Akita Innovations was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research 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 chemists John Elliott, Robert Pawle, and Larry Hancock 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,… Continue Reading →

Akita Innovations was awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II 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 Small Business Innovation Research 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… 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 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 Scott Selfridge and Robert Pawle 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 Imaging and… Continue Reading →