Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells (open access)

Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (project title "Direct Wafer Enabling Terawatt Photovoltaics") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: 1366 Technologies, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power (open access)

Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses new system architecture for a solar-electric conversion tower as part of the "High-Efficiency Solar-Electric Conversion Power Tower" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Abengoa Solar, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops (open access)

Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to engineer plants to produce enzymes that will reduce costs in the production of biofuel (project title "Conditionally Activated Enzymes Expressed in Cellulosic Energy Crops") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Agrivdia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel From Algae (open access)

Fuel From Algae

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to efficiently separate micro-solids from water (project title "Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Algaeventure Systems
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supersonic Technology for CO2 Capture (open access)

Supersonic Technology for CO2 Capture

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of a new device as part of the "A High Efficiency Inertial CO2 Extraction System" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Alliant Techsystems
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cerium-Based Magnets (open access)

Cerium-Based Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses magnets made of cerium as part of the "Novel High Energy Permanent Magnet Without Critical Elements" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Ames Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exchange-Spring Magnets (open access)

Exchange-Spring Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new cost-effective exchange-spring magnet as part of the "Nanocomposite Exchange-Spring Magnets for Motor and Generator Applications" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rare-Earth-Free Traction Motor (open access)

Rare-Earth-Free Traction Motor

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new type of traction motor for electric vehicles as part of the "Rare Earth-Free Traction Motor for Electric Vehicle Applications" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Baldor Electric Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Flywheel Composite Rotors (open access)

Advanced Flywheel Composite Rotors

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses advanced flywheel composite rotors as part of the "Low-Cost, High-Energy Density Flywheel Storage Grid Demonstration" project.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Boeing Aerospace Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators (open access)

Improved Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new superconducting wire as part of the "Superconducting Wires for Direct-Drive Wind Generators" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamically Adjustable Wind Turbine Blades (open access)

Dynamically Adjustable Wind Turbine Blades

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to develop wind turbines with more efficient control systems (project title "Adaptive Turbine Blades: Blown Wing Technology for Low-Cost Wind Power") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contract information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Caitin Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron-Nitride Alloy Magnets (open access)

Iron-Nitride Alloy Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of a magnetic iron-nitride alloy as part of the "Transformation Enabled Nitride Magnets Absent Rare Earths (TEN Mare)" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Case Western Reserve University
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biofuels from Sorghum (open access)

Biofuels from Sorghum

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the bioengineering of sorghum plants as part of the "Plant-based Sesquiterpene Biofuels" project.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: Chromatin, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flow-Assisted Alkaline Battery (open access)

Flow-Assisted Alkaline Battery

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the enhancement of consumer-grade disposable batteries as part of the "Low-Cost Grid-Scale Electrical Storage using a Flow-Assisted Rechargeable Zinc-Manganese Dioxide Battery" project.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: City University of New York. Energy Institute.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Better Enzymes for Carbon Capture (open access)

Better Enzymes for Carbon Capture

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of carbonic anhydrases enzymes as part of the "Low-Cost Biological Catalyst to Enable Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Codexis, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biofuels from Bacteria, Electricity, and CO2 (open access)

Biofuels from Bacteria, Electricity, and CO2

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Electrofuels program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses combining ammonia and bacteria to produce liquid fuel as part of the "Biofuels from CO2 Using Ammonia or Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria in Reverse Microbial Fuel Cells" project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Columbia University
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemically Accelerated Carbon Mineralization (open access)

Chemically Accelerated Carbon Mineralization

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses turning carbon dioxide exhaust into a solid as part of the "Chemical and Biological Catalytic Enhancement of Weathering of Silicate Minerals as Novel Carbon Capture and Storage" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Columbia University
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dehumidifying Air for Cooling & Refrigeration (open access)

Dehumidifying Air for Cooling & Refrigeration

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (project title "Nanotechnology Membrane-based Dehumidifier") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Dais Analytical Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manganese-Aluminum-Based Magnets (open access)

Manganese-Aluminum-Based Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of specialized magnetic alloys as part of the "Nanocrystalline t-MnAI Permanent Magnets" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Dartmouth College
System: The UNT Digital Library
MacroAlgae Butanol (open access)

MacroAlgae Butanol

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program formacroalgae aquafaming to increase feedstock and biofuels (project title "MacroAlgae Butanol") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiscale Simulation of Thermo-mechanical Processes in Irradiated Fission-reactor Materials (open access)

Multiscale Simulation of Thermo-mechanical Processes in Irradiated Fission-reactor Materials

This report contains a summary of progress made on the subtask area on phase field model development for microstructure evolution in irradiated materials, which was a part of the Computational Materials Science Network (CMSN) project entitled: Multiscale Simulation of Thermo-mechanical Processes in Irradiated Fission-reactor Materials. The model problem chosen has been that of void nucleation and growth under irradiation conditions in single component systems.
Date: May 28, 2012
Creator: El-Azab, Anter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel-Free Compressed-Air Energy Storage (open access)

Fuel-Free Compressed-Air Energy Storage

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a renewable energy storage system as part of the "Fuel-Free, Ubiquitous Compressed-Air Energy Storage and Power Conditioning" project.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: General Compression
System: The UNT Digital Library
CO2 Capture with Liquid-to-Solid Absorbents (open access)

CO2 Capture with Liquid-to-Solid Absorbents

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of liquid absorbents as part of the "CO2 Capture Process Using Phase-Changing Absorbents" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: General Electric Global Research
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composite Membranes for CO2 Capture (open access)

Composite Membranes for CO2 Capture

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of composite filter membranes as part of the "High Performance Metal Organic Frameworks/Polymer Composite Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Capture" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library