SBIR/STTR Research Award
Novel Bioprocess for Spider Silk Fiber Production
Award amount
$563,150Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Technology Holding, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-09-29
- Contract end date
- 2016-09-28
- UEI
- U52NGYKN42H6
- Solicitation number
- 2014.1
- Topic code
- A14-015
Research abstract
Spider silk is one of the strongest yet still elastic natural materials to be formed into fibers. The ability to utilize these proteins in next generation clothing and cordage represents a leap forward in textile technology. Unfortunately the farming of spiders necessary to generate natural fibers is difficult and costly. As a result the expression of the proteins from other hosts is warranted. This proposal aims to increase the concentration and purity of spider silk proteins able to be isolated from a scale-able host, E. coli. This will allow for the production of a renewable fiber resource rivaling and exceeding the current crop of chemically synthesized textile polymers.
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.
- High Energy Density Synthetic Fuel
- Novel Method to Produce Renewable JP10
- HoodLab - A system for neighborhood scale environmental data visualization, crowdsourcing and data exploration tool using edge processing for real-time updates
- Honeycomb Hollow Carbon Fiber Composites
- Innovative Method for Development of Hemp based Fabric
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Reproducible high yield production of structural proteins for biologically-derived fibers as an alternative to nylon
- Novel Bioprocess for Spider Silk Fiber Production
- High-scale Production of a Thermo-Reversible Natural Elastomer Fiber
Research funding history
138 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $44,688,257. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture