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Sick building syndrome, used to describe acute negative health effects linked to time spent in a building, has been related to poor indoor air quality. Similarly, poor aircraft cabin air quality has been identified as a cause for negative health effects on pilots and flight crews, leading to numerous studies on aerotoxic syndrome. These symptoms can pose a serious threat if experienced by pilots ...

This Phase I SBIR program addresses the need for a manufacturing process that enables high reliability Pb-free tin coatings. Pb-free tin solders used in electronics applications have demonstrated whisker growth, due in part to compressive stresses within the deposit, causing failures of the components. Faraday Technology, Inc., proposes an enhanced Faradayic deposition process for Pb-free tin so ...

GreensulateTM is an affordable, biodegradable replacement for polystyrene/polyurethane foam building products, poised to replace petrol-foams in the rigid board insulation market.  This patent pending technology uses the vegetative growth stage of a benign fungus (mycelium: P.ostreatus, I.obliquus, F.formentarius A.arvensis) to bond loose particles into a cohesive whole.  The fungus operate ...

This SBIR Phase I project is designed to determine the feasibility of preparing an environmentally friendly chromium-free solvent-free hybrid ultraviolet (UV) resin coating system suitable for applications such as industrial, automotive, and aerospace corrosion resistance. In particular, the overall objective of this program is to determine the most appropriate segregation of components for a two ...

Hard chromium coatings (0.25 to10 mil thick) are used extensively for imparting wear and erosion resistance to components in both industrial and military applications. The most common means of depositing hard chromium has been through the use of chromic acid baths containing hexavalent chromium (Cr+6). However, as a result of its toxicity, exposure levels of Cr+6 have been limited. An alternati ...

Senspex, Inc. proposes to investigate a novel diagnostic tool based upon evanescent field planar waveguide sensing and complementary nanostructured mediated molecular vibration spectroscopy methods for rapid detection and analysis of hazardous biological and chemical targets in water and air. The main characteristic of the proposed approach is the use of evanescent field Surface Enhanced Raman Sp ...

“Sick building syndrome,” used to describe acute negative health effects linked to time spent in a building, has been related to poor indoor air quality.  Similarly, poor aircraft cabin air quality has been identified as a cause of negative health effects on pilots and flight crews, leading to numerous studies on “aerotoxic syndrome.”  These symptoms can pose a serious threat if ex ...

The proposed program will demonstrate the ability of a detector based on measuring the conductance of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) ion channels to detect and quantify anatoxin-a contamination in drinking water systems.  The nAChR is extremely sensitive to the presence of anatoxin-a.  Electronic Bio Sciences has already made extensive progress in the development of a robust ion c ...

In the United States, several high profile outbreaks of waterborne illness during the past 15 years have highlighted the need for solutions to drinking water contamination.  Several recent studies suggest that approximately 20 percent of the surface and ground source waters in the U.S. are contaminated with viruses.  There is very little data, however, on virus occurrence in drinking water, ...

Constellation Technology Corporation (Constellation) proposes the use of an integrated recovery and detection system for online water supply monitoring.  The integrated system is designed to efficiently capture and recover pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and toxins from water supplies and to detect and identify those pathogens in an automated fashion.  Current methods of pa ...