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Scalable manufacturing techniques are needed for high-quality coatings on nuclear fuel to provide: (1) enhanced safety during design basis and beyond design basis (>1200°C) accident conditions, (2) provide better performance to enable higher linear heat (>7kW/ft, >20% uprate) generation during baseline operation to enable more energy production from existing nuclear plants, (3) enable higher fuel ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global public health problem that threatens virtually every segment of society. This pandemic is caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is highly contagious and can cause severe respiratory problems, as well as other adverse human health effects. SARS- CoV-2 transmission is believed to be primarily associated with aerosols that are discharged from the ...

The DOE Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications (CABLE) initiative has brought together the insights of stakeholders in science & engineering, manufacturers, utility companies, and other entities in electrical product supply chains. These insights identified the need for new cost effective, conductivity-enhanced materials which will h ...

Proton exchange membrane electrolyzers (PEMs) are an integral technology for driving the transition to a renewable energy economy. For water splitting and the production of green hydrogen, PEMs are the industry standard due to their relatively high efficiency and flexible operating conditions. Water splitting PEMs operate under acidic conditions, and typically rely on Pt catalysts at the cathode w ...

Proton exchange membrane electrolyzers (PEMs) are an integral technology for driving the transition to a renewable energy economy. For water splitting and the production of green hydrogen, PEMs are the industry standard due to their relatively high efficiency and flexible operating conditions. Water splitting PEMs operate under acidic conditions, and typically rely on Pt catalysts at the cathode w ...

A Free Space Optical Communication Systems (FSOCS) enables broadband inter-connectivity among mobile platforms.  A key feature of an FSOCS is the low probability of intercept and the low probability of detection (LPI-LPD).  Furthermore, it is unhindered by RF jamming or frequency contention.   When augmented by a passive range detection capability, it also enables precise location knowledge, a ...

C56-37a-272608More stringent challenges, as required by future high energy physics experiments, require higher radiation tolerance and higher granularity to the silicon detectors. Recently developed precision timing detector technology based on silicon Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) although exhibits excellent timing performance, cannot attain 10 µm position resolution needed for advanced 4D det ...

First-generation noble gas detection systems currently used by the International Monitoring System (IMS) operate in a similar manner: air is pumped into an activated carbon sieve bed where the radioxenon is isolated. Contaminants are removed, including water, carbon dioxide, and dust. As a result, the sorbent has concentrated xenon, both naturally abundant isotopes and radioactive isotopes, from t ...

The detection of photons, the elementary particles of light, is not only central to the exploration of the fundamental nature of energy, matter, space and time, but it also plays an important role in applications such as such as hazard & threat detection, 3D-sensing such as light/laser detection and ranging (LIDAR/LADAR), low light imaging, astronomy, quantum information science, biophotonics, med ...

Printed electronics offer the potential to achieve low-energy consumption and integration of novel optoelectronic nanomaterials onto silicon wafers for manufacturing photonic integrated circuits (e.g., silicon photonics). However, there are limited choices in commercial semiconductor inks, and most of them do not apply to optoelectronic applications. In this Phase I project, Iris Light Technologie ...