Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011209

The National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $414,653 project grant to Arizona State University to develop high-performing polycrystalline membranes with sorption-enhanced molecular sieving selectivity for separating propylene and propane. The project focuses on a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) material called ZU-609, which has high adsorption capacity and diffusivity for propylene but negligible adsorption for propane, as well as superior structural...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $390,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Leland Stanford Junior University. The goal of this 4-year award is to develop new organic-inorganic hybrid membrane materials that can effectively separate chemical mixtures, with a focus on separating paraffins and olefins - molecules critical for producing fuels and plastics. The research team will combine advanced data science and high-throughput physical...

This $393,055 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to the University of Iowa aims to develop covalent organic framework (COF) membranes that can separate fatty acids and esters derived from vegetable oils into high-purity individual components. The research will yield fundamental insights into separating similarly-sized and shaped organic chemicals using COFs. The project will actively involve graduate, undergraduate, and high school students,...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund $545,470 in research at the University of Florida to quantify the role of interfaces in liquid separation membranes based on carbon molecular sieves. The research aims to understand deviations from desired separation performance often exhibited by freestanding and hybrid carbon molecular sieve membranes. Investigators will combine advanced...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Media and Process Technology Inc. a $400,000 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on Advanced Inorganic Membranes for Fuel Separation and Recycle in the Fusion Fuel Cycle. This project aims to develop advanced inorganic membrane technologies for separating and recycling tritium in the fusion fuel cycle, with work taking place in Blawnox, PA from June 2022 through March 2023. The...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $273,000 to Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable C2+ products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. A collaborative team from Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will engineer novel layered catalyst structures...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $260,002 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CROSSING THE PERCOLATION THRESHOLD FOR SELECTIVE GAS TRANSPORT USING INTERCONNECTED CRYSTALS OF METAL?ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS IN POLYMER-BASED HYBRID MEMBRANES" from July 2021 through June 2024. The grant funding will support MIT researchers in developing hybrid membrane materials...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will develop a novel membrane separation technology to address the energy-efficient separation of small molecules from industrial process streams for a range of industries. The $275,000 award to Avanpore LLC, a for-profit limited liability company located in Woburn, MA, will run from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The project aims to create functionalized...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Arizona State University a $452,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support research to develop scalable synthesis methods for producing ultrathin two-dimensional covalent organic framework membranes with sub-1 nm pores. These membranes show potential for molecular separations in industrial processes related to fuels,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), provides $6,250,000 in funding to The Ohio State University to conduct engineering-scale testing of its transformational membrane technology for carbon dioxide capture from natural gas combined cycle flue gas. The key objectives are to: 1) repurpose and modify an existing 5 tonne per day...