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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent 30% spike in fertilizer prices globally highlight the direct links between fossil natural gas and fertilizer production and U.S. national and economic security. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of fertilizer with 21% global market share in potash and 14% in nitrogen fertilizers. In addition, nitrogen fertilizer application pro ...

Wind turbine blade lengths continue to increase, up over 150% in length from 1999 to 2021, with the largest rotors on the market today exceeding lengths of over 110 meters. In addition, the expansion of onshore and offshore wind projects into lower wind speed sites require the development of low specific power products with ever increasing blade length. The net result of the rotor growth leads dir ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Many pathogens, such as severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, spread via aerosol transmission and inflict global public health and economic consequences. SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 450 million people, led to over 6 million fatalities, and caused major economic losses. The tuberculosis-causing bacterium and longstanding global health e ...

Abstract/Project SummaryAlong with the many benefits of a global economy hides the ever-present risk for the world wide spread of infectious disease. While significant outbreaks of the flu in the recent past involving millions of individuals could be contained, the emergence and rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed how vulnerable and unprepared the world population was to combat a previou ...

7. Project Summary/Abstract The encephalitic New World alphaviruses (NWAVs), consisting of Eastern, Venezuelan and Western Equine Encephalitis Viruses (EEEV, VEEV and WEEV, respectively), are transmitted by mosquitoes through rodent or bird hosts and have caused significant periodic epizootic outbreaks in equines and humans in the Americas. NWAVs can cause severe neurological disease, with fatal e ...

PROJECT SUMMARYSouth Rampart Pharma (SRP) is an early clinical-stage company focused on developing SRP-001, a novel non-opioid designed to treat moderate-to-severe acute and chronic pain without the dose-limiting hepatotoxicity of acetaminophen and nephrotoxicity of NSAIDs, and the misuse and addictive potential of opioids. SRP-001 is currently in Phase 1 trials where interim data support the expe ...

1 BioInfoExperts develops pathogen-associated next-generation sequencing (NGS) analytics and software for a2 growing number of industries that require genome characterization. In the proposed SBIR Phase I project, we3 will develop NGS analytics for the recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) manufacturing industry; in4 Phase II, we will incorporate the NGS analytics into a a software-as-a-ser ...

As renewable energy and distributed energy generation increases on the nation’s grids, the integration costs increase, and optimization of grid interconnection becomes critical for project development. The existing methods used for systems level design, planning, and performance and cost modeling for interconnected grids remain a labor-intensive, lengthy, and highly iterative process. A demand e ...

We are developing an integrated feedstock processing, gasification, and gas cleanup process to convert lignocellulosic urban organic waste and biomass into cost-competitive, high-performance biofuels and biopower. Specifically, we are focused on converting urban and suburban wood waste and green waste into syngas suitable for upgrading that syngas to green hydrogen and/or sustainable aviation fuel ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT When the internal temperature of a material during freezing is below its equilibrium freezing point before ice nucleation has occurred, the material is said to be in the supercooled state. The long-term objective of this project is to develop a novel commercially viable supercooling device to preserve biological materials far below their freezing points while retaining the ...