This work presents a new concept in reducing complex chemistry involving hundreds of species and thousands of reactions to a much smaller set, while keeping prediction accuracy.

The disclosed mechanism allows for wireless transmission of power and data transfer through structure walls or barriers that are either conductive or non-conductive. This mechanism eliminates the need for wires that can cause structural weakness or reduction of sealed containers ability to maintain pressure, vacuum, temperature, or maintain the content of chemicals and gasses.

The objective of this project is to provide a laboratory optical reference beacon with low angular jitter that can be used to simulate a beacon in space provided by, for example, stars or planets. A laser is mounted at the top of a seismic isolation system and provides an outgoing light source with very low angular jitter.

In collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, and as part of our continuing efforts to develop advanced electrolytes to improve the performance of lithium-ion cells, especially over wide temperature ranges, we have identified a number of electrolyte additives that can be incorporated into multi-component electrolyte formulations that result in performance enhancement.

An effective multi-field wavefront control approach is demonstrated for the James Webb Space Telescope on-orbit optical telescope element fine-phasing using wavefront measurements at the NIRCam pupil, and the optical and computational implications of this approach are discussed.