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The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to reimagine bio-manufacturing with a novel platform technology that could boost the yields of many products, including food additives, biomaterials precursors, biofuels, and pharmaceuticals. The technological advancement addresses a fundamental issue that limits conventional bio-fermentation, which is that pro ...

Agricultural practices are a major driver of climate change, contributing globally 19–29% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, the costs to small and mid-size farms to engage in and produce climate-smart farming practices and consumer-branded products are out of reach, in terms of time and money. The adoption of circular smart agriculture provides a pathway to combat the uns ...

1. Problem StatementCurrent industrial-scale rare earth element separation technologies are based on solvent extraction schemes which produce large amounts of undesirable chemical waste, including the loss of volatile organic solvents and reagents employed in the treatment of feed streams. These concerns have severely limited the development of U.S.-based rare earth element separation facilities. ...

Agricultural practices are a major driver of climate change, contributing globally 19–29% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, the costs to small and mid-size farms to engage in and produce climate-smart farming practices and consumer-branded products are out of reach, in terms of time and money. The adoption of circular smart agriculture provides a pathway to combat the uns ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to utilize quantum computing to perform computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, initially to solve problems in the aerospace and automotive industries. The technology may also play a vital role in national defense, as CFD is critical in designing aircraft, missiles, armored vehicles, and ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is the accelerated adoption of electrification and other next-generation technologies, like renewable energy. This project proposes a technology to effectively manage end-of-life lithium-ion batteries through reuse. Enabling these batteries to be safely incorporated into a circular/reuse econo ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project involves continued development of technology to extend the therapeutic window of cell-based tissue regeneration therapies. This technology could significantly enhance the scientific understanding of cellular therapies and enable the healing of injuries more rapidly and less invasively than current techniques. A s ...

Our technology builds a digital bridge between small to midsize farmers and consumers whilesimultaneously collecting valuable real-time data on the desires and expectations of consumers.Opportunities facilitated by our product include creative place making direct-to-consumeragricultural economies agritourism e-commerce innovations that connect farmers withconsumer markets and off-farm value-added ...

This project will demonstrate the utilization of wood biomass feedstock to produce grapheneproducts through a less expensive more environmentally friendly process. The wood feedstock isfirst pyrolyzed to biochar then the process developed at the University of Wyoming converts thebiochar to graphene oxide a viable product. Further treatment produces reduced graphene oxideand graphene nanosheets als ...

Abstract: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common liver diseases in children and adults associated with diet-associated hepatic lipid accumulation (steatosis), and is a common hepatic manifestation of obesity and metabolic syndromes including diabetes. Modulation Therapeutics is developing a stearoyl- coenzyme A desaturase-1 (SCD1) inhibitor for the treatment of NAFLD a ...