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In this STTR project, Akita Innovations, Adaptive3D and Prof. Ronald Smaldone will team to develop highly loaded, porous MOF elastomer resin systems that can be fabricated into unique architectures via digital light processing (DLP) additive manufacture. The project will leverage Prof. Smaldone’s unique research at the interface of organic framework materials and additive manufacture with Adapti ...

In the proposed effort, Clemson University COMSET, Corcoran Engineering, and Freedom Photonics will develop chip-scale directed energy microsystems using coherent beam combining of single mode lasers to provide a high-power output beam with excellent beam quality and high brightness.  To create this high--performance Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC), we will design, fabricate and demonstrate a h ...

Triton Systems, Inc., in partnership with the University of Alabama and with the support of Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, will design, build, and test the Triton Composite Optical Strain Mapping Integrated Control (COSMIC) System, a combination of (i) terahertz (THz) metamaterial reflectors applied to composite panels that converts linearly polarized light to circularly polarized based on t ...

The basic idea of a morphing aircraft wherein the vehicle changes its configuration to optimally perform in multiple flight segments holds the promise of achieving unprecedented levels of efficiency.  Morphing is most promising for small UAVs and taking inspiration from birds, we can exploit large shape changes, rapid inertia changes, articulation etc., to fly in congested urban and indoor spaces ...

The new Bottom Attach munitions for the Close Terrain-Shaping Obstacles (CTSO) program, currently under development by the Army, requires that reserve batteries operate 30 days after activation in a low power sleep mode, while providing multiple high-power pulses. This operational profile requires batteries with energy and power densities beyond the limits of the current liquid reserve batteries. ...

Digital sensor data received by infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPA) faces a readout bottleneck before exiting the cooled environment to room temperature processing. This is the very same bottleneck faced in other applications with harsh environments, such as quantum and classical supercomputing. Electrical links are lossy and bandwidth limited, and coaxial cables have a high thermal conductivity a ...

The US Army is investing in the development of energetic materials for use in additive manufacturing (AM) for explosive and propellant applications in an ongoing effort to achieve extended range and lethality overmatch.  Currently, all commercially available monomers, polymers or resin systems for AM are non-energetic.  To use these in 3D printing applications for propellants and/or explosives, ...

Physical Sciences Inc. and Prof. Seth Bank at the University of Texas Austin will develop thin-absorber avalanche photodiodes based on digital alloys of AlInAsSb for high-performance photodetection between 2.0 – 2.5 μm. The AlInAsSb quaternary alloy system allows for compositional grading throughout the device structure, enabling novel photodiode architectures inaccessible with other III-V allo ...

The US Army and Department of Defense are continuing in their investment in the development of energetic materials for use in additive manufacturing (AM) for propellants.  Nalas Engineering is partnering with Dr. Lori Groven at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to develop innovative liquid resin systems for use in additive manufacturing, specifically UV light-based curing technol ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials formed by the coordination driven self-assembly of metal ions/metal clusters and organic linkers. MOFs are attractive materials due to their tunable pore, very high surface area (up to 7000 m2/g), diverse possibilities of functionalization of the framework structure and potential applications. In particular, MOFs have showed potentia ...