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The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I Project will use an already established filtered cathodic arc deposition (FCAD) process for building precise nano-scaled structures necessary to produce high-performance exchange coupled magnets (ECM). Theoretical calculations show that that the performance for ECM magnets can be two or three times that of single phase magnets. The ...

This Small Business Technolongy Transfer (STTR) Phase I research develops an in-home training device that allows a post-stroke patient to undergo rehabilitation with little or no assistance. Approximately 500,000 Americans survive a stroke each year. Miraculously, most stroke survivors can relearn skills such as walking that are lost when part of the brain is damaged. They can relearn walking mos ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research proposal will develop a high frequency laser based ultrasonic system suitable for the characterization of a wide range of micro- and nano-scale thin films and coatings. The system will incorporate an intensity-modulated continuous wave laser for the excitation of extremely narrow bandwidth surface acoustic waves, and a novel superhete ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project is designed to develop and characterize a novel, multi-functional oil quality sensor for the automobile and diesel engine markets. The objective of the proposed research project is to develop an innovative, cost effective multi-functional oil quality sensor that can detect a variety of degradation mechanisms for engine oil. Cu ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project aims to produce a software application that enables business people to dramatically improve their ability to forecast supply and demand. In collaboration with the Knowledge Modeling Group at Stanford Medical Informatics, Clados proposes a joint effort to produce relevant aggregation to investigate supply and demand. The effort will p ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is based on a novel separation concept: push/pull adsorption. The presently available technologies for producing oxygen are cryogenic distillation and pressure swing adsorption, both of which use pressure-volume work. With either of these technologies oxygen typically costs $40/ton for industrial scale production with most of this cost ...

The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will develop permanent, self-cleaning, anti-fog coatings for plastic and glass surfaces. Fogging on bathroom mirrors is a common phenomenon. Fogging on a moving automotive windshield, however, represents hazardous situation. Fogging often occurs when a cold surface suddenly contacts warm, moist air. Thousands of tiny water drop ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project aims to develop a monolithic spiral coil acoustic transduction (MSCAT) immunosensor for the detection of E. coli, in drinking water. The MSCAT sensor is more sensitive than standard ones because it can detect both electrical and mechanical property changes caused by a target analyte. Fast, sensitive and reliable detection o ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop a microchannel reactor system for the field production of hydrogen peroxide based the electrolysis of water. The proposed approach is based on the electrolysis of water, and environmentally benign approach which is suitable for field production. The use of microchannel technology enables the miniaturization of the system a ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I research project focuses on developing a smart sensor network integrated with Zero-Power Radio Frequency Identification Sensing Tags (RFID-ST) that combines the technology of a digital Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) switch and a reconfigurable RF antenna for a wide variety of distributed sensor applications. While micro sensor ...