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There is tremendous potential to manufacture printed electronics in a more sustainable, flexible, faster, and less costly way. Printing electronics results in less contaminated water from copper etching, the ability to change designs immediately on the production line, and less labor. Yet, despite encouraging prior Proof of Concept (POC) work, advances in materials are required for scalable manufa ...

The ability to quickly test materials during new technology development would provide actionable insight that would significantly reduce materials and device design iterations and accelerate time-to-market by up to three months. However, conventional characterization and test methods are increasingly ineffective when applied to structures less than 100 nanometers, causing challenges across R&D, pr ...

Blast-related Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has plagued American servicemen since World War I. More than a century later, there remains no direct treatment for TBI, leaving at-risk populations vulnerable to life-long neurological damage and disability. WetWare BioSystems, in partnership with BlackBox Biometrics, has developed the revolutionary helmet-borne IRONCROWN medical device system, which is ...

Oxygen is a necessary substance for human life and it is also, on the battlefield and in other emergency and medical situations, a life-saving substance. Oxygen for use in medical situations requires high purity and must be without contamination and the availability of a high concentration pure oxygen source is critically important in medical emergencies and on the battlefield. Additionally, at pr ...

We propose the continuation of development for the Autonomous Data Acquisition and Processing Technologies (ADAPT) payload. This open source system will manage data collection from onboard sensors, particularly imaging sensors, and provide actionable intelligence by enabling in-flight, real-time application of DNN image processing to support a variety of missions. We will substantially reduce the ...

Initially, our technology and partnerships enable the preservation of good, but otherwise untransplanted, extended criteria donor livers as on‐demand, off‐the‐shelf, back‐up organs to save both civilian and service members patients lives27–32 where there are no options than often near certain death, and hence the FDA path also is attractive (see Transition Pla ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes to integrate an easy to use, inexpensive, and portable bacterial concentrator with a handheld pathogen detection system to enable ultra-low cholera pathogen (Vibrio cholerae) detection. Cholera affects communities across 41 countries, including in Yemen, where in the first 5 months of 2020 has had 110,000 suspected cases. Current methods used to detect the chole ...

Additive Manufacturing Innovations LLC (AM-Innov) in collaboration with Clarkson University and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) proposes a new optical imaging system to characterize microscopic deformation of materials. The system, named as a Mechanical Testing at Microscale system (MT@micro), uses a micro-tensile testing device to mechanically load the specimen uniaxially and an optical imaging p ...

Scheduled grease sampling is one of the more reliable methods for detecting mechanical issues within machinery. Offline laboratory‐based analysis of the grease can indicate component failures, such as spalling via high concentrations of ferrous particulates. However, consistency, costs, and frequency of sampling are less than ideal. Manually collecting grease samples can put personnel in danger ...

The Phase II Technical Objectives align with the project goals of developing an outdoor device for spatial protection in a defined, limited outdoor area. While existing work has proven out technology which is effective in indoor areas, the work has not b