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72526S03-I Collaboration on experimental nuclear physics projects is international and requires hundreds of participants. Due to the sheer size and complexity of the experiments, a great deal of the experimental planning, equipment design, preparation, and assembly must be carried out prior to the experimental runs. A low cost method for secure remote communications is needed to allow the colla ...

50397-98-I Fiber Optic Dissolved Oxygen Sensing System for Remote Monitoring--Airak Engineering, Rte 3, Box 533, 415 Chesnut Avenue, New Castle, VA 24127-9519; (540) 864-7821 Mr. Paul Grems Duncan, Principal Investigator Mr. Paul Grems Duncan, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82521 Amount: $75,000 One of the largest problems facing field biologists and aquaculturists is the inabilit ...

72743S03-I Today¿s current inverter technologies for electric and hybrid-electric vehicle systems do not lend themselves well to modularity. The inverter designs tend to be application-specific, which translates into larger inverter sizes and/or increased development cost. Also, the accompanying low volume production of such specialized inverters increases parts cost significantly. This proje ...

50931-98-I Highly Efficient and Reliable AC-DC Power Converters for Next-Generation Linear Colliders--American Research Corporation of Virginia, 1509 Fourth Street, P.O. Box 3406, Radford, VA 24141-4617; (540) 731-0655 Dr. Russell J. Churchill, Principal Investigator Dr. Russell J. Churchill, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82527 Amount: $75,000 Future research in High Energy Physi ...

Recent developments in the world political arena have led to The need for miniaturized instrumentation for rapid characterization of micro-organisms and toxins to protect military and civilian personnel against biological weapons and to allow timely administration of prophylactics. Considerable effort is currently underway to develop polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays with automated samp ...

73155S03-I Superconducting particle accelerators require high power radio frequency (RF) couplers that have high capital and operational costs. The operational costs include power dissipation at cryogenic temperatures and operational down time. New coupler designs are needed to reduce these costs for particle accelerators that will require even higher RF power than now available. This project ...

73156S03- I Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities are a critical device for present and future particle accelerators in military, research, and industrial applications. The performance of these cavities is limited by field emission, which is controlled by cavity processing techniques. However, currently available processing techniques provide less-than-satisfactory cavity performance, ...

There is an immediate need for real-time sensitive and selective detection of biological warfare agents (BWA) in air or water. Essential components of developmental biological and chemical sensors are the molecular receptors or recognition elements.Molecular imprinting of polymers has been used with promising results to create artificial chemical receptors. Echo Technologies, Inc. proposes to de ...

The ability to detect minute quantities of toxic biological substance s will provide the ability to quickly assess a situation so that an a ppropriate response to exposure can be orchestrated. Not only will t he development of this technology be important in toxic agent warfare detection, the biological sensors would be pertinent in commercial ap plications such as process control and point-of-ca ...

73097S03-I In nuclear medicine, commonly employed radiopharmaceuticals generally utilize chelated radioisotopes of metals for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. However, the in vivo kinetic stability of radiometal agents remains a major concern for any new radiopharmaceutical. Endohedral metallofullerenes would have an inherent advantage due to the high stability of the carbon cage and ch ...