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Industrial Microbes is developing a green fermentation platform to replace carbon-emitting petrochemical production with newer methods that build chemicals out of methane and carbon dioxide.Chemical production is a major source of carbon pollution, responsible for 18% of direct industrialemissions. Our innovation is an engineered microbe that can consume carbon dioxide and methane and produce a ch ...

There is an unmet demand for ultra-low-power, ultra-compact and low-cost radios to address emerging sensing and communication needs for military and commercial applications such as IoT/IoE. To overcome the limitations in existing bulky and power hungry radios, we propose a disruptive solution by integration of a nano-scaled THz transceiver, on-chip antenna, and energy harvesting circuits in a form ...

Over 50 million Indian households cook on a bio-mass fire and have unreliable or no electricity but are anxious to purchase an affordable power stove which will provide on-demand power and lighting to their homes. Annually, projected sales of the power stove could save sixteen million trees, reduce cooking fire particulates by 90%, reduce the two million premature deaths caused from indoor air pol ...

Discharge of nutrients (e.g. phosphorus and ammonia) to surface waters can cause eutrophication and the formation of toxic algal blooms, threatening human health and the environment. However, current phosphorus treatment technologies such as chemical precipitation and conventional biological systems can be costly and ineffective to reliably achieve impending effluent regulatory limits of

The efficient modeling of acoustic interaction between wake generated by lifting and control surfaces, with a propulsive flowfield of a pusher propeller configuration forms the focus of this proposed SBIR project. Modeling these effects involves complex, high fidelity, and high performance computing simulations that tend to be cumbersome and time consuming. Multiple realizations of coupled respons ...

This Phase I STTR project will develop a platform to demonstrate high-quality, multi-modal acquisition of neurophysiological signals, including EEG, heart rate/blood oxygenation via photoplethysmography (PPG), electrodermal (EDA) activity, temperature plus environmental factors such as ambient light and sound in a simple, wearable headband. The hardware will be coupled with the development of a cl ...

SensorMetrix proposes to develop and test a prototype Non-contact Hit Sensor system for use in Live Fire Training. The proposed system will provide real-time detection of incoming munitions and determine the location of penetration on a specified 2D surface area with better than 10 mm accuracy for detection areas of up to 10 meters in lateral extent. In addition, the system will determine the cali ...

To address the Armys need for a multifunctional integrated drive system sensor (MIDSS) to monitor rotorcraft drive system health, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to continue refining, developing, and testing the Multilayered and Arrayed Fiber Optic Sensor Suite (MAFOSS) system. MAFOSS is based on the integration of multiple different types of micro-fiber-optic sensors to simultaneously ...

Accurate prediction of rotorcraft aeromechanics is critical for cost-effective design of future advanced rotorcraft capable of achieving the highest possible mission requirements. A new generation of high-fidelity rotorcraft analysis packages have enabled new levels of prediction accuracy. These software packages are the modular integration of numerous multi-disciplinary codes, including computati ...

The US Army has the requirement for a vehicle-mounted and/or man-portable Low Frequency Currents Injected in the Ground (LFCIG) technology that can detect, image and reliably pre-detonate, or otherwise render unusable buried Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). This LFCIG technology has been successfully developed and tested during Phase II SBIR effort. During the subsequent Phase II effort GRA wi ...