NSF engines development award: advancing carbon-neutral crop technologies to develop sustainable consumer goods (AL, GA, NC, TN)

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Award ID
2302898
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Awarding agency
Obligated
$1,000,000

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Place of performance
Huntsville, AL 35806, USA

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Abstract
This regional innovation engines development award focuses on building a circular bioeconomy for building materials and consumer goods in the southeastern united states. The project is designed to replace high environmental impact products with locally developed and grown perennial grasses that grow on marginal land, improve carbon sequestration, reduce imports, and have the potential to decarbonize multiple industries. The southeastern US has significant resources in underutilized farmable land, research in plant genomics, multiple groups engineering novel sustainable biomaterials, startup incubators, a mission to revitalize rural economies, and a future workforce across rural and urban areas, and graduates from universities, minority-serving colleges and smaller colleges. This integrated regional accelerator for research, training, outreach, and innovation will catalyze sweeping changes in manufacturing toward carbon neutrality. To achieve this goal, hudsonalpha institute for biotechnology, a nonprofit research, education, and economic development organization, will partner with a broad group of research and land grant institutions, including alabama a & m university, auburn university, north carolina state university, tennessee state university, tuskegee university, university of georgia, and the university of tennessee, as well as industry partner genera, farmers, AG-tech entrepreneurs, and other collaborators in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. This development award activity will span the entire pipeline for replacing existing carbon-intensive materials in manufacturing with perennial grass-derived materials. We will genetically customize these plants with genomics-enabled breeding to improve the utility of the biomass, develop new and improved biomaterials from these plants, and enable new industry applications using these materials. The research from the engine will support manufacturers in increasing their sustainability by using these materials. When fully developed, they will have partnerships across multiple industries to greatly increase the impact on reducing carbon emissions. Woven into these efforts, there will be training across the entire development chain, including farmers, students, scientists, and dedicated workforce development efforts for material and goods manufacturing. This planning award period will enable the team to develop specific material targets for applications that will drive the research efforts of the engine and expand our interactions with industry partners who will participate in driving the research aims and use these materials developed in the engine. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Original award $1,000,000

Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
Auburn University NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing carbon-neutral crop technologies to develop sustainable consumer goods $2,500
Auburn University NSF Regional Engines will develop ecosystems of partners and stakeholders advancing regional innovation through use-inspired R&D, translation of innovation to… $89,691
Genera Energy Inc. NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing carbon-neutral crop technologies to develop sustainable consumer goods $33,000
Tennessee State University Co-PIs de Koff and Dillard will identify producer input across all states engaged in this project by implementing listening sessions followed by an online… $32,093
North Carolina State University Professor Ronalds W. Gonzalez from NC State University will lead the planning area for early assessment for technoeconomics and life cycle assessment for… $46,420
University Of Tennessee PI Labbé, Co-PIs Sims and Yu, and Key Personnel Harper, Chen, and Wang will assist in the development of the planning grant by participating in the… $200,000
University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The engine will create an organized effort across education, research, and industry development to replace high environmental impact building materials and… $38,806

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Who received award 2302898?

2302898 was awarded to Hudsonalpha Institute For Biotechnology by National Science Foundation on May 15, 2023.

How much is award 2302898 worth?

$1,000,000 has been obligated on 2302898.

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