Project Grant 1914147

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Graphenetx Inc. will fund the development of a novel manufacturing process to extrude a patented polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based quad polymer into precursor fibers, which can then be carbonized to produce high-strength carbon fibers. The key innovation is the use of a melt-spinning process to eliminate the hazardous solvents required in the current solution-based...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,743,635 from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to transform industrial and biomass wastes into low-cost, low-carbon construction materials using a novel negative emission technology (NET). The project is a collaborative effort involving researchers from the University of Alabama, University of New Mexico, University of Idaho, and Alabama A&M University, a Historically Black College and University. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project Grant to Multiscale Integrated Technology Solutions LLC of Indianapolis, Indiana. The grant supports research and development of enhanced composite materials through interlaminar incorporation of carbon nanotube/epoxy nanoscaffolds using genetic algorithm assisted machine learning and neural networks. This award advances the goals of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's CFDA 47.041...

This Project Grant award of $274,919 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a new class of high-performance composite materials made from aluminum and carbon fiber. The key focus is on improving the interface between the metal and carbon fiber phases to create a low-defect, high-strength material with enhanced mechanical properties. The research aims to elucidate the microstructural evolution and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $265,072 Project Grant to Perseus Materials, Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to establish the thermal and mechanical limits of novel, fiber-reinforced, plastic composite materials (FRPs) and pioneer a fast-manufacturing process for these FRPs. The project objectives are to enable widespread adoption of lightweight FRPs in...

Molten Industries Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a novel method for tuning the production of high-quality solid carbon using methane pyrolysis. The company will conduct research to better understand carbon precipitation and formation in methane pyrolysis reactors. This will include developing an improved thermo-chemical model and reactor design to enable better control over producing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Rebornc LLC will support the development and scaled production of novel additively manufactured, plastic-derived carbon materials as Joule heaters. These high-performance carbon Joule heaters are intended to decarbonize critical industrial processes, such as large-scale chemical syntheses, by reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions compared to traditional metal...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) directorate aims to scale up the manufacturing of an engineered lightweight aggregate (LWA) product derived from waste coal combustion ash (W-CCA). The project seeks to address the limited supply and high transportation costs of traditional LWA, while also mitigating the environmental damage caused by improper W-CCA landfill disposal. Through a two-step...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research into developing ultra-high-strength carbon nanofibers through the process of pyrolysis. The $390,152 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028, will be carried out by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees). The key objectives of this research project are to investigate the impact of defects, such as...

This five-year, $674,756 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, within the Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041), will fund the development of a novel, stratlingite-based cementitious binder with significantly lower carbon emissions than traditional Portland cement. The awardee, Missouri University of Science & Technology, will leverage the chemistries of ancient Roman concretes and modern concrete designs to...