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Materials Development Inc

$8,153,701

Total funding

7

Grants

Funding over time

peak $2.3M · FY2010–20

$2.5M$1.9M$1.3M$625K$0

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Funding mix

By agency

DOE$6,822,600 · 4

NASA$1,331,101 · 3

By mechanism

—$8,153,701 · 7

Investigators at Materials Development Inc

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Largest grants

EXTREME TEMPERATURE SAMPLE ENVIRONMENT FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH USING NEUTRON SCATTERING$2,329,998

· FY2018 · Department of Energy

TAS::89 0222::TAS NEW PHASE I 2010 SBIR; TITLE: EXTREME SAMPLE ENVIRONMENT FOR NEUTRON STUDIES OF METASTABLE MATERIALS; PI: RICHARD WEBER$2,199,788

· FY2010 · Department of Energy

INTEGRATING HIGH PERFORMANCE OPTICS AND SAMPLE MANIPULATION FOR EXTENDED RANGE X-RAY PDF MEASUREMENTS$1,149,958

· FY2017 · Department of Energy

MANIPULATION OF SAMPLES AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES FOR FAST IN-SITU SYNCHROTRON MEASUREMENTS$1,142,856

· FY2012 · Department of Energy

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL IMPLEMENT MICROGRAVITY BASED EXPERIMENTS USING THE JAXA FLIGHT ELECTROSTATIC LEVITATION FURNACE (ELF) TO ACHIEVE PRECISE MEASUREMENTS OF THE THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERCOOLED (ALSO CALLED UNDERCOOLED) MOLTEN METAL OXIDES. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE BOTH GROUND BASED AND FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS ON LIQUIDS FORMED FROM ALUMINUM CALCIUM SILICON AND RARE EARTH ELEMENT OXIDE MIXTURES. THESE LIQUIDS ARE PRECURSORS TO HIGH VALUE-ADDED GLASS MATERIALS THAT ARE USED IN PHOTONICS LASERS OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION WILL BE TO: (I) MEASURE TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NORMAL AND SUPERCOOLED LIQUID METAL OXIDES OF INTEREST IN CONNECTION WITH PRODUCTION OF PHOTONIC AND OPTICAL DEVICE MATERIALS (II) DEVELOP THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTY DATASETS THAT COMPLEMENT EXISTING ATOMIC STRUCTURE DATA ON THE MATERIALS UNDER INVESTIGATION. USE THE RESULTING DATA TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF FRAGILE LIQUIDS AND THE GLASS TRANSITION AND (III) DISSEMINATE THE NEW DATA VIA PUBLICATION THROUGH NASA S PHYSICAL SCIENCES INFORMATICS SYSTEM AND THE MATERIALS GENOME INITIATIVE TO HELP ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS. WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE BEHAVIOR OF LIQUID PHASE METAL OXIDES AS THEY TRANSFORM TO GLASS IN QUIESCENT DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED (I.E. WITHOUT FLUID MOTION) CONDITIONS. THIS WORK IS NEEDED TO OPTIMIZE PHOTONIC AND OPTICAL DEVICE MATERIALS TO OBTAIN UNIFORM PROPERTIES AND STABLE PERFORMANCE IN APPLICATIONS. OVERALL THE WORK WILL ADVANCE THE BROADER GOALS OF OPTIMIZING COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF MATERIALS PROCESSES AND DEVELOPING SUPERIOR MATERIALS BY DESIGN. THE FLIGHT ELF CAN ACHIEVE PRISTINE MOLTEN AND SUPERCOOLED SAMPLES. SUCH SAMPLES CAN BE STUDIED USING NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENTS OF TEMPERATURE VOLUME SURFACE TENSION AND VISCOSITY. SPHERICAL SAMPLES CA. 2 MM IN DIAMETER SUITABLE FOR EXPERIMENTS IN THE FLIGHT ELF WILL BE MADE BY LASER HEARTH MELTING. PRIOR GROUND-BASED WORK DEMONSTRATED THAT THE SAMPLE MATERIALS CAN BE: (I) LEVITATED USING ELECTROSTATIC METHODS (II) HEATED USING LASER BEAMS AND (III) MELTED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT EVAPORATION. PROPOSED GROUNDBASED WORK WILL PUSH THE LIMITS OF THESE MEASUREMENTS AND HELP TO OPTIMIZE THE METHODS FOR ANALYSIS FOR THE FLIGHT DATA.$798,222

· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL FUND THE US PORTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL JAXA PROJECT [1] TO INVESTIGATE THE PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE OF MOLTEN AND SUPERCOOLED METAL OXIDES USING THE ELECTROSTATIC LEVITATION FURNACE (ELF) ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) AND GROUND-BASED SYNCHROTRON X-RAY AND NEUTRON STUDIES. NASA IS FUNDING A 6 MONTH PHASE OF WORK THAT WILL PROVIDE 15 SAMPLES TO BE LAUNCHED ON HTV-8 IN MID-2019. THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR AN ADDITIONAL 2.5 YEARS OF FUNDING BY NASA. UNDER THE PROPOSED PROJECT NASA INVESTIGATORS WILL IMPLEMENT EXPERIMENTS USING THE ISS ELF TO PROVIDE SOME OF THE FIRST RESULTS FROM THE INSTRUMENT FOR US INVESTIGATORS. FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS ON MOLTEN BARIUM OXIDE-TITANIUM DIOXIDE PSEUDO-BINARY COMPOSITIONS WILL BE PERFORMED DURING THE FIRST AND SECOND YEARS OF THE PROJECT. SAMPLES WILL BE LAUNCHED ON HTV-8 IN MID-2019 AND A SECOND SET OF SAMPLES IS PLANNED FOR LAUNCH ON HTV-9 IN 2020. THE MEASURED THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES (DENSITY VISCOSITY AND SURFACE TENSION) WILL BE CORRELATED WITH ATOMIC STRUCTURE OBTAINED FROM SYNCHROTRON X-RAY AND NEUTRON METHODS AND BY USING STRUCTURE-PROPERTY MODELS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE JAPANESE INVESTIGATORS. THE THIRD YEAR WILL BE DEVOTED TO ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT DATA COMPLETING CHARACTERIZATION OF SAMPLES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS. WORK WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A TIMELY WAY CONSISTENT WITH THE GOAL OF PROVIDING DATA TO THE BROADER SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. THE PROJECT TEAM BRINGS TOGETHER THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT A COMPLEX RESEARCH PROGRAM.$524,377

· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL IMPLEMENT MICROGRAVITY BASED EXPERIMENTS USING THE JAXA FLIGHT ELECTROSTATIC LEVITATION FURNACE (ELF) TO ACHIEVE PRECISE MEASUREMENTS OF THE THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERCOOLED (ALSO CALLED UNDERCOOLED) MOLTEN METAL OXIDES. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE BOTH GROUND BASED AND FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS ON LIQUIDS FORMED FROM ALUMINUM CALCIUM SILICON AND RARE EARTH ELEMENT OXIDE MIXTURES. THESE LIQUIDS ARE PRECURSORS TO HIGH VALUE-ADDED GLASS MATERIALS THAT ARE USED IN PHOTONICS LASERS OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION WILL BE TO: (I) MEASURE TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NORMAL AND SUPERCOOLED LIQUID METAL OXIDES OF INTEREST IN CONNECTION WITH PRODUCTION OF PHOTONIC AND OPTICAL DEVICE MATERIALS (II) DEVELOP THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTY DATASETS THAT COMPLEMENT EXISTING ATOMIC STRUCTURE DATA ON THE MATERIALS UNDER INVESTIGATION. USE THE RESULTING DATA TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF FRAGILE LIQUIDS AND THE GLASS TRANSITION AND (III) DISSEMINATE THE NEW DATA VIA PUBLICATION THROUGH NASA'S PHYSICAL SCIENCES INFORMATICS SYSTEM AND THE MATERIALS GENOME INITIATIVE TO HELP ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS. WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE BEHAVIOR OF LIQUID PHASE METAL OXIDES AS THEY TRANSFORM TO GLASS IN QUIESCENT DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED (I.E. WITHOUT FLUID MOTION) CONDITIONS. THIS WORK IS NEEDED TO OPTIMIZE PHOTONIC AND OPTICAL DEVICE MATERIALS TO OBTAIN UNIFORM PROPERTIES AND STABLE PERFORMANCE IN APPLICATIONS. OVERALL THE WORK WILL ADVANCE THE BROADER GOALS OF OPTIMIZING COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF MATERIALS PROCESSES AND DEVELOPING SUPERIOR MATERIALS BY DESIGN. THE FLIGHT ELF CAN ACHIEVE PRISTINE MOLTEN AND SUPERCOOLED SAMPLES. SUCH SAMPLES CAN BE STUDIED USING NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENTS OF TEMPERATURE VOLUME SURFACE TENSION AND VISCOSITY. SPHERICAL SAMPLES CA. 2 MM IN DIAMETER SUITABLE FOR EXPERIMENTS IN THE FLIGHT ELF WILL BE MADE BY LASER HEARTH MELTING. PRIOR GROUND-BASED WORK DEMONSTRATED THAT THE SAMPLE MATERIALS CAN BE: (I) LEVITATED USING ELECTROSTATIC METHODS (II) HEATED USING LASER BEAMS AND (III) MELTED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT EVAPORATION. PROPOSED GROUND BASED WORK WILL PUSH THE LIMITS OF THESE MEASUREMENTS AND HELP TO OPTIMIZE THE METHODS FOR ANALYSIS FOR THE FLIGHT DATA.$8,502

· FY2017 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration