SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Efficiency, Easy-to-Manufacture Engineered Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Applications
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-01-24
- Contract end date
- 2006-07-24
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S6.07
Research abstract
In this Phase I SBIR program, high thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) nanocrystal quantum dot (NQD) thermoelectric (TE) materials will be developed that have thermal efficiency properties far better than traditional bulk thermoelectric materials. The proposed TE materials improve performance by increasing electrical conductivity while reducing thermal conductivity. In the proposed work, TE devices will be fabricated from solidified quantum dot films that are formed from colloidally synthesized NQDs using consolidation and second phase precipitation. The overall goal of the program is to develop an advanced thermoelectric nanomaterial that will offer significant cost, flexibility, and performance benefits for NASA applications.
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.
- Compact Lightweight Freeform GRIN Optics for Small Arms Fire Control
- Additive Manufacture of Inorganic Freeform Gradient-Index Optics
- Compact High-Degrees-of-Freedom Freeform Beam-Expander Optics
- Multi-Mode Digital Readout Integrated Circuit for Active Imaging and Ranging
- Micron-scale Direct-detection X-ray Detectors
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- Miniature Loop Heat Pipe with Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Condensers
- High Efficiency Microchannel Diamond Heat Sinks
- Miniature Loop Heat Pipe with Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Condensers
- Micro-Channel Embedded Pulsating Heat Pipes
Research funding history
235 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2021). Reported award amounts total $86,180,717. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency