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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be realized first in household cleaning applications, a market valued in more than 26 billion/year, where currently only about 3% of the market is filled with eco-friendly alternatives. Cleancult new scrubbing system will allow the development of more efficient and potent cleaning product ...

Solar fuels generators harness solar energy as the power source to facilitate the generation of either hydrogen or carbon based fuels. In both cases, water is electrochemically oxidized to produce oxygen, protons and electrons at the anode. Hydrogen or carbon based fuels are produced simultaneously at the cathode by the reduction of protons or carbon dioxide, respectively. Ion exchange membranes a ...

Plastic scintillators are relatively easy to manufacture and cheaper compared to their inorganic counterparts. The main drawbacks of plastic scintillators are low light output and low resolution which limits their applications. To develop a new, higher performance family of plastic scintillators and fibers, it is essential to use advances in polymer science and a fundamental understanding of molec ...

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells are one of the most promising energy conversion technologies for renewable clean energy applications. The development of alternatives to current commercial perfluorosulfonic acid based membranes, that lower cost and increase performance, would increase penetration of fuel cell technology into the mass market. This work will focus on the synthesis and develop ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to introduce a novel and renewably resource-derived polymer, Polyacrylated Glycerol (PAG), to the asphalt road maintenance industry. The project will demonstrate the performance and efficiency of PAG to improve the performance and life expectancy of common asphalt maintenance applications. If successful, this project will create a pathway ...

This SBIR Phase I project focuses on making geolocations direct, easy to remember, and unambiguous. Disambiguation is a critical part of automation and simplifies infrastructure for the autonomous world. Instead of searching for an address to obtain a geolocation, the goal is to provide a portable, user-friendly, human-readable method. Geolocations are becoming more important in this new mobile wo ...

Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) offers tremendous benefit for rapid prototyping, mass customization, and low cost fabrication. This creates an untapped opportunity to develop the technology further to support low volume industrial manufacturing for price sensitive and emerging markets. The ability to source locally available raw material and feed it directly as pellets or shavings into a printer ...

To stimulate the U.S. economy and global competitiveness there is a push to reduce dependence on foreign oil imports and establish a domestic power and fuel industry using efficient, reliable clean energy technologies. A promising development is the introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles using hydrogen, which can achieve significantly higher efficiencies than combustion engines resulting in o ...

Current hydropower facilities employ a variety of electrical and mechanical equipment that necessitate the use of lubricants to ensure efficient operation of said equipment.The lubricants, either oils or greases, aid in reducing friction, dissipating heat, prevent oxidation, and sealing of water and debris from vital areas of the equipment.During operation, equipment may be submerged or otherwise ...

nbsp;Spacecraft are incredibly complicated, interdependent, somewhat autonomous systems operating in dynamic environments. When parameter limits are exceedednbsp;or watchdog timers are not reset, spacecraft automatically enter a ldquo;saferdquo; mode where primary functionality is reduced or stopped completely. During safe mode the primary mission is put on hold while teams on the ground examine d ...