TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: Compact Modular Furnace

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The Compact Modular Furnace from Los Alamos National Laboratory gives researchers a practical way to perform extreme-temperature testing of molten salts and metals in a glovebox-compatible, tightly controlled environment. By combining a small footprint, interchangeable components, optical access, and the ability to isolate heat directly at the sample, it enables safer and more flexible experiments that would normally require much larger, more expensive equipment. The furnace design supports rapid setup for a range of materials studies, including contact angle measurement, compatibility testing, and thermal cycling, while helping teams work with highly reactive substances without exposing them to air or moisture. The result is a versatile platform that expands what can be studied, shortens experimental turnaround, and brings high-performance thermal testing into a form that is easier to deploy and use. The furnace can be heated using resistive heating elements to reach up to 750°C in vacuum or inductive heating elements to melt high temperature samples such as refractory metals. The Challenge: This invention addresses the difficulty of studying highly reactive materials under extreme heat while keeping them isolated from air and moisture. The Compact Modular Furnace provides a way to run controlled experiments on molten salts and metals in a compact setup that can fit inside a glovebox, which is important because these materials can be unsafe or unusable in ordinary open-air e…

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