SBIR/STTR Research Award
Fuel Efficient Nanofluid Gear Oil
Award amount
$1,000,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Pixelligent Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-11-30
- Contract end date
- 2018-11-30
- UEI
- EZ98XN7CKQS6
- Solicitation number
- 15.A
- Topic code
- A15A-T018
Research abstract
Improving vehicle fuel efficiency for the military can significantly reduce costs and reduce risk to solider safety. One way to improve vehicle efficiency for new and legacy vehicles is to reduce frictional loses in the drivetrain through use of lower viscosity lubricants. However, this comes with the risk of reducing durability of drivetrain components through increased wear, pitting and scuffing. To enable the use of low viscosity, high-efficiency lubricants, new lubricant and additive technologies are needed which overcome durability challenges. The focus of this Phase II project will be to further develop a suitable lubricant additive technology, evaluating potential risks of implementation and advancing its readiness level.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Improved Light Extraction for a 130 lm/W OLED Lighting Panel
- Improved Light Extraction for a 130 lm/W OLED Lighting Panel
- Advanced Light Extraction Material for OLED Lighting
- Light Extraction for OLED Lighting with 3-D Gradient Index
- Fuel Efficient Nanofluid Gear Oil
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2019). Reported award amounts total $6,338,109. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation