Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011163

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $321,634 project grant to Cornell University to develop next-generation lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries capable of operating at practical temperatures. The university is collaborating with industry partners Saft Batteries and Nikola Motors to address key barriers for Li-S battery performance, including improving the electrolyte and mitigating capacity loss from polysulfide shuttling. The research aims to enable...

This $282,020 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research at Northern Illinois University from October 2022 to September 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of reversible sodium hydrosulfide formation in hybrid electrolytes to enable high energy density sodium-sulfur battery technology. Specifically, the university will conduct fundamental studies using X-ray scattering...

This three-year $379,759 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Arizona State University to promote lithium sulfide redox cycles for battery applications. The university will conduct collaborative research from September 2021 to August 2024 to develop atomically dispersed active sites in lithium sulfides with the goal of improving energy storage capabilities. As the sole awardee, Arizona State University will leverage its...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,978,481 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program to the University of South Carolina. The objective of this 1-year project is to develop mechanistic models of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cathode processes that are experimentally validated and can be used for virtual prototyping of Li-S cells. Key activities include collecting baseline Li-S...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $386,258 Project Grant under their Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant funds a collaborative research project to develop innovative electrolytes for intermediate-temperature sodium-potassium/sulfur (Na-K/S) batteries to enable long-duration energy storage (>10 hours) for intermittent renewable energy applications. The project will utilize material design and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $241,299 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame's Notre Dame Research division to develop innovative electrolytes for intermediate-temperature sodium-sulfur and potassium-sulfur batteries. The goal is to identify new solvents that can dissolve the insoluble reaction products formed during battery discharge, enabling higher specific capacity and energy density. The research will utilize a simulation-driven approach combining molecular dynamics...

This two-year, $202,433 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of composite solid electrolytes to enable high-energy, cost-effective all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. Under the award, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico will receive a fellowship to study the stability of electrode-electrolyte interfaces in solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries using composite electrolytes. A graduate...

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...

Arizona State University was awarded a $320,746 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to conduct collaborative research understanding sulfur-carbon-solid electrolyte interfaces of lithium/sulfur solid-state batteries. The three-year award, made on June 1, 2023 under the NSF Engineering (47.041) program, will fund fundamental studies of interfaces in lithium/sulfur composite cathodes employing garnet-type...

This Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA program 81.135 "Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy", provides $500,000.00 to Mana Battery, Inc. to develop an industry-transforming anode-free sodium battery cell using the company's proprietary sodium borate electrolyte (SBE) platform. The proposed battery cells comprise safe, low-cost, fluorine-free electrolytes and nickel-free cathodes, with the goal of outperforming lithium...