Cooperative Agreement W911NF2020043

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports a collaborative research project to develop scalable nanomanufacturing processes for lead-free perovskite-analogue nanocrystals. The $360,000 award to Brown University aims to leverage reconfigurable continuous flow reactors and data science techniques to rapidly explore the manufacturing space and optimize the production of high-performance copper-based perovskite-analogue...

This $10,950,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to accelerate the domestic manufacturing of Pajarito Powder's durable engineered catalyst support (ECS) materials and supported Pt and Pt alloy-based catalysts. The project will scale ECS production from 30 g/day to 2 kg/day and PTx/ECS (where x = Ni or Co) production from...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $463,746 to the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) to study an innovative continuous crystallizer concept. The objective is to develop robust, scalable, and miniaturized equipment for pharmaceutical manufacturing that can improve resilience to supply chain disruptions and better meet fluctuating market needs. The research seeks to advance continuous...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA #81.135), supports the development of a transformative modular chemical manufacturing process that efficiently converts carbon dioxide (CO2), intermittent electricity, and hydrogen (H2) into liquid hydrocarbon/low-oxygen organic mixtures. The $2,073,897 award to the Georgia Institute of Technology, with sub-awards to the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University, aims...

This three-year, $360,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research at the University of Minnesota exploring alkali metal-based selective combustion catalysts. The goal is to develop an improved process for converting light hydrocarbon alkanes to olefins, key building blocks for polymer materials production. The University of Minnesota team will systematically study the structural and...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,697,458 Cooperative Agreement to North Carolina State University on September 30, 2024. The project, titled "Distributed Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide (CO2) via Plasma-Enhanced Catalysts-in-Tandem (PECT)," aims to develop highly dynamic distributed off-grid systems that can convert renewable power, water, and CO2 into transportable and sustainable fuels. The project involves catalyst synthesis...

This $59,125,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to commercialize Nexceris's high-temperature electrolysis stack technology. The key objectives are to: (1) establish pilot-scale solid oxide cell manufacturing capabilities, (2) establish automated stack manufacturing at Nexceris, and (3) expand stack testing capacity to...

Media & Process Technology Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to demonstrate the technical feasibility and energy savings potential of a non-evaporative substrate drying process using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction combined with ceramic membrane ultrafiltration. The two-year award, issued on September 9, 2022, will support development of a process to dewater wet substrates without...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,915 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Alternative Energy Materials, LLC, a small for-profit limited liability company based in Pullman, Washington. The grant, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports the development of a novel dry powder pressing additive manufacturing technique for fabricating multifunctional ceramic monoliths with internal flow structures....

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $9,279,968 Cooperative Agreement to the West Virginia University Research Corporation to design and build a Hybrid Microwave-Assisted Heating Process (HMAP) for the calcination and sintering of Solid-Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC) materials and cells. The project aims to develop two hybrid microwave-assisted kilns - one for rapid calcination of electrode and electrolyte powders, and another for...