Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, NASA

Develop an innovative method, process, or technology to replace aqueous hazardous materials used for surface preparation of aluminum alloys prior to application of chemical conversion coating or anodization as a corrosion protective coating and pre-paint adhesion promoter.

Develop and demonstrate performance of a material that can be used as a pavement top layer that, within a target of one hour from start of application to a prepared sublayer, can support at least 100 passes of loading equivalent to landing a C-17.

Develop low SWaP-C Cryogenic Heat Exchangers based on Highly Anisotropic Materials by harvesting advances in anisotropic materials science to enable reduced volume, weight, and manufacturing cost for low temperature heat exchangers to enable cryogenic technologies to be deployed on SWaP-C sensitive platforms, e.g. UAV and satellites.

Develop advanced materials for their potential use as a submarine CO2 removal system

Develop Next Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries with Novel High Energy Anode Architecture

Formulate and characterize a novel moderate temperature (upper-bound temperature = 650 degrees F) spray-applied polymeric, absorbing material for hot engine exhaust washed environments.

Develop replacement for high Volatile Organic Compound (VOC), chromium-containing polysulfide flexible aerospace primer.

Demonstrate bond-coat for environmental barrier coatings (EBC) on silicon carbide fiber-reinforced silicon carbide matrix composites (CMC) that can protect substrate in a combustion environment while maintaining 2700 degrees F at EBC-CMC interface.