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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will engineer a fully automated, trailer-mounted Supersaturated Dissolved Oxygen Injector (SDOX) and determine the effects of addition of dissolved oxygen (DO) to impaired waterways. Waterways with low dissolved oxygen cannot support fish and other aquatic life and are dominated by anaerobic microbial digestive processes. If the amoun ...

This NSF SBIR Phase I project is to develop a series of optical edge and band-pass thin film filters using semiconductor nano-crystals and noble metal nano-rod as the absorption materials. The nanocrystal-based thin film filters would rely for their operation on the unique feature, size dependent absorption, of semiconductor and noble metal nanocrystals. Semiconductor nanocrystals are nanometer-si ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will create an instrument for chemically interfacing with cells in culture at numerous sites simultaneously and with arbitrary, real-time control over the interaction coordinates. The broader impact of this instrument will be to provide a new tool for greatly improving the scientific understanding of cellular responses in the study of ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project intends to finalize commercial production protocols for high quality, highly stable, bio-compatible, bio-accessible, and yet affordable Fe3O4 nanocrystals and related magnetic beads. Current state-of-the-art methodology for making Fe3O4 nanocrystals for biomedical applications has many critical deficiencies including poor ability to c ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project will explore feasibility and demonstrate advantages of the application of novel BaTiO3 nanoparticles based embedded decoupling capacitors (nCAP) fabricated using electrostatic directed assembly of the nanoparticles. The state-of-the-art embedded capacitors are mostly microcomposites involving high dielectric materials such as BaTiO3 as fille ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project addresses packaging techniques for MEMS/NEMS components and systems. Applying wafer-level and chip-scale approaches new designs will allow for hermetic encapsulation of sensitive structures, as well as simple, multi-functional electrical, microfluidic, optical and thermal interconnection of system components. This project will demonstrate fea ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase I project proposes to develop a portable, sealed, self-contained laboratory-on-a-chip using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) based microfluidic technology to perform chemical analyses of body fluids. These labs-on-a-chip are small, lightweight, consume minimal reagents and power and can be preprogrammed to automate most of the functions of the device su ...