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Metasurfaces have advanced the field of optics and ushered novel "flat optics” technologies. Making metasurfaces reconfigurable add versatility and tunability to optical technology, enabling programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs)- the cornerston

Critical need for a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Soda lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative requiring an entire logistics chain. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is developing a novel ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop a high-temperature antenna array for hypersonic projectiles. SI2’s proposed array will be conformal to the geometry of the projectile.  It will be constructed using high temperature conductors and dielectrics.  SI2 offers its unique combination of RF design expertise, manufacturing expertise, and high-temperature RF testing infrastructure.  SI2 ...

Busek Co. Inc has created and patented a tethered spacecraft (s/c) system called SOUL (Satellite on Umbilical Line).  Under various sponsorships including the U.S. Air and Space Force, and NASA, five (5) progressively more capable versions of SOUL have be

The overall goal of this proposed project (through Phase III) is to develop the Tacrolimus At-home Saliva Test (TAST) to measure tacrolimus at ng/mL levels in oral fluid (saliva) at-home in 15-20 minutes.  The TAST will replace the painful blood tests currently performed at hospital and clinics that military patients, who have limb, facial and organ transplants, must undergo to avoid transplant r ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The application’s broad objective is to create a product that is able to improve remote compliance monitoring in pediatric orthotics applications by creating a device that combines all of the ideal compliance monitoring features into a single device called the Unintrusive Pediatric Logging Orthosis Analytic Device (UPLOAD). Our initial focus is on pediatric orthotic popu ...

The Phase 1 project developed a new method for real-time robotic motion planning. The Phase 1 system can prevent task-performing (semi)-autonomous agents from colliding with objects in their environment (e.g., navigating a quadcopter while it inspects an object and advises a human in a repair operation).  The new Phase 2 effort will build upon these initial results by extending the developed cap ...

When a muon encounters a hydrogen atom, it orbits closer to the nucleus than an electron, screening the nuclear charge and facilitating nuclear fusion. Several groups have observed over 100 fusions per muon in cold, dense mixtures of deuterium and tritium. The muon can stick to the alpha particle produced by the fusion reaction, resulting in a probable upper limit of 200 - 500 fusions per muon a ...

When a muon encounters a hydrogen atom, it orbits closer to the nucleus than an electron, screening the nuclear charge and facilitating nuclear fusion. Several groups have observed over 100 fusions per muon in cold, dense mixtures of deuterium and tritium. The muon can stick to the alpha particle produced by the fusion reaction, resulting in a probable upper limit of 200 - 500 fusions per muon at ...

PROJECT ABSTRACTThe goal of this combined Phase I/II SBIR project is to accomplish key milestones in commercializing a protein therapeutic for Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) that will enhance the repair capacity of muscle cell sarcolemmal membranes compromised by mutations in the dystrophin gene that reduce the expression level or function of the dystrophin protein. Many mutations in the dystroph ...