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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is aimed at integration of information in the energy domain to provide data services to organizations. Businesses want to reduce energy costs and are realizing the value in capturing and tracking a variety of current and forecasted energy-related data to make decisions involving energy usage and investments. However, businesses do not possess ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes the development of an innovative low-cost material synthesis route for the formation of porous carbons with finely controlled and uniform microstructure, tunable pore size, high surface area, and, most importantly, aligned micropores for rapid ion transport. Conventional supercapacitor electrodes are made of activated carbons ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to create an innovative technology to manufacture micro-lenses and other micro-optical components, which have a wide variety of applications in areas of telecommunications, precision optics, imaging and display devices, etc., Success in the optics marketplace depends on the ability to introduce newer products in shorter times. Exi ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project investigates the use of environmental vibrations to increase the interrogation distance between wireless sensors and their readers. The utilization of free vibrations, themselves, for increased performance is a paradigm shift away from existing approaches that use vibrations purely for energy harvesting. Using vibrations to avoid material lim ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes to develop a simple, single-shot, inexpensive, and complete laser-pulse measurement device for ~100ps to ~10ns pulses. While long (>10ns) pulses are easily measured, and recently developed techniques completely measure ultra-short pulses (

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project investigates the technical and commercial feasibility of a realtime automatic accompaniment technology. The proposed innovation would allow a computer to improvise in realtime with a human musician. The intellectual merit of this proposal is in researching a novel computational framework for modeling musical interaction. Realtime improvisatio ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project will explore technologies that will enable an improvement in trust in the converged telephony infrastructure without negatively impacting user experience. Telephony has long been viewed as a trusted communications medium and a variety of transactions conducted over the telephone depend on such trust. For example, to combat cre ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this project is to develop compliant meniscal repair devices based on shape memory polymers. The repair device will be inserted in a less invasive temporary shape and then triggered to expand into its permanent functional shape. Meniscus repair represents an increasingly common and critical soft-tissue based orthopedic procedure. Approximately ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an SBIR Phase I re-submission to fund proof of concept studies for the development of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from a population of HIV/NeuroAIDS patients who abuse alcohol and/or other substances (i.e. cocaine, opium, etc). It has been accepted that alcohol and drugs of abuse are significant cofactors in the progression of human immunodefi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Zebrafish are an important animal model system for both basic science research and preclinical disease modeling. Complementary to mammalian models, the zebrafish system facilitates methods that are not practical (e.g.,large-scale forward genetic screens), not possible (in vivo imaging of embryonic development), or not cost-effective (high-throughput chemical sc ...