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Free-Electron Laser (FEL) x-ray sources are continuously being improved and upgraded, opening the doors for many scientific frontiers in biology, chemistry, and material science, such as structural dynamics, matter at extreme conditions and nanostructure imaging. However, the lack of suitable ultrafast sources and detectors covering X-rays to Vis-NIR has been preventing/limiting such studies in th ...

Military personnel will continue to partner with autonomous systems with increasing sophistication and complexity.  The training of personnel in tandem with autonomous system model training would provide opportunities to explore human-system co-learning dynamics.  This could enable the development of a system that can become an autonomous study partner that could help the trainee acquire new kno ...

Nuclear physics research has a growing need for high performance devices to detect, analyze, and track photons, charged particles, and neutral particles such as neutrons, neutrinos, and single atoms. Accurately detecting the position, time, and rate of particles as they strike in high flux radiation environments like those in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is paramount to the success o ...

High quality color centers have been demonstrated at the laboratory level to support a number of exciting quantum technology applications in quantum information and optics, navigation and geoscience probes, and nano-sensing in condensed-matter physics, yet a manufacturable process for creating such color centers has yet to be developed. In the crystalline diamond material system, nitrogen vacancy ...

Future high-impact scientific applications at synchrotron and Free-Electron Laser (FEL) X-ray sources require the development of processing and mounting methods for ultra-thin diamond crystals to meet the most challenging needs of pioneering research at next generation light source facilities. These methods should be capable of manufacturing crystal plates as thin as 10 micrometers over an area of ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)-free yellow pigments and synthetic pathways that do not unintentionally generate PCB as byproducts. This effort will harness Kebotix’s existing AI-powered platform, which includes a workflow that controls high?throughput computational modeling of molecules and materials, proprietary machine learning methods for process ...

In-place resurfacing of asphalt-based wear layers is an increasingly common method of roadway rehabilitation. With the addition of waste microplastics to bitumen binders as performance improvers, the grinding of asphalt during in-place resurfacing potentially brings microplastic particulate pollution to every community in the US. In addition, the wear of roadway surfaces is a known major source of ...

Aerogel is a solid with nanometer-sized pores that exhibits many unusual and useful properties including lightweightness and high R-insulation value. However, the conventional aerogels often are very brittle and dusty, require very expensive material feedstocks, and utilize complex and costly manufacturing processes. The most expensive manufacturing step to prepare a silica aerogel is CO2-based su ...

Soil acidification is increasingly becoming a global problem. Acidity reduces the availability of plant nutrients, increases the impact of toxic elements, and damages soil biological environment. In addition, due to global climate change concerns, reducing CO2 emissions from large industrial fuel combustion sources such as power plants and factories, is becoming increasingly important. Carbon capt ...

BlueRISC’s proposed Maritime Sensor Data System (MSDS) solution provides an innovative approach to enabling the collection and storage of sensor data as well as synthesis of analytics.  The solution is built on a low-cost hardware platform equipped with software to access a scalable and secured cloud architecture maintaining this information, as well as a cloud-based analytics platform.