Research Goal

My microfabrication of high-band gap materials and MEMS programs have combined with my study of energetics to help advance a new technology: microcombustion. Non-catalytic, spontaneous gas phase combustion within extremely small cavities has long been thought to be improbable. In a seed project with Rich Masel funded by DARPA ETO through DynCorp, we demonstrated that a hydrocarbon flame could be initiated and sustained within a microcavity, using an engineered materials combustor that I designed and fabricated with my student. A U.S. patent was awarded for this fundamental work. (DynCorp)  

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Work partially supported by National Science Foundation grant # & Office Naval Research Grant #

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