PASADENA, CA — (Marketwire) — 05/01/12 — Materia announced today the receipt of a Phase II Fast Track Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the continued development of functional polymers for use in organic synthesis.The new Phase II program, which furthers the Phase I joint effort between Materia and Professor Paul Hanson of the University of Kansas, will focus on polymer process development and scale-up as well as beta testing by key in