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From pharmaceuticals and stimulants to industrial chemicals like pesticides and plastic components, the number of contaminants in waste, surface, and groundwater is increasing astronomically. As the hazardous limits of some of these toxins are as low as the 1 part-per-trillion (ppt) range, very sensitive analytical techniques are required. A variety of techniques exist, but they are expensive, lab ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)-free pigments and synthetic pathways that do not unintentionally generate PCB as byproducts. This effort will harness Kebotix’s existing AI-powered platform, which includes a workflow that controls high-throughput computational modeling of molecules and materials, proprietary machine learning methods for process contro ...

Low-cost systems operating at video rates within W-band have remained elusive – especially for stand-off and remote applications. Real time video rate imaging requires parallel detection modalities that traditionally led to high costs and calibration challenges. Substantial advances in low-cost packaging and chip-level integration driven by commercial millimeter-wave applications can now be appl ...

The proposed effort will employ an array of broadband (W band) antennas, integrated with high-speed (subnanosecond) GaN HEMTs in an array, to detect potential threats to military personnel. The system will be low SWaP, low-cost, and will detect a NETD of 3 degrees or less, from at least 15 meters, with a pixel resolution of < 10 cm. Millimeter wave imaging has been shown to be a useful tool in the ...

The detection and characterization of airborne aerosol particles is paramount to rapidly sense chemical and biological threats. This is especially true for urban and/or battlespace settings where the aerosol composition can include inorganic, organic, and biological particles with complex morphologies across a range of sizes that spans orders of magnitude (1-100 μm). Because aerosols contain a la ...

Triton Systems and its partners propose to design and develop a novel chemical barrier elastomer, that does not contain fluorine, for use in CBRN protective ensembles for hazardous materials because current fluorine containing materials are required to be reduced and eventually eliminated for environmental reasons. In Phase I, we will design and fabricate nanocomposite elastomers with enhanced res ...

Accurate and timely detection and classification of chemical and/or biological threat agents (CBA) used by an adversary in a battlefield environment is a crucial task for reconnaissance and force protection systems. A key technology component in CBA plume sensing systems is the light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system. In Phase I a preliminary AI algorithm based on the autoencoding technique was ...

Fabrico Technology, Professor Kevin Dalby, the Johnson & Johnson Centennial Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry, and Dr. Tamer Kaoud, Research Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, the University of Texas at Austin (UT), have successfully met and exceeded the Phase I technical objectives as specified in the original Phase I solicitation ...

Treatment for acute nerve agent poisoning would greatly benefit from the additional use of a scopolamine hydrobromide injectable. However, addition of a single-dose scopolamine injectable to the warfighter kit represents a substantial logistical burden in the field. A multi-dose vial formulation of scopolamine that is effectively antimicrobial and stable in the field would alleviate logistical bur ...

FTL Labs Corporation, together with collaborators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Massachusetts professor Dr. Evangelos Kalogerakis, proposes a powerful new system for automatic 3D building model synthesis. FTL's “FRAMER” (Fast Reconstruction of Architectural Models from Existing Resources) system is designed to be flexible, fast, and accurate. It combin ...