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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOUTLINE: (1) An AF Perspective of Nanotechnology; (2) Nanoscience and Technology in AFRL: Past and Present; (3) A Strategic Plan for the Future; (4) Summary.
Author: Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio)
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 31
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1428990712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history documents a watershed event within the United States Air Force -- the creation of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). As the "high technology" service, the Air Force has always searched for ways to continuously improve its science and technology enterprise. In that context, the making of AFRL was not a bureaucratic accident. Rather, it was the product of a complex mixture of historical forces and pressures at work that convinced people at all levels that the time was ripe to bring about fundamental reform in how the Air Force conducts its business of science and technology. In terms of significance, a wealth of past studies has focused on almost every aspect of the "operational" side of the Air Force. But there has been a scarcity of available scholarly studies that address the far-reaching implications of science and technology. This book is a major contribution that helps fill that gap. Organization and infrastructure are critically important components of the total science and technology picture. Thus, the manner in which its laboratory system is organized is a critical factor in the Air Force's ability to assure that it is investing in and delivering the most relevant technologies possible. This book documents how the Air Force moved from 13 separate labs to one consolidated lab. The narrative is divided into two parts. Part one addresses the reasons why the Air Force decided to consolidate its far-flung science and technology enterprise into one lab. How the new lab was implemented is the focus of part two. This study is especially revealing because the reader is given access to the inner workings and struggles of a major Air Force organizational restructuring through interviews with key individuals who participated directly in the decision-making process to establish a single lab. A chronology of the lab's creation is included. (19 tables, 22 figures, 19 photographs).
Author: Robert Duffner
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781478392323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert W. Duffner's Science and Technology: The Making of the Air Force Research Laboratory addresses the far-reaching implications of science and technology by recounting the events that led to the creation of a single Air Force laboratory. This engaging story of how the Air Force moved from 13 separate labs to one consolidated lab reflects that service's determination to reinvigorate its science and technology infrastructure and thereby strengthen the nation's defense for the twenty-first century. Part one considers why the Air Force decided to consolidate its far-flung science and technology enterprise into one lab, while part two relates how the service implemented the new lab. Dr. Duffner offers a unique perspective on a watershed event in the life of the United States Air Force.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-02-06
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 030908623X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExpansion of micro-technology applications and rapid advances in nano-science have generated considerable interest by the Air Force in how these developments will affect the nature of warfare and how it could exploit these trends. The report notes four principal themes emerging from the current technological trends: increased information capability, miniaturization, new materials, and increased functionality. Recommendations about Air Force roles in micro- and nanotechnology research are presented including those areas in which the Air Force should take the lead. The report also provides a number of technical and policy findings and recommendations that are critical for effective development of the Air Force's micro- and nano-science and technology program
Author: United States. Department of the Air Force
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Published: 2004*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald W. Armstrong
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Published: 2003-09
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781423500902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis technical report is a compilation of unclassified articles, presentations, briefings, etc., produced by R.W. Armstrong, Senior Scientist, AFRL/MNME, mostly in collaboration with Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Energetic Materials Branch and external national and international colleagues, during the three year period: October 2000 through August 2003. The topical items are mostly centered on dislocation mechanics model descriptions of the total deformation and cracking behaviors of energetic materials and/or structural metals, in the latter case, subjected to high rate loading conditions as experienced in explosive detonations. Additional items referenced are: (1) the forthcoming textbook in print "Deformable Bodies and Their Material Behaviors", co-authored with Henry W. Haslach, Jr.; and, (2) an article on "The Seeds of Tornado Prevention", co-authored with Joseph G. Glenn, and associated with the listed patent disclosure "Tornadic Disruption Through Nanometric Sized Cloud Seeding". The latter items represent a "spin-off" connection of Eglin Air Force Base research interest in the strength and energy release rate properties of energetic/reactive nanomaterials, as shown here to relate to an appreciable number of the described items.
Author: Andrzej W. Miziolek
Publisher: ACS Symposium
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780841238060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world of nanoscale science and technology covers a wide range of topics and holds promise for significant advances in areas such as computing, imaging, electronics/communications, memories, sensors/detectors, etc.
Author: Jürgen Altmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1134197152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith revolutionary changes in nanotechnology (NT) now on the horizon, many countries have started major research and development (R&D) programmes, which are mainly civilian. Often overlooked are military R&D programmes – in particular those of the US government. This is the first systematic and comprehensive presentation of the potential military applications of NT. In ten to twenty years, these applications may include extremely small computers, robots, missiles, satellites, launchers and sensors. They may also provide lighter and stronger materials for vehicles and weapons, implants in soldiers’ bodies, metal-free firearms, autonomous fighting systems, and smaller chemical and biological weapons. These potential uses raise strong concerns. This assessment is made from a viewpoint of international security, considering the new criteria of dangers for arms control and the international law of warfare, dangers for stability through potential new arms races and proliferation, and dangers for humans and society. Some military applications, such as computers, will be so close to civilian uses that limits are impractical. Others, such as sensors for biological-warfare agents, may contribute to stronger protection against terrorist attacks and better verification of compliance with arms-control treaties. For preventive limitation of these new technologies, specific approaches are proposed that balance positive civilian uses and take into account verification of compliance, with a view to international peace and security, not national military strength. This book will be of great interest to scholars of military technology, non-lethal weapons, disarmament and security studies in general.
Author: Quan Li
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 3319182935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book anisotropic one-dimensional and two-dimensional nanoscale building blocks and their assembly into fascinating and qualitatively new functional structures embracing both hard and soft components are explained. Contributions from leading experts regarding important aspects like synthesis, assembly, properties and applications of the above materials are compiled into a reference book. The anisotropy, i.e. the direction-dependent physical properties, of materials is fascinating and elegant and has sparked the quest for anisotropic materials with useful properties. With such a curiosity, material scientists have ventured into the realm of nanometer length scale and have explored the anisotropic nanoscale building blocks such as metallic and nonmetallic particles as well as organic molecular aggregates. It turns out that the anisotropic nanoscale building blocks, in addition to direction-dependent properties, exhibit dimension and morphology dependence of physical properties. Moreover, ordered arrays of anisotropic nanoscale building blocks furnish novel properties into the resulting system which would be entirely different from the properties of individual ones. Undoubtedly, these promising properties have qualified them as enabling building blocks of 21st century materials science, nanoscience and nanotechnology. Readers will find this book professionally valuable and intellectually stimulating in the rapidly emerging area of anisotropic nanomaterials. Quan Li, Ph.D., is Director of the Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He has directed research projects funded by US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), US Army Research Office (ARO), US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (DoD MURI), US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Energy (DOE), US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ohio Third Frontier, and Samsung Electronics, among others.
