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The promise of personalized medicine can be realized in part via point-of-care 3D drug printing, but only if there are reliable quality measures available. Children and seniors may need custom or easy-to-swallow doses, a need now addressed only in a limited way by ad-hoc in-pharmacy compounding. Compliance-targeted enhancements such as flavor and shape choices are particularly important for childr ...

This Phase II STTR is a collaboration between Truventic and the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop polarization-sensitive single-photon detectors for the mm-wave and THz bands. These detectors will be based upon antenna-coupled superconducting magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene Josephson-junctions. Phase I theoretically demonstrated the potential for single photon detection, devel ...

Commercial buildings use 35% of the entire US energy output, and up to a third of that energy is wasted. Rapidly rising fuel costs, increasing concern about climate change, and policy directives from the Biden Administration are all driving the need for increased energy efficiency and the elimination of waste. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased public awareness of t ...

Advance microelectronic systems and defense electronics require high power electronics such as High voltage and high efficiency power diodes. Ultra-wide band gap (UWBG) devices based on GaN, SiC, Diamond, Ga2O3 have attractive electronic and thermal properties that have positioned them to their full potential with offer savings in both energy and cost in high-power, high-temperature electronic dev ...

In order for manufacturers to unlock the promise of AI for data-driven decision making, they need visibility into large volumes of unstructured knowledge trapped in technical language like work order notes. The process of annotation and knowledge extraction from unstructured technical language data is currently a time consuming and challenging bottleneck to adopting machine learning at scale. In N ...

The proposed innovation uses a model-based approach to streamline understanding and application of standards. NIST standards addressing cybersecurity, presented in the form of documents, spreadsheets, and database tools, provide thousands of complimentary and overlapping items for users to track. Significant effort is expended understanding the standards before attention can be focused on the syst ...

This Phase I STTR will model, design, fabricate and characterize twisted graphene heterostructure Josephson junction detectors of mm-wave and THz radiation. For a range of potential Josephson junction designs, we will calculate the IV curve, the zero-magnetic-field value for the maximum zero-voltage current, the dependence of this current on rf fields and temperature, and the dynamic resistance ne ...

InfraTrac aims to demonstrate the viability of spectroscopy as an effective and practical mechanism for assessing the quality of in-pharmacy 3D drug printing, thereby enabling custom compounding by bringing necessary patient safety controls to this new realm. InfraTrac’s research strategy uses state-of-the-art 3D printing of solid dose forms to create test candidates, comparing the results of ha ...

This Project will investigate the security of a new block cipher first proposed by the Applicants and analyzed using theoretical physics techniques. This new block cipher: (i) is inspired by quantum circuit scramblers but implemented classically using reversible computing, (ii) is expected to be immune to quantum attacks, and (iii) enables direct computation on encrypted data in an alternative for ...

Parman Tech will build a first prototype embodying the NIST-owned technology ‘Optical Particle Sorter.’ The prototype will demonstrate feasibility of a commercial implementation of this technology. The prototype will also serve as the model for subsequent production of several beta-units to be used for obtaining customer feedback and eventually validation of the product.