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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes to develop an integrated microchip system for glycosylated hemoglobin (GHb). The approach adapts existing protocols for GHb detection using capillary gel electrophoresis and pulsed amperometric detection. The commercial application of this project will be to provide an economic glucose monitoring device for diabetics.

This Smal Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop Mobility Agents that help persons with cognitive disabilities use public transportation systems. The realization of an operational system that wirelessly connects users to real-time bus information through Mobility Agents depends on the fact that public transportation systems are increasingly equipped with GPS (Global Pos ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II project will build on the great successes of the Phase I program by proving that the nanocoating of fine ferromagnetic particles is possible on the large scale and that such nanocomposite particles have commercial uses. The Phase I program proved that atomic layer deposition (ALD) of an alumina film can provide these properties.The objectives of the ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop composite TiO2/ZnO (Titania /Zinc Oxide) particles capped with an Al2O3 nanolayer for benign protection from UVA/UVB - rays. Titania (TiO2) provides excellent protection against UVB - rays. Zinc oxide (ZnO) protects against UVA-rays very efficiently. The manufacture of composite particles via novel Atomic Layer Deposition ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project provides for the commercialization of composite UV-photocatalytic TiO2 nanofilms deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) on nanosized ferromagnetic iron particles. The iron nanoparticles are formed in-situ prior to ALD processing where conformal, pinhole-free, chemically bonded films of TiO2 are deposited on the surface of each indi ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project proposes to use high pressures for disaggregation and proper refolding of aggregated proteins in commercial IVIg (immunoglobins for intravenous administration) formulations.The commercial application of this project will be in improved quality of therapeutic proteins for intravenous administration. Increased process yields wi ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project proposes to develop a novel supersensitive multiphoton detection system for protein chips (P-chip/MPD) for applications in drug discovery and in early detection of prostate cancer and breast cancer. The commercial impact of the proposed work will be in the area of diagnostic proteomics. The diagnostics industry is large, currently estima ...

This SBIR Phase II project will develop and demonstrate self-imaging laser technologies for eyesafe remote sensing applications. Laser based remote sensing applications require a variety of output formats, including amplitude modulated (AM) and frequency modulated (FM) continuous wave (CW) lasers; and pulsed lasers. There are currently no eye safe technologies available with the adaptive waveform ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to further the development of the technology to manufacture the first environmentally safe polymer coating that can successfully prevent aquatic biofouling on submerged man-made surfaces. The Phase I study clearly showed that the unique honeycomb-like structure of these novel nano-structured dendritic polymer coatings not only d ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project proposes the unsupervised extraction of contextual information from dedicated video surveillance cameras by providing a mechanism to manually inject pieces of semantic, using semantic knowledge as seed information to learn statistical context models for: functional components, Environmental components, targets, temporal compon ...