This federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides $350,000 to Ionicscale LLC to develop the world's most compact, novel mass spectrometry-based chemical analyzers. The goal is to create submersible instruments that can be deployed in-situ for various applications, including offshore oil and gas leak detection, monitoring of toxic industrial chemicals in oceans, and analysis of fermentation...
The National Science Foundation awarded Ionicscale LLC $256,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to develop low-cost, portable mass spectrometers based on a chip-scale ion trap mass analyzer. The award aims to advance the company's technology for ubiquitous, high-specificity chemical analysis through a novel ion trap geometry that can be microfabricated at lower costs. This has the potential to bring mass spectrometry capabilities, which are currently...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a novel, miniaturized ion trap mass spectrometer technology by Ionicscale LLC, a small technology company. The $1,000,000 project aims to create an ultra-compact, remotely programmable chemical analyzer that can greatly expand the accessibility and affordability of mass spectrometry-based chemical detection and...
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...
This $175,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program) focuses on the development of new low-cost, multiparameter microsensors for quantitatively monitoring key water pollutants such as nitrate, phosphate, and ammonia. The award to Syntro TEK Corporation, a for-profit technology company, aims to enable the creation...
Under this U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 project, Ondavia, Inc. is developing, prototyping, validating, and commercializing an in-line, automated, semi-continuous instrument to monitor and measure the nitrogen cycle in water using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). The $600,000 award supports the assembly and testing of a prototype analyzer for automated, quantitative analysis...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) provides $174,933 to Aerodyne Research Inc., a small business manufacturer and R&D company based in Billerica, Massachusetts. The objective of this 20-month project is to develop and commercialize a field-deployable system for high-resolution monitoring of nitrogen transport and transformations in living...
This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program) provides $125,000 to Foundation Instruments Inc. to establish the technical and commercial feasibility of a low-cost 3D printed colorimeter for detecting manganese, iron, and free available chlorine in drinking water. The project aims to develop safer and...
This $650,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The grant was awarded to Max-Ir Labs Incorporated, a woman-owned small business based in Dallas, Texas, to develop an advanced sensor capable of real-time monitoring of key chemicals in algae growth media. The sensor will leverage novel waveguide...
EIC Laboratories, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. The award will support EIC Laboratories' work to develop Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sandwich assays for disease diagnosis in rural areas from July 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. The SBIR/STTR programs are intended to...