The National Science Foundation awarded a $314,193 Project Grant to Princeton University from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds collaborative research to unravel the role of chemo-mechanics in all solid state batteries. Specifically, Princeton University will work with partners to advance understanding of interfacial phenomena that impact performance of these next-generation batteries, which could enable more powerful and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Princeton University a $347,715 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on Chemical Reactions and Chemically-Driven Transport in Channels and Porous Media. This three-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will fund Princeton University's research examining chemical processes and transport phenomena in confined and porous spaces,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Purdue University a $251,712 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will fund collaborative research from August 2021 to July 2024 to unravel the role of chemo-mechanics in all solid state batteries. As part of its mission to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation, the Engineering program...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $2.7 million Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The four-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and set to conclude on August 31, 2025, will support the development of dry manufacturing processes for solid-state sodium batteries for energy storage at large scale. Specifically, the university will jointly develop dry manufacturing of sodium solid-state batteries with a $119,650...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $306,199 Project Grant to Trustees of Boston University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research on the physical-chemical processes that lead to unstable electrodeposition in electrochemical energy storage systems, such as batteries. The research will involve an integrated computational-experimental approach to study the complex coupling of interfacial phenomena during electrodeposition, with the goal of developing a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $396,734 to the University of Illinois under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on March 1, 2024. The purpose of this 5-year grant is to conduct research to elucidate the fundamental interfacial processes that occur in lithium-ion battery electrolytes, with the goal of guiding the development of safer, higher-energy, and more durable battery technologies. The project will utilize advanced in-situ and ex-situ...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $137,407 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GOALI: EVALUATING THERMO-ELECTRO-ADSORPTION MECHANISMS FOR WASTE-HEAT DRIVEN ION-SEPARATION PROCESSES." The grant period runs from August 1, 2021 through August 31, 2021. Under this award, Princeton University will conduct research evaluating thermo-electro-adsorption mechanisms...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $427,152 Project Grant to the University of Houston System under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2026. The grant funds the "CAREER: IDENTIFYING A NEW SOURCE OF LITHIUM FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE" project. The project will support research to identify new sources of lithium that can enable more sustainable and renewable energy storage solutions. The...
The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $463,485 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. The grant supports research titled "Designing Novel Tunable Colloids via Inverse Statistical Mechanics" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under this NSF Engineering grant (CFDA #47.041), Princeton University researchers will develop new methods to design colloidal particles with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $271,015 Project Grant to Princeton University from December 2021 through November 2024. The grant supports collaborative research to probe cavitation inception in dielectric liquids with sub-nanosecond precision under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the funding enables Princeton University researchers to investigate how bubbles form and collapse in...