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Sepax Technologies, Inc. has identified a new type of anoin-exchange resin which separates single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with >80% recovery yield and resolves in a single pass the chiral tubes of (6,5) well from commercial SWCNT starting materials by Chromatography. Improvement and scale up of the targeted resin production will facilitate the separation of chiral nanotubes for the academic ...

Using a novel concept for humidity control, based on a proprietary saturated air source, MAC will construct and evaluate a prototype of an environmental chamber for use with NIST’s SPHERE UV source, in weathering or other UV degradation studies. The chamber will interface to the exit ports of the SPHERE, maintaining the material coupons, mounted in a standardized sample holder, at a programmed t ...

Trusted biometric validation of individual identities has never been more important. Several contributing factors are the increase in global terrorism, identity theft and the increase in legislation which are driving the accelerated adoption of biometric technology. Unfortunately, the biometrics industry has not actively responded to the changing market conditions being driven by the explosion in ...

With the growing demand for more efficient fingerprinting techniques, live scans are rapidly displacing traditional ink-based methods. Despite improvements in detector and processing technology for capturing and digitizing fingerprints, current equipment falls well short of NIST’s goal of a small, tamper-resistant, battery-powered, handheld scanner. Incumbent equipment suppliers have little comm ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The U.S. CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne illnesses. The costs in lost productivity and increased health carecosts are enormous, in addition to the consequences to individuals and families from missed work and schooling, disrupted family life, and pain an ...

One in three humans currently living on earth are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. This number is astonishing and underscores our ever-increasing need for accurate and efficient tuberculosis diagnostics. This is especially true for the US military wherein troops are serving in areas around the world that have high tuberculosis incidence rates. While ...

The World Health Organization estimates that more than one-third of the worldwide population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of most cases of tuberculosis (TB). Patients who are infected with MTB, but do not have active TB disease have latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), a non-communicable, asymptomatic condition which might develop into active TB disease m ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant disease worldwide, with 1.7M deaths and 10M new infections every year. From the Armed Forces"perspective, approximaely 3.5% of all new recruits have latent TB infection, 5-15% of whom may develop active disease in their lifetime. Armed Forces personnel are at particular risk of exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) given their deployments to endemic are ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop an alternative to the tuberculin test and interferron-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of active and latent tuberculosis. Toward this end, a rapid test based on the detection of blood antibodies specific to Mycobacteria tuberculosis antigens will be devised for the serodiagnosis of active and latent TB. Selected and highly immunogenic antigens enc ...

To address the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the U.S. Air Force Biomedical Sciences Corps (BSC), and the Special Operations Command (SOC) need for an improved personal cooling system (PCS), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Thermal-Exchange Dermal Interface (TEDI) technology. The proposed system is based on a unique integration of cooling and electrohydrodynamic tec ...