Press Releases

Physical Sciences Inc (PSI) has been awarded a contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc (DARPA) to develop an Aberration-correcting Topologically Optimized Metasurface (ATOM) to demonstrate the ability of a 2D surface, of negligible volume and weight, to correct aberrations in optical systems.

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, to develop a high throughput, non-destructive technology for characterizing the surface and the coatings of high temperature ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) used for hypersonic applications. At velocities above Mach 5, CMCs are exposed to high heat flux and wind shear and thus special post-manufacturing coatings are required to protect them from oxidation and ablation.

Physical Sciences Inc (PSI) has been awarded a program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (managed by the US Army) to enhance its ChemSIGMA early warning system, which provides a wide-area distributed detection network designed to persistently monitor for airborne chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial compounds.

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the U.S. Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center, to develop a beach zone mine detection capability based on a novel, high-speed visible-near infrared, shortwave infrared hyperspectral imaging (VNIR/SWIR HSI) sensor.

Physical Sciences Inc (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an ultrasensitive laser-based sensor to accurately monitor ppbv to ~1000 ppmv concentrations of vapor phase hydrogen peroxide (VHP) following decontamination of parenteral drug manufacturing facilities where biologic and cellular therapeutics must be packaged under aseptic conditions.

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is pleased to announce that instrument sales of AccuLase-GPA^TM by our licensee, Galvanic Applied Sciences Inc. (Galvanic), have begun.

Developed for the high-sensitivity measurement of hydrogen sulfide from 0 to 500 ppmv with detection limit down to 0.15ppmv, AccuLase-GPA is the most sensitive H₂S analyzer in the market. The product incorporates tunable diode laser technology, proprietary multipass optical cell, and detection electronics developed by PSI.

Physical Sciences Inc has been awarded a research program from the US Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center to develop a Hypersonic Materials Mechanical Strength (HMMS) testbed technology capable of measuring mechanical properties of hypersonic material systems as they are subjected to the thermal shock, high heating rate, high temperature, and oxidative environment experienced at the leading edge of a hypersonic vehicle.

Physical Sciences Inc, in collaboration with the Department of Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at MGH and Beth Israel Lahey Health, is developing and evaluating a novel technology for assessing pulmonary fibrosis, a respiratory disease leading to serious breathing problems, under a research program from the National Institutes of Health.

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), to develop a biocarbon-based supercapacitor from plant cellulose feedstock.

Physical Sciences Inc (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the US Air Force Research Laboratory, to optimize and scale-up a paintable cathode coating for the prevention of electrostatic discharge (ESD) from spacecraft operating in the low earth orbit (LEO) and geosynchronous orbit (GEO) plasma environments.