The University of New Mexico

Zayd Chad Leseman

Jonathan Phillips

Claudia Luhrs

Marwan S Al-Haik

Behnam Kheyraddini-Mousavi

Haytham Soliman

Arash Kheyraddini-Mousavi

Hugo Ricardo Zea-Ramirez

Mark Andrew Atwater

The present invention provides a Michelson interferometer for capturing images of a vibrating sample comprising a coherent light source. The light source may be adapted to illuminate a sample with a constant brightness across the sample. The interferometer may also be configured to generate a 3D representation of a sample using a single frame for a predetermined phase of the sample. The 3D representations may be combined to create a 3D video representation of the vibrating sample.

High speed Michelson interferometer microscope

Various embodiments provide methods of forming zero valent metal particles using an aerosol-reductive/expansion synthesis (A-RES) process. In one embodiment, an aerosol stream including metal precursor compound(s) and chemical agent(s) that produces reducing gases upon thermal decomposition can be introduced into a heated inert atmosphere of a RES reactor to form zero valent metal particles corresponding to metals used for the metal precursor compound(s).

Aerosol reduction/expansion synthesis (A-RES) for zero valent metal particles

Various embodiments provide methods of forming metallic particles or carbon/graphite coated metallic particles with zero-valence from metal precursor compounds by a reductive/expansion synthesis method using nitrogen-hydrogen containing molecules.

Generation of metal and alloy micron, submicron, or nano particles in simple, rapid process

Exemplary embodiments provide methods and apparatus of forming fibrous carbon foams (FCFs). In one embodiment, FCFs can be formed by flowing a fuel rich gas mixture over a catalytic material and components to be encapsulated in a mold to form composite carbon fibers, each composite carbon fiber having a carbon phase grown to encapsulate the component in situ. The composite carbon fibers can be intertwined with one another to form FCFs having a geometry according to the mold.

Carbon fiber foam composites and methods for making the same

Exemplary embodiments provide methodologies for generating structures of filamentous carbon (or carbon filaments) with controlled geometries. In one exemplary embodiment of forming the carbon filament structure, a metal template can be exposed to a fuel rich gaseous mixture to form a carbon filament structure at an appropriate gas flow and/or at an appropriate temperature on the metal template. The metal template can have one or more metal surfaces with controlled geometries. Carbon filament structures can then be grown on the metal surfaces having corresponding geometries (or shapes) in the growth direction. The carbon filament structure can be two or three dimensional and can have high density. In various embodiments, the metal template can be removed to leave a self-supporting carbon filament structure.

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Edgewood, NM, United States of America

Zayd Chad Leseman