SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Personal Nanoparticle Counter
Award amount
$83,883Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- AEROSOL DYNAMICS INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Q6MLM37F5WY6
- Solicitation number
- PA13-088
- Topic code
- NIEHS
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Personal Nanoparticle Counter This proposal addresses the need for a rugged, wearable instrument for the precise, real-time monitoring of airborne number concentrations for fine, ultrafine and nanometer-sized particles. Proposed is a new type of laminar-flow water condensation method that detects and counts particles as small as 5 nm in a tippable device. We aim to demonstrate the feasibility of this technology for a portable and potentially wearable device, to measurenanometer and ultrafine particle concentrations with 1-s time resolution. Additionally, we will demonstrate its suitability for long term monitoring when power source is available. Specific aims are: 1) to verify the feasibility of a miniature, water-based condensation particle counter capable of: detecting at least 50% of particles with a diameter of 6 nm; detecting at least 95% of those particles with diameters above 10 nm; measuring particle concentrations from 103 - 106 cm-3; providing 1-sec
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.
- Coupled Aerodynamic and Optical Sizing for Coarse Particles
- Measurement of atmospheric sulfuric acid concentration using a water-based condensation particle counter
- Instantaneous Aerosol Mobility Sizing
- Coupled Aerodynamic and Optical Sizing for Coarse Particles
- Adaptive Measurement of Nuclei Particle Size and Concentration
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- High-Resolution Ground-Level AQ Monitoring System Using Hyper-local Low-cost Sensor Nodes and AI Forecasting
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Research funding history
66 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2025). Reported award amounts total $28,455,401. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security