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Fullerenes have become the most investigated/publicized scientific subject ever. In spite of this intense and the enormous commercial potential, the mechanism to the synthesis of the various fullerene structures of buckyballs, buckytubes and encapsulation within the cage structures has not been defined which is a major reason the cost of fullerenes remain about 5-160 times the cost of gold Conduct ...

Fullerenes - the recently discovered closed cage forms of carbo - have unique and unprecedented pure carbon based thermal properties. Advanced materials based on fullerenes and fullerenes all by themselves are lightweight, long lived, environmentally benign and are materials that have very low thermal conductivity and which sublime at high temperatures. These properties make fullerenes and fullere ...

While ceramic fiber reinforced titanium aluminide matrices composites are attractive due to their high specific strengths at high temperatures, one primary limitation is the lack of CTE match and chemical compatibility between the fiber and the matrix. The thermal mismatch and reaction zone is responsible for cracking during post-fabrication cool down and under thermal cycling. It is proposed to u ...

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We will develop and characterize a common-path or Sagnac interferometer with CCD array detector that can be used as a space-borne or field spectrometer from the UV to the IR region of the spectrum. The specific innovation is that the entire interferometer assembly (beamsplitter, mirrors, lens, and associated optics) will be fabricated as a monolithic, solid block. The importance of this innovation ...