Cooperative Agreement W911NF262A111

Summary of Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Fluxworks, Inc., a HUBZone-certified small business based in Texas, received a $1.236 million Phase II Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) awarded on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. The award funds development and validation of the company's proprietary "Flux Angle Mapping" magnetic gear technology designed to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $550,000 to develop electric motors that use electromagnetic forces to eliminate bearings. The project aims to transform the reliability, lifetime, efficiency, and utility of electric motors and generators across industries like transportation, manufacturing, and medical equipment. By creating a cost-effective solution that uses...

This $274,995 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program Project Grant will support the development of a semi-active magnetic bearing for flywheel energy storage systems by Magma Space LLC. The magnetic bearing technology aims to enable high-speed flywheel energy storage systems for both space and terrestrial applications by overcoming limitations of lithium-ion batteries such as loss of energy capacity over time and stringent temperature control requirements....

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of a level-set-based, multi-physics and multi-material topology optimization software for electric machine design. The $550,000 award, made under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, will support work at Stony Brook University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The software aims to improve electric generator and motor designs through parametric topology optimization of magnets. This will...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Fluxmagic, Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company based in Portland, Oregon, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant funding will support Fluxmagic's research and development of "MAGNETIC GEARS FOR OCEAN GENERATORS", focused on advancing magnetic gear and drivetrain technologies for offshore renewable energy applications, particularly in the ocean and wind...

This Project Grant award of $255,963 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to develop an immersion-cooled, 3D-printed stator technology for high-specific-power electric motors, specifically an interior permanent magnet synchronous motor. The research will establish a performance baseline using traditional motor windings with oil immersion cooling, demonstrate improved cooling with additively manufactured windings, and validate long-term...

Summary: Discrete Exterior Calculus Variational Integrator for Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities Simulation Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated (ORAU) received a $149,690.91 cooperative agreement award from the Research Development and Engineering Command (a Defense agency component) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to develop and apply a discrete exterior calculus variational integrator for simulating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities. The award,...

Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $344,942 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on non-volatile magnetic memory devices utilizing field-free spin-orbit torque switching of perpendicularly polarized magnets. The research aims to demonstrate field-free deterministic magnetization switching of three classes of ferromagnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using electric field-induced out-of-plane spin...

This Project Grant award, valued at $220,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines. The award funds a collaborative research project to investigate the coupled dynamics of fluid-solid systems with mass and momentum flux, focusing on auto-rotating devices that respond to the injection or withdrawal of fluid. The work combines...