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This SBIR Phase I project is focused on demonstrating the feasibility of an innovative crowdfunding process to effectively support and grow the fourth sector economy at the local community level. This fourth sector economy, a blend of three traditional economic sectors (public, private and nonprofit) is poised to solve many of the world's most difficult and complex social problems; however, this s ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to deploy a revolutionary water-flood technology to increase oil recovery. The best current technology is limited to 30 - 50% recovery leaving significant resources in the ground. The available methods to further increase recovery are expensive, have limited application and can cause environmental ...

Phase I analysis results show that in order to potentially meet the round trip and exergetic efficiencies as required by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Office, for thermal energy storage in concentrated solar plants, a composite of porous silicon carbide and molten salt phase change material is needed.For a 100 megawatt (electrical) concentrated solar power plant with 12 hour ...

Thin-ply prepregs offer significant improvements in weight reduction, stiffness and overall mechanical properties over traditional composite laminates. nbsp;Thin plies (lt;0.05 mm/layer) suppress or delay crack initiation in loaded composite structures thereby allowing for manufacturing of lighter, stiffer and more durable composite products. Recent thin-ply prepreg materials, consisting of toughe ...

The objective of this proposal is the development and demonstration of a cost-effective high-fidelity aeroacoustic design tool for future commercial supersonic nozzle designs and installations. Although eddy-resolvingnbsp; CFD methods for computing high-speed jet noise are available, such methods are computationally expensive and are currently deemed impractical for use in a design optimization lo ...

The concept proposed is that of an innovative turbopump using hydrogen peroxide to drive the turbine. The turbopump has a unique feature in that it has an integral electric generator used to generate electricity and power an external fuel pump.By using hydrogen peroxide decomposed over a catalyst pack only one fluid can be used to drive the turbine. Typically, a turbopump combusts a fuel and an ox ...

In the U.S. small and mid-size farms account for 78% of the beef cattle industry's $29.5B in annual sales. Unlike large producers who commonly develop and utilize comprehensive marketing plans most small and mid-size producers do not work to optimize their production and marketing strategies. In short smaller producers must view the expected benefits of such actions as not exceeding their expected ...

ABSTRACTThe threat of radiological and nuclear accidents or attacks demands for effective radiation medical countermeasuresMCMable to mitigate and treat the effects of exposure to ionizing radiationsHematopoietic acute radiation syndromeHRASand cutaneous radiation syndromeCRSpose severelife threatening risks to exposed individualsCurrently no effective radio mitigatorto be administered after radia ...

Mucormycosis is one of the deadliest of the invasive fungal infections. Mucormycosis occurs most often in patients with hematological malignancies undergoing chemotherapy, patients who have received hematopoietic stem cell transplants or patients with diabetes mellitus. Improved diagnosis is the most frequently noted unmet need for management of the mucormycosis patient. Delays in treatment increa ...

1 PROJECT SUMMARY2 This application for a Phase II SBIR award extends the successful completion of Phase I and represents a 3 collaboration between Clinitech, LLC and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School to continue the4 development of a wearable biosensor for detecting alcohol in the interstitial fluid of humans. Excessive use of5 alcohol accounts for much of the public health burden related to ...