General Competition 96-01 Awards
Announced March 1997

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM U.S. Department of Commerce + Technology Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology

Project	Awardee(s)	Description	Requested ATP Funds	Estimated Project Budget	Announced
Direct Oxidation of Natural Gas to Methanol and Transportation Fuels	Catalytica, Inc., Mountain View, CA	Develop a process, based on new catalysts, for the efficient, direct conversion of methane to methanol, enabling better use of U.S. natural gas reserves and reducing the nation's reliance on crude oil imports.	$2,000 K	$4,104 K	March 1997
Enabling Large-Scale Recovery of Plastics from Durable Goods	MBA Polymers, Richmond, CA	Develop significantly improved process technology for sorting and separating high-value engineering plastics (used in durable goods) from the waste stream as an enabling technology for recycling.	$687 K	$1,330 K	March 1997
Programmable Nanoscale Engines for Molecular Separation	CuraGen Corporation, Branford, CT	Develop a practical nanoscale molecular pump capable of transporting molecules and efficiently separating them by mass, as part of an integrated, miniaturized system for DNA analysis.	$2,000 K	$3,431 K	March 1997
A Portable Genetic Analysis System	Nanogen, Inc., San Diego, CA	Develop a portable genetic analysis system that can rapidly and accurately profile a genetic sequence for applications including forensic analysis, battlefield casualty identification, trauma victim identification, diagnostics, and environmental and health monitoring.	$2,000 K	$3,935 K	March 1997
Cost-Effective Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Distributed Power Generation	The Babcock & Wilcox Company, Alliance, OH SOFCo, L.P. (Salt Lake City, UT) Intertec Southwest LLC (Tucson, AZ)	Develop high-temperature ceramic and manufacturing technologies for future cost-effective planar solid oxide fuel cells that generate efficient and environmentally sound electric power from natural gas.	$2,915 K	$5,950 K	March 1997
High Performance Sensor Arrays for Digital X-Ray and Visible Light Imaging	Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA Thermotrex Corporation (San Diego, CA) TPL, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM)	Develop the next generation of large-area digital image sensors, based on thin-film silicon technology, with higher spatial resolution, higher sensitivity and lower electronic noise for applications in medical imaging, non-destructive evaluation and document scanning.	$5,959 K	$13,186 K	March 1997
Color Sequential Imaging	ColorLink, Inc., Boulder, CO	Develop technology necessary to produce lightweight, high-resolution color display and imaging devices based on color sequential imaging using a solid-state electro-optic tunable filter.	$1,800 K	$2,386 K	March 1997
Development of Novel DNA Binding Proteins as Antiviral Therapeutics	Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., Aurora, CO	Develop key methodologies to design and produce sequence specific DNA binding proteins that target and repress any clinically relevant gene in human or viral DNA, leading to novel therapies for infectious viruses such as HIV and HBV.	$2,000 K	$2,680 K	March 1997

Date created: March 1997
Last updated: April 12, 2005