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Past and Current     KSEF R&D Excellence Award Recipients

Round  (#Awards) Date

RDE-001 (32)    2-1-02
RDE-002 (11) 12-12-02
RDE-003 (32)    5-5-03
RDE-004 (9)  10-10-03
RDE-005 (31) 5-20-04
RDE-006 (11) 8-4-04
RDE-007 (20) 4-12-05
RDE-008 (31) 10-25-05
RDE-009 (16) 12-12-06
RDE-010 (31) 10-24-07
RDE-011 (17) 07-1-08
RDE-012 (14) 07-1-09



Kentucky Comm Fund

Round  (#Awards) Date

COMM-006  (10) 4-1-07
COMM-007  (8)   4-1-08
COMM-008  (4)   1-1-09
COMM-009  (2)   10-01-09

Past and Current  SBIR/STTR Phase Zero and Double Zero Award Recipients
140 awards totaling $469,100 have been awarded to date.
 

Purpose Driven Research

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)

PI’s Department  

 PI’s Affiliation

Research Project Title

Amount Awarded ($)

Suraj Alexander

Industrial Engineering Department

University of Louisville

Productivity Improvement in Injection Molding: Studies in Mold Design, Monitoring and Diagnostics

$67,762


Rodney Andrews ,

Mark Meier

Carbon Materials Group

University of Kentucky

Ultrahigh Strength Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers

$59,999


Paul Dunbar ,

Rhonda Lee-Desautels

Chemical and Materials Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Development of Batteries Containing Depleted-Uranium

$80,000


Daniel Tao ,

Rick Honaker

Mineral Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Innovative Coal Beneficiation Process - Picobubble Enhanced Flotation for Efficient Recovery of Coarse and Ultrafine Particles with Less Reagent

$85,809


Cathleen Webb

Chemistry Department

Western Kentucky University

A Novel, Inexpensive Arsenic-Removal System for Rural and Home Drinking Water Supplies.

$59,942


Robert Lodder

ASTCC

University of Kentucky

Device for Prevention of Heart Attack and Stroke

$60,000


David Puleo ,

M. Chris Langub ,

Mark V. Thomas

Center for Biomedical Engineering

University of Kentucky

Intermittent Release Device for Bone Regeneration

$60,000


 

Exploratory Advanced Research

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)

PI’s Department  

 PI’s Affiliation

Research Project Title

Amount Awarded ($)

Mehmed Kantardzic ,

A. Kumar ,

A. Elmaghraby

Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department

University of Louisville

Toward Autonomic Distributed Data Mining with Intelligent Web Services

$65,135


Keith Walters

Chemistry Department

Northern Kentucky University

Novel Supramolecular Charge Transfer Devices for Photophysical Energy Conversion and Transport

$44,669


Yi-Tin Wang

Civil Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Biological Oxidation of Arsenite

$98,938


Fuqian Yang

Chemical and Materials Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Micromechanical Behavior of Nanophase Al-Mg Alloys

$85,172


Raymond LeBeau

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Application of Genetic Algorithms to Flow Control Simulations

$73,184


Caicheng Lu ,

Dayong Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Development of the Novel Single-mode Electromagnetic Resonance Technology for Rapid and Uniform Warming of Cryopreserved Living Cells and Organs

$99,971


 

Emerging Technologies

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)

PI’s Department  

 PI’s Affiliation

Research Project Title

Amount Awarded ($)

Cedric Francois ,

Pascal Deschatelet ,

Paul Olson

Physiology and Biophysics Department

University of Louisville

High Throughput Identification of Biological Samples

$80,000


Clair Hicks ,

Peter Crooks

Animal and Food Sciences Department

University of Kentucky

Model System for the Development of a Rapid Assay Probes

$80,000


Tongguang (Tony) Zhai ,

Michael P. Effgen

Chemical and Materials Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Application of Novel Compaction Loading Techniques in Processing of High Performance SmCo5 Magnets by a Powder Metallurgy Method

$78,472


Steven Koenig ,

Lauren S. Unger

Department of Surgery

University of Louisville

Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Compliant Data Acquisition and Analysis

$79,828


Madhu Menon

Computational Sciences Department

University of Kentucky

Device Applications of Metal-Semiconductor Wires

$80,000


Bhupendra Parekh

Center for Applied Energy Research

University of Kentucky

Desification of Coal Processing Waste Slurries to Eliminate Refuse Ponds

$79,998


Vijay Singh ,

Bruce Hinds

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Novel Method for Fabrication and Characterization of Nano-Scale Heterojunctions

$78,201


 

Emerging Ideas

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)

PI’s Department  

 PI’s Affiliation

Research Project Title

Amount Awarded ($)

Gang Cao

Physics and Astronomy Department

University of Kentucky

Nano-engineering: Novel Transition Metal Oxides with Complementary Functionalities through Epitaxially Controlled Pulsed Laser Deposition

$15,000


Czarena Crofcheck ,

M. Pinar Menguc

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Monitoring the Bubble Size and Liquid Hold-up in a Foam Fractionation Column

$15,000


Jamey Jacob

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Development of Test-Bed for Investigation and Validation of Morphing Wings

$14,493


Kyung Kang

Chemical Engineering Department

University of Louisville

Nano Gold Particles for Enhancing Signal Intensity of Fiber Optic Immuno Biosensor

$15,000


Dusan Sekulic

Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems

University of Kentucky

Exergo-Environomic Synthesis of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

$15,000


Anita Lee-Post

Decision Science and Information Systems Area

University of Kentucky

Issues in designing, developing, and delivering Web-based distance learning programs: an information systems development paradigm

$15,000


M Pinar Menguc ,

M. Aslan

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Characterization of Nano Size Metallic Particles via Polarized Light

$15,000


Michael Montross ,

Czarena Crofcheck ,

Adam Berkovich

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Mild Solvent Extraction of Corn Stover to Produce Pitch

$15,000