Cooperative Agreement DEEE0007284

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering", provides $277,539 to Michigan State University to develop an open-source battery electrode simulation toolkit using the MFEM solver library. The toolkit, named BESFEM, will enable rapid simulation of electrochemical processes in complex electrode microstructures, accelerating battery development for the U.S....

The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to Tyfast Energy Corp. The grant will support the development of ultrafast charge and extended life lithium ion batteries for electric transportation applications. Over the one-year period from March 2022 to February 2023, Tyfast Energy will develop a lithium coin cell battery prototype demonstrating 3-minute ultrafast charging capability and a 20,000-cycle extended...

This $2,823,199 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program supports Tyfast Energy Corp's 3-year project to develop "HIGH SYMMETRIC POWER (HYPER) BATTERY" technology for electric vehicles. The project aims to advance high-power lithium-ion battery capabilities, including fast charging, extended cycle life, and improved performance in extreme conditions. This work is intended to accelerate the...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund $278,252 in research to develop a holistic modeling and control framework for understanding how changes in the structure of lithium-ion battery composite anodes affect battery performance, safety, and degradation. The 5-year award, starting on June 15, 2025, aims to make fundamental contributions towards a computational modeling framework to elucidate interactions within...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Tyfast Energy Corp a $934,823 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to develop a high-performance lithium-ion battery for decarbonizing diesel-powered construction and heavy-duty vehicles. This 2-year project aims to deliver a lithium-ion battery cell with over 3 Ah capacity, 6-minute fast charging, 10,000+ cycle life, and cold temperature operation. The goal is to create a new class of...

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Connecticut a $396,312 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to advance battery health management and safety. The award period is from August 15, 2022 through July 31, 2025. The University will develop a physics-informed active safety platform that enables prediction and proactive prevention of lithium plating during battery charging. Researchers will validate multiphysics plating models, predict lithium plating...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,120,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) on July 1, 2024. The goal of this three-year project is to develop a prototype 1 kWh rechargeable solid-state lithium-air battery (RSS-LAB) with a gravimetric energy density over 1,000 Wh/kg and a volumetric energy density over 1,000 Wh/L, as well as a 100-cycle life. The project also aims to produce a detailed design for a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $298,474 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop a software infrastructure for multi-scale simulations of materials. The key deliverables include: (1) Enumeration tools to generate a database of crystallographic and non-crystallographic models for training machine-learned interatomic potentials...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Tyfast Energy Corp, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for the development of a "NOVEL HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND HIGH-ENERGY ANODE FOR FUTURE MOBILITY" under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This one-year project, beginning on July 22, 2024, aims to advance battery technologies by designing and demonstrating a high-performance lithium-ion anode material that can...

This $415,746 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Texas Tech University System supports the development of intelligent battery management systems with novel reinforcement learning and machine learning methods. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing deep reinforcement learning-based methods to enable safe and adaptive fast-charging protocols for electric vehicle batteries. Creating efficient and...