SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lead Detection in Soil and Sediment
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- MORPHIX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- T752FZUHZMY9
- Solicitation number
- PA14-071
- Topic code
- NIEHS
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): EPA's Cleaning-Up the Nations Waste Sites: Market and Technology Trends (2004) estimates that there are 294,000 contaminated waste sites in the United States. Characterizing suspected contaminated sites remains difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Samples are typically sent to laboratories for costly testing that can take weeks. While some field detection kits and instruments exist, they tend to be expensive, difficult to use, and difficult to interpret. In the proposed project, Morphix proposes to develop coordination complex imprinted polymer (CCIP) technology that could result in a product family of field-ready, easy-to-use, low-cost, no- power colorimetric detection cards for use in detecting contaminants in soil. The initial proof of concept effort focuses on applying CCIP technology to detecting lead in soil. Lead is a stable, heavy metal that is an accumulative neurotoxin in mammals and other animals. It is particularly toxic to children and is one of
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Chemical Dose Indicator for Tomato and Cantaloupe
- Disinfection or Sanitization Assurance Indicator for Tomato and Cantaloupe
- Sanitization Assurance Indicator for Food Facilities
- Wearable Chemical Sensor Badge
- Wearable Chemical Sensor Badge
Awards with the same topic code
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- High-Resolution Ground-Level AQ Monitoring System Using Hyper-local Low-cost Sensor Nodes and AI Forecasting
- Bringing PFAS Monitoring Home: An Integrated Magnetic Nanoparticle and Lateral Flow Assay System
Research funding history
18 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2021). Reported award amounts total $6,629,596. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation