Patent • #US8237130B1. An instrument that will directly image the fast fission neutrons from a special nuclear material source wherein the neutron detection efficiency is increased has been described. Instead of the previous technique that uses a time-of-flight (TOF) between 2 widely spaced fixed planes of detectors to measure scatter neutron kinetic...
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Neutron Scatter Camera for Radiation Detection
Featured Opportunity • Sandia’s neutron scatter camera is an innovative design which combines the benefits of gamma ray imaging with fast neutron imaging. The camera detects special nuclear material (SNM) and rejects backgrounds from naturally occurring radiation sources that can produce false alarms. Additionally, the camera can detect and localize neutrons at greater...
New Class of Plastic Scintillators
Featured Opportunity • Sandia National Laboratories has developed a class of plastic scintillators capable of detecting fission neutrons, while discriminating against interfering gamma rays, enabling their use as a replacement for liquid scintillator neutron detector materials.Currently, pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is the most effective way of gamma rejection in liquid organic scintillators, however...
New Class of Radiation Detection Materials
Featured Opportunity • Sandia National Laboratories has created a new class of scintillators with novel properties enabling use in a wide range of particle detection schemes, including pulse-shape discrimination methods for detecting fast neutrons. Known as Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), they are crystalline nanoporous structures in which a luminescent organic component is chemically linked...
New Featured Opportunities
Page • Licensing opportunities are a product of Sandia's diverse and extensive R&D efforts for national security. A selection of the latest opportunities are shown below. To view and search all, visit Advanced Search. For category-based browsing using Technology Areas and Portfolios, visit the Licensing and Tech Transfer homepage. Hafnia Gate Dielectrics...
New Method to Convert LDPE Plastic Waste to Useful Chemicals
Featured Opportunity • Degrade plastic waste materials to valuable chemicals, food sources and renewable energy related products using a catalytic oxidative process. Transforming plastic waste to value-added components such as fuels, chemicals, or intermediates has tremendous environmental impact. Depending on the polymer structure of the plastic materials, plastic wastes can take hundreds of...
NIC atomic operation unit with caching and bandwidth mitigation
Patent • #US9275003B1. A network interface controller atomic operation unit and a network interface control method comprising, in an atomic operation unit of a network interface controller, using a write-through cache and employing a rate-limiting functional unit.
Nickel cobalt phosphide-based nanoparticles and methods of making, and electrochemical systems and methods
Patent • #US11926907B1. The present disclosure is directed to cobalt and nickel cobalt phosphide/phosphate electrocatalyst nanoparticles for catalyzing electrochemical reactions, such as water splitting. The nanoparticles are formed into electrodes that have bi-functional oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) capabilities.
Nickel metal nanoparticle synthesis
Patent • #US10301340B2. Nickel nanoparticles can be synthesized using a variety of precursors (e.g., nickel amides [Ni(NR2)2], alkyls [NR2], and alkoxides [Ni(OR)2]).
Non-contact rapid reader system for reflective particle tags
Patent • #US10572786B1. A reflective particle tag reader system includes a read head assembly having a camera, illuminators, and a rigid frame portion for supporting the camera and the illuminators. The illuminators illuminate a focal point located opposite the camera where a reflective particle tag is placed. A computer in data communication...
Non-contact temperature control system for microfluidic devices
Patent • #US10406528B1. The present invention relates to a temperature control system for a microfluidic device. The system allows for non-contact heating by employing an infrared emitter. In some instances, the system can be used in conjunction with a centrifugal microfluidic device. Optionally, a mask can be implemented to provide selective heating...
Non-Destructive Additive Manufacturing Characterization Coupon
Featured Opportunity • Additive manufacturing (AM) material assurance has relied upon traditional test coupons and testing methods which work well for wrought materials, but fail to address the unique and not as well-known characteristics of AM parts. Sandia engineers have been working on a new standardized, integrated test coupon specifically designed for AM...
