SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additive Manufacture of Respiratory Protection
Award amount
$149,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
- Recipient company
- AKITA INNOVATIONS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-07
- Contract end date
- 2019-03-11
- UEI
- UXNVMEZDFNF7
- Solicitation number
- 2018.0
- Topic code
- CBD181-001
Research abstract
In the proposed SBIR project Akita Innovations and Adaptive 3D will develop feedstock materials and methods for the additive manufacture of soft elastomers that exhibit resistance to the permeation of chemical agents.The goal of the effort is to produce a fully functional Air Purifying Respirator (APR) and to demonstrate advantages of additive manufacturing to provide innovations such as custom sizing.To realize this vision for air-purifying respirators AM must be able to manufacture soft elastomers that are resistant to the permeation of chemical agents. Our Technical Approach in Phase 1 will leverage elastomeric materials being commercialized by Adaptive 3D and innovative labile crosslinking monomer technology being developed at Akita Innovations.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Permanent Elastomeric Radar Array Cover
- Scalable Intrinsically Porous Organic Polymers
- AM of Textured Piezoelectric Ceramics
- Additive Manufacture of MOF Elastomers
- Personally-fitted Half-Mask Respirators
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- 3D Printed Manufacturing of Respiratory Protection
- 3D Printed Manufacturing of Respiratory Protection
- 3D Printing of Flexible Polymers for Respiratory Protection
- Additive Manufacturing of Made-To-Measure Respiratory Protection Systems
Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2025). Reported award amounts total $11,253,725. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense