Project Grant 1353635

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant to Itomography Corporation supports the development of dual-modality tomography core scanning technology for oil saturation estimation at wellsites. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of determining three-dimensional hydrocarbon distribution throughout large-diameter cores with high spatial resolution of 10 cubic millimeters, 95% accuracy, and a throughput of 1 meter per hour...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $205,499.00 to Sentek Instrument, LLC to develop an active sensing cable and interrogation system for subsurface magnetic field imaging. The award period runs from February 18, 2025 to November 17, 2025. Sentek Instrument, LLC is a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business located in Blacksburg, Virginia that specializes in advanced sensing technologies. The...

Emprise Concepts, LLC was awarded a $275,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (NSF TIP, CFDA 47.084) to develop an innovative computational software tool for characterizing subsurface conditions and reducing risk in underground construction projects. Specifically, the company will create algorithms to automatically integrate geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring data, construction process data, and existing infrastructure...

The $255,963 National Science Foundation grant to Teverra LLC will support the development of an innovative downhole tool for direct measurement of in-situ rock stresses in deep well environments. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million CFDA program, the Phase I project aims to design, model, and prepare prototypes for a modular stress measurement tool applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells. Key objectives include analytical and numerical solutions to...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, is focused on developing a portable device for the rapid, on-site detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The $305,000 award to Wave Lumina Inc., with a performance period from May 2025 to April 2026, aims to create an affordable, field-deployable sensor system that can detect PFAS at parts-per-trillion levels using...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development and validation of Fluxworks, Inc.'s "Flux Angle Mapping" magnetic gear technology. The $1,236,159 Phase II SBIR project aims to advance robotic actuator and sensor capabilities for in-space manufacturing, with potential applications in microgravity environments, commercial space stations, and terrestrial industries...

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...

Mineralogic LLC received a $254,741 National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I Project Grant to develop predictive tools for characterizing carbon sequestration in mined materials. The grant was awarded February 1, 2021 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop science and engineering solutions to national challenges. The project aims to advance predictive modeling capabilities to analyze how mined materials can capture and store carbon through natural...

This $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program supports the development of a label-free, high-resolution, high-throughput protein screening platform called Vibrational Spectroscopy with Metasurface Optics (VISMO). The technology aims to enable simultaneous, minute-scale measurement of millions of protein samples, which would dramatically improve the lengthy and costly cycles...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $200,000 in funding to Vista Clara Inc., a veteran-owned small business, to develop CPT+NMR instrumentation and tooling for offshore wind geotechnical investigations. Vista Clara specializes in advanced magnetic resonance technologies for groundwater characterization and has delivered a range of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging systems, instruments, and...