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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will integrate materials processing and will develop a new lightweight and resilient three-dimensional woven fiber reinforced cellular matrix composite (3DCMC) material. Lightweight materials will allow fuel efficient and more environmentally friendly vehicles. The 3DCMC have the potential to significantly surpass the strength, stiffness, d ...

his Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project is to design and develop appropriate mathematical models and algorithms for optimizing the crosscut operation in a wood processing (lumber processing) rough mill. The goal is to incorporate these algorithms into an integrated software system for automatic control of the process. The software system consists of a main engine that contains the m ...

"The DNA microarray is a powerful new technology that can be applied to the detection of biological warfare agents. For the detection of multiple agents, tremendous challenges lie ahead for the DNA microarray technology regarding on sensitivity,selectivity, reliability and consistence. The central theme of this proposal is to apply and optimize a newly developed DNA probe: Molecular beacons (MB) ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase I project will evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of using nanofabricated clay membranes as proton exchange membranes (PEMs) in fuel cells. The project team will incorporate high cation exchange capacity materials (clays) with polyions as thin films and compare them to Nafion, the current material of choice for PEMs. Initially, fifty ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to establish metabolic engineering approaches to increase the production of commercially relevant terpenoids in mint. This program will be directed toward high priority areas that will allow U.S. mint growers and processors to become more competitive in the production of existing products such as menthol, as well as the ability to p ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project proposes to develop a geminivirus-derived gene expression system, based on cabbage leaf curl virus, to test the effect of agronomically important genes in a transient, high throughput model. While the genomics revolution is a major step toward understanding gene function, the foremost challenge is correlating bioinformatics data with a ...

The current methodology for testing the penetration resistance of textile materials to various chemical agents has a number of drawbacks, including significant uncertainties in the resulting data, inefficiency and expense, risk to test personnel, andlimited range of test conditions. The objective of the proposed work is to develop a new system for testing of these materials that remedies these pr ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project will examine the feasibility of long-term preservation of shrimp embryos using gene transfer technology. Encysted embryos of the brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana, are resistant to extreme environmental stress including temperature, salt, anoxia and desiccation. A small heat shock crystallin protein (p26) gene identified from A. franciscana h ...

This NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project continues research and development of a commercial process for the manufacture of mono-size-dispersed, spherical powder (size 1-10 micron) from metals melting up to 200C. A unique magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet exciter will be designed, fabricated and developed as a component of the system essential to producing monosphere powder to high ...

This NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project continues research and development of a commercial process for the manufacture of mono-size-dispersed, spherical powder (size 1-10 micron) from metals melting up to 200C. A unique magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet exciter will be designed, fabricated and developed as a component of the system essential to producing monosphere powder to high ...