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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) will be to develop a platform to accelerate the engineering of biological products, including enzymes and pathways, for production of chemicals, additives, and therapeutics. Enzymes are used in household materials (detergents and cleaners) and in chemical processes (cheese production, and bioremediation of wa ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project uses a new class of chemosensor films to continuously measure the concentration of heavy metals in a flowing stream of industrial wastewater. This will make it possible to know the concentration of several heavy metals at any given time so that treatment chemicals used to remove those metals can be metered precisely. Current treatment ...

The one remaining barrier to achieving a marketable R-10 window is the high manufacturing cost of solderglass-sealed vacuum glass. To remedy this, edge seal material must be changed from meltable solderglass to cold-weldable aluminum foil, speeding up the manufacturing rate by over 700X. Phase I research showed that rod-shaped pane spacers, or whiskers, are the best shape available. They can enabl ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to enable vast deployment of energy storage to increase installation of renewable energy for reduced pollution and greenhouse gases, to improve energy security, and to improve energy efficiency and safety. The project will realize a dramatic reduction in cost and size of Energy Storage Systems (ESS) that will allow penetration of ESS into ...

Imagen Energy, LLC, an innovative company which focuses on next generation SiC based power converter system, is teaming up with Wolfspeed, a division of Cree, the leading SiC power module manufacturer in the U.S, and Velicon Inc., a high speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) supplier for special high end applications to resolve a real application issue that exists in the High Speed PMS ...

The SENSOR FOA clearly identifies a need for people counting in commercial spaces to efficiently allocate HVAC energy, potentially saving 30% in annual energy costs. Scanalytics proposes a materially different, categorically superior floor sensing technology coupled with a device-agnostic platform and real-time processing algorithms to accurately measure occupancy within a space a space such as a ...

The consumer demand for organic food is growing faster than the supply. This is particularly true for large-scale row crops that go into staple foods and into animal feeds. As a result, about 80% of the primary organic grain supply is imported. Less-pronounced, but similar imbalances exist for specialty crops. Midwestern BioAg (MBA) has been supporting conventional and organic farmers for 35 years ...

Project Summary This is a supplementalrenewalgrant to the Phase II SBIR grantComputerized Screening for Comorbidity in Adolescents with Substance or Psychiatric DisordersSince the funding of the Phase I granttwo significant developments occurred in the fieldthe American Psychiatric Association s release of the DSMmanualand NIMH s launch of the Research Domain CriteriaRDoCinitiative that aims to cr ...

Seasonal influenzafluvirusan NIAID category C priority pathogencauses widespread infectionresulting in at leastmillion cases of severe illness anddeaths worldwideWhile annual vaccination is recommended for all individuals aged overmonths in the UScurrent vaccines are only aroundeffective and there is an urgent need for safemore effective influenza vaccines that offer broad spectrum protectionTo me ...

Platypus Technologies aims to advance the liquid crystalLCbased molecular analytic detection of formaldehyde that it established with SBIR Phase I support to complete the development and integrate its innovative LC based technology into product forms for rapid identification of formaldehyde emissions for short term and time weighted exposureTWAFormaldehyde is a known carcinogenand workplace exposu ...