Project Grant DESC0020773

Adelphi Technology Inc. was awarded a $206,500 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to develop a compact, portable single-crystal neutron diffractometer. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under the grant, Adelphi Technology will work to create a smaller, more...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1.25M in funding to X-Sight Incorporated to develop a new generation of compact, lightweight 3D X-ray or computed tomography (CT) imaging systems. The project aims to create faster, more cost-effective CT scanners that can improve access to healthcare, enhance national security screening, and advance manufacturing quality control. The key innovation...

Capesym Inc., doing business as Cape Simulations, received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop novel large area detectors for high spatial resolution neutron imaging. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security. Through...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $399,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) to develop a new generation of cost-effective, scalable, and stable radiation detectors with ultra-high detectivity. This is a joint effort between the University at Buffalo, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford to address the challenge of engineering materials and manufacturing...

Capesym Inc., doing business as Cape Simulations, was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant will support development of a photon counting single crystal perovskite x-ray camera. This camera will advance the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $263,749 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to Sound Innovation LLC in Albany, NY. The grant supports the development of a portable small animal imager to accelerate drug development. The project aims to create a cost-effective and high-quality imaging solution to improve the preclinical stage of the drug development...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $205,245 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a fast, radiation tolerant detector for thermal neutrons. The grant supported Applied Diamond's work to deliver a new neutron detection technology with applications in basic energy research, including neutron scattering and nuclear physics. The project was completed between February 2021 and February 2022. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to M3D, Inc. will develop a novel gamma-ray radiation imager for image-guided tumor diagnostics. The goal is to create a system capable of rapidly and accurately detecting gamma-ray emitting radiotracers used to identify the location of lymph nodes and tumor drainage during cancer surgical procedures. The project will characterize the design parameters of the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to James Madison University (JMU) will support the development, construction, and commissioning of a modular array based on plastic scintillator detectors for fast neutron detection. The $436,952 award will enable the research team to create an advanced neutron detector that significantly improves position resolution compared to current designs, advancing nuclear structure studies...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Photonlab of Fairfield, CA for its "NOVEL POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOSENSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR RARE DECAY AND RARE PARTICLE DETECTION" project. The one-year project period runs from February 14, 2022 to February 13, 2023. Under this award, Photonlab will develop novel position sensitive photosensor technology to support rare decay and rare particle detection, in alignment with the Office of Science Financial...