New Jersey
NEW JERSEY
Company:
NEI Corporation
400 Apgar Drive
Suite E
Somerset, NJ 08873-1154
Title:
Membranes for Solid State Lithium Batteries
Summary:
A solid electrolyte membrane technology is being developed that will enable a new generation of cost effective lithium-ion batteries with improved safety and energy storage capacity.
Company:
NEI Corporation
400 Apgar Drive
Suite E
Somerset, NJ 08873-1154
Title:
Enhancing the Heat Exchanger Performance Through the use of Durable Superhydrophobic Surface Treatment
Summary:
The proposed program to implement a nanotechnology-based surface treatment on industrial vapor-to-liquid heat exchangers has the potential to enhance the performance of heat exchangers by an order of magnitude, thereby improving the energy efficiency of industrial processes, including power generation through renewable and non-renewable energy source.
Company:
Universal Display Corporation
375 Phillips Blvd.
Ewing, NJ 08618-1428
Title:
Enhanced WOLEDs Outcoupling Using Low Index Grids
Summary:
This project will increase the conversion efficiency of electrical energy into light of white-organic-light-emitting devices and thereby enable replacement of inefficient conventional incandescent bulbs, which consume over 8% of the electricity produced in the United States.
Company:
Policell Technologies, Inc.
160 Liberty Street, Building #4
Metuchen, NJ 08840
Title:
Development of Separators for Lithium-Ion Cells with High Temperature Melt Integrity
Summary:
Commercial separator products shrink at high temperatures. This shrinking problem could cause an internal short-circuit of batteries. This safety problem is delaying the introduction of lithium-ion batteries into large format systems such as hybrid electric vehicles. This project will develop separators that are thermally stable for making safe batteries.
Company:
NEI Corporation
400 Apgar Drive
Suite E
Somerset, NJ 08873-1154
Title:
Self-Healing Polymeric Coatings: Beyond Scratch-Healing
Summary:
A nano-composite self-healing coating technology is being developed to significantly enhance the operational life of industrial coatings, thereby greatly reducing maintenance cost.
Company:
Diamond Materials Inc.
120 Centennial Avenue
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Title:
Diamond-Hardfaced Nanocomposites for Extended Service Lives of Pump Berings in Geothermal Wells
Summary:
Geothermal energy production is one of several proven technologies that promise to make significant contributions to U.S. energy independence within the next 20 years. This project addresses the challenge of achieving increased lifetime for a geothermal pump bearing, thus increasing operating efficiency and reducing energy production cost.
Company:
NEI Corporation
400 Apgar Drive
Suite E
Somerset, NJ 08873-1154
Title:
High Performance Fluoroelastomer Nanocomposite Seals For Geothermal Submersible Pumps
Summary:
This project will enhance the properties of elastomeric seals for use in geothermal energy production has the potential to prevent failure of equipment and to allow the downhole equipment to run unattended for extended periods of time, greater than 5 to 10 years, without maintenance.
Company:
NEI Corporation
400 Apgar Drive
Suite E
Somerset, NJ 08873-1154
Title:
Nanotechnology-Based Self-Healing Coating System to Enable Extensive Use of Magnesium Alloys in Automotives
Summary:
The nanotechnology based self-healing coating system is designed to enable use of magnesium alloys in automobiles and hence increase their fuel efficiency.
Company:
Nova Photonics, Inc.
One Oak Place
Princeton, NJ 08540-4701
Title:
An In-Situ Calibration System for the MSW Diagnostic on ITER
Summary:
Experiments that study the potential for a safe and abundant energy source from magnetically confined fusion rely on the accurate measurements of magnetic fields. Next-generation devices pose new challenges for the calibration of existing techniques, and this project will prototype an in-situ calibration system that additionally enhances the measurement.
Company:
Integrated Photonics, Inc.
132 Stryker Lane
Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Title:
Neodymium-Containing Single Crystals for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Detection
Summary:
Neutrinos are the most prolific of all elementary particles so that knowledge of their mass is critically important to our understanding of the birth and evolution of the universe. Neutrino-less double-beta decay experiments have been identified by the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee of the NSF and DOE as a most important next step to complement the exciting space telescope data by determining the mass scale of neutrinos.
Company:
NEI Corporation
400 Apgar Drive
Suite E
Somerset, NJ 08873-1154
Title:
A New Class of Nanocomposite Treatment Media for Efficient Mercury Remediation
Summary:
A nano-particle based technology is being developed to advance the state of the art in mercury remediation in contaminated DoE sites, thereby leading to cost savings and reducing the time for remediation.
Company:
Nova Photonics, Inc.
One Oak Place
Princeton, NJ 08540-4701
Title:
Rapidly Tunable Optical Filter
Summary:
This project will develop a rapidly tunable wide field-of-view optical filter with flexible design parameters including bandwidth and spectral range. The filter has numerous applications for remote sensing, environmental monitoring, and medical imaging.
