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According to the USDA, 25% of the US fresh fruit supply at the consumer level is wasted, which equates to 9.5 billion pounds. To address consumer food waste, Imvela Corp. proposes to develop a novel, natural ingredient that reduces microbial spoilage and extends shelf life, when applied to berries after they are harvested. Our approach is innovative because we collect experimental data from a larg ...

How Glass SCMs Solve the Market Need. The process of producing cement has remained unchanged since the industrial revolution. Concrete producers need a new high performing cement alternative to lower their concrete products' cost and embodied carbon. Otherwise, we will be building our future communities using a process with the environmental and financial costs of 1820s technology. This project wi ...

Specific Need for the Technology: This research enables development of a new microbial culture that will produce the world’s first natural microbial bioprotectant product. Retail/consumer/service sees losses (spoilage) of >$162 billion/year, or ~30% of all food, of which around ~20% is dairy6. Chemical preservatives are a principal approach to mitigating spoilage, however because of evolving con ...

The carbon impact of materials used in residential and commercial buildings is substantial. The building trade must urgently shift towards using materials with lower embodied carbon, or better yet, use materials that can sequester carbon over the life of the building and beyond. Drywall is used in enormous quantities and comes with a considerable carbon footprint. Cinterest has prototyped a wallbo ...

How Glass SCMs Solve the Market Need The process to produce cement has remained unchanged since the industrial revolution. Concrete producers need a new high-performing cement alternative to lower their concrete products' cost and embodied carbon. Otherwise, we will be building our future communities using a process with the embodied carbon and financial costs of 1820s technology. This project aim ...

     This project aims to develop high-temperature (> 300°C) operational dielectrics for SiC CMOS integrated circuits (ICs) technologies in a production-grade fabrication facility in the U.S. All outcomes of this project will directly benefit future implementations of various kinds of high-temperature electronics for defense applications.Increasingly, the development of SiC CMOS-based ICs tha ...

NoMIS Power Group is working to accelerate the clean tech revolution in the 21st Century by enabling the widespread adoption of SiC devices in the global power management industry. And, in the process, help develop an indigenous US-based supply chain for this critical technology, such as EV fast chargers, solid-state transformers and DC protection equipment, HVDC converters, and locomotive tractio ...

NoMIS Power Group is working to accelerate the clean tech revolution in the 21st Century by enabling the widespread adoption of SiC devices in the global power management industry. And, in the process, help develop an indigenous US-based supply chain for this critical technology, such as EV fast chargers, solid-state transformers and DC protection equipment, HVDC converters, and locomotive tractio ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent chemicals that have been introduced to the environment through manufacturing, use, and disposal of products containing PFAS. The U.S. EPA has issued a lifetime drinking water Health Advisory Level (HAL) for the perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorosulfonic acid (PFOS), two of the more than 3,000 PFAS compo ...

Capro-X, Inc. is a biotechnology company that was founded in 2017 with the goal of decreasing the expense and environmental impact associated with the handling of dairy production wastes and byproducts. Using a novel fermentation process, called the WheyAway, Capro-X converts lactose-containing dairy industry process streams into treated water and a mixture of valuable fatty acid chemicals. The Wh ...