SBIR/STTR Research Award
BIOABSORBABLE GLASS FIBER/POLYMER COMPOSITES
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MO-SCI Corp.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- MJFMGBBB6EJ7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
PRESENT ORTHOPEDIC AND DENTAL IMPLANT DEVICES USE METAL ALLOY SYSTEMS TO ALIGN, SUPPORT, AND MINIMIZE MOVEMENT OF A FRACTURED BONE UNTIL HEALING OCCURS. THESE DEVICES HAVE SEVERAL INHERENT PROBLEMS THAT CAN BE OVERCOME BY USING A GLASS FIBER/POLYMER BIOABSORBABLE COMPOSITE. THIS PHASE I WORK WILL INVESTIGATE GLASS COMPOSITIONS FOR USE IN BIOABSORBABLE COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION FOR METAL DEVICEREPLACEMENT. COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION WILL BE ACHIEVED BY USING A POLYMER SYSTEM OF KNOWN BIOABSORBABLE PROPERTIES ANDCOMBINING IT WITH DEVELOPED BIOABSORBABLE GLASS FIBERS. THESE FIBERS WILL HAVE A SPECIFIC DISSOLUTION RATE CONTROLLED BY THEIR COMPOSITION. THE ADDITION OF METAL OXIDES AND/OR NITROGEN TO THE STARTING GLASS SYSTEM WILL BE USED TO ACHIEVE THE NEEDED DISSOLUTION RATE.
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.
- Compliant Glass Composite Sealants for SOFC Stacks
- Development of Iron Phosphate Waste Forms for Fission Products Waste Streams
- Development of Hermetic Sealing Glasses for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- Development of Cost-Effective YSZ Coating Methods for SOFC Interconnects
- Development of Iron Phosphate Wasteforms for Fission Products Waste Streams
Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2018). Reported award amounts total $6,181,304. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration