DIVISION BY ZERO DEVELOPMENT LABS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF211-CSO1

Description

Division by Zero Labs is a process development lab and engineering firm that specializes in advanced spray drying technologies (method of producing a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas). We perform testing, formulation, method development, design and engineering for spray drying processes and spray drying plants. In doing so we have gained diverse experience across hundreds of feedstocks from industries such as Food and Beverage, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, Agricultural, Biological, and Defense. With our Army partner, we have developed a novel technique for producing a variety of high energy explosive materials that display decreased sensitivity and increased reactivity through the use of nanometer particle sizes and/or glass morphology. We see a large potential to bring advanced spray drying technologies to a broad range of applications within the department of defense. For example, metal nanoparticles can be produced through a spray drying process and then used by the DoD for cold spray repair processes, 3-D printing, explosives additives, catalysis, or metamaterial cloaking.