Project Grant 1914035

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, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $305,000 to Creathadh Energies LLC to develop a prototype for vibration harvesting technology in wearable devices. The key objectives are to enable human movement vibrations to power commercial applications like wearable heart rate monitors, eliminating the need for battery replacements or recharging. The project will advance scientific and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop flexible, breathable, and biocompatible nanofibrous devices for next-generation flexible electronics. The key goals of the project are to: 1) develop advanced porous nanomaterials with enhanced mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion capabilities, 2) establish versatile and scalable fabrication methods, such as...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $158,944 awarded on October 1, 2022 will fund research at the University of Texas at Dallas to develop flexible reverse electrowetting energy harvesters capable of powering wearable motion sensors and wirelessly transferring data. The goal is to enable self-powered sensors for applications requiring long-term monitoring without regular access to power sources. As part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the research aims to optimize...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop novel, sustainable textile fibers and fabrics derived from seaweed biopolymers and nanomaterials. The project seeks to create a plastic-free, multifunctional textile material with enhanced properties such as fire resistance, UV protection, and heat shielding, which can serve as an alternative to fossil fuel-based textiles....

The National Science Foundation awarded a $502,682 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research advancing the manufacturing of multifunctional composite fibers through thermal drawing for wearable energy storage textiles. The three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 will fund research to fill knowledge gaps on how composition and nanostructures affect failure mechanisms during thermal drawing of composites...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Southern California (USC) for the development of a "Non-Resonant Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester with Magnetic Gear for Wearable Technology". The research aims to efficiently generate power from vibration energy associated with human daily activities, such as walking, to power wearable devices and reduce the need for battery recharging or...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $600,002 to Villanova University and Temple University, in partnership with Otex Specialty Narrow Fabrics Inc., to establish a transformative water-based salt-assisted-assembly process for manufacturing durable smart textiles. The goal of this interdisciplinary research is to expand the design space of viable nanomaterial-textile systems by enabling self-assembly at...

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...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a desktop system for spinning biofibers - fibers made from biomaterials - to enable sustainable innovations in smart textiles. The project aims to address the sustainability challenges posed by the projected $15 billion smart textiles market by 2030, which risks combining textile and electronic waste. The research...