SBIR 

SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION

RESEARCH PROGRAM

PHASE I and PHASE II 

AWARDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology

Department of Commerce
INTRODUCTION

Abstracts of Awards for Fiscal Year 2021 SBIR Program

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Fiscal Year 2021 List of Awardees

Award Number Company Name Phase 

70NANB21H065 AI Solutions LLC Phase I

70NANB21H062 ChemCubed LLC Phase I

70NANB21H061 Colloidal Metrics Corp. Phase I

70NANB21H066 Exum Instruments Inc. Phase I

70NANB21H067 Glow Biosciences LLC Phase I

70NANB21H060 Irradient Technologies Inc. Phase I

70NANB21H069 Miami Valley Materials Testing Center Phase I

70NANB21H135 Multiscale Systems Inc. Phase I

70NANB21H070 Stealth Software Technologies Inc. Phase I

70NANB21H068 Xallent LLC Phase I

70NANB21H063 Zymosense Inc. Phase I

70NANB21H129 Airflow Sciences Corporation Phase II

70NANB21H134 NanoElectronic Imaging Inc. Phase II

70NANB21H132 Poseidon Systems LLC Phase II

70NANB21H131 RedShred LLC Phase II

70NANB21H130 STF Technologies LLC Phase II

70NANB21H133 WW Technology Group Inc. Phase II

 

 
FY 2021 PHASE I AWARD

AI Solutions LLC (Lisle, Illinois) $99,585

Development of a Deep Learning Model for Predicting and Correcting Sintering Deformation of 

Printed Metal Components — a feasibility study for developing a baseline model for the 

deformation process so that deformations in 3D-printed parts can be predicted and proactively 

corrected.

ChemCubed LLC (Stony Brook, New York) $99,915

Nanocomposite Dielectric Material for Energy Efficient Manufacturing of Printed Circuitry — a 

nanocomposite material that would serve as insulating layers between circuits and masking 

material for soldering.

Colloidal Metrics Corp. (Mountain View, California) $100,000

Innovative Emulsion Polymerization Manufacture of Dual-Function, Nanoscale Calibration 

Spheres Over the Range of 100 to 400 nm Diameter — a size standard and particle concentration 

reference material for nanoscale particle size and concentration measurements.

Exum Instruments Inc. (Denver, Colorado) $99,916

An Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Simplify Materials Characterization for Additive 

Manufacturing — a tool for measuring the chemical properties of feedstock powders that would 

eliminate the need for external laboratory testing.

Glow Biosciences LLC (Columbia, Missouri) $100,000

Portable Optical System for Preclinical Monitoring of Biological Processes in Nontransgenic 

Animals — to apply portable bioluminescent technology to study important biological functions 

such as metabolite uptake and microbiota function.

Irradient Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) $99,991

High Throughput Experimental Discovery and Optimization for 3D Nanofabrication of Optical & 

Photonic Materials and Devices — demonstration of a 3D nanofabrication platform for 

manufacturing optical and photonic devices.

Miami Valley Materials Testing Center (Tipp City, Ohio) $106,500

Novel Multilayer Material Adhesion Test for Additive Manufacturing — a research project to 

evaluate “push-pin testing,” which is used to characterize multilayer delamination in ultrasonic 

additive manufacturing. 
Multiscale Systems Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) $100,000

Contact-Free Optical Metrology for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing of Mechanical Metamaterials — 

a feasibility study for a noncontact, optical measurement method for recycled PTEG plastic panels 

that would reduce power consumption during fabrication.

Stealth Software Technologies Inc. (Los Angeles, California) $99,989

ANISE: ANalytics and statistics with Information SEcurity — a prototype software platform that will 

protect the privacy of data from multiple sources, enabling secure statistical computations on 

datasets that cannot be shared. 

Xallent LLC (Ithaca, New York) $106,500

Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems Probe for Thin Film Materials — a feasibility demonstration of a 

system for atomic imaging and sheet resistance characterization of thin films and semiconductor 

devices.

Zymosense Inc. (Ames, Iowa) $100,000

Automated Aqueous Two-Phase (ATP) Extraction for Low Cost and Scalable Sorting of ChiralPure Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes — proof-of-concept demonstration for automating the 

NIST-developed ATP system for separating chiral pure single-walled carbon nanotubes.

FY 2021 PHASE II AWARD

Airflow Sciences Corporation (Livonia, Michigan) $400,000

Advanced Measurement Probe System for Non-Nulling Stack Velocity Testing — a system 

capable of full-scale emissions testing of industrial plant smokestacks to allow them to more 

accurately quantify and minimize pollution emissions. During Phase II, Airflow will select a test site 

to prove out the system and verify operation.

NanoElectronic Imaging Inc. (Riverside, California) $400,000

A High-Precision Three-Dimensional Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Imaging System — 

a thickness mapping system that will extend the TEM’s usual 2D submillimeter imaging resolution 

into the third dimension with comparable precision to provide a fully 3D, high-resolution imaging 

capability that could prove valuable for applications in the semiconductor industry.

Poseidon Systems LLC (Rochester, New York) $395,582

Portable Grease Characterization Device — a hand-held device that will allow sampling of grease 

to determine the amount of wear in critical bearing components of many types of machines. The 

device could reduce maintenance times while increasing understanding of the condition of 
equipment used for power generation (including wind turbines), mining, oil and gas extraction, and 

more.

RedShred LLC (Baltimore, Maryland) $400,000

ENT: Extended Nestor Tagging — in Phase I, RedShred developed a cloud-based platform that 

enables natural language processing (NLP) and ranking of unstructured text data from 

manufacturing data logs. In Phase II the company will add enterprise management and analysis 

capabilities to accelerate adoption of NLP technologies in manufacturing.

STF Technologies LLC (Newark, Delaware) $400,000

High-Throughput, High-Pressure Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) Sample Environment —

new system that will enable higher throughput at neutron facilities and provide both users and 

instrument scientists a uniform experience across facilities and SANS instruments.

WW Technology Group Inc. (Ellicott City, Maryland) $400,000

Model-Based Application of NIST Cybersecurity Standards — a digital tool that will help 

organizations better understand and apply existing, evolving and new NIST standards.