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DOE OSTI2022

Phase I DOE DE-SC0021823 Entitled “Changing the Design Rules of Rubber to Create Lighter Weight, More Fuel Efficient Tires” Final Technical Report 04/08/2022

Molecular Rebar Design, LLC has successfully developed new rubber composites with individualized carbon nanotubes called MOLECULAR REBAR® (MR), improving tire tread compound performance for use with electric vehicles (EVs). Through the iterative nature of the Phase I experimentation, MRD developed a novel carbon nanotube material that disperses well with other typical tire compound fillers and can be chemically functionalized for unique material property benefits. The new MR material is a chemically functionalized, discrete multi-wall carbon nanotube that binds into the rubber compound using silane technology. This Molecular Rebar based tire tread material drastically improves DIN abrasion resistance 25%+ (correlating to improved tire life), reduces tread weight by 6-7%, and reduces rolling resistance 20%+ (correlating to improved energy efficiency), as compared to an in-use, state-of-the-art, silica-silane tread compound. The formulations can be adjusted to maximize energy efficiency, to maximize wear or to have a blend of improvement depending on the tire performance needs of end use customers.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2022

Rules and Tools Crosswalk: A Compendium of Computational Tools to Support Geologic Carbon Storage Environmentally Protective UIC Class VI Permitting

This report identifies computational tools useful for addressing aspects of the dedicated carbon storage (Class VI) well permit application under the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program. The survey was conducted by researchers of the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) Research and Innovation Center in collaboration with representatives of the U.S. EPA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and the four Regional Initiatives to Accelerate Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership of the Western United States (CUSP), Plains CO 2 Reduction Partnership Initiative to Accelerate Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Deployment (PCOR Partnership), Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI), and the Southeast Regional Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (SECARB-USA). A total of 59 tools were identified through the elicitation for this report. It is intended to serve as a reference that can be used by geologic carbon storage stakeholders to identify computational tools that may be used to develop Class VI permit applications.

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2024

Analysis of the ASME Code Rules for Subsection III-5-HHB (Composite Materials) for Current HTR Design Requirements

This document includes the critical analysis review of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section III Division 5 Subsection HH Subpart B (HHB), including Mandatory Appendices, that was published in 2023. In the context of this document, reference to “the code” is specific to this subsection unless otherwise specified. A specific composites task group within the ASME Nonmetallic Design and Materials Working Group, with the support of external experts, was established to perform a gap analysis review. The significant findings are summarized here. The committee response with suggested action items are detailed in the body of the report.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2024

New ASME Section III, Division 5 Creep-Fatigue Design Rules Based on EPP and SMT Approaches

The integrated elastic-perfectly plastic (EPP) and simplified model test (SMT) creep-fatigue (CF) design methodology, referred to as the EPP-SMT method, is being developed as an alternative for CF evaluation in the design of pressure boundary components for high-temperature reactors. This report reviews the conceptual basis of the EPP-SMT methodology, summarizes the SMT experimental development efforts and results, and provides the technical basis for finalizing the EPP-SMT CF design curves for Alloy 617, based on a combined experimental and numerical approach conducted in FY 2024. This report presents the effect of hold time on the CF design curves for Alloy 617 at elevated temperatures. It includes proposed EPP-SMT CF design curves and tabulated values for continuous cycling, along with the effects of maximum hold time, for the use of this EPP-SMT CF evaluation method.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2025

Solar@Scale: Improving the Local Rules of the Game for Large Scale Solar

This final report summarizes the Solar@Scale Project including project goals, milestones, tasks and deliverables. Solar@Scale, led by ICMA in partnership with the American Planning Association, took place from 2020-2025. The initiative addressed large-scale solar soft costs by developing tools and resources related to planning, siting, permitting and inspection in support of local governments, special districts, and other authorities that have jurisdiction over large-scale solar projects.

14 SOLAR ENERGY↗
DOE OSTI2026

Realization of a Quantum Slide Rule for 1+1 Dimensional Quantum Field Theories Using Josephson Superconducting Circuits

We have built a special type of electronic circuit—a “superconducting quantum simulator”—that allows us to mimic the behavior of complex quantum systems that are impossible to compute with ordinary computers. Our device is a long transmission line made of thousands of tiny superconducting junctions, acting as a one-dimensional “vacuum” for microwave photons. By terminating this line with a tunable, weak Josephson junction, we can control how strongly photons interact with each other.

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2025

One Galaxy Sample to Rule Them All: Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of DES Year 3 Source Galaxies

Abstract For the joint analysis of second-order weak-lensing and galaxy clustering statistics, so-called 3 × 2 analyses, the selection and characterization of optimal galaxy samples is a major area of research. One promising choice is to use the same galaxy sample as lenses and sources, which reduces the systematics parameter space that describes the uncertainties related to galaxy samples. Such a “lens-equal-source” analysis significantly improves the self-calibration of photo- z systematics, leading to improved cosmological constraints. With the aim of enabling a lens-equal-source analysis on small scales, we investigate the halo–galaxy connection of DES Year 3 source galaxies. We develop a technique to construct mock source galaxy populations by matching COSMOS/UltraVISTA photometry to U niverse M achine galaxies. These mocks predict a source halo occupation distribution (HOD) that exhibits significant redshift evolution, nontrivial central incompleteness, and galaxy assembly bias. We produce multiple realizations of mock source galaxies drawn from the U niverse M achine posterior, with added uncertainties in the measured Dark Energy Survey photometry and galaxy shapes. We fit a modified HOD formalism to these realizations to produce priors on the galaxy–halo connection for cosmological analyses. We additionally train an emulator that predicts this HOD to ∼2% accuracy from redshift z = 0.1−1.3 that models the dependence of this HOD on (1) observational uncertainties in galaxy size and photometry and (2) uncertainties in the U niverse M achine predictions.

Salcedo, Andrés N. (ORCID:000000031420527X)↗