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C55-10a-270371Electron Tomography (ET) is used to visualize nanostructures in three dimensions, but long acquisition times make it unsuitable for the study of fast in situ reactions and dose-sensitive materials. The limiting factor for fast acquisition of ET data is stage instability causing drift in all directions while tilting. Because ET requires many images taken within the exact same field of ...

C55-10b-270389Recent developments in electron microscopes, especially improved optics and new detectors have led to new types of experiments in the fields of physics, quantum information, and biology. With all the recent progress, one key system of the microscope, the scanning system, has fallen behind. The proposed development will introduce a fundamentally new type of scanning system that replac ...

C55-05a-270492-AbstractChemical reactions are rarely performed in isolation. Most real-world applications involve chemical reaction networks in which many simultaneous chemical reactions of many species occur. Advances in high-performance computer simulations and laboratory automation provide an increasingly detailed picture of these chemical reaction networks, but the underlying representation in ...

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is developing innovative, flexible, and small-scale (1-5 MW), modular gasification systems for converting diverse types of US domestic energy resources into value-added products with greatly reduced or negative CO2 emissions. Production of high purity (>95%) oxygen at modular scale is an enabling technology for successful development and deployment of these systems. ...

Real-time monitoring of traffic conditions is crucial for improving traffic safety and efficiency, and there is an urgent need for the development of in situ traffic sensing & computing technologies leveraging the recent advancements in edge computing. This project will develop an edge computing and sensor fusion system for comprehensive traffic and road conditions data collection and efficient tr ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will lead to a new type of analytical instrument and associated businesses, specializing in the identification and characterization of chemical isomers and their different conformational forms (conformers).Isomers are molecules with the same constituent atoms but arranged differently. The iden ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in providing solutions to farmers who are facing the culmination of decades of herbicide resistant weed species evolving from applications of synthetic herbicides. Creation of herbicides which are effective, naturally produced, scalable, and deployed using the current agronomic practices could alter ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to provide the first test to determine the allergen content of human milk accurately, quickly, and cost-effectively. As much as 25% of infants have reported allergic responses to dietary proteins found in human milk which often results in breast/body feeding termination. Breast/body feeding ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project is to develop a disruptive technology that reduces the environmental impact of greenhouse-based agriculture while simultaneously improving its economic potential through the application of semitransparent organic solar cells onto the greenhouse glazing (i.e., windows). Greenhouses can be a form of hig ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will develop a completely new class of spectrometer, the spherical transmission grating spectrometer (STGS), which utilizes curved volume phase holographic (VPH) gratings coupled with a spherical mirror to deliver aberration-corrected spectral images over the full field of view. The market is projected to reach $35.8 billion by 2026, at an an ...