TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: SiloGetter
Special Notice from Department of Energy.
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Closing in 129 days
Notice details
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Sub-tier agency
- ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Solicitation number
- S-167718
- Product/service code
- 9330
- Place of performance
- Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Posted
- Aug 18, 2026
- Response deadline
- Mar 2, 2027
- Source
- SAM.gov
Description
3D-Printed Siloxane Composites with Hydrogen Getter Capability Unwanted hydrogen is a silent threat inside sealed electronics, vacuum instruments and metal containers, where it clouds optics, embrittles metals and can build toward explosive levels. SiloGetter from Los Alamos National Laboratory answers that threat with a printable siloxane composite that captures hydrogen right at its source while carrying nearly 10 times the active getter content of earlier printed materials. Because the paste flows through nozzles as fine as 400 microns without clogging, protection can be shaped precisely to the geometry a device demands, and because the finished part keeps its strength instead of crumbling like a pressed pellet, that protection endures. The result is a rugged, made-to-fit hydrogen safeguard that quietly protects costly systems over the long term while absorbing more than 80% of the hydrogen it encounters. Overview The material relies on a straightforward principle carried out by two ingredients working together. Tiny particles of a palladium-on-carbon catalyst split incoming hydrogen molecules into reactive atoms, and a companion compound, DEB, permanently binds those atoms into its molecular structure so the hydrogen can no longer move or ignite. Both ingredients are dispersed throughout a siloxane polymer, a silicone-like plastic chosen because gases pass through it easily, which gives hydrogen a clear path to the active particles inside. The blended paste is then
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When is the response deadline?
The published deadline is Mar 2, 2027. That is 129 days after the data date.
What NAICS code applies?
NAICS 326199, All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing.
Which agency issued this notice?
Department of Energy.
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