Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009188

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Texpower EV Technologies, Inc. a $199,545 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop stabilizing coatings for high-nickel, cobalt-free cathodes employed in electric vehicles. The one-year award period runs from June 28, 2021 to June 27, 2022 and will support research harnessing atomic layer deposition techniques to tame ultrahigh energy cathodes through stabilizing coatings. The Office of...

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...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded ADA Technologies, Inc. $199,995 under the Conformal, Resilient Sulfide Membrane for 3D Silicon Anodes Project Grant. The award supports research and development of a conformal, resilient sulfide membrane for three-dimensional silicon anodes from February 14, 2022 to November 13, 2022. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and...

This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of new anode materials for lithium-ion batteries using nickel sulfide-filled carbon nanotubes. Florida International University will scale production from research to bench and pilot scales, evaluate nickel sulfide-filled carbon nanotubes as additive materials for commercial graphite and silicon anodes, optimize loading ratios, and assess performance in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $550,000 provides funding to The Washington University in St. Louis to develop high-performance, long-life electrodes for sustainable sodium-based batteries. The key objectives are to scale up cathode synthesis, demonstrate superior performance in large-format cells, and advance the fundamental understanding of the heat and mass transfer dynamics, interparticle interactions, and...

Am Batteries Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a solvent-free manufacturing process for lithium-ion battery electrodes. The goal of the one-year project beginning February 1, 2022 is to design, manufacture, and operate a continuous feed dry spraying system to optimize fabrication of thicker battery electrodes without solvents. This novel...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of binderless electrode manufacturing using nano-layered coatings deposited through an ultrasonic nozzle-free spray coating technique. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee Nanoresearch Inc. will investigate process-structure-property relationships to validate this new coating method for scaling production of binderless electrodes. Specifically, the company will design surfactant removal...

This $2,395,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded on June 20, 2023 by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (CFDA 81.135) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop fundamentally disruptive electric vehicle (EV) battery technologies. The key objectives are to create cobalt- and nickel-free battery cathodes, fast-charging and all-weather electrolytes, and coal-derived fast-charging and high-capacity anodes in order to enable EVs with...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $174,853,241 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Nanograf Corporation. The objective of the project is to retrofit an existing structure and establish a state-of-the-art 2,500-ton per year Silicon Monoxide (SiO) anode manufacturing facility in Flint, Michigan. This project directly addresses the critical need for domestic battery material manufacturing,...

Bioenno Tech, LLC received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop high-energy, high-power solid-state lithium-ion battery cells based on 5V electrode technologies. The award, issued on June 27, 2022, supports research and development activities at Bioenno Tech's facility in Santa Ana, California through March 26, 2023. Specifically, the company will work to advance electric...