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Nanolab Inc

  • Contact Person: David Carnahan
  • Contact Phone: 781-609-2722
  • Contact Email: dcarnahan@nano-lab.com
  • Business Structure:
  • Corporate Entity (Not Tax Exempt)
  • Business Type:
  • For Profit Organization
  • Manufacturer of Goods
  • Subchapter S Corporation
  • Industries Served: Paint and Coating Manufacturing, All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing, Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers, Carbon and Graphite Product Manufacturing
  • Product Areas: OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS, OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS, TEST EQUIPMENT, COMPONENTS AND ACCESSORIES, MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL SPECIALTIES, PAINTS, DOPES, VARNISHES, AND RELATED PRODUCTS, PAINT,DOPE,VARNISH & RELATED PROD, MISC FABRICATED NONMETAL MATERIALS, MISCELLANEOUS FABRICATED NONMETALLIC MATERIALS, R&D-PHYSICAL SCIENCE-A RES/EXPL DEV, R&D- GENERAL SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY: PHYSICAL SCIENCES (APPLIED RESEARCH/EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT), PHYSICAL SCIENCES (ADVANCED), R&D- GENERAL SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY: PHYSICAL SCIENCES (ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT), MAINT-REP OF BRUSHES-PAINTS-SEALER, MAINT/REPAIR/REBUILD OF EQUIPMENT- BRUSHES, PAINTS, SEALERS, AND ADHESIVES, MODIFICATION OF EQUIPMENT- FIBER OPTICS MATERIALS, COMPONENTS, ASSEMBLIES, AND ACCESSORIES, MOD OF FIBER OPTICS MATERIAL

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

  • $79,913 - Monday the 2nd of April 2012
    Department Of Navy
    NAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV LKE
    SBIR PHASE I TOPIC N121-016
  • $299,967 - Tuesday the 31st of January 2012
    Department Of Navy
    SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS
    CHIRALITY CONTROLLED NANOTUBE SYNTHESIS
  • $124,634 - Monday the 19th of November 2012
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    NASA FACES DIFFICULTIES IN IMAGING AND CHARACTERIZING FAINT ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS WITHIN THE GLARE OF BRIGHTER STELLAR SOURCES. ACHIEVING A VERY LOW BACKGROUND REQUIRES CONTROL OF BOTH SCATTERED AND DIFFRACTED LIGHT. ALIGNED ARRAYS OF CARBON NANOTUBES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN RECOGNIZED AS HAVING WORLD-LEADING OPTICAL ABSORPTION, FAR ABOVE COMPETING STATE OF THE ART MATERIALS. THE GSFC TEAM NOTED THAT NANOTUBE ARRAYS HAVE THE "POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE IMPROVEMENT OVER CURRENT SURFACE TREATMENTS AND A RESULTING FACTOR OF 10,000 REDUCTION IN STRAY LIGHT WHEN APPLIED TO AN ENTIRE OPTICAL TRAIN." WHILE EXCELLENT PERFORMERS, NANOLAB RECOGNIZES THAT THE NUANCES OF THE ARRAY STRUCTURE, SUCH AS ANGULAR ALIGNMENT, DIAMETER, LENGTH, AND TOP-SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF THE ARRAY PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN THEIR OPTICAL PROPERTIES, AND THESE NEED TO BE CHARACTERIZED IF WE WISH TO CONTROL AND TAILOR THESE MATERIALS FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS. FURTHER, THE ARRAYS GROWN TO DATE ARE OFTEN POORLY ADHERED TO THEIR SUBSTRATES, WHICH ARE TYPICALLY SILICON. NANOLAB PLANS TO DEVELOP PROCESSES GROW ARRAYS ON FLEXIBLE, TOUGHER SUBSTRATES SUCH AS TI AND STAINLESS STEEL FOILS, SO THEY CAN BE FORMED AND INSERTED INTO OPTICAL SYSTEMS WITHOUT DAMAGE. WE WILL CORRELATE THE VIS-IR OPTICAL PROPERTIES TO THE ARRAY STRUCTURE AND TO THE PROCESS PARAMETERS THAT GENERATE THEM. BALL AEROSPACE WILL ASSIST NANOLAB IN THIS EFFORT WITH BRDF AND OTHER OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS.

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