Cooperative Agreement FA86502325513

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering grant under CFDA program 47.041 is awarded to the University of Central Florida to support a 5-year research project focused on developing a novel manufacturing process for rare earth permanent magnets using 3D printing and hydrogel decomposition. The $697,264 award, effective August 1, 2025, aims to create complex 3D rare earth permanent magnet structures with superior magnetic and mechanical properties compared to current manufacturing...

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 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...

Cooperative Agreement Summary Niron Magnetics Inc. received a $3.02M cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. Under this award, Niron Magnetics will develop and validate technologies and processes to address critical materials challenges, specifically focusing on magnets with reduced critical...

This $275,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of an environmentally friendly rare earth element extraction process from recycled fluorescent light bulb powder. The awardee, IM Technologies LLC, will engineer a prototype reactor system that uses precision ultra-high temperature heating to evaporate and subsequently condense targeted rare earth constituents from light bulb waste. Research tasks include optimizing thermal energy applications to efficiently extract...

This $289,851 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program supports research at the University of Delaware that aims to develop new pathways for the recovery and recycling of rare-earth elements (REEs). The project focuses on investigating the formation and properties of high-temperature REE-sulfate liquids, with the goal of advancing alternative REE extraction and separation technologies that could enable more circular manufacturing...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $3,135,483 to demonstrate an advanced bench-scale process for producing germanium (Ge) and gallium (Ga) from a mixed rare earth oxide/salt concentrate derived from a carbon-based feedstock. The key objectives are to design and construct a bench-scale unit that can extract and purify Ge and Ga from the concentrate, with...

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...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded Purdue University a $190,936 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on February 15, 2024. The objective of this 2-year project is to design, synthesize, and characterize a new family of two-dimensional rare-earth transition metal carbide materials called "RE-MXenes." Through a combination of computational modeling and experimental efforts, the researchers aim to...

TDA Research, Inc. received a $250,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on "IONIC LIQUID-BASED ELECTROWINNING FOR REFINING OF RARE EARTH OXIDES/SALTS." The project aims to develop ionic liquid-based electrochemical processes for refining rare earth oxides and salts into purified individual rare earth elements. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program...