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The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of the role airborne pathogens play in transmitting infection and will leave a legacy of focused attention on indoor air quality for the foreseeable future. Indoor enclosed spaces are high-risk environments for increased transmission of aerosolized pathogens like COVID-19, SARS, influenza, and other yet-to-emerge diseases. Many situations, including o ...

Studies show that the average household in the United States wastes over $1,866 in food per year, or more than $1 per day for every person within the country. This translates to approximately 300 million tons of food waste entering US landfills each day. The proposed SBIR Phase I project shall investigate the effectiveness and commercial merits of the GreenLifeTech™ system at the retail level of ...

USEFULL is a tech-enabled circular economy solution designed to eliminate single-use food/beverage products. USEFULL empowers corporations, colleges, and closed loop communities to generate less waste by directly replacing single-use, disposable containers at the beginning of the consumption cycle. We provide our proprietary technology and custom-designed inventory of vacuum insulated stainless st ...

Pesticide drift is a phenomenon with a variety of very significant environmental impacts. In addition to immediate economic impacts of lost crops or reduced yields and the social impact of conflict between neighboring land utilizers, off-target drift can result in herbicide resistant weeds, human health effects, and can damage sensitive habitats. Wind speed and direction is a predominant contribut ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)-free yellow pigments and synthetic pathways that do not unintentionally generate PCB as byproducts. This effort will harness Kebotix’s existing AI-powered platform, which includes a workflow that controls high?throughput computational modeling of molecules and materials, proprietary machine learning methods for process ...

Lightweight, cost-efficient structural materials are vital to increasing Electric Vehicles' (E.V.s') efficiency, maximizing the effectiveness of infrastructure bill spending, and thus, building a sustainable all-electric future. The light-duty segment of the automotive industry will increase its share of lightweight materials from 30 to 95% by 2050. Structural sandwich structures, featuring a comp ...

To eliminate the release of ventilation air methane (VAM) associated with coal production, the core challenge is how to oxidize methane given the low concentrations. Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes an innovative modular array combining three key elements: (1) short contact time, low thermal mass reactor design to achieve maximal total conversion in a small volume, (2) catalyst formulati ...

"Biomason’s proposed Soteria effort will eliminate key carbon incorporation elements within current biocement product production streams by: 1) urea substitution, 2) base aggregate mass carbon bundling, and 3) tuning of biocement speciation. In composite, these strategies will yield a carbon negative building material production strategy for cementitious materials that has the potential to suppl ...

"SkyNano, Endeavor Composites, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville propose to develop a composite panel that contains CO2-derived carbon nanotubes (CNTs), recycled carbon fiber waste, and bio-derived natural fibers that exhibits excellent mechanical and functional properties, while maintaining a carbon-negative footprint on a cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave basis. By the end of the Phase ...

Reduction of greenhouse gases is vital for the long-term environmental health of the planet. A large portion of the CO2 emitted each year in the United States is released from distributed sources, like cars, smaller factories, and farms. Direct capture of CO2 from ambient air is therefore necessary for the eventual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. However, capturing the CO2 ...