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This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project aims to develop a fibrous material for the embedment and gradual release of appropriate genetic material, including small interfering RNA (siRNA), and viral vectors carrying genes for anti-inflammatory molecules, from coronary stents and prosthetic grafts. With over one million stents, and 70,000 prosthetic grafts placed each ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project has as its objective the development and demonstration of a hardware-based security platform for the protection of applications and confidential data in mobile phones. The end-product components consist of (i) an ultra-low-power security chip protected against attacks, by means of a unique compilation-driven instruction set obfuscation ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project proposes a solution to the challenges of the effective software programming of multi-core processor architectures. These architectures will become increasing prevalent in the near term, and a solution that would allow increased programmer productivity in implementing higher-performance software applications to utilize multi-co ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project focuses on development of an electronic mobility aid for the blind to prevent collision with overhanging obstacles that are not detected by standard methods such as the cane. Surprisingly, there is a conspicuous gap in the catalog of mobility aids addressing this problem. There is currently no device available that meets all t ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project aims to develop a new method for expressing novel antimicrobials from marine microbial DNA in engineered E. coli. Availability of new antibiotics would be of great value to medicine, as more human pathogens are acquiring resistance to mainstay antibiotic therapy. Moreover, a method for expression and isolation of heterologou ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project will create a generic robotic grasping system. Generic grasping is among the most difficult of robotic problems. The universe of objects is unlimited, and it is very challenging to create an algorithm that enables grasping of all of them. Many techniques exist, but they typically do not run in real time (on common computationa ...

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project will develop an engineering design level simulation tool for non-Newtonian flow systems, such as polymers and suspensions used in advanced materials engineering and process design. Recently developed innovative modeling of rheological properties at a mesoscopic level, using a rate-of-strain dependent relaxation time in the lattice Boltzmann m ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will use recycled or natural graphite to develop low cost graphite/aluminum composites with high thermal conductivity for electronic thermal management applications. Highly conductive graphite flakes randomly dispersed at ~75 volume percent (v/o) into Al matrix with zero interface resistance is calculated at a conductivity of 800 W/mK ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project aims to create a software development toolkit for semi-automatic parallelization of software written in high-level languages for serial architectures. The goal is to not only ensure high performance on parallel applications, but to do so while minimizing development time. Using a series of programs previously developed as a te ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will establish the feasibility of commercialization of CHT (Computer-aided Heat Treatment) technology developed at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The proposed research will: (1) develop knowledge discovery based data mining tools to uncover hidden furnace model parameters and rules; (2) develop a calibration techni ...