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Additive manufacturing technology creates objects using a sequential layering process that directly contrasts with the traditional subtractive approaches commonly used to manufacture the majority of fabricated components. The additive manufacturing technology can be used anywhere throughout the product life cycle, from pre-production to full-scale production in addition to tooling applications and ...

Advances in soft X-ray detector technology have enabled higher count rates while maintaining high spectral resolution. These new superconducting detectors share the common form of a pixilated active area that must be operated in the milli-Kelvin temperature range below the boiling temperature of liquid helium. Because the cryogenic detectors are under high vacuum and must be able to sense ambien ...

New technology is needed to replace 3He-based neutron proportional detectors for neutron scattering. This proposal addresses this need via development of a novel plasma panel based neutron detector designed to take advantage of low cost, large area, plasma display panel TV technology. A new type of micropattern gas detector for neutrons is proposed that offers the potential for high efficiency, hi ...

The global GDP has gone up from $38 Trillion in 2000 to $60 Trillion in 2009. Price increase in consumer products is directly proportional to rate of growth of global GDP. Fatty acids form the basic building blocks of skincare as well as personal hygiene consumer products. Within the last decade, fatty acid prices have more than quadrupled. Fatty acids with carbon range of C8 to C12 are prod ...

Linear colliders based on two-beam wakefield acceleration have a modular design. A fundamental requirement of two beam wakefield acceleration that has yet to be demonstrated is the staging of sequential accelerating modules. For a successful staging demonstration two key things have to be addressed: drive beam separation and the timing between wakes from different stages and the witness beam. Tim ...

This proposal is submitted in response to the SBIR/STTR High Energy Physics Solicitation Topic 33(a). The need is for strands that operate at a minimum of 15 Tesla (T) field, with preference for production scale ( & gt; 3 km continuous lengths) wire technologies at 15 to 25 T with reduced effective filament diameter, in particular to less than 30 micrometers, which at 1 mm wire diameter would requ ...

The DOE seeks commercially viable, fabrication technologies for SRF cavities, specifically new or improved bulk processing technologies. Current methods, such as buffered chemical polishing (BCP), use high viscosity electrolytes containing hydrofluoric acid, which is not conducive to low-cost, high volume manufacturing and is potentially harmful to workers. The project team proposes to build upon ...

The DOE seeks commercially viable, fabrication technologies for SRF cavities, specifically eco-friendly final polishing technologies. Current methods, such as conventional and buffered electropolishing, use high viscosity electrolytes containing hydrofluoric acid, which is not conducive to low-cost, high volume manufacturing and is potentially harmful to workers. The project team proposes to build ...

Over the past fifteen years, the demand for improved battery performance has increasingly focused on the development of battery chemistries based on lithium, due to their advantages over alternate battery chemistries. Among various alternative anodes, one thrust has been the use of materials that form alloys with lithium, providing up to a 10 fold improvement in the energy densities of current ano ...

Waste heat recovery has the potential to provide up to 20 percent of the U.S. electricity demand with no direct fuel consumption, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent. This enormous potential continues to go unrealized due to various technical and financial obstacles with traditional steam and organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems. An alternative cycle using supercritical carbon dio ...