The Colorado School of Mines received a two-year, $200,000 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 support upgrading microbial metabolites in bacterial cultures with nanocellular catalysts. Researchers will design catalyst scaffolds that can function alongside living microbes in aqueous conditions with low substrate concentrations,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant, awarded to Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (Colorado School of Mines) under CFDA 47.041, provides $386,077 to support a project to develop molecular imprinting atomic layer deposition techniques for creating microporous silica structures near active sites in mesoporous aluminosilicate catalysts. The goal is to induce confinement effects to enhance catalytic activity and selectivity for C-C coupling reactions, particularly...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award provides $167,049 to The Ohio State University to investigate the use of double perovskite oxynitride materials as electrocatalysts for an alternative electrochemical process to produce ammonia from nitrogen and water. The project aims to develop a more sustainable, less energy-intensive, and environmentally friendly ammonia production method compared to the conventional Haber-Bosch process. The 3-year project will...
This $433,612 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Colorado State University and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology to advance understanding of plasma-assisted ammonia reforming for carbon-free fuel applications. The grant is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering innovation and research. Under the three-year award beginning December 2022, the researchers will experimentally validate ammonia plasma...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $535,830 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Charles Musgrave and his research team at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The goal of this 3-year grant, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, is to accelerate the discovery and design of novel electrocatalysts for carbon-free fertilizer synthesis using renewable energy. The researchers will leverage...
This Project Grant award of $521,967 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Clemson University supports research to explore the use of dynamic magnetic fields to enhance the catalytic decomposition of ammonia (NH3) for low-carbon chemicals and fuels production. The key focus is on developing iron-based ferromagnetic catalysts that can leverage the dynamic magnetic field to modulate the spin polarization of the catalytic atoms, enabling more efficient...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded $323,986 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines under Project Grant CFDA 47.041, the Engineering program, to support the research project "Understanding the Interaction of 2D Particles with Phospholipid Membranes" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This project aims to improve understanding of how two-dimensional particles interact with phospholipid...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $461,245 Project Grant to the Georgia TECH Research Corporation, doing business as the Office Of Sponsored Programs, to support research titled "MECHANOCATALYTIC AMMONIA SYNTHESIS OVER TRANSITION METAL NITRIDES" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $458,552 to Northeastern University, awarded on March 1, 2025, supports computational modeling and AI-driven research to advance lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction reactions (Li-NRR) for sustainable ammonia electrosynthesis. The key goals are to: 1) computationally characterize the microenvironments of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer formed during electrolyte decomposition to identify active...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program grant (CFDA 47.083) provides $600,000 to Princeton University from September 2024 to August 2029 to develop a new non-equilibrium electrochemical plasma catalysis (NE-EPC) system for efficient, distributed, and electrified ammonia synthesis from water, nitrogen, and renewable electricity. The project aims to investigate a novel plasma-assisted Mars–van Krevelen mechanism, develop advanced electrochemical membrane materials,...