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Mycotoxins are fungal toxins to which exposure frequently results in incapacitation or even in death. Natural outbreaks of mycotoxin poisoningare common worldwide. Due to its physical-chemical properties, high toxicity and relative ease to produce, mycotoxin T-2 is classified as apotential biological warfare agent. Currently there are no FDA approved medical countermeasures available for T-2 mycot ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype of SuperChem VR, a game to support high school students' basic chemistry learning. The prototype will include a set of web-based laboratory modules which will be integrated within a virtual reality headset to allow for a 360-degree visual exploration of the environment. The prototype will also include teacher resources for classroom implementatio ...

Two major waste streams, thermoplastics and used automotive tires, need a technological and economic method to decrease their entry into our environment. Both have long life-cycles as waste, causing many deleterious environmental problems. The Phase I, II , and Ill goal is to divert plastic and tire waste and its pollution away from landfills and the environment into transformational new technolog ...

Alphavirus infection, which may cause encephalitis and death, are recognized as potential biological warfare agents. There are no approved medical countermeasures against diseases caused by Alphaviruses. In this project, thermostable single domain antibodies capable of crossing the blood brain barrier (BBB) and neutralizing encephalitic viruses will be developed using Abzymes proprietary in vivo S ...

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could cause widespread outage of the commercial electric power system that could last for weeks to months. Microgrids for defense critical infrastructure (DCI) should thus be equipped to operate in islanded mode for extended periods of time using only local fuel storage and renewable energy sources. The primary difference between operating a microgrid in islan ...

Accurately assessing a persons exposures to putative air toxicants is central to the challenge of determining health effects. The lack of low cost, easy-to-use personal air sampling technology hinders assessment especially in deployed military populations. We propose to introduce an innovative approach for measuring military and occupational exposure to fumes. We will demonstrate a lightweight, in ...

To generate oxygen enriched gas for injured soldiers via separation from air, the oxygen production devices based on current high temperature membranes technologies are large and consume significant power because the ceramic materials have to operate at high temperatures (>800oC) to achieve acceptable conductivity. Recently developed 2D layered superior oxide-ion conductor Sr3-3xNa3xSi3O9-1.5x (SN ...

Techshot is pleased to provide this phase II proposal to continue our exciting scaffold development work in creating a Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft (TEVG).This off the shelf conduit will be capable of being combined with the patients own cells either at the time of surgery or by healing and remodeling in situ to provide a long term solution to revascularization due to traumatic injury.We inten ...

During combat a soldier may incur treatable injuries beyond the expertise of the combat medic. Addressing this by deploying more knowledgeable Medical Officers per-squad could be life-saving and significantly improve battlefield injury recovery. However, limited resources often prevent deployment of such expertise per-squad. During our Phase I RACC development, Neya Systems has successfully demons ...

While aluminum casing materials provide some enhanced performance and thermal loading to explosive ordinance, their overall effectiveness is highly limited by incomplete combustion and long residence times. In order to reduce these problems, the casing material must be designed to facilitate rapid fragmentation through either specialized casing geometries or greatly refined initial particle sizes. ...