Liquid Fuel Atomizer

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop novel RF transparent, optically tailorable appliques. This will be accomplished by incorporating specific nanoparticles in thin films that can be deposited on any type of substrate,including transparent plastic sheets such as polystyrene. The technique of fabricating these films, called ionically self-assembled monolayer (ISAM) technique, allows for precise molecular level control over the assembly of a thin film with exceptionalhomogeneity and ease of processing. ISAM nonlinear optical films offer additional major advantages of excellent homogeneity for low scattering loss, high thermal and chemical stability, simplicity and low-cost. Luna Innovations and its universitycollaborators have shown that revolutionary ISAM methods of creating multifunctional thin-films monolayer by monolayer can be used to yield a wide variety of self-assembled, electronically and photonically-active polymeric thin films, including lightemitting diodes, photovoltaic devices, and second order nonlinear optical monolayer films, to mention a few of the applications for the ISAM thin films.The ISAM technique uses only water soluble materials, eliminating the need of volatile organic compounds(VOCs) or any other toxic materials, is a low cost thin film fabrication technique.Besides the military applications of the ISAM RF transparent appliques, other fields, such as automotive industry, could benefit from these results. The new transparentsheets can reduce the heating in buildings and automobiles due to infrared absorption, thus reducing their cooling costs.