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COALESCING THE FRAGMENTED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH EACH EVENT OF A HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTOR AND THEN PROCESSING IT AT THE RATES DEMANDED BY ACCELERATOR SYSTEMS ARE AMONG THE LARGEST CHALLENGES IN THE PHYSICS COMMUNITY. NEW DETECTOR SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MEASURED PARAMETERS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY INCREASE THE RESOLUTION OF DETECTOR COMPONENTS SO THAT THE VOLUME OF GENRATED ...

86 A Low Cost Acoustic Property Sensor for Measuring Natural Gas Composition in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Powered Vehicles--Commercial Electronics, Inc., 801 North 15th Street, Broken Arrow, OK 74012-2838; (918) 251-0925 Mr. Scott Phillips, Principal Investigator Mr. Michael A. Phillips, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82353 Amount: $75,000 Among the various alternative fuels propos ...

FULLERENES ARE A NEWLY DISCOVERED FORM OF CARBON (GRAPHITE AND DIAMOND ARE THE OTHER TWO FORMS) WITH DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES AND AN UNUSUAL MOLECULAR STRUCTURE. PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS INDICATED THAT FULLERENE ELECTRODE MATERIALS EXHIBIT UNIQUE ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES. IN THIS PHASE I EFFORT, FULLERNE NANOTUBE STRUCTURES WILL BE INVESTIGATED AS NOVEL ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM ION STOR ...

A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) POWDERS IS PLANNED STARTING WITH A SILICON-BASED PRECURSOR AND FULLERENE COMPOUNDS AS THE RAW MATERIALS. THE REACTIVITY OF FULLERENES, COMBINED WITH PREVIOUSLY DEMONSTRATED RESULTS IN THE SYNTHESIS OF LIMITED QUANTITIES OF SUCH NONCRYSTALLINE SIC POWDERS USING A SPARK EROSION TECHNIQUE, FORM THE BASIS OF THIS CONCEPT. S ...

ONE DIMENSIONAL CARBON-CARBON (-C) COMPOSITES ARE CONSIDERED AS CANDIDATE TILE MATERIALS FOR DIVERTER APPLICATIONS DUE TO THEIR HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY. UNFORTUNATELY, SUCH COMPOSITES ALSO SUFFER FROM EXTREMELY POOR CROSS-FIBER TENSILE STRENGTH. THE PROBLEM OF BONDING DISPERSIVE STRENGTHENED COPPER (CU) TUBE, WITH AND WITHOUT SOFT OXYGEN-FREE HIGH CONDUCTIVITY (OFHC) CU INTERLAYERS, HAS BEEN A ...

36 A Novel Technology for Si3N4-Superalloy Joints With High Use Temperature Capability--Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER), 7960 South Kolb, Tucson, AZ 85706-9237; (520) 574-1980 Dr. Sumit Guha, Principal Investigator Dr. Raouf Loutfy, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82424 Amount: $75,000 Advanced ceramic heat engines with improved fuel efficiency will require joints bet ...

90 Novel Fabrication Method of Low Cost High Performance Bipolar Plates--Materials & Electrochemical Research (MER) Corporation, 7960 South Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85706-3237; (520) 574-1980 Dr. R. O. Loutfy, Principal Investigator Dr. J. C. Withers, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82425 Amount: $75,000 Proton exchange membrane fuel cells are extremely promising power sources for el ...

195 A Novel Divertor Design Based on a Tungsten Wire Brush Tile--Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp., 7960 South Kolb, Tucson, AZ 85706-9237; (520) 574-1980 Dr. Sumit Guha, Principal Investigator Dr. Raouf O. Loutfy, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82423 Amount: $75,000 High heat flux and plasma facing materials are critical to the development of practical applicat ...

40997 November 19, 1996 MER Chlorofluorocarbons (Freon) are being phased out of use for refrigeration. This project will develop a processing technology for active magnetic refrigeration devices which are being considered as candidates for replacements. Brittle intermetallics will be processed into a "tubular channels in solid block" geometry. Because ...

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