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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2004 FBO #1020
SPECIAL NOTICE

52 -- Sensor Devices on Field-Structured Composites.

Notice Date

9/9/2004
 

Notice Type

Special Notice
 

NAICS

335999 — All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Energy, Sandia Corp. (DOE Contractor), Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800 MS: 0115, Albuquerque, NM, 87185
 

ZIP Code

87185
 

Solicitation Number

04-256
 

Response Due

10/9/2004
 

Archive Date

10/9/2004
 

Point of Contact

Colleen Kearney, Administration, Phone 505-284-8670, Fax 505-844-8011,
 

E-Mail Address

cakearn@sandia.gov
 

Description

Sandia National Laboratories is offering commercial licensing opportunities for the following patents and patent application. Licensees will have the option to obtain, up to and including, an exclusive license to the patents and patent application in a pre-negotiated, defined field of use for reasonable compensation. US Pat. No. 6,194,769 ?Sensor Devices Based on Field-Structured Composites,? A new class of sensor devices comprising field-structured conducting composites and comprising a textured distribution of conducting magnetic particles is disclosed. The conducting properties of such field-structured materials can be precisely controlled during fabrication so as to exhibit a large change in electrical conductivity when subject to any environmental influence which changes the relative volume fraction. Influences which can be so detected include: stress, strain, shear, temperature change, humidity, magnetic field, electromagnetic radiation, and the presence or absence of certain chemicals. This behavior can be made the basis for a wide variety of sensor devices. US Pat. No. 6,290,868 ?Field-Structured Material Media and Methods for Synthesis Thereof,? The present application is directed to a new class of composite materials, called field-structured composite (FSC) materials, which comprise an ordered aggregate structure made of magnetic particles suspended in a nonmagnetic medium, and to a new class of processes for their manufacture. FSC materials have much potential for application, including use in chemical, optical, environmental, and mechanical sensors. US Pat. No 6,391,393 ?Method for making field-structured memory materials,? A method of forming a dual-level memory material using field structured materials. The field structured materials are formed from a dispersion of ferromagnetic particles in a polymerizable liquid medium, such as a urethane acrylate-based photopolymer, which is applied as a film to a support and then exposed in selected portions of the film to an applied magnetic or electric field. The field can be applied either uniaxially or biaxially at field strengths up to 150 G or higher to form the field structured materials. After polymerizing the field-structure materials, a magnetic field can be applied to selected portions of the polymerized field-structured material to yield a dual-level memory materials on the support, wherein the dual-level memory material supports read-and-write binary data memory and write once, ready many memory. US Pat. Appl. Ser. No., 10/354,254 ?Method Of Using Triaxial Magnetic Fields For Making Particle Structures,? Composite material structures, including clusters, particle foams, and fluid dynamic vortice structures, are formed from magnetic particle suspensions subjected to simultaneous application of magnetic fields along three orthogonal axes, with at least two of the field components oscillating and with the permeability of the composite material particles greater than that of the solubilizing liquid. For further information, please respond by mail or fax to Colleen Kearney within 30 days of this announcement at: Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1380, P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1380. , E-mail: cakearn@sandia.gov. Fax: (505) 844-8011. Please indicate the date and title of this FBO notice and the type of partnering agreements your company would be most interested in entering into.
 

Place of Performance

Address: Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS1380, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Zip Code: 87185-1380

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00668637-W 20040911/040909211805 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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