ATOMNAUT INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: HR001120S0019-23
ATOMNAUT INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $2,000,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- HR001120S0019-23
- Solicitation
- HR001120S0019.I
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2021-08-30 → 2022-08-31
Description
This SBIR Direct to Phase II project scales-up Atom Microscope by Projection (AMP) data production 170x to enable routine, commercially viable, atomic-scale structural biology: position, chemistry, every molecule, in 3D. DNA was first imaged at atomic-scale using early AMP technology (field-ion microscope) in 1971 (1). Despite this capability demonstration, in the ~50 years to date fewer than 10 biomolecule articles have been published using the approach. The obstacle is prohibitively slow and error-prone time-to-data, 6 months or more, necessitating an experimental program of years in an effort to achieve scientific repeatability and rigor.