Cooperative Agreement FA86502025536

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), supports the recovery and recycling of end-of-life neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets through rare earth element extraction. The $10,245,214 award to Rare Resource Recycling Inc. will fund projects aimed at creating, maintaining, protecting, expanding, or restoring domestic industrial base capabilities essential for...

This Project Grant award of $697,264 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research focused on developing a new manufacturing process to fabricate rare earth permanent magnets via three-dimensional (3D) printing and hydrogel decomposition. The key objectives are to (1) create 3D printable hydrogel inks containing rare earth and other metallic elements, and (2) understand the composition and microstructure evolution during hydrogel decomposition...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding of $305,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The award aims to develop a novel, continuous chloride electrolysis process for the manufacturing of the rare earth metal neodymium, which is essential for permanent magnets used in various modern technologies such as wind turbines, electric vehicles, and defense applications. The project, awarded...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Corepower Magnetics Inc. a $19,974,887 Cooperative Agreement under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications federal grant program (CFDA 81.253) to establish a 10,000-ton-per-year soft magnetic amorphous metal production facility. The objective of this project is to boost domestic supply chain resiliency for transformers and motors used in the electric grid and electric vehicle applications. The funding will enable...

Corepower Magnetics Inc. received a $199,421 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to commercialize power dense nanocomposite based rare earth-free axial flux motors. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, listed under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 81.049, aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. This award...

This $619,688 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to advance additive manufacturing (AM) of rare earth permanent magnets. The award funds a collaboration between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the India Institute of Technology-Kharagpur to: (1) design specialized alloys for AM processing, (2) conduct in-situ studies of the AM process, and (3) fabricate part-level magnets using commercial laser powder...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Washington Headquarters Service, awarded a $43,436,608 Cooperative Agreement to Global Advanced Metals USA Inc. under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The purpose of this award is to establish low-cost domestic production capabilities for high-purity niobium, a critical material for defense applications. This grant aims to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign sources of strategic materials and supports the company's...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $575,292 Project Grant to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to conduct fundamental research on creating bulk nanocomposite permanent magnets without the use of rare-earth metals. The overarching goal is to design, fabricate, and investigate structure-property relationships in additively manufactured nanocomposite permanent magnets that can achieve energy products around 15 mega-gauss-oersted. To...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), supports a feasibility study update for establishing a domestic-source supply of tungsten, a critical material for national defense. The $20,539,361.07 award to Northcliff Resources LTD., a Canadian company, will fund activities to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for the national...

This $527,669 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Utah to enable L10 ordering in bulk FeNi alloys. The project aims to develop low-cost permanent magnets as an alternative to neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets, which are in high demand but rely on imports of rare earth elements. The research focuses on enhancing the diffusion kinetics in FeNi alloys to achieve...