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Biomolecular Construction of Nanostructures

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contract: DAAH01-03-C-R087
Agency Tracking Number: 01SB2-0127
Amount: $375,000.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2002
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
P.O. Box 80010
Austin, TX 78708
United States
DUNS: 022552900
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Joel Tabb
 Principal Scientist
 (607) 272-0002
 jtabb@agavebio.com
Business Contact
 Noe Salazar
Title: President
Phone: (512) 671-1369
Email: nsalazar@agavebio.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

"Biology provides a vast number of examples of nanostructures produced at a level of precision that is superior to those that we can produce in the laboratory The diversity of naturally occurring S-layers suggests these self-assembled structures aregenetically controlled and can therefore be manipulated though recombinant process. In the Phase I, Agave BioSystems successfully demonstrated that bacterial S-layer proteins can be used to develop novel structures with pores regularly space nanometersapart. The overriding goal of this Phase II proposal will be to harness the self-replicating and self-assembling characteristics of bacterial S-layer proteins and to use them in the fabrication of nano-sized structures. A variety of S-layers, each withvarying geometric characteristics will be used for this purpose. In this Phase II, Agave BioSystems will develop a library of S-layers for the generation of nanostructure templates and demonstrate their use in several applications including optical datastorage, and patterning of photoactive protein complexes, conductive carbon nanofibers, and semiconductor nanowires. Through the development of S-layers as a foundation for the generation of nanostructures templates, Agave BioSystem can provide thebreakthrough enabling technology for exploitation of the vast potential applications of nano-based technologies."

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