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TIAX,LLC proposes to develop a non-aqueous electrolyte formulation that will enable Lithium-ion batteries to deliver high power and achieve long operational life across an extended temperature range from -40 ºC to 70 ºC, and will also provide enhanced safety for these batteries. This will be accomplished by formulating a novel combination of salt and solvents chosen so as to achieve specific be ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project involves the development of an agile robot-based comprehensive sensor system by the synergistic combination of a novel sensor/preconcentrator technology, a microelectrochemical immunoassay sensor array and a rugged, field-tested robotic platform. Seacoast Science will work at the interface of material science and mechanical engineering to de ...

As weapon system development dollars become scarce, it is imperative that decision makers understand the traditional cost vs performance trades as well as concept maturity and production risks. The objective of this program is to demonstrate the feasibility of a product assurance decision aide that supports the collection of manufacturing lessons learned and synthesizes product assurance data int ...

This proposed Phase I SBIR effort initiates development of a wireless pressure sensor system for characterizing the temporal evolution of the pressure field during deployment of parachutes and also measuring pressures across different fabric materials. The primary outcome of this project is a fully-integrated media isolated micropackaged ultra-high sensitivity pressure sensor module with a size of ...

Broadband Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) has shown promise, reliably identifying land mines by their casing material and explosive content. A LIBS sensor integrated into a deminer's probe could revolutionize humanitarian demining, improving clearance rates and operator safety. We propose a man-portable prodder to bring the detection speed and accuracy of LIBS to the post-conflict mi ...

Transparent armor face shields for soldiers are problematic because desirable mechanical properties must be coupled with good transparency and low areal densities. Despite excellent properties offered by polycar-bonates their properties have not kept up with advances in non-transparent armor. New materials are needed. Mayaterials believes that transparent glass fiber reinforced composites, FRCs co ...

A need exists to significantly improve the low temperature performance of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries presently being developed for U.S. Army field applications. State-of-the-art Li-ion battery performance rapidly declines as the temperature falls below -10°C; yet high rate capability with useful battery capacity at temperatures as low as -40°C is required to meet warfighter requirements on ...

Sand ingestion into aircraft turbine engines can cause severe erosion of turbine compressor components. This erosive blade wear will reduce engine efficiency. Repair/replacement of these blades is costly, both in terms of down time and labor and materials cost. Infoscitex proposes to develop and deposit functionally gradient coatings by precisely controlling material nanostructure and component r ...

Triton Systems Inc. proposes to develop a long lasting insecticide-treated bednet (LLITN) with high insecticidal efficacy, long lasting residual property, UV-resistance, lightweight, durability, and ease of assembly. The proposed LLITN will be able to repel, block, and kill mosquitoes, sandflies, and crawling pests to protect soldiers from biting insects in dessert climate region. The design of th ...

Polar Rain proposes to design and develop fast and efficient character restoration and image enhancement algorithms and software for Arabic text document images. Our proposed approach brings innovative solution designed to work on degraded Arabic text document images combining non-language specific image enhancement methods with Arabic specific character restoration algorithm. Comput ...