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This project will contribute to establishing a resilient supply chain for rare-earth elements (REEs) and other critical materials in the U.S., significantly reducing the reliance that now leaves us highly vulnerable to foreign control of rare-earth metals—the ‘vitamins of a modern society.’ Rare-earth metals enable advanced manufacturing, clean transportation, efficient computing, power gene ...

This proposal addresses the widespread problem of dead zones and reliability in large format circuit assembly. This problem is caused by the high soldering temperature needed to make high-density interconnects in thin semiconductor chips using flip chip solder bump bonding technology. The size scales for the solder interconnects are not accessible via traditional low-cost solder printing or ball m ...

This project will contribute to establishing a resilient supply chain for rare-earth elements (REEs) and other critical materials in the U.S., significantly reducing the reliance that now creates high vulnerability to foreign control of rare-earth metals—the ‘vitamins of a modern society.’ REEs enable advanced manufacturing, clean transportation, efficient computing, power generation, energy ...

Rare earth metals and alloys that contain them are a key modern-day material used in many applications such as consumer electronics, computer memory, DVDs, rechargeable batteries, catalytic converters, magnets, and fluorescent lighting. The use of rare earth elements are vital for modern life, but the end products are rarely recycled. Recycling often requires the use of very aggressive solvents or ...

In topic 6C, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) emphasizes the need for “innovative approaches (…) that use low/no direct application of heat to transform materials into higher value products.” Sep-All LLC provides a novel low-heat technology platform enabling the extraction of metallic elements from waste streams while adding a value to the materials through their conversion into high-valu ...

Dry storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is canisters can be threatened by corrosion of the metallic canisters which incur substantial repair and replacement costs and logistical issues. A novel cold spray repair and mitigation approach is proposed to repair corroded SNF canisters and mitigate the corrosion threat for fabricated canisters. The proposed work utilizes a novel cold spray technique whe ...

Modern genomic and post-genomic research produced huge amount of heterogeneous data that must be integrated and analyzed together- Systems biology aims at utilizing these data to help model complex biological systems and further our understanding of living beings, so we may cure more diseases or harvest more renewable bio-energies in the future- However, construction and manipulation of complex gr ...

Accelerators used for nuclear-physics research require megawatts of radio-frequency energy- They currently employ vacuum-tube power amplifiers or conventional solid-state amplifiers that are inefficient and therefore consume a great deal of prime power- Many other applications including semiconductor processing, cellular-telephone base station transmitters, and military communication systems simil ...

This SBIR Project will address the problem of inconsistent feedstock handling of lignocellulosic feedstocks from ambient conditions into a controlled reactor environment, a primary barrier to continuous operation of lignocellulosic biomass conversion systems. Shockwave, LLC (Shockwave) will use its patented corn fractionation technology to segregate corn fiber, a lignocellulosic feedstock, for lab ...

There is a DoD need for an interface of nonlinear micromagnetic computation engines with standard RF circuit design tools. Such an interface will allow RF design engineers to easily and intuitively simulate circuits containing certain nonlinear micromagnetic self-adaptive components such as frequency selective limiters (FSL) and signal-to-noise enhancers (SNE) at the fundamental materials level, a ...