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Foundation Alloy integrates material design and part production by developing a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. Foundation Alloy is developing a design platform for new alloys that combine unprecedented performance with a unique suitability to today’s advanced manufacturing techniques. Foundation ...

Foundation Alloy integrates material design and part production by developing a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. Foundation Alloy is developing a design platform for new alloys that combine unprecedented performance with a unique suitability to today’s advanced manufacturing techniques. Foundation ...

Project Summary/Abstract Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) disproportionately affects minorities – African Americans are 2x more likely and Hispanics/Latinos are 1.5x more likely than white Americans to have ADRD. Recently, the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM) and the Alzheimer’s Association supported the recommendation of “better management of risk factors – particular ...

ABSTRACT Between half and three-quarters of nursing home (NH) residents fall each year. About 5% of adults 65 and older live in nursing homes, but nursing home residents account for 20% of deaths from falls in this age group. 50% of nursing home residents have moderate or severe cognitive impairment. Older adults with Alzheimer’s Disease or ADRD are more likely to fall than their peers without c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a leading cause of dementia with 1 in 85 adults affected worldwide. The lack of disease-modifying therapies or mechanistic biomarkers to reliably monitor treatment are key unmet needs. Current standard of care (SoC), i.e., acetylcholinesterase or NMDA receptor blockade, provides limited symptom-relief. Current evidence indicates that an inter-related, ...

The Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will develop and demonstrate a Battery Management System (BMS) Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing platform for the 6T Li-ion battery program. The BMS HIL platform will be designed to test BMS units in a laboratory and manufacturing environment to ensure they meet current and future requirements. The project also includes the development of a ...

  The paradigm for the majority of robotic swarm systems today is generally described as Centralized-Control / Decentralized Execution, where a single controller creates tasking for the swarm and and the nodes in the swarm coordinate amongst themselves to

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is accelerating the manufacturing of and access to newly developed therapeutics and vaccines. To address global health problems, effective and safe new biologics such as therapeutics and vaccines will need to be manufactured at unprecedented large scales and short times. Accelerating access to new biol ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project develops a cow's milk testing system using mobile spectroscopy and machine learning to provide rapid and automatic milk testing. The team aims to address the annual $32 billion global loss from bovine mastitis, an udder disease, due to the lack of farm-level early detection technology. The project helps farmers detect mastitis early, ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will make a significant impact on science and technology, national emission reduction efforts, and the energy security of the United States. The team aims to advance science by developing a low-cost and low-emission method to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide, a common waste product foun ...