USA as Represented by Secretary of the Navy

James A Sprague

Douglas B Chrisey

Graham K Hubler

Kirth E Simmonds

Peter Matic

Kenneth S Grabowski

Catherine M Cotell

Nevin Rupert

Fred A Smidt, Jr

Richard Steven Bruno

Body armor for ballistic protection of a user's extremities preferably comprising right and left arm protection units and/or right and left leg protection units. The units include a ballistic protection material which preferably covers most of the user's upper arm, elbow region, lower arm, shoulder, upper leg, knee region, and lower leg except for ventilation zones preferably located on the inner portion of the upper arm and the inner part of the upper leg. The back of the knee is preferably covered by a protective flap.

Extremity armor

Biocompatible material is deposited onto a substrate by laser deposition, for example by pulsed laser beam deposition and ion-assisted pulsed laser beam deposition. The deposition can be done at room temperature, in a variety of different atmospheres, with control over the stoichiometry, adhesion and porosity of the deposited film. Apparatus for carrying out the deposition, and articles formed by such deposition, are also described. The articles so formed are particularly useful as medical prosthesis, for example, implants.

Laser-deposited biocompatible films and methods and apparatuses for

Swelling of structural components of fast reactors is reduced by producing those components from an alloy consisting of iron and 0.3 at % V or P.

Reduction in swelling of iron caused by irradiation

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James A Sprague