SBIR/STTR Research Award
Thin Film Coatings for Antimicrobial Textiles
Award amount
$729,920Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-04
- Contract end date
- 2011-02-04
- UEI
- SJHFCDGKJJC5
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- A07-068
Research abstract
Current clothing worn by soldiers offers little to no protection from biological agents. Biological agents may remain active on the textile surface or even pass through the textile. Luna Innovations, with partners Shawmut Corporation and Triton Systems Incorporated, are developing biocidal textiles capable of rendering lethal biological agents harmless on contact. Reactive biocides are deposited in a thin film on the textile surface through a gas phase process, resulting in a lightweight antimicrobial textile. Covalent attachment and crosslinking of the biocidal coating resulting from the plasma process results in long term protection on repeated laundering. During the Phase II program, Luna and their team will maximize durability and optimize processing parameters for the Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Liquid Deposition (APPLD) process with Luna’s novel reactive biocides on cotton, nylon, and polyester fabrics.
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.
- Rugged Miniature SWDM Mux and Demux for Military Aircraft
- Advanced Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) for Naval Safety
- Distributed Linear and Angular Acceleration Measurement
- Terahertz Imaging for Detection of Corrosion and Defects Under Hull Coatings
- Multi-Modal SHM of Inflatable Habitats via Embedded Fiber Optics Sensing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Antimicrobial Polymer Deposition Process for Enhanced Textile Adhesion
- Thin Film Coatings for Antimicrobial Textiles
- Antimicrobial Polymer Deposition Process for Enhanced Textile Adhesion
Research funding history
994 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2026). Reported award amounts total $336,438,763. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency