Cooperative Agreement 80MSFC19M0025

Summary Oklahoma State University, in collaboration with Stevens Institute of Technology under this $300,000 project grant funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will conduct collaborative research to elucidate the structure-ionic transport relationship in polymer-ionic liquid ionogels. The project, which commenced on September 1, 2025, and concludes on August 31, 2028, combines experimental and...

This $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research at Oregon State University toward developing a circular economy model for mining green hydrogen and critical materials from seawater. The award period is from December 15, 2022 through November 30, 2023. Oregon State University will lead a consortium including Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Mempro USA LTD, and Espiku LLC to converge...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded The Ohio State University a $512,568 Project Grant (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028 to develop sustainable organic electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The primary deliverable is the development of SPARKLE (Symbolic Predictive Algorithm for Recognizing Key Molecular Elements), an...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $400,000 project grant (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to Oregon State University, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, to conduct fundamental research on the surface tension of aerosol droplets containing complex organic mixtures. Under the direction of Professor Alison Bain, the research team will deliver detailed laboratory surface tension measurements and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to advance a sustainable chemistry-based approach for extracting lithium ions from hypersaline aqueous brines, which have lower lithium-ion concentrations compared to other alkali metal cations. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $362,442 to Oregon State University (OSU) will be used to conduct collaborative research on understanding the effects of solvents on the adsorption energies of prototypical reactants on catalyst surfaces. The research aims to enable the design of new, more active, and selective catalysts for creating cleaner, more sustainable chemical processes with wide-ranging applications, including renewable...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) awarded The Ohio State University $100,000 on September 1, 2025, through a collaborative research project grant under the Ecosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE) program. The award supports research investigating interfacial plasma-liquid transport and reactivity mechanisms for efficient removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

Colorado School of Mines was awarded a $408,664 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an advanced membrane distillation process for desalinating and recycling complex wastewaters. Through computational fluid dynamics modeling and bench-scale experiments, the School will work to harness buoyancy-driven instabilities to improve mixing within membrane...

This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort led by Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), an HBCU institution, and Old Dominion University. The project aims to develop a novel chemical process that can simultaneously clean organic contaminants from wastewater and generate methanol, which can then be used for wastewater denitrification. The process utilizes biocatalytic enzymes to...

The Ohio State University received a two-year, $220,344 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on non-equilibrium nucleation of rare earth metals at aqueous interfaces. The grant aims to support the Office of Science's mission to advance the nation's energy and economic security through basic scientific research, with a focus on delivering transformational discoveries and major...