FY 2007 SBIR/STTR Technical Topic Titles

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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
 

1)  Use of Cellulosic Biomass to Produce Biofuels
2)  Solar Energy

3)  Hydrogen Delivery and Production

4)  Wind Energy Reliability and Cost Reduction

5)  Technologies Related to Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Special Emphasis On Plug-In Hybrids

6)  Alternative Feedstocks to Chemicals

 

Basic Energy Sciences


7)  Chemical Reactions and Separation Processes for Bio-refinery Applications

8)  Catalysis
9)  Separation Process Technologies for Manufacturing
10)  Nanotechnology Applications for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
11)  Advanced Cooling Technology
12)  Solid State Lighting
13)  Neutron and Electron Beam Instrumentation

14)  Technology to Support National Scientific User Facilities
15)  Accelerator Technologies for Present and Future Accelerator Facilities

16)  Materials for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems

17)  Advanced Coal Research

 

Fossil Energy
 

18)  Coal Gasification and Combustion Technologies

19)  Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Balance-of-Plant and Turbine Performance and Sub-Systems for Performance Enhancements 

20)  High Performance Materials for Long Term Fossil Energy Applications

21)  Environmental Innovations for Fossil Energy Applications

22)  Oil and Natural Gas Technologies

23)  Climate Control Technology for Fossil Energy Applications

 

Nuclear Energy

 

24)  Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy 

 

Nuclear Physics

25)  Nuclear Physics Electronics Design and Fabrication

26)  Nuclear Physics Particle and Radiation Detection Systems, Instrumentation and Techniques
27)  Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology
28)  Nuclear Physics Software and Data Management

 

High Energy Physics
 

29)  High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing

30)  Accelerator Technology for International Linear Collider

31)  Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators

32)  Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders

33)  High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders

34)  High Energy Physics Detectors


Advanced Scientific and Computing Research

 

35)  Advanced Computational Methods for Applied Science and Engineering
36)  Numerical Software Maintenance Software Engineering

37)  Scientific Visualization and Data Understanding

38)  High Performance Networks

39)  Scalable Systems Software for Petascale Computer Systems

40)  High Performance Middleware

 

 Scientific and Technical Inormation


41
)  Discovery, Search, and Communication of Textual Knowledge Resources in Distributed Systems


Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

 

42)  Research to Support Proliferation Detection

43)  Research to Support Nuclear Explosion Monitoring

 

Electricity Delivery and Reliability

 

44)  High Temperature Superconducting Second Generation Wire

45)  Power Electronics and Advanced Materials for Energy Storage

46)  Modeling and Analysis


Biological and Environmental Research

 

47)  Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere

48)  Genomes-To-Life (GTL) and Related Biotechnologies

49)  Technologies for Subsurface Characterization and Monitoring

50)  Atmospheric Measurement Technology

51)  Medical Sciences

 

 Fusion Energy Sciences

 

52)  Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Energy Systems

53)  Fusion Science and Technology

54)  High Energy Density Physics for Inertial Fusion Energy