The University of Michigan was awarded a $416,720 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2026 to combine electrode engineering with electrochemical modeling to enable atmospheric carbon dioxide capture. As part of its mission to foster innovation in engineering research, the NSF grant will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $287,495 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAS-CLIMATE: COUPLING DECARBONIZATION OF THE POWER SYSTEM WITH ADVANCE PLANNING FOR INTEGRATING NEGATIVE EMISSION TECHNOLOGIES." This two-year award, effective May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2024, will fund research examining strategies for decarbonizing the electric power system through greater integration...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $381,788 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2025. The grant funds research to advance microbial engineering technologies for biofuel and biochemical production using high-throughput strain engineering and screening approaches. The University of Michigan will extend these techniques from laboratory model systems to industrially...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Cornell University to design, develop, and optimize a sustainable electrolytic system for green hydrogen production from seawater using natural sunlight. The overarching goal is to achieve high solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency and clean water production with seawater as the sole input. A sub-award of this grant was made to Michigan State University to focus on key...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $435,911 project grant to Michigan State University on May 15, 2021 through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports research titled "CAREER: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS IN THE US" through April 30, 2026. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. This award will fund Michigan State University's...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $448,149 Project Grant to Regents Of The University Of Michigan on September 1, 2023. The grant will fund research to enable renewable energy generation systems, such as wind turbines and kites, to operate optimally over a wide range of environmental conditions. This will promote the progress of science and advance national prosperity by developing a framework for real-time co-design and control of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $1,367,545 to the University of Michigan under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports collaborative research titled "Machine Learning-Aided Discovery of Synthesizable, Active and Stable Heterogeneous Catalysts." The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovation and excellence in engineering research. This...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $546,000.00 to Michigan State University to conduct research on "ELECTROCATALYTIC AMMONIA SPLITTING TO ENABLE THE NITROGEN ECONOMY". The award, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2025, supports fundamental scientific research aimed at advancing U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) in the amount of $557,722.00 will support research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to advance the fundamental understanding of electrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH) for upgrading bio-oil into sustainable transportation fuels. The key objectives are to: 1) Understand ECH of individual model organic molecules, 2) Elucidate how organic mixtures can enhance or slow ECH, and 3) Design systems for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $330,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct collaborative research on engineering catalyst selectivity for the deconstruction and re-synthesis of biomass and waste plastic feedstocks. The research aims to develop a fundamental understanding of how tuning catalyst architecture can enable selective cleavage of carbon-oxygen bonds in multifunctional organic molecules...