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Novel Versatile Intelligent Drug Delivery

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNJ07JB16C
Agency Tracking Number: 067273
Amount: $99,925.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: X14.01
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-01-19
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-07-23
Small Business Information
2711 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22202-4015
United States
DUNS: 122900918
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Patrick James
 Principal Investigator
 (303) 554-5769
 pijames@tesla.net
Business Contact
 Patrick James
Title: Vice President - Chemical Tech
Phone: (303) 554-5769
Email: pijames@tesla.net
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

This SBIR project will demonstrate and develop a novel micro-pump capable of controlled and selective chemical transport. Phase I will create, characterize, and model a robust and readily fabricated low-power miniaturized pump achieving "forceless" dissolved ion transport compatible with microgravity conditions. The compact technology will be extremely versatile, low-cost, stable, easily tailorable, and readily scaleable to higher fluxes via structure duplication and application in parallel. The device will be physically stable, chemically inert, and pH insensitive while its small dimensions result in lower power consumption and reduced mass. The result will be a more versatile and general pump capable of moving a variety of drugs. Phase I will explore the pump performance, stability, and design optimization using selected ionic compounds as model transport subjects by running designed experiments exploring pump operations as a function of key pump structural and operation variables. This data will determine the controlling variables, their effects on the system performance, and will be utilized with first-principles system physics analysis to develop a pump operation model. This model will allow rapid technology configuration exploration, operation performance refinement, and will provide critical insights into preferred, better optimized, structures to be evaluated during Phase II.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

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