Non-intrusive data authentication systems and methods
Patent • #US10769286B2. Systems and methods are disclosed that create a separate digital and cryptographically secure signal “branch” to a secondary observer from a primary signal path of an information system. The information system may be a measurement system. The secure signal branch is creating without interfering with the primary signal path....
Non-Invasive Energy Meter
Featured Opportunity • Sandia has developed an energy monitoring device that measures energy from liquid flow systems (e.g., solar systems) using a simple technique that senses when the system is running and then estimates the BTU energy production. Current energy meters must be installed into the system to measure how much energy the...
Non-inverting multi-mode oscillator
Patent • #US10483912B1. Various technologies described herein pertain to non-inverting multi-mode oscillators. An oscillator circuit can include a non-inverting sustaining amplifier and a feedback network. The non-inverting sustaining amplifier includes an amplifier input and an amplifier output. The feedback network includes a crystal, an input portion, and an output portion. The crystal...
Non-Metallic Materials
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Nonaqueous redox flow battery electrolyte comprising an ionic liquid with a metal cation coordinated to redox-active ligands
Patent • #US10305133B2. Nonaqueous redox flow batteries (RFB) hold the potential for high energy density grid scale storage, though are often limited by the solubility of the redox-active species in their electrolytes. A systematic approach enables an increase the concentration of redox-active species in electrolytes for nonaqueous RFB, starting from a metal-coordination-cation-based...
Noncircular aperture imaging system
Patent • #US10154193B1. Various technologies pertaining to an imaging system with a noncircular aperture are described herein. An imaging objective with a noncircular aperture and an anamorphic lens is used to capture a plurality of image frames of a scene. Each image frame is captured at a different rotational orientation of the...
Nonlinear controller for nonlinear wave energy converters
Patent • #US10823134B2. The present invention is directed to a nonlinear controller for nonlinear wave energy converters (WECs). As an example of the invention, a nonlinear dynamic model is developed for a geometrically right-circular cylinder WEC design for the heave-only motion, or a single degree-of-freedom (DOF). The linear stiffness term is replaced...
Nonlinear Hourglass Buoy Design for Wave Energy Converters (WECs)
Featured Opportunity • This nonlinear hourglass buoy design optimizes power absorption in multi-resonant conditions and eliminates reactive power at the buoy level for more efficient wave energy converters (WECs) Ocean waves have the potential to deliver more available energy per square meter than other renewable sources such as solar or wind. Many different...
Nonlinear hydrostatic control of a wave energy converter
Patent • #US11326574B2. Increased energy harvesting is realized using a nonlinear buoy geometry for reactive power generation. By exploiting the nonlinear dynamic coupling between the buoy geometry and the potential wideband frequency spectrum of incoming waves in the controller/buoy design, increased power can be captured in comparison to conventional wave energy converter...
Nonlinear optical frequency conversion using metamaterial arrays
Patent • #US10054839B1. A method of nonlinear wavelength generation uses a nonlinear optical medium. An input flux of pump energy is applied to one or more dielectric optical resonators. Each resonator has an optical cavity comprising the nonlinear optical medium. Each resonator has at least one Mie resonance that is excited by...
Nonlinear power flow control for networked AC/DC microgrids
Patent • #US10666054B2. A method for designing feedforward and feedback controllers for integration of stochastic sources and loads into a nonlinear networked AC/DC microgrid system is provided. A reduced order model for general networked AC/DC microgrid systems is suitable for HSSPFC control design. A simple feedforward steady state solution is utilized for...
Norbornylene-based polymer systems for dielectric applications
Patent • #US8223472B1. A capacitor having at least one electrode pair being separated by a dielectric component, with the dielectric component being made of a polymer such as a norbornylene-containing polymer with a dielectric constant greater than 3 and a dissipation factor less than 0.1 where the capacitor has an operating temperature...
Object detection and tracking system
Patent • #US9665942B2. Methods and apparatuses for analyzing a sequence of images for an object are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, the method identifies a region of interest in the sequence of images. The object is likely to move within the region of interest. The method divides the region of interest...
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