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The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has been in effect among 177 nations since 1996. Despite lacking ratification by the United Nations, signatories have deployed the International Monitoring System (IMS) to detect and track nuclear detonations. The IMS employs 80 radionuclide monitoring stations to filter air samples and detect traces of radioactive materials. To advance radionuclide monito ...

Quantum computers has the potential to revolutionize computing, solving problems in chemistry, material science and optimization that are beyond the reach of today's most powerful supercomputers. However, we are still in the early phase of the technology development, and today’s quantum hardware systems suffer from drift and imperfections and require frequent calibrations to operate properly. Th ...

"Rising sea levels and king tide flooding in coastal areas across America are saturating onsite wastewater disposal systems (OSDS), resulting in the degradation of coastal ecosystems and 200,000+ illnesses annually. Many States are mandating system upgrades, with 88,000 upgrades required by 2050 in Hawaii alone. Unfortunately, existing upgrade options are unaffordable for 97% of Hawaiian homeowner ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to improve a key step used in the greater than$500-billion market of pharmaceutical manufacturing: purification of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Ninety percent of all active pharmaceutical ingredients are purified using crystallization, however, current approaches to crystallization ha ...

This broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop membrane solutions to address opportunities in the gas and vapor separation market. Today, this market is dominated by energy-intensive thermal processes that have large carbon footprints, such as distillation and absorption/stripping. The current membrane solutions often lack ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project includes improving cardiovascular management, personalized medicine, inclusivity for historically underserved populations, and clinical trial design. The project could improve the health and wellbeing of heart failure (HF) patients while saving billions of dollars in HF hospitalization costs. If the tec ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to decrease patient referral wait times. Referral wait times are often long since offices need to retrieve a large amount of medical information on a patient before they are seen by a doctor. Unfortunately, medical records are often not stored in one place, making it difficult to gather the ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be a significant step towards resolving the access vs. privacy dilemma of the big data era. The use of people’s biometrics, internet traffic, and financial, medical, and genetic data can enable better crime prevention, targeted ads, and health innovation, but at the expense of privacy. ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to reduce global warming using an innovative passive cooling technique. The project will develop an environmentally friendly, passive cooling coating that can help reduce the temperature of buildings. The coating is expected to provide energy reductions ranging from 5-25%, depending on climate and ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is focused on developing an energy storage technology that stores electricity as heat and converts its back to electricity whenever needed using thermophotovoltaics (TPV). If successful, the innovation will help transition the United States (US) towards a fully renewable electrical grid. The c ...