD FOR THESE MATERIALS. HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION AT CONTAINER SURFACES WOULD BE ELIMINATED TO ENABLE SYNTHESIS OF AMORPHOUS MATERIALS AND IM ...

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 ...

UNDERGROUND EXCAVATION IN ROCK WHICH IS SUBJECTED TO STRESSES THAT ARE A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF THE ROCK STRENGTH CAN CAUSE FAILURE ADJACENT TO THE EXCAVATION. RECENT RESEARCH ON BOREHOLE BREAKOUTS HAS SHOWN THAT A STABLE BREAKOUT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A STRESS DISTRIBUTION WHICH IS GREATLY REDUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL STRESS STATE AT LOCATIONS NOT DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE BREAKOUT "TIPS". ALSO, THE S ...