Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008181

Spec Sensors LLC was awarded a $199,912.24 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620). The award will support Spec Sensors' development of next-generation amperometric gas sensors through miniaturization and cost reduction. Specifically, Spec Sensors will design thinner sensor materials, validate roll-to-roll printing techniques, and develop new inks...

This National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 Engineering) Project Grant award totaling $400,000 aims to develop a network of chemical sensors that can continuously monitor outdoor air for carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. The University of California, Davis will lead this 3-year effort to assemble a sensor network that can detect and quantify targeted VOC levels, with data relayed to a cloud platform for analysis. The team will first test...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator Track L Project Grant, with a total funding of $650,000, aims to innovate and mature two miniature volatile organic compound (VOC) sensing technologies - colorimetric VOC sensor arrays and wearable VOC sensor patches. The project team, consisting of engineers, chemists, material scientists, biologists, and data scientists, will leverage machine learning and bio-inspired design to develop cost-effective, field-portable, and highly...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Access Sensor Technologies LLC received a $612,682 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), effective August 5, 2025, with completion targeted for January 31, 2027. The awardee is commercializing a High-Throughput Automated Sample Analysis Platform (ASAP) designed to enable large-scale characterization of air pollution exposures for exposomics and precision...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $256,000 will fund the development of an optimized ion mobility spectrometry system for distributed chemical sensing without the use of radioactive ionization sources. The awardee, Sensit Ventures Inc. of Davis, California, will establish an experimental and theoretical framework to miniaturize differential mobility spectrometry technology for analytical-quality chemical...

Foundation Instruments Inc. received a $618,570 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026. The company is developing a HAA-meter—an affordable, on-site monitoring device for detecting haloacetic acids (HAAs), the second most common class of halogenated disinfection by-products formed during water chlorination...

The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded Kent State University $550,000 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year project grant runs from July 2021 through June 2024 and supports the development of a zero-power optical sensor platform for toxic gas detection. As part of the collaboration, Ohio Lumex Co., Inc. will provide equipment, facilities, personnel and a testing apparatus to create custom gas mixtures and evaluate sensors'...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under its Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to Xmark Labs, LLC. The purpose of this grant is to establish the feasibility and proof of concept of a networked, affordable environmental sensor for use in commercial buildings, which will enhance energy control and air quality regulation. Under the agreement, Xmark Labs will design, build, test, and...

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center awarded a $2,500,000.00 Cooperative Agreement to Missouri State University under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to assess a multi-functional gas sensor array platform for harmful gas and analyte monitoring. The objective is to improve and assess a multi-functional gas sensor array demonstrator through field tests and lifecycle analysis to...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a 3-year, $250,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to characterize the sources and sinks of the oxidative potential (OP) of indoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5). The objectives are to 1) investigate the evolution and dynamics of the OP and reactivity of indoor PM2.5 from indoor and ambient sources, 2) establish an inventory of the OP of PM2.5 emitted...