The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded Air Company Holdings, Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant supports research to develop improved catalysts for sanitizer ethanol production to address needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The award period is from May 15, 2021 through October 31, 2021 and will fund research at Air Company's Brooklyn, New York facility to advance catalyst technologies for sanitizer...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,687 Project Grant to Irradiant Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funded research from June 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022 for SBIR PHASE I: LARGE NANOSTRUCTURED CHANGES IN REFRACTIVE INDEX IN ANY 3D GEOMETRY. Specifically, the grant supported Irradiant Technologies' development of technology to induce large nanostructured changes in refractive index that can be...
This $247,457 National Science Foundation project grant funded research on coupling COVID-19 respiratory droplet adsorption and photocatalysis through metal organic frameworks. The grant was awarded to Framergy Inc. on June 15, 2021 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The objective was to develop materials and techniques to capture and deactivate SARS-CoV-2 virus particles through the end date of November 30, 2021. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded a $254,278 Project Grant to Silivhere Technologies Inc. under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant supports the development of a tablet to destroy viruses, bacteria, and protozoa in stored household water from December 1, 2021 to November 30, 2022. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,961 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to Rush River Research Corp. The grant aims to develop a low-cost, automated receptacle for rapid point-of-care sterilization of personal protective equipment, such as filtering facepiece respirators, for frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the company will construct and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provided $255,943 to Athem LLC from February 15, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The grant funded the development of a medical device to isolate and purify therapeutic antibodies from recovered COVID-19 donors. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award aimed to advance those goals by...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purafide, LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022. The grant funds research to scale and tailor the destruction of emerging contaminants using plasma water reactor technology. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award supports Purafide's work developing innovative...
Optical Waters, Inc. received a $255,492 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funded research and development of scaling and optimizing manufacturing methods for germicidal optical fibers to prevent disease-causing biofilms in tight channels. The goal is to advance technologies that inhibit biofilm formation using fiber optic delivery of ultraviolet light. Work will be conducted in Hadley, Massachusetts over an 11-month...
This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will support the development of a permanent ceramic antimicrobial coating technology by Nanoionix, LLC. The goal is to synthesize and deposit a pure ceramic coating on relevant substrates that exceeds EPA requirements for generating reactive oxygen species to inactivate viruses and bacteria. Nanoionix will conduct spectroscopic assessments to rapidly evaluate the types and numbers of reactive oxygen...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant to Avior Inc., doing business as Avior Bio, to develop a safe and effective copper nanoparticle suspension formulation for face mask applications against SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. Through this funding, Avior Bio will work to produce a nanoparticle formulation that can be...