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Nanoengineered Hybrid Gas Sensors for Spacesuit MonitoringAward last edited on: 9/11/2021
Sponsored Program
STTRAwarding Agency
NASA : JSCTotal Award Amount
$1,624,935Award Phase
2Solicitation Topic Code
T6.01Principal Investigator
Ratan DebnathCompany Information
N5 Sensors Inc
9610 Medical Center Drive Suite 200
Rockville, MD 20850
Rockville, MD 20850
(301) 337-8314 |
info@n5sensors.com |
www.n5sensors.com |
Research Institution
George Mason University
Phase I
Contract Number: NNX15CJ51PStart Date: 6/17/2015 Completed: 6/17/2016
Phase I year
2015Phase I Amount
$120,387Potential NASA Commercial Applications:
(Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words) In addition to EVUs monitoring the proposed single-chip multianalyte sensors are ideally suited for in-flight monitoring of the trace chemical constituents, which is essential for crew health, safety, and systems operation. These sensors are low-power, rugged, and radiation-hard, making them ideally suited for integrated spacecraft monitoring networks. Due to their robustness these sensors can be also used for measuring trace gases such as CO, CO2, O2, NH3, CH4, and H2O for planetary environmental monitoring.
Potential NON-NASA Commercial Applications:
(Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words) Measuring individual exposure in real-time can revolutionize air quality monitoring in communities everywhere. Such information would allow citizens to take preventive measures to reduce their exposures to air toxics, which would tremendously impact their health and quality of life. Mobile devices such as smart-phones and tablets represent a powerful infrastructure which could be leveraged to develop personal air monitors. However, traditional sensor technologies (such as electrochemical and photo-ionization detectors), commonly used for industrial safety monitoring, are big, power-hungry, and has limited sensitivity and life-time. Monitoring of NOx, SOx, H2S, O3, for individual pollutant monitoring. Monitoring the BTEX family around fracking sites and other affects industrial progess would provide hard data about the environmental effect industry has on the environment. Portable gas detection instruments have been used since the early days of mining (canaries, Davy's lamp). Today, almost all major industrial operations use gas detectors for safety of the personnel and infrastructure. The North American market for multi-gas portable industrial detectors are over $ 230 M (2016 - CAGR 7.2%, over 264,291 units sold, with average price~ $1K), with Oil and Gas, and Petrochemical and Chemicals industries being the most dominant users. World-wide hand-held detector market is over ~ $2 B.
Technology Taxonomy Mapping:
(NASA's technology taxonomy has been developed by the SBIR-STTR program to disseminate awareness of proposed and awarded R/R&D in the agency. It is a listing of over 100 technologies, sorted into broad categories, of interest to NASA.) Chemical/Environmental (see also Biological Health/Life Support) Essential Life Resources (Oxygen, Water, Nutrients)
Phase II
Contract Number: NNX17CJ01CStart Date: 12/7/2016 Completed: 12/6/2018
Phase II year
2016(last award dollars: 2019)
Phase II Amount
$1,504,548Potential NASA Commercial Applications:
(Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words) The proposed single-chip multi-analyte sensors are ideally suited for environmental monitoring and fire protection for space craft autonomy (E-nose, lick and stick integrated monitor), in-flight monitoring system of the trace chemical constituents, which is essential for crew health, safety, and systems operation as well as cell-all program to enhance the performance of the system using a large array of sensors. These sensors are low-power, rugged, and radiation-hard, making them ideally suited for integrated spacecraft monitoring networks.
Potential NON-NASA Commercial Applications:
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(Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words) Such ultra-small chemical sensors can be used for mobile devices based multianalyte detectors for industrial monitoring of trace gases (CO2, NH3, etc.), and also for smartphone based environmental pollution exposure monitors for asthma patients. They can be integrated with on-demand ventilation control systems for measuring indoor air quality in buildings.
Technology Taxonomy Mapping:
(NASA's technology taxonomy has been developed by the SBIR-STTR program to disseminate awareness of proposed and awarded R/R&D in the agency. It is a listing of over 100 technologies, sorted into broad categories, of interest to NASA.) Characterization Chemical/Environmental (see also Biological Health/Life Support) Detectors (see also Sensors) Health Monitoring & Sensing (see also Sensors) Manufacturing Methods Materials (Insulator, Semiconductor, Substrate) Microfabrication (and smaller; see also Electronics; Mechanical Systems; Photonics) Models & Simulations (see also Testing & Evaluation) Nanomaterials Prototyping