Working with Small Business

Professor Kwang Kim is always looking for opportunities to work with small businesses and start-ups via STTR/SBIR programs to transfer the technologies that he has developed at the University of Nevada, Reno. The following summarizes his recent STTR/SBIR Phase I and Phase II collaborators.

Project/Funding Agency	Company	Note
“Optimized Nano-Porous Surfaces for Boiling Heat Transfer” (funded by National Science Foundation)	Advanced Materials and Devices Inc., Reno, NV	Phase I & Phase II
“Enhancing the Heat Exchanger Performance Through the Use of High Temperature Resistant Superhydrophobic Nanocomposite Coatings” (funded by Department of Energy)	NEI Corp, Somerset, NJ	Phase I & Phase II
“A Process to Develop Nano-Porous Surfaces for Enhancing Heat Transfer” (funded by National Science Foundation)	Advanced Materials and Devices Inc., Reno, NV	Phase I
“Programmable Disposable Drug Delivery Platform” (funded by Army)	Medipacs LLC, Tucson, AZ	Phase I
“Metal Hydride Thermal Storage System for Transient High Power Thermal Management” (funded by Missile Defense Agency & Air Force)	Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Lancaster, PA	Phase I & Phase II
“Biomimetic Underwater Propulsion System Using Hybrid Synthetic Muscles” (funded by Navy)	Tao of Systems Integration, Inc., Hampton, VA	Phase II
“Development of Synthetic Muscle Systems for NASA Space Robotics/EVA Applications” (funded by NASA)	Environmental Robots Inc., Albuquerque, NM	Phase I & Phase II