Project Grant 2042504

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to advance a sustainable chemistry-based approach for extracting lithium ions from hypersaline aqueous brines, which have lower lithium-ion concentrations compared to other alkali metal cations. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $499,320 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to Lithios Inc. located in Medford, MA. The funding supports the development of "Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE)", a new electrochemical technology to selectively extract lithium from difficult feedstocks with high purity. The goal is to help overcome limitations in current lithium extraction methods and support more sustainable and domestic lithium...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Albemarle U.S., Inc. a $147,126,520 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to retrofit a domestic manufacturing facility to produce up to 50 metric tons per annum of lithium metal anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. This project, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, aims to support the production of materials for the light and non-light duty...

This $418,716 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research aims to develop new ceramic materials for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) with improved energy storage capabilities and cycling stability. The award, with a period of performance from August 2024 to July 2027, supports research at Drexel University to explore strategies for enhancing zinc-ion diffusion, suppressing cathode dissolution, and advancing electrochemical stability...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Storagenergy Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The grant supports the company's research and development of an eco-friendly electroextraction process to extract lithium metal from brines, as part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This grant-funded project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Princeton Critical Minerals, Inc. received a $1.555 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Fast-Track award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), effective August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. The company is developing and commercializing an evaporative lithium transport and extraction technology platform designed to extract critical minerals and materials...

Sitration, Inc. was awarded a $320,000 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to develop a new type of conductive nanomembrane filtration technology for selectively extracting lithium from existing lithium-ion battery recycling processes. The grant aims to support the Agency's objectives of advancing clean energy technologies and supporting the President's goals for the Department of Energy. Sitration will utilize the 18-month funding period...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $650,214 to the University of Nevada, Reno to study lithium enrichment in volcanic caldera systems. Principal investigators Drs. Harlaux and Ruprecht will analyze melt and fluid inclusions in volcanic rocks from the McDermitt Caldera using electron microprobe, LA-ICP-MS, and SIMS to determine how lithium progressively enriched in magmas and was partitioned into volatile phases during magma...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Noon Energy Inc. aims to develop a new ultra-low-cost rechargeable carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration renewable energy storage. The key objectives are to create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, design the optimized reactor and operating conditions, and build and test several prototypes to demonstrate the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $297,799 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to investigate the potential for extracting critical materials, specifically lithium, from oil and gas produced water using atmospheric pressure direct current non-equilibrium plasma discharges. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms facilitating the...