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M Cubed has developed three key processes (PRIMEX, DIMOX and reaction bonding) for manufacturing advanced materials components. The processes have been used to make a variety of components for commercial and military systems making them lighter, stiffer,highly functional and resistant to many threats. In the Phase I program, M Cubed demonstrated the feasibility of a revolutionary modification to t ...

An extremely capable team of M Cubed Technologies and Fraunhofer USA is proposing to replace high cost, toxic Be-based metals with innovative, Mg metal matrix composites (MMCs) in stiffness critical structural applications. In short, the program willevaluate processing of Mg MMCs via both pressureless infiltration and squeeze casting. Variables to be studied will include processing parameters, M ...

An extremely capable team of M Cubed Technologies and Simula is providing an innovative approach to the design and fabrication of ceramic-based armor panels for military and commercial vehicles. In short, large ceramic tiles of complex shape willfabricated, then encapsulated in ballistic polymer. The resultant panels will match the shape of internal cavities within the commercial vehicle, thus a ...

General visual inspection, the current practice of aircraft wire maintenance, is almost entirely dependent on human decision making. An inspector reads/deciphers wire identification markings and sorts through voluminous printed documents to determinerelevant interconnection data. Intangible limitations such as operator skills and tangible issues such as limited access, poor lighting and random or ...

Military and Civil standards (SAE ARP 1179B, ICAO Annex 16 Volume II) for aircraft gas turbine engine smoke emissions are based upon an essentially manual extractive probe sampling method with off-line sample analysis and data processing. These standards,which are similar, were designed to demonstrate compliance with regulatory standards for plume opacity or visibility and were specifically develo ...

Polyoxometalate (POM) and/or coinage-metal complexes that exhibit dramatic color changes on reaction with chemical warfare agents (CWAs) will be incorporated into cellulose matrices (paper and cotton) by robust electrostatic and covalent bonds to preparelightweight, easy-to-use, color-indicating CWA-detecting tear strips. These strips are expected to show very high sensitivity to CWAs, and thus b ...

The objective of this research and development effort is to improve battery performance by identifying new materials to improve existing electrochemical systems and components, in order to increase specific energy and/or specific power beyond what iscurrently available. Maximum Technology Corporation (MTC) will demonstrate the feasibility of using carbon nanotubes as both anode and cathode materi ...

Department of Defense is interested in development of small fighter-like vehicle for combined underwater and surface motions at high speeds. The vehicle requires carry weapons under water. The weapons may generate high additional drag, and drag reductionis the key aspect in design of its hybrid hull. Hydrofoil removes missiles from water at highest speeds, but the problem is to reduce the drag bef ...

Mitochondria are intracellular organelles that regulate a number of vital processes in eukaryotic cells. They are not only the primary sites of energy production but are also the primary source of the harmful reactive Oxygen Species that cause oxidativedamage to the cell. In addition they regulate the critical process of programmed cell death (apoptosis). Thus proper mitochondrial function is crit ...

The purpose of this project is to develop a video/electronic media training program to strengthen preschool children's beginning reading skills. Many children in the United States, particularly children from low-income families, begin kindergarten unprepared to develop beginning reading skills. They lack the kind of experiences that research indicates are crucial to being ready to learn how to rea ...