SBIR/STTR Research Award
BONDING TO UNPREPARED SURFACES
Award amount
$49,986Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- TEXAS RESEARCH INSTITUTE , AUSTIN, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- LM1NWMDNNQ18
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES AN SBIR PROJECT TO PREPARE NOVEL PRIMERS FOR BONDING TO UNPREPARED HYDROPHILIC SUBSTRATES SUCH AS STEEL, ALUMINUM, AND TITANIUM AND TO COMPOSITES. THE PRIMERS WILL BE PREPARED FROM ORGANOFUNCTIONAL SILANE AND ZIRCO-ALUMINATE COUPLING AGENTS AND FROM POLYMERIZABLE PHOSPHATE COMPOUNDS AND WILL BE DESIGNED TO REACT WITH MOISTURE AT THE SUBSTRATE SURFACE AND TO REPEL ADDITIONAL MOISTURE FROM THE INTERFACE. WEDGE TESTS CONDUCTED IN AGGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENTS WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH THE PRIMERS INTERACT WITH THE SUBSTRATES AND TO DETERMINE THE FAILURE MECHANISMS OF THE WEDGE TEST SPECIMENS. THE RESULTS WILL BE USED TO SELECT SPECIFIC PRIMERS FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
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.
- Phase Reflectors as an In-Situ Passive, Unpowered, Wireless Structural Health Monitor for Lunar Excavation Vehicles
- Inspection of Bonded Composite Structures Through Fairing Materials
- Advanced Nondestructive Inspection System for Detection and Characterization of Corrosion under Thick Coatings
- Phase Change Materials for Enhanced Warfighter Survivability
- Vitrimer Patches to Repair Composite Parts with a Complex Shape in a Contested Environment
Research funding history
416 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $140,672,616. 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 Transportation, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy