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Distributed energy offers a means of providing reliable, cost-effective electrical power to residents of rural communities. These requirements often cannot be met by current distribution methods due to limitation of remote central station power generation and transmission. With the migration of population from urban areas to rural areas and the increased power demands placed on electrical grids fr ...

There is a finite amount of fossil fuels, which will only last a few more decades. Therefore, it is imperative to develop renewable sources of energy. An area that has recently attracted a lot of attention is the conversion of renewable oils to biodiesel, primarily through the methanolysis of triglycerides. The use of an immobilized lipase as a heterogeneous biocatalyst to transform oils into biod ...

There are currently several options for flame retardant materials for a variety of civilian and military uses, most all of these flame retardants are based on halogens and minerals that are harmful and toxic chemicals. Therefore, more environmentally friendly and non-toxic alternatives are needed as the public becomes more aware of the environmental issues facing the planet. Lynntech’s appr ...

The high cost and low mechanical strength of windows and domes that protect the multimode sensors on missiles and maximize their mode of operation have been a concern for a long time for the Department of Defense. Crucial requirements for this application are: a) excellent infrared transmission, b) very good mechanical properties and c) ability to withstand harsh environmental conditions. Multis ...

Clean, microbiologically safe drinking water is a critical requirement for warfighter sustainment on the battlefield. When access to potable water is limited during dismounted on-the-move-missions, soldiers must make water from local sources using an Individual Water Purifier (IWP). However, currently used IWP technologies such as iodine, chlor-floc tablets, and commercially available IWPs do no ...

Mustang proposes to begin with its existing VIPER radar, which meets the performance requriements, and take a four-tiered approach to reducing power consumption while maintaining performance. Mustang has successfully followed a similar low-risk approach when reducing the power consumption of previous products.

Mustang's Active Covert Terahertz Imager (ACTI) uses simple, low risk, antenna and transceiver hardware based on our Sub-millimeter Wave Imaging Fuze Technology (SWIFT) program. ACTI is specifically designed to generate and evaluate images in the terahertz frequency range and to establish the applicability of this technology in solving the brownout problem.

Wound-related pathogens (WRPs) are a major challenge affecting the care of injured soldiers. Infection caused by WRPs can lead to mortality in the event rapid identification and medical diagnosis of wound-related bloodstream infections is not accomplished in a timely fashion. However, limited options exist for field-deployable medical diagnostic instrumentation to rapidly detect WRPs before associ ...

In this program, Omega Optics and the University of Texas at Austin propose to develop an on-chip surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrometer array for single molecule detection. The sensitivity of the SERS spectrometer comes from the 5-nm gap between gold nanowires, which can achieve 108 enhancement factor (EF) for the Raman scattering signals. Especially, these gold nanowires are preci ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims at developing a commercially viable, 50 micron long lab-on-chip photonic crystal monolithically integrated, light-weight and easily portable infrared spectrometer for diode laser absorption spectroscopy of chemical warfare simulant triethylphosphate. Defect engineered photonic crystals, with sub micron dimensions have already demonstrate ...