CRADA Team's Microwire Signals an Array of Applications
A thin wire—thinner than a human hair—could someday help prevent surgical snafus, forgery, shoplifting, product tampering, and even chemical or biological hazards. The highly versatile amorphous glass-covered microwire could be used in multiple ways as sensors and markers like radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
Lighting the Way for Deer Crossings
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) studying different vehicle-mounted lighting systems for warning deer of approaching vehicles found that a combination of standard tungsten-halogen (TH) lamps and constant illumination of a high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp increased the distance at which white-tailed deer reacted to an approaching vehicle, on average by as much as 20 meters.
Berkeley Scientist Recognized for Solar Cell Work
A young Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and University of California-Berkeley scientist has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as being among the world's top innovators under age 35. Cyrus Wadia, 34, was chosen for identifying materials that could be unexpectedly useful in solar cells.
SafeTrip-21 Transportation Safety Technologies Take Manhattan
The Volpe Center has launched a bold
new intelligent transportation systems (ITS) initiative dubbed SafeTrip-21 (Safe and Efficient Travel Through Innovation and Partnerships for the 21st Century).
FAA Enters into Three New CRADA Agreements
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently entered into three unique Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA); GE Aviation Systems, LLC (GE); and AAI Corporation. The collaborative research is in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and is the first of its kind for the FAA.
First Female Private Space Explorer to Keynote T2 Meeting
Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and chair of Prodea Systems and the first female private space explorer, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting entitled "Technology Transfer: Of, By and For the People."
An Encouraging Past and a Soaring Future for Scholars at Wright Patterson Air Force Base
The sky can seem like the limit for some interns, but it is not the limit for these previous Wright Scholars—it's only the beginning.
Superstructures
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have synthesized well-defined hybrid noble-metal/SiO2/semiconductor-nanocrystal superstructures with controllable metal core size, silica shell thickness, and nanocrystal composition/size.
Antibody Targeting Tetanus Toxin
Federal Drug Administration inventors Marjorie Shapiro, Ph.D., and Sean Fitzsimmons, Ph.D., announced as available for licensing a murine monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to Fragment C of tetanus toxin. Tetanus toxin is one of the most potent neurotoxins known.
NRL's Broad-Spectrum Biocide
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed a series of biocides that, when formulated with the proper resin systems, produce coatings and polymers that kill a variety of bacteria, molds and viruses on contact. The biocidal component is similar to those found in many products on the market.
