Award Data

Wide Band Gap semiconductors with advanced topographies allow much higher power densities and efficiencies than prior generation power electronics.   Power density is a function of switching speed and cooling requirements, and operating at or above 50KHz allows for a dramatic reduction in size and weight of power electronics for power conditioning, converting, and motor control.  Powdermet has ...

In this DARPA STTR Phase I program, Metamagnetics Inc., in collaboration with Northeastern University, proposes to address the challenges associated with performance of transformer and inductor materials operating at high power and frequencies equal to or greater than 50 kHz by developing ferromagnetic – ferrimagnetic composites with high saturation magnetization, high permeabilities, and ultral ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison propose to develop a multilayer emissivity control coating (MECC) for active and passive thermal emission control. PSI will fabricate a thermochromic emissivity control coating based on vanadium dioxide (VO2) and validate its ability to modulate broadband thermal signature contrast by >10:1 with a switching time of 1 µs. We wil ...

Early recognition of impending decompensation and appropriate intervention is critical to patient survival in many situations; yet, military personnel receive limited training about the early signs of decompensation through established training courses. Descriptions of respiratory distress, shock, and poor perfusion may be offered in training, but with little opportunity to practice recognizing th ...

Multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections are a global public health crisis with ESKAPEE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter spp, and Escherichia coli.) pathogens particularly troublesome. Wound infection is usually acquired in the hospital setting and is a significant source of morbidity and morta ...

Opportunity: Guayule, a US native plant, is the only alternate rubber crop with an established, mechanized, agronomic system. Problem: Low rubber yields and lack of effective resin and bagasse coproduct valorization, have prevented widespread adoption by American farmers and processors. Rubber is only made when the cytoplasmic monomer pool (isopentenyl-pyrophosphate; IPP) is larger than that requi ...

Conventional methods for detecting pathogens, which are based on culturing the microorganism, are time-consuming and laborious. Machine learning provides an alternative path to identify pathogens using supervised learning algorithms. Most current computational tools utilize genomic or protein data to identify bacteria. These methods look for features in the whole genome that correlate to pathogeni ...

The goal of the research is to provide a solar-blind, deep-UV photo-detector array that can be used in instruments detecting chemical and biological agents, such as TAC-BIO II, using UV Raman and Fluorescence measurements. The overall approach is to develop a solid-state detector array that achieves the performance goals for QE (>70%), gain (>1E6), dark current (

StampPump is a postage-stamp-sized (27x27x6 mm), fully-self-contained, closed-loop insulin patch pump system that is filled at the factory with enough insulin to treat a person with T1- or trauma-induced hyperglycemia for a full week. The device is shelf stable for at least 90 days and so is compatible with critical-care or forward deployment use. We propose to augment this system with the ability ...

It is well established that hyperglycemia of critical illness, general glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance are common among critically ill patients, including those without a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus upon hospital admission. Such glycemic dysregulation has been linked to increased patient morbidity and mortality, and longer recovery times. Furthermore, tight glycemic control has been ...