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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 ...

To address the DMEA need for high-resolution scintillators for X-ray microscopy, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new High-Efficiency, High-Resolution Scintillator (HEROS). This proposed technology solution is a thin-film scintillator design, which uses a high-density, high-Z-number material with high X-ray stopping power. Specifically, the innovation in the scintillator m ...

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

To address the DMEA need for algorithms and software to accurately analyze data from X-ray microscopy of integrated circuits (ICs), PhysicalOptics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new X-ray Microscopy Image Acquisition, 3D Reconstruction, and Analysis Software (XARA)system for rapid identification and mapping of conductors of ICs. It is based on (a) novel swing nanolaminography image acquis ...

Fumed silica is an important additive in many products including paints, plastics and tires, but it is produced by an energy-intensive costly, toxic and hazardous process. SioTex has developed a superior triple green replacement for fumed silica that produces no toxic waste, uses little energy, and is inexpensive.  Our patent pending technology uses rice hulls, a bio-waste, as the feedstock.  Us ...

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 ...

To address the DMEA need for accurate identification and analysis of semiconductor materials with high-resolution imaging of integratedcircuits (ICs), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) developed and evaluated the feasibility of novel Nano-Resolution Three-DimensionalIntegrated Circuit Reconstruction (NEOTERIC) System for in situ full reverse engineering of ICs based on swing nanolaminography and a ...

The novel RFCAT technology will allow for safe and rapid decontamination of biological agents on railroad and subway cars. The technology creates biocidal conditions on external and internal surfaces of the rail and subway cars. The technology has been demonstrated on building materials and will be modified for the surfaces found in rail and subway cars. Additionally the system will kill odor and ...