99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY NASA LANGLEY ADVANCED ACTUATORS ANDTRANSDUCERS

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companiesinterested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market thefollowing technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basisand may include specific fields of use. THE TECHNOLOGY: Actuators and transducers are deployed to harvest mechanical energy in the environment aselectrical energy and to convert stored electrical energy into mechanical energy. Bydevelopinga transducer based on advanced electroactive materials, NASA has produced a design thatcan harvest orders of magnitude more energy in a given application than traditionalsolutions, yielding more power to drive devices and store in batteries. In acomplementary effort, a hybrid actuator system (HYBAS) with both an electroactive polymer(EAP) and an electroactiveceramic (EAC) achieves enhanced displacement performance from a single power supply,greatly reducing electrical consumption while simultaneously improving mechanicaldisplacement compared to current state-of-the-art actuators.To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to Sean Sullivan, ResearchTriangle International (RTI), at: NASA Langley Research Center, Strategic RelationshipsOffice (SRSO), 17 West Taylor St., Mail Stop 218, Building 1212, Room 110 Hampton,Virginia, E-mail: [email protected], or phone: 757-864-5055. Please indicate thedate and title of the FBO notice and include your company and contact information.RTI is responsible for aggregating and acknowledging all responses. These responses areprovided to members of NASA Langleys Innovative Partnerships Office within the SRO forthe purpose of promoting public awareness of our technology products, and conductingpreliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for futurelicensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, SRO willfollow the formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register as required. Nofollow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.