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Luna Innovations, teamed with North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Non-Wovens Institute (NWI), will meet the Army’s need to develop a novel wash durable, flame resistant, non-woven textile. This practical system will provide military uniforms with excellent flame resistant (FR) protection at a lower manufacturing cost without compromising performance such as durability, repellency, and vec ...

Developing a safe and effective malaria vaccine remains the hope for reducing the spread and resurgence of the disease. In recent years, vaccine research has broadened with subunit protein, and DNA vaccines due to their inherent safety, simpler storage and easier production at the expense of attenuated and inactivated organism based approaches. RTS, S/AS01, the most advanced subunit vaccine, has u ...

To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

The drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan reminds us that lead remains dangerous and insidious toxicant that can impact public health for months or years before it is detected and remedied.Increasing awareness of lead contamination has motivated the general public to test their own drinking water, but few tools are availiable to help these "citizen scientist" do so effectively.Current lead scre ...

Physically UnclonableFunctions (PUFs) have been proposed as central building blocks in cryptographic protocols and security architectures. PUFs are physical devices that exhibit a challenge/responsebehavior: when presented with a challenge, the device produces a response that is a random function of both the challenge and the physical properties of the device.In contrast to most digital designs, i ...

The objective of this program is to develop flexible, high-efficiency perovskite photovoltaic modules for incorporation onto future fabric-based Army packs, tents and shelters, as well as UAVs, drones and other platforms, to provide portable, renewable electrical power and reduce the need for warfighters to carry multiple heavy batteries. During Phase I, NanoSonic and Penn State analyzed approache ...

Commercially available quad-copters could provide an innovative smart attack capability to existing military deployment platforms. This proposal demonstrates a plan to develop a payload for the ATACMS or GMLRS missile systems to deploy a "section" of UAS devices on the battlefield. Once there, these quad-copter UAS devices will navigate to and attack a target of interest using explosively formed p ...

The objective of this Phase I SBIR program is to design and build a system that measures the strain of (or the force transferred through) the parachute riser fabric throughout a paratrooper jump. More specifically, a surface applied riser sensor shall provide a non-invasive mechanism to monitor the forces and resulting strain on risers during a jump. These sensors are comprised of NanoSonic’s pa ...

This Army Phase I SBIR program would develop high frequency, interchangeable multi-axis nanomembrane (NM) based pressure sensors and fiber optic based temperature sensors for ballistic systems, using SOI (Silicon on Insulator) NM techniques in combination with our fiber optic nanocomposite sensors. Such tailored-modulus (0.1 MPa to 5 GPa), conformal nanomembrane sensors with interchangeable fiber ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...