Akita Innovations would like to welcome the Summer 2024 additions to our company. Dr. Zhengguo Zhu (PhD University of Illinois, Urbana) did post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Professor Timothy Swager and then worked at Konarka Technologies and QD Vision in Massachusetts and more recently at Polyera Corporation in Illinois, PolyJoule… Continue Reading →
Akita Innovations was awarded a SBIR Phase I contract by the naval Sea Systems Command for the “Additive Manufacture of Texturized Piezoelectric Ceramics.” In this project Akita teams with an industry partner to develop a low-cost, flexible additive manufacturing technique to produce textured piezoelectric ceramics for undersea sensor applications.
Akita Innovations has been awarded a contract from DTRA to perform work for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) on Waterless Solutions for Decontamination to scale, document, and demonstrate a new capability for decontamination of equipment via pilot production of decontamination fluid.
Akita chemists co-author new ACS journal article are among the authors of a recent publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on MOF composites for chemical agent neutralization: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c19446 Hierarchically Structured Metal–Organic Framework Polymer Composites for Chemical Warfare Agent Degradation Sachini D. Perera, Rebecca M. Johnson, Robert Pawle, John Elliott, Tien M. Tran, Jasmine Gonzalez,… Continue Reading →
Akita Innovations was awarded an STTR contract by Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) for the “Additive Manufacture of MOF Elastomers.” Akita leads a team including university and industry partners. The project develops a compressible filter cartridge for air purifying respirators using additive manufacture.
Akita Innovations was awarded a SBIR Phase II contract by Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) for the development of “Personally-Fitted Half-Mask Respirators.” Akita leads a team including three subcontractors. Our technical solution uses imaging technology to generate half-mask respirator design files that are fitted to an individual and additive manufacture to fabricate… Continue Reading →
Akita Innovations is producing a variety of acetone-soluble polyimides. Traditional polyimides are not soluble in non-toxic, non-VOC organic solvents, and are typically prepared as the polyamic acid precursors requiring a high-temperature thermal step to produce the polyimides. The Akita polyimides allow users to work directly with polyimides without thermal processing and using common solvents, facilitating… Continue Reading →
Akita Innovations has been awarded a Direct to Phase II SBIR contract from the U.S. Air Force (AFRL) for development of Large Sol-gel Monoliths for Optical Power Limiting.
Akita Innovations is producing polymer-encapsulated iodate microparticles for use as oxidants in biocidal thermites. These iodine-generating oxidants are superior to conventional oxidants since they are non-hygroscopic, showing improved shelf stability, flow, and mixing, as well as excellent combustion performance. We can control the particle size to optimize combustion rates. We can economically scale the manufacture… Continue Reading →
Akita chemists co-author paper in Photochemistry and Photobiology journal are among the authors of a paper in Photochemistry and Photobiology on photoacoustic dye conjugates for cancer imaging and treatment: Saad, M. A., Xavierselvan, M., Sharif, H. A., Selfridge, S., Pawle, R., Varvares, M., Mallidi, S., & Hasan, T. (2022). Dual Function Antibody Conjugates for Multimodal… Continue Reading →