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Advanced Cerametrics, Inc (ACI) has developed a technology to make nearly any ceramic into flexible fiber. ACI has also developed a material that meets the needs of hypersonic missile radomes (barium alumino silicate-BAS). ACI has developed a method to make the BAS into fiber form and to produce fibrous monoliths of BAS where the BAS fibers reinforce a similar BAS matrix. These components have a l ...

Currently, wireless sensors have been used in variety of applications such as surveillance, real-time data sharing, in-vivo medical devices, condition-based monitoring, etc. that can revolutionize industrial efficiency, health monitoring, and data processing. MEMS technology made possible autonomous wireless sensor nodes via the use of widespread, tiny sensors in large numbers. However, the shee ...

Voice transformation is altering one person’s voice such that it sounds like from another speaker. This can be done by mapping the voice quality and speaking style of the source speaker to that of the target speaker. In this proposal for Phase I, we will investigate state-of-the-art technologies based on the source filter model. For vocal tract modeling and mapping, we will test the linear predi ...

DynASTOL® takes advantage of a natural, unsteady aerodynamic phenomenon that is used routinely by birds during takeoff and landing. To date however, the engineering tools that would allow it to be applied to aircraft landings have not been available, primarily due to a lack of in-depth understanding of the phenomenon. By the conclusion of this proposed SBIR Phase II project, AEREON will have demo ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): More than 25 million people in the United States suffer from neuropathic pain. Currently available drugs include opioids, anti-epileptics, topicals such as lidocaine, NMDA antagonists, and tricyclic antidepressants, none of which achieve clinical significance greater than 50%. To address this problem of significant clinical need and poor clinical significance, ...

A low cost integrated corrosion health monitoring system is proposed to predict the degradation of utility pipeline infrastructure. The end-to-end system includes a suite of sensors to sense the corrosive environment, an autonomous device that measures the corrosion by combining the sensor inputs, and an analytical engine that combines domain knowledge with the observed phenomenon to infer the deg ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Environmental factors such as toxins and pollutants are known to have a strong correlation to the incidence of various common human diseases. However, a critical shortcoming in quantitative studies of the correlation is the lack of robust, reliable, and inexpensive devices to measure the personal exposure to pollutants. Further, studies over extended periods of ...

If CO2 could be scrubbed from the flue gas of power plants and safely sequestered, the country¿s most important source of electricity, fossil-fired power plants, could operate without emitting significant amounts of greenhouse gases. Although technology for scrubbing CO2 from flue gas is commercially available, it is far too expensive and requires too much energy to be widely deployed. This pro ...

Secure sources of clean freshwater are essential to the welfare of communities throughout the world. Unfortunately, both in this country and abroad, freshwater supplies are increasingly being contested. Faced with threats to growth, economic development, and the health of their citizens, governments are battling over the rights to freshwater supplies. Desalination, particularly if it is powered ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of the proposed research is to develop a novel quantitative particle agglutination technology for improving the performance of detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody in body fluids. The conventional particle agglutination assays have serious drawbacks such as limited sensitivity, long time of incubation, subjectivity and la ...