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Multilayer chemical protective gloves that provide 24 hours of protection against chemical warfare agents while being more resistant to petroleum oils and flames than the currently used butyl rubber gloves will be developed. This will be achieved usingaqueous nanocomposite elastomeric coatings specially formulated for use in newly designed multilayer gloves. In phase 1, InMat demonstrated that a f ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop an improved baculovirus transfer vector that contains features enabling real time monitoring of protein expression, high level protein production and rapid protein purification from the insect cells. We proposeto build this new vector based upon our proprietary pPSC12 transfer vector that already contains the powerful polyhedrin promoter, believed by ma ...

Semorex has carried out a successful Phase I project which demonstrates the potential of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) technology to solve the critical problem of improving organophosphate (OP) detection. MIPs, plastic polymers with specificmolecular binding sites molded into them, combine the selectivity of antibodies with the robustness of polymers.Prior to and as part of Phase I, Semorex ...

An electrostatic precipitation-based aerosol collector will be designed, constructed, tested, and fine-tuned with the aim of demonstrating the practicality of a low-power system capable of sampling air at a rate of >500 liters/minute and collectingtherefrom >80% of particles 1-10 microns in size into a small volume [

Based on the success of our Phase I feasibility research, we propose to continue the project for the automated objective speech intelligibility assessment system. It consists of a pair of head and torso simulators placed at the same distance as typical face-to-face communication, a power amplifier, a laptop computer, a speech recognizer, and console software. The simulator has acoustic properties ...

The overall goal of this proposed program (through Phase III) is to build a hand-held Raman analyzer that can perform non-contact identification of chemicals in the field. This will be accomplished by modifying a commercially available FT-Raman analyzer to employ 976 or 1064 nm laser excitation. Feasibility will be demonstrated in Phase I by comparing the ability of three Raman systems using las ...

While this solicitation describes the need for better sampling methods and more rugged mass spectrometers to meet this DoD requirement, the topic author agreed to consider our alternative approach, which employs existing DoD Raman spectrometers. The goal of this proposed project (through Phase III) is to develop a Field-Usable Designer Drug Analyzer capable of identifying and quantifying drugs in ...