This $225,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to investigate anion redox mechanisms in lithium-rich sulfide materials for high energy density lithium-ion batteries. The research aims to develop a fundamental understanding of how the structural aspects of these materials both control and are impacted by the redox reactions involving the sulfur anions, which...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $440,000 in funding to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) over the period of May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029. The project's overarching goal is to explore the use of electrochemical refining to recover nitrate from wastewater and convert it into valuable products like ammonia, a critical component of nitrogen fertilizers. The key objectives are to: 1) design and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $180,000 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW ANODIC CATALYSTS FOR WATER OXYGEN EVOLUTION USING HYBRID SOLID-STATE MATERIALS" to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, will fund research to develop new carbon-supported catalytic materials for efficient electrochemical water oxidation. The goal...
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...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $315,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year grant will support Caltech's collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FAST SPECTRALLY-ENCODED PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY FOR MULTI-PARAMETER BIOENERGETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CANCER CELLS." The research aims to develop fast spectrally-encoded photoacoustic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, provided under CFDA 47.041 Engineering, is focused on developing calibration-free potentiometric sensors for biofluid analysis. The $476,445 award, granted on May 15, 2025, will support the development of ready-to-use sensing platforms and prototypes through the functionalization of 3D-printed materials. The project aims to leverage the benefits of additive manufacturing, such as reproducibility, spatial control, and mass production...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,851 Project Grant to Temple University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from August 2021 through July 2023 to investigate direct interspecies electron transfer between microbial partners to advance syntrophic metabolism. The NSF Engineering program supports innovation and excellence in engineering research, and this award will further the program's goals by exploring how certain microbes can...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $342,085 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on January 15, 2022 to support research titled "CAS: SUSTAINABLE CARBOXYLATION WITH CARBON DIOXIDE AT TAILORED HETEROGENEOUS ELECTROCATALYSTS" through November 30, 2023. The grant is funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $2 million project grant to Stanford University through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "EFRI DCHEM: RE-ENGINEERING THE NITROGEN CYCLE: DISTRIBUTED ELECTROCHEMICAL NITROGEN REFINERIES FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS AND WATER PURIFICATION" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The grant funding will support Stanford University's research efforts to develop distributed electrochemical nitrogen refineries for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant award of $183,926 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will investigate how bacteria move in porous environments such as tissue, gels, soils, and sediment. The project will use 3D printed porous media to study how the motion and self-organization of bacteria depend on the properties of their environment, the cells themselves, and interactions among the cells. This work will provide new experimental...