SBIR 

SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION

RESEARCH PROGRAM

ARP Fast-Track, PHASE I and PHASE II 

AWARDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology

Department of Commerce
INTRODUCTION

Abstracts of Awards for Fiscal Year 2022 SBIR Program

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document. In cases where there may be doubt, please direct your questions 

to sbir@nist.gov. 
Fiscal Year 2022 List of Awardees

Award Number Company Name Phase 

70NANB22H118 3D Array Technology LLC ARP Fast-Track

70NANB22H122 IC3D Inc. ARP Fast-Track

70NANB22H121 Ratiocinative Engineering Services LLC ARP Fast-Track

70NANB22H119 Vuronyx Technologies ARP Fast-Track

70NANB22H192 AAPlasma LLC Phase I

70NANB22H191 Advent Diamond Inc. Phase I

70NANB22H194 Criticality Sciences Inc. Phase I

70NANB22H189 InfraTrac Inc. Phase I

70NANB22H185 Julia Jean LLC Phase I

70NANB22H186 Qualterra Inc formerly NuPhy Inc. Phase I

70NANB22H182 Refined Imaging LLC Phase I

70NANB22H187 Solution Spray Technologies LLC Phase I

70NANB22H190 SPEC Sensors LLC Phase I

70NANB22H195 Stratio Inc. Phase I

70NANB22H196 Tiami LLC Phase I

70NANB22H188 USEncryption Phase I

70NANB22H136 ChemCubed LLC Phase II

70NANB22H128 Colloidal Metrics Corp. Phase II

70NANB22H132 Exum Instruments Inc. Phase II

70NANB22H129 Irradiant Technologies Inc. Phase II

70NANB22H135 Multiscale Systems Phase II

70NANB22H131 Xallent LLC Phase II

70NANB22H133 Zymosense Inc. Phase II
FY 2022 ARP FAST-TRACK AWARD 

3D Array Technology LLC (Storrs, Connecticut) $800,000

Nanostructure Array Integrated Medical Mask Design with High Filtration, Low Breathing 

Resistance, and Antimicrobial Performances — a new type of nanostructure array 

(nanoarray) of integrated microfibers to enable medical masks with high filtration efficiency, 

low breathing resistance and good antimicrobial capabilities.

IC3D Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) $800,000

Regionalized Quality Control Centers for Mobilization of Distributed Additive 

Manufacturing — a pilot regional additive manufacturing quality control center to address 

access to appropriate quality control testing facilities for the manufacturing of critical 

supplies in a pandemic.

Ratiocinative Engineering Services LLC (Boulder, Colorado) $771,619

Multispectral Fluorescence Sensing of Airborne Proxy Infectious Particles in Actual Indoor 

Environments — a testbed that will lead to more accessible and robust quality control testing 

of air filtration and ventilation systems in actual built-up environments. 

Vuronyx Technologies (Woburn, Massachusetts) $799,970

Peracetic Acid Based Disinfectant for PPEs — a powder for disinfection of personal 

protective equipment (PPE), so that the PPE could be reused.

FY 2022 PHASE I AWARD

AAPlasma LLC (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) $99,936

Direct Deposition of Durable Composite Road Marking Material onto Pavement Via QuasiEquilibrium Plasma — a technology to address the needs of our nation’s physical 

infrastructure and resilience by reducing costs and improving the reliability of road markings.

Advent Diamond Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) $100,000

Phosphorous-doped Quantum Diamond for Electrical-readout Quantum Measurements — a 

new quantum material consisting of a layer of phosphorus-doped diamond materials for 

quantum technologies including nitrogen-vacancy center-based sensors. Near-term 

applications include measuring magnetic fields for research, space-based applications and 

defense.
Criticality Sciences Inc. (Alexandria, Virginia) $100,000

Network Resilience to Cascading Failure — a software tool that will provide scalable and 

affordable resilience metrics, as well as mitigation and recovery guidance, to help utilities 

and communities build resilience against cascading infrastructure failures.

InfraTrac Inc. (Silver Spring, Maryland) $100,000

Analytical Quality Management for 3D-Printed Small Molecule Drugs — a nondestructive 

testing technique that uses near-infrared spectroscopy to assess the quality of in-pharmacy 

3D drug printing, to support customized pharmacy formulations

Julia Jean LLC (Irvine, California) $100,000

Streamlining Lithography for Scalable Electron Emission from Microfabricated Porous 

Silicon Carbide: Advancing a NIST-Patented Technology — to carry forward NIST-patented 

technology for an electron field emitter that does not rely on a traditionally required heating 

element and that could be applied to advanced technologies such as lithography, electron 

microscopy, X-rays, radar and microwave communications.

NuPhy Inc. (Pullman, Washington) $100,000

TreeTracker: An Intelligent Plant Production Optimization — a cloud-capable software 

platform that provides insights into how best to optimize plant growth, maximize production 

output, and minimize costs for the process of creating new plants.

Refined Imaging LLC (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) $100,000

Cyber-Physical Trust Anchors with Definable Costs and Security — a technique that will 

help protect against counterfeit manufactured components by connecting a physical part 

with a secure database protected by blockchain technology.

Solution Spray Technologies LLC (Storrs, Connecticut) $100,000

Real-Time Thickness Measurement Technology for Process Control of Plasma-Spray Based 

Coating Manufacturing — a system that can measure the thickness of coatings on small 

objects with complex geometries by using lasers to generate ultrasound waves on the 

coatings.

SPEC Sensors LLC (Newark, California) $99,956

Materials for Gravure Printing of Chemical Gas Sensors — a new process to manufacture 

high volumes of miniaturized chemical gas sensors that could potentially be embedded in 

wearable products for a variety of safety applications.
Stratio Inc. (San Francisco, California) $98,381

Low-cost Portable Short Wavelength Infrared Spectrometer (SWIR) — a feasibility study to 

advance research in SWIR technology that will help the technology to expand into emerging 

markets such as precision agriculture, night vision, smart mirrors and robotic surgery.

Tiami LLC (Elk Grove, California) $98,681

Digital TV-based Positioning for First Responder Tracking in GPS-Denied Environments — 

a technology that will enable real-time tracking of first responders in environments where 

GPS is not an option.

USEncryption (Orlando, Florida) $100,000

Establishing the Security of Ciphers Designed Using Statistical Physics Principles to Enable 

Direct Computation on Encrypted Data — an approach to enable computation on encrypted 

data using a new version of an encryption method known as a block cipher as well as a 

patent-pending method to encrypt both the data and the mathematical functions that operate 

on encrypted data.

FY 2022 PHASE II AWARD

ChemCubed LLC (Stony Brook, New York) $399,999 

Nanocomposite Dielectric Material and Printing Process for Energy Efficient Manufacturing of 

Printed Circuitry — a project to evaluate the printing and mixing parameters of a new nanocomposite 

material to find its optimal mechanical properties, and to scope its electrical properties to facilitate 

new use cases and improved manufacturing. 

Colloidal Metrics Corp. (Mountain View, California) $400,000

Innovative Emulsion Polymerization Manufacture of Dual-function, Nanoscale, Calibration 

Spheres Over the Range of 100 to 400 nm Diameter — a project to extend its ability to 

manufacture 100 nanometer (nm) polystyrene latex size standards to include 200 and 400 

nm latexes and add accurate particle concentration data to all the size standards.

Exum Instruments Inc. (Lakewood, Colorado) $399,839

An Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Simplify Materials Characterization for Additive 

Materials — a single analytical instrument that offers rapid, high-sensitivity measurements of 

additive manufacturing (AM) feedstock powders and printed parts.

Irradiant Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) $399,943

High Throughput Experimental Discovery and Optimization for 3D Nanofabrication of Optical 
& Photonic Materials and Devices — an experimental discovery system capable of 

screening for and implementing new materials for the 3D manufacture of novel optical and 

photonic devices.

Multiscale Systems (Worcester, Massachusetts) $400,000 

Contract-free Optical Metrology for Energy-efficient Manufacturing of Mechanical 

Metamaterials — the design and production of mechanical metamaterials for lightweight 

high-strength sandwich panels that outperform comparable foam and honeycomb materials 

for semi-trailer vehicle lightweighting.

Xallent LLC (Ithaca, New York) $400,000

Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems Probe for Thin Film Materials Characterization — a 

hybrid metrology system that allows for fast, cost-effective and nondestructive 

characterization of thin film materials and semiconductor devices.

Zymosense Inc. (Ames, Iowa) $400,000

Automated Aqueous Two-phase Separation of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Species for 

Enrichment Process Optimization and Scale Up — prototype purified single-walled carbon 

nanotubes (SWCNT) that could greatly expand SWCNT use and practicality for applications 

including the separation of components in mixtures.