Cooperative Agreement 70NANB25H103
- This Cooperative Agreement, valued at $699,999.80, was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program. The purpose of this award is to further ongoing collaborations between NIST and the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design. The key activities to be performed include benchmarking phase field models, uncertainty quantification of phase diagrams, artificial intelligence...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program provides $144,342.63 to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization based in La Jolla, CA, from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027. The purpose of this award is to develop new methodology, algorithms, and computer software for determining local and nanoscale atomic and magnetic order in technological materials...
- This $447,122 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, funds research at Washington University in St. Louis to study the nanoscale structure and catalytic activity of single-atom photocatalysts. Professor Bryce Sadtler and his team will use advanced single-molecule fluorescence microscopy techniques to visualize how the distribution and coordination of individual metal atoms on...
- This $333,850 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to elucidate the structures and dynamics of plasmonic catalysts used for sustainable chemical manufacturing. Principal Investigator Jain from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at Humboldt University and Helmholtz-Zentrum in Berlin will utilize advanced in-situ electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to study the...
- This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at Northwestern University to develop new atom-efficient catalytic transformations using earth-abundant metals. Professor Tobin Marks and his research group will discover, understand, and optimize f-element and d(0)-transition metal catalysts for three types of critical organic reactions, with the goal of making catalytic...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) provides $100,000 in funding to Framergy Inc. to develop processes in the area of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The recipient will perform research and testing of MOFs with the aim of providing advances in MOF manufacturing compared to traditional methods. The intended beneficiaries are manufacturers of...
- Under a $529,170 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Robert Paton and his research team at Colorado State University (CSU) will develop new computational workflows to accelerate the discovery and optimization of highly selective catalysts. The project aims to advance mechanistic understanding and establish new quantitative descriptors for three key catalyst and ligand classes - hydrogen-bond donors,...
- This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program, provides $244,000.00 in funding to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization in La Jolla, CA. The purpose of this grant is to explain anomalous properties of solvent mixtures using computational dielectric spectroscopy, in order to help select solvent mixtures with specific dielectric...
- This $335,964 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a collaborative research project at Louisiana Tech University to study the stability and coke-resistance of platinum (Pt) nanolayer catalysts supported on molybdenum-titanium-carbon (MXene) materials. The goal is to advance the basic science of heterogeneous catalysis and provide insights to improve catalyst formulations and designs for the energy-intensive process of...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) provides $128,221.02 to support research into surfactant-mediated electrochemical metal deposition, particularly for copper, rhodium, and iridium at the nanoscale. The project aims to optimize deposition processes, improve material performance, and support development of next-generation interconnect technologies...
This $180,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program proposes to apply an emerging X-ray metrology technique to study the molecular-scale behavior of catalysts responsible for producing energy-intensive chemicals. The research will build a framework for pulsed-gas resonant inelastic X-ray scattering measurements of model and commercial catalysts, including studies of CO chemisorption and transient catalyst behavior. The methodologies and results will be published with the data made publicly available, showcasing NIST's recently developed tools for advancing catalysis research. This work is intended to enable researchers to improve catalyst materials and promote US industrial competitiveness in the production of essential chemicals.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $180.0k | 7/25/25 |