99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES DERIVED FROMNOVEL ELECTROACTIVE MATERIALS

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: NASA Langley, Jefferson Lab, and the National Institute ofAerospace have jointlydeveloped new BNNT-based materials with desirable piezoelectric and electrostrictiveproperties. BNNTs are a direct analog of carbon nanotubes, with superior properties formany applications. They are as strong as carbon nanotubes (within a few percentagepoints) and are good thermal conductors. The newly developed materials have desirableelectroactive characteristics, which make them suitable for use in electromechanicalenergy conversion devices. The novel materials developed in this joint collaboration arehighly flexible, mechanically robust, and thermally stable, all desirable features forelectromechanical energy conversion devices, such as sensors, actuators, and energyharvesting devices.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.