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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is a significant advance in the production of hydrogen peroxide. It is anticipated that this project will yield an on-site generation method that substantially reduces the cost of peroxide production compared to the traditional centralized chemical process. By reducing cost, hydrogen peroxide can be u ...

This SBIR Phase II project aims to develop an external stent to improve the quality and length of life for dialysis patients. Dialysis is the primary lifeline for patients with failed kidneys (i.e. End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)). Unfortunately, our current standard of care, which provides no additional support or treatment to the artery-vein connections surgically created in the arm to initiate d ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project further investigates music-based techniques that can result in effective and efficient learning and instruction. Music as a bedrock of culture can transcend entertainment and enhance learning. Music directly activates neural systems that support memory, attention, motivation, and emotion. Acc ...

Phase I analysis results show that in order to potentially meet the round trip and exergetic efficiencies as required by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Office, for thermal energy storage in concentrated solar plants, a composite of porous silicon carbide and molten salt phase change material is needed.For a 100 megawatt (electrical) concentrated solar power plant with 12 hour ...

This project will complete 6 years of work by Coulometrics to develop a new environmentally friendly and lower cost process to produce high-quality LIB anode material that exhibits: • lower cost; • improved purification through an environmentally friendly process, and; • a high quality and consistent material suitable for demanding EV applications.Virtually all graphite for lithium ion batte ...

Instrumentation and control systems in nuclear power plants are made of an assembly of analog and/or digital components which together emit a unique electromagnetic signature that relates to the condition of the whole assembly.This signature can therefore be recorded, analyzed, and tracked to determine the condition and health of instrumentation and control systems.This is very important to the nu ...

Electromagnetic compatibility testing guidelines developed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Electric Power Research Institute are currently used in the nuclear industry to ensure that digital equipment can operate safely in the electromagnetic environment of a typical nuclear power plant.While the current testing standards provide industry-accepted methodologies and criteria for the ev ...

High energy physics research, modern medicine and advanced materials are continually demanding stronger magnetic fields. Efforts to generate fields in excess of 25 Tesla have been a principal driver of High Temperature Superconductor research. Although HTS materials were discovered decades ago and have always shown significant potential for high field use, until recently magnets using the technolo ...

GTL has been developing a suite of transformational technologies that have the capability to disrupt the traditional launch vehicle paradigm.BHL composite cryotank technology provides a four times improvement over large aluminum iso-grid tanks, offering a 6 percentage point improvement in small stage PMF. Superior Stability Engine is an innovative liquid rocket engine configured to maximize combus ...

Volume overload (congestion) occurs in patients with heart failure (HF) and is the leading cause of hospitalization in the elderly worldwide. Unfortunately, clinical signs and symptoms; laboratory values; and existing diagnostic tools are unreliable in providing accurate assessment of volume status. Using a unique physiologic signal, Non-Invasive Venous waveform Analysis (NIVA), VoluMetrix has dev ...