Cooperative Agreement 70NANB16H184

This $274,786 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of a cutting-edge scanning magnetometer microscope by Femtosenselabs, LLC. This new microscope technology will enable high-resolution imaging of novel magnetic materials with unprecedented sensitivity at the nanoscale, supporting the advancement of spintronics and the development of...

Femtosenselabs, LLC received a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), effective August 1, 2025, through April 30, 2026. The company will develop enhanced diamond-based magnetic field sensors by fabricating diamond containing aligned nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers—atomic defects that function as spin qubits for magnetometry applications. The Phase I...

This $995,658 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to accelerate the development and adoption of quantum sensing platforms to drive advances in magnetic materials and devices. The award supports an interdisciplinary team at Case Western Reserve University that will develop a magnetic quantum sensing platform using nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond to detect magnetic waves (magnons) in novel magnetic...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (NSF ENG) provides $249,829 to Northeastern University to develop an integrated platform for high accuracy measurements of viral particle count and infectious titer. The platform will combine nano-pore technology to identify viral particles based on biophysical properties with single-molecule RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization to discriminate individual molecules of viral RNA in infected cells. This will enable...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $206,380 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a diamond detector system for ion-beam diagnostics. The grant-funded project will support the design and testing of an innovative diamond-based detector that can be used to characterize the properties of ion beams with unprecedented resolution. This detector system aligns with the Office of Science's mission...

This $1,634,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize live-cell imaging by developing nanodiamond quantum sensors with exceptional sensitivity. The research, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging", will integrate nanodiamond quantum sensors with advanced light-sheet microscopy to achieve high spatiotemporal resolution and low...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to support the development of new magnetic particle imaging tracers. The goal is to create superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle clusters with controlled properties that can be used to improve magnetic particle imaging, a non-invasive medical imaging technique similar to MRI. Key objectives include designing and synthesizing poly(amino acid)...

This two-year, $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds the development of a new high-throughput chemical analysis system for applications such as pharmaceutical drug discovery. The University of California, Berkeley will advance a benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy device capable of performing measurements on multiple samples simultaneously at throughput rates 50-100 times greater than current technologies. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $230,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a biosensing platform for rapid sorting, trapping, and analysis of extracellular vesicles and viral specimens. Over a three-year period ending in August 2025, the University will combine graphene electrodes and photonic waveguides to create a "waveguide-integrated graphene nano-tweezers" platform. This...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $450,000 over 3 years to the University of New Mexico to develop an advanced magnetometry sensor based on frequency comb techniques. The proposed sensor will exploit direct phase detection rather than amplitude measurements, enabling enhanced resolution and sensitivity for gradient magnetic field detection. Key technical objectives include theoretical modeling, verification with a...