AKITA INNOVATIONS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: CBD181-001
AKITA INNOVATIONS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Amount
- $149,999
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- CBD181-001
- Solicitation
- 2018.0
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2018-09-07 → 2019-03-11
Description
In the proposed SBIR project Akita Innovations and Adaptive 3D will develop feedstock materials and methods for the additive manufacture of soft elastomers that exhibit resistance to the permeation of chemical agents.The goal of the effort is to produce a fully functional Air Purifying Respirator (APR) and to demonstrate advantages of additive manufacturing to provide innovations such as custom sizing.To realize this vision for air-purifying respirators AM must be able to manufacture soft elastomers that are resistant to the permeation of chemical agents. Our Technical Approach in Phase 1 will leverage elastomeric materials being commercialized by Adaptive 3D and innovative labile crosslinking monomer technology being developed at Akita Innovations.