The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $449,065.26 Project Grant to Marathon Fusion, Inc. on Sep 25, 2023 under CFDA program 81.135. The grant supports the creation of an integrated test environment for metal foil pumps in the fusion fuel cycle, with the goal of advancing fusion energy technologies to enhance U.S. energy security, reduce emissions, and bolster energy infrastructure resilience. The 21-month project period runs through May 24,...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,470,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the ARPA-E Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.135). The goal of this 3-year project is to discover, develop, and produce new materials that can maintain critical performance metrics in a fusion power plant first-wall environment, such as high thermal conductivity, low activation, and resistance to...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135), provides $1,189,750 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to develop novel nanoparticle-strengthened ferritic and vanadium-based alloys for use in future fusion power plants. The project aims to accelerate the materials discovery process by 5 times through computationally-guided alloy development and innovative powder synthesis and...
The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the IGNITE program (CFDA 81.135). The grant, titled "ALLOYBOT: Autonomous Platform to Develop Alloys for Energy and Propulsion Technologies 100X Faster," supports the development of an autonomous laboratory platform called "ALLOYBOT" that will synthesize and test 100 new alloy compositions per week to accelerate...
This Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the 81.135 CFDA program for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The $499,946 award to Exofusion, Inc. in Bellevue, WA is for a project to develop novel liquid metal plasma facing component alloys for use in fusion power plants (FPPs). The key products/services to be delivered include: Development of new materials optimized for core confinement and divertor plasma performance in FPPs....
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) provides $2,814,082 to the University of Utah, in collaboration with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Center of Powder Metallurgy Technology (CPMT), to develop an innovative "Hydrogen-Reduction Melt-Less Steelmaking (HRMLES)" technology. This project aims to produce steel products through an integrated process of directly reducing iron ore...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the Department of Energy's Federal Grant Program CFDA 81.135, provides $1,075,813.00 to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) for the "Batch-wise Improvement in Reduced Design Space using a Holistic Optimization Technique (BIRDSHOT), Phase 2" project. The project focuses on refining three refractory high-entropy alloys to enhance their ductility and suitability for...
Raytheon Technologies Research Center will provide computationally-guided additive manufacturing services for oxidation-resistant refractory alloys under a $924,882 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The two-year award through the ARPA-E Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA #81.135) will support development of additive manufacturing techniques for refractory materials used in high-temperature...
The University of Michigan received a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), to demonstrate a full-scale first-wall prototype based on tungsten-rich refractory multiprincipal-element alloy (MPEA) compositions. This research aims to address a key technology barrier to commercial fusion power. The project has an award date of January 17, 2025, and an ultimate completion date of January...
This $500,000 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, under CFDA 81.135, was made to EVA Technology Corp. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the company's project titled "Anoprotonic Devices for >240 Performance Analog AI Hardware", which aims to develop novel analog artificial intelligence hardware components. This award aligns with ARPA-E's mission to fund transformative research and development...