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Luna presents papers and posters at technical conferences and tradeshows each year. Below are brief explanations of those presentations. Contact us for more information about our emerging technologies and solutions.

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Corrosivity Monitoring for Pipelines
Traditional corrosion monitoring sensors are split between those best suited for monitoring accumulated corrosion and those for assessing real-time corrosion rates. Luna Innovations is developing a sensing system that shares the strengths of both accumulated corrosion and corrosion rate sensors in a single package. Cumulative corrosion assessment, as well as rapid corrosion rate measurement capabilities have been demonstrated using Luna's novel sensing technique.
Poster presentation at National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) CORROSION 2008, March 2008

Endohedral Fullerenes in Organic Thin Film Photovoltaic
Cost factors in inorganic solar cells have opened up a new path to less expensive manufacturing techniques using bulk heterojunction polymer/fullerene based solar cells. Using empty cage fullerene derivatives as the acceptor material, state-of-the-art organic photovoltaics currently display approximately 5% overall conversion effciency. One of the main factors limiting the efficiency in organic solar cells is the low open circuit voltage. The open circuit voltage is governed by the molecular orbitals of the donor and acceptor material; therefore better matching of the orbitals will lead to improved voltages. Luna is working with a novel acceptor material based on its exclusive TRIMETASPHERE carbon nanomaterials (TMS). TMS are endohedral metallofullerenes that consist of a trimetal nitride cluster enclosed in a C80 cage. First-generation TMS derivatives have been synthesized; electrochemical and photophysical studies show behavior consistent with C60 but with improved molecular orbitals.
Poster presentation at The American Physical Society Meeting, March 2008