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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 is to continue the scale up of luminescent Si nanocrystal production using the continuous flow reactor developed during the Phase I period where the main objective of the Phase I proposal of converting a cumbersome batch process into an efficient continuous one was accomplished. This new continuous flow reactor will serve as an enabli ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project involves the modification of the surface of textiles through graft polymerization of an oxidizing polymer resulting in a fabric which has the ability to eradicate/neutralize pathogenic microorganisms, pesticides, and chemical/biological weapons. The fabric could be used to produce medical textiles in order to reduce the transmission of infec ...

This Small Business Research (SBIR) Phase II project is concerned with the development and commercialization of electrochemically operated devices that will revolutionize the disinfectant industry by providing on-site, on-demand generation of extremely potent dual disinfectants. Peroxyacids are well known disinfectants that remove even resistant microorganisms (i.e. spores) by attacking S-S and S- ...

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 ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase II project provides the foundational R&D for new oil and gas reservoir management tools to optimize hydrocarbon recovery. It proposes extension of state-of-the-art analytic solution methods for potential flow in porous media from 2-D to 3-D. It incorporates 3-D analytic fluid flow simulation technology into large-scale optimization routines where ...

ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING ORGANIC POLYMERS ARE A NEW CLASS OF LOW-COST LIGHTWEIGHT CONDUCTING MATERIALS THAT HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF IMPORTANT PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. THESE POLYMERS ARE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST AS A MEANS OF FABRICATING ENZYME-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSORS THAT HAVE UNIQUE CAPABILITIES. HOWEVER, SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS PRESENTLY USED FOR THE FORMATION OF THESE ...

PROPOSED IS A NEW INSTRUMENT BASED ON THE REFRACTION MODE OFSEISMIC SURVEYING TO MEASURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCOUR ADJACENT TO A BRIDGE PIER OR ABUTMENT. THE INSTRUMENT USES A REPEATABLE ACOUSTIC SOURCE PLACED NEXTTO THE CONCRETE STRUCTURE AND AN ARRAY OF HYDROPHONES IN A PVC PIPE THAT IS BURIED VERTICALLY IN THE RIVER BED NEXT TO THE PIER. THE ACOUSTIC SOURCE EMITS REPEATED SIGNALS THAT ARE REFRAC ...

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 ...

HARNESSING SOLAR ENERGY AS AN INEXHAUSTIBLE AND INEXPENSIVE SOURCE OF ENERGY HAS BEEN A GOAL OF MANKIND FOR CENTURIES. ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING SCHEMES NOW DEVISED TO HARNESS SOLAR ENERGY IS THE PHOTOELECTROLYTIC DECOMPOSITION OF WATERUSING SEMICONDUCTING ELECTRODES. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS LIMITING INITIATION OF PRACTICAL PHOTOELECTROLYSIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FACT THAT ONLY SEMICONDUCTING E ...