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This Small Business Innovation Research Prgram (SBIR)Phase I project will demonstrate the design and implementation of a wireless network whose capacity scales with increasing user demand. Wireless spectrum is limited; wireless demands can, however, grow unlimited. Wireless users have long suffered from the inability of cellular and Wi-Fi networks to keep up with increased demand resulting from th ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will demonstrate a new non-invasive glucose sensor for diabetes patients. Similar in approach to pulse oximetry, the sensor measures the intensity of light scattered by epidermis at two wavelengths to provide a sensitive and specific reading of the patient?s blood glucose concentration. This approach will enable the construction of a c ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop a general process to enable microorganisms for rapid genome engineering. Current technologies to engineer cells are expensive and time consuming due to reliance on inefficient, serial modifications of DNA. Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE) is a disruptive technology that allows for rapid engineering of microor ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project intends to eliminate the transportation problem faced by large wind turbine blades for land-based wind farms. Transporting blades by truck constrains their size to a limit that falls somewhere between standard dash "50m-60m", due to roadway length, height and weight limitations. If blades over this transportation limit were available f ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a prototype gas-phase two-dimensional electrophoresis (GP2DE) instrument for analyzing protein structures in mixtures with less sample and higher throughput compared to traditional two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DGE). The instrument leverages the previously developed multi-dimensional ion mobility spectrometry (MDIM ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop the first-in-class microwell array plates for dual optical and MS imaging of bead libraries comprising up to one million members. As a cost-effective alternative to the traditional flow cytometry-based screening, optical imaging of planar bead arrays has the potential to become a preferred method of analysis in a variet ...

The innovation will introduce game-changing brain-based adaptive mobile learning technology to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. The proprietary technology provides multiple learning pathways as well as cognitive behavior analytics to help learners reach maximum learning outcomes. The new technology utilizes a powerful Markovian statistical inference engine to stimulate, ...

The innovation is a novel teaching platform and related lesson plans that leverage touch-screen mobile computing devices and molecular modeling tools that will improve student comprehension of and interest in chemistry. Understanding the properties and three-dimensional (3D) structure of molecules is key to succeeding as a chemist; however, it is difficult to teach this to high school students usi ...

In the proposed effort, we will leverage this extensive experience and capabilities to realize a frequency agile mmW radiometer that can cover the range of DC-110 GHz and can be scaled to DC-200 GHz under Phase II. Ours is a photonic system that multiplies and up-coverts a low-frequency reference signal onto an optical carrier (laser) using EO modulation, then uses the modulation sidebands to inj ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop an unprecedented battery separator technology - alumina nanowire battery separators - to address the stringent requirements for large-sized lithium ion batteries for the coming era of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in Hybrid EVs (PHEVs). The proposed battery separator will provide high temperature stability, long term s ...