Award Data

Renewable energy sources are experiencing a surge of growth due to rising power demand but suffer asynchronous production relative to societal needs. To balance the overproduction during low demand and underproduction during high demand, proton exchange membrane (PEM) based electrolyzers (capable of producing zero-carbon, green hydrogen) and fuel cells (for clean electricity generation and zero em ...

Plastics (polymers) are used widely in energy, industry, and defense sectors due to their low cost and weight, processibility, and electrical insulation properties. Unfortunately, this class of materials is also thermally insulating, which restricts their usefulness in applications where heat is generated and has a direct effect on the performance (e.g. electronics and computing, LED lighting, hea ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most favorable and cheapest alternatives to fossil fuels, and it can be scaled up to meet global energy demands. The mass deployment of nuclear energy as a low-emissions source requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover fissile materials and mitigate radioactive waste. A major concern with reprocessing used nuclear fuel is the release of gaseous radionuc ...

Peach thinning is a major expense for peach farming operations accounting for 60% of the totalcost during annual maintenance. The commonly used bloom thinning methods include handchemical and mechanical thinning. Hand thinning and mechanical thinning are the most widelyused but these methods are labor intensive inaccurate and have no built-in intelligence to properlyguide the thinning process.Adve ...

Ultra-low-temperature (6 K) static NMR-DNP for metalloproteins, proteins in cells, and materials Abstract The critical importance of solid-state NMR (ssNMR) was recently demonstrated by, after nearly two decades of intense efforts, yielding the first atomic-resolution structures of the A40 and A42 amyloid fibrils that play a crucial role in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Challenges posed by the ...

A Novel Waveguide to Enable MAS-DNP-NMR in Standard-bore High-field Magnets Abstract The critical importance of solid-state NMR (ssNMR) was recently demonstrated by, after nearly two decades of intense efforts, yielding the first atomic-resolution structures of the A?40 and A?42 amyloid fibrils that play a crucial role in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Key to that structure determination was a techni ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequent killer of men with over 34,000 deaths per year. If PCa is not cured by initial definitive surgery and/or radiation and spreads to lymph nodes, bones, or other organs current therapies are not curative. Hormone blockade, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy have significant side effects that impact the patient’s quality of life. Thus, novel treatments are nee ...

ABSTRACT: Limited availability of fresh viable donor meniscal grafts reduces size-matching efficiency for meniscal allograft transplantation, restricting surgical accessibility and patient outcomes. Current preservation methods with retention of meniscal viability are inadequate. Fibrochondrocyte viability of transplanted menisci is accepted as one of the determinants of outcome following allograf ...

Knee and shoulder surgery patients are at high risk of becoming addicted to opioids that are prescribed to manage pain after their surgery. Each year, from the 1.475 million knee/shoulder surgeries performed in the United States, an estimated 167,000 people, and another 17,000 of their friends and family, will become addicted to opioids. Limited options for disposal of unused opioids, such as drug ...

Project Summary About 750,000 Americans and approx. 4.5 million patients worldwide have End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)1– 3. Aging population as well as rise in ESRD-related comorbidities are key factors in the anticipated rate of increase in patients with ESRD4. One of the primary causes for this high morbidity and mortality are the complications associated with maintaining a functioning vascula ...