Project Grant 1746740

The National Science Foundation awarded a $349,974 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of California, San Diego on July 15, 2021 for work concluding on June 30, 2023. The grant funds research to develop high-energy supercapacitors using materials stable over large voltage ranges. The University of California, San Diego will lead optimization of redox material design and scale-up synthesis. Researchers will also...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Fourth Power, Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an energy storage technology that stores electricity as heat and converts it back to electricity using thermophotovoltaics (TPV). The goal is to create a low-cost battery system that can decouple power and energy, enabling discharge durations between 1-100 hours, which is not currently achievable with other...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation provides $936,667 to Capacitech Energy, Inc. to develop self-powering textiles for electronic wearables under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The award seeks to advance an integrated energy capture, storage, and delivery technology incorporating advanced solar cells, supercapacitors, and power electronics into a single flexible unit (Supercell) connected to electronic loads. Design priorities...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award of $305,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is advancing semiconductor processing technology. The project aims to develop a novel power generator and applicator system that uses nanosecond-scale high voltage pulses to enhance the quality, reduce processing steps, and lower costs of depositing super-thin coatings for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The technology,...

Solve Technology and Research, Inc. was awarded a $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an Integrated Chemical and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Energy Storage technology. The one-year award running from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 will support a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project to address energy storage innovation. The proposed solution aims to combine mechanical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $179,996 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to develop new "biphasic charge carriers" for redox flow batteries (RFBs). The goal is to overcome limitations in energy density and materials availability for long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies like RFBs, which are critical for enabling greater use of renewable energy. The research...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to Otoro Energy Inc. to develop a low-cost metal chelate flow battery for long-duration energy storage to support the electric grid. The project aims to develop a new flow battery chemistry using abundant minerals and materials sourced and manufactured in the U.S. The goal is to create a flow battery system capable of 10+ hour...

Arizona State University was awarded a two-year, $299,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop ultrafast electrochemical capacitors for electronic and energy applications. The grant aims to advance science and engineering research leading to breakthrough energy storage technologies. Under the award, ASU researchers will conduct work in Tempe, Arizona from July 2021 through June 2023 to design and test ultrafast...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $199,997 project grant to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) to conduct molecular-level research on water-in-salt electric double-layer capacitors. The goal is to describe the capacitance and nanoscale thermal behavior of these supercapacitor systems, which could lead to more reliable and high-performance energy storage solutions to replace batteries. The 2-year project will use molecular dynamics...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop high-energy-density, rechargeable lithium-ion microbatteries through the use of 3D-printed microscale cathode electrodes and wafer-level manufacturing processes. The $303,107 award, granted on June 1, 2025, with a targeted completion date of February 28, 2026, will enable the development of a robust, reliable, and commercially...