Cooperative Agreement A22AC00170

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $3,790,157, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The primary goal of the project, titled "INTER-GRINDING OF WASTE ACTIVATORS AND LOW-GRADE CALCINED KAOLIN CLAY FOR ONE-PART ALKALI-ACTIVATED CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY (INTERAACT)", is to conduct research and development on inter-grinding...

This $309,563 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of California Irvine to develop new methodologies for isolating the effects of electric fields on sintering ceramic materials. The grant period runs from February 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. Under the award, the University of California Irvine will conduct experiments using in situ laser heating and transmission electron microscopy-based nanomechanical testing methods. This work aims to quantify...

This $616,537 award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a project led by Lehigh University to investigate the solid-state synthesis of novel entropy-stabilized ceramic materials. The key objectives are to: 1) elucidate the reaction mechanisms and material transport processes governing the formation of these advanced ceramics; 2) understand the role of induced elastic deformation in the reaction kinetics; and 3) characterize the...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), provides $8,751,655.00 to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation to demonstrate a 9.3 tonne CO2/day carbon capture system with transformative elements at a glass production facility. The goal is to address operational challenges associated with carbon capture in a glass production environment, including moisture...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA #15.073), will fund the University of Oklahoma to characterize mine waste at the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma. The $299,175 project, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will composite sample approximately 110 mine waste features (chat piles and tailing ponds) to analyze their heterogeneity and determine the presence of critical...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, with ID DEEE0011219, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The $6,065,126 award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will support the "PROJECT REDRESS" initiative by Ash Grove Cement Co Inc. The project aims to evaluate dredged sediment from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' confined...

This Project Grant award, valued at $310,000 and spanning from September 2024 to September 2026, was provided by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.121). The project aims to develop a novel primer system using carbon nanosphere chains (CNSCs) and 10-methacryloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate (MDP) to enable strong, reversible bonding of high-strength dental ceramics such as lithium...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the NIEHS Superfund Hazardous Substances_Basic Research and Education program (CFDA 93.143) supports the development of a field-deployable analyzer for quantifying trace-level concentrations of uranyl (uranium) in drinking water. The $173,075 award to Ondavia, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced analytical technologies, aims to create a Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)-based...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Lehigh University under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The objective of this project is to characterize the rare earth elements and other elements of interest in coal combustion residual wastewater and solid wastes associated with coal power generation, and to demonstrate recovery technologies to enable beneficial use of these...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $335,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York to conduct collaborative research on developing tough and 3D-printable ceramic nanocomposites. The research aims to overcome the intrinsic fragility of ceramic materials by introducing small quantities of boron nitride nanotubes into polymer-derived ceramics. This work will enable the development of...