A Microfluorimeter for Full Spectrum Fluorescence Analysis of Diagnostics of Biological Agents after Nucleic Acid Amplification

Not Available This proposal anticipates research on the development of an advanced battery based on nickel-metal hydride chemistry with a unique new design but more particulary a new light weight, highly efficient, low-cost hydrogen storage material for the battery anode in place of the usual metal hydride alloy. The new material will store large amounts of gaseous hydrogen in carbon nanotubes with a storage capability as high as nine hydrogen atoms per carbon atom. Implication is for a reduction of the weight of the anode electrode by up to 80 percent and a doubling of the nickel-metal hydride battery energy density, which presently used materials, including the LANi5 type hydrogen storage anode alloy has a theoretical upper bound energy density of 215 watt-hours per kilogram. Preliminary results indicate a very stable hydrogen regeneration. Into and out of the nanotube indicating a long life battery system would result. The EEI project would include incorporating the new material as a plastic-bond electrode made by an EEI patented process and incorporated into EEI patented wafer cell design. Test cells will be used of a size which would enable a proposed design in the required 0.5 to 5 kw power range.