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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop a device to deliver therapeutic drugs in a controlled and monitored manner. This device will be used to control delivery of therapeutic doses of drugs, and to monitor blood levels of such drugs continuously, with on-demand administration, in order to minimize the dosage fluctuation that occurs through oral and injection ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will define technologies to successfully recover painted plastic automobile parts from end-of-life vehicles. 400 million pounds of plastic is consumed annually to produce automotive exterior parts. These parts are typically large and readily identifiable and could be recovered from automobile salvage yards yet they continue to be disposed of ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop and demonstrate an attachment interface for an advanced carbon composite transmission conductor for electrical power. The attachment will interface with existing power transmission hardware and techniques. In the project the tasks will involve reviewing existing techniques for composite cable connections, possibly from oth ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to develop, deploy, and evaluate a virtual reality-based modeling kit, called Contagious Disease Modeling (CDM) Toolkit, which will enable students to build virtual 3-D models of viruses and bacteria within a web-based inquiry framework. This system will enable students to explore fundamental questions of virus/bacteria trajectories, i ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project provides a plan to develop, deploy, and evaluate a virtual reality-based modeling kit that will enable students to build virtual models of gorilla motion and social interaction within a web-based inquiry framework. Using the Virtual Gorilla Construction Kit, students will build virtual models within the context of answering questions ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to develop custom signal processing algorithms and embedded software for arrays of tiny neural probes that are currently being manufactured for simultaneously recording the activity of multiple neurons. Most of the effort expended to date on neural probes has focused on the formidable challenges of manufacturing the hardware elements of ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop a wide-bandgap, thin-film semiconductor to enable a high-efficiency light-absorber layer for the top cell in monolithic tandem or multi-junction thin-film photovoltaics. Because of relatively high device packaging costs, tandem junction thin-film photovoltaic devices can offer higher watt per square meter and lower cost p ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop a vaccine for the control of infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) disease of salmon and trout. An efficacious, safe and reasonably priced IHN virus vaccine would improve the productivity of the finfish aquaculture industry in the Pacific Northwest, ensure the productivity of commercial and recreational fisheries, and reduce ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project involves a feasibility study of lithographically patterning reactive nanoscale multilayer foils for use in hermetic waferscale packages for MEMS and other electronic devices. A patterned reactive foil sandwiched between two wafers can be ignited and will self-propagate, providing the heat needed for wafer bonding. Because the reaction is very ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project proposes to develop a product platform based on polymer cushion coated glass slides with controlled surface charge density for membrane protein microarray fabrication. The key technical objectives for Phase II research are : (a) to complete quantitative studies on surface charge density in the formation of supported phospholipid bilay ...