This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of advanced salt electrolysis processes for domestic refinement of battery minerals. Specifically, the awardee, the Regents of the University of California on behalf of the University of California, Berkeley, will work to design and test innovative carbon-based flow electrodes and reactor architectures to enable more efficient and lower-cost salt...
This federal Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports the development of advanced proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer technology by Hplus Inc., a small business based in Santa Barbara, CA. Specifically, the $269,334 award aims to advance the design of a multifunctional porous transport layer (PTL) to enable more efficient and cost-effective polymer electrolyte membrane water...
This $99,739,322 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to develop and pilot an automated, scaled manufacturing process for proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. The key objectives are to advance the manufacturing readiness level (MRL) from 4/5 to 8/9 and scale electrolyzer production to 100 MW plants over the 3-year project...
Oxbyel Technologies Inc. was awarded a $294,927 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a cost-effective per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) electrolyzer for groundwater remediation. The electrolyzer technology aims to provide a solution for treatment of PFAS contamination in groundwater, advancing the NSF program's goals of supporting innovative technologies to address national challenges....
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 Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under CFDA 81.049, the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, to Ecolectro Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer, to develop ultrathin alkaline membranes with excellent hardness and gas barrier properties. The goal is to achieve low ionic resistance and mechanical failure in high temperature water electrolyzers, in support of clean energy technologies. Ecolectro Inc. has...
This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to improve fundamental understanding of the structure, dynamics, and electromechanical actuation of aqueous electrolytes in nanoporous media. Over a three-year period beginning September 1, 2022, the grantee will apply experiments and molecular simulations to characterize the formation of the electric double layer in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Oxbyel Technologies Inc. a $999,978 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a cost-effective, chemical-free water treatment system that uses electrolysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in contaminated groundwater. The objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) scale up the anode electrocatalyst coating process for large-area 3D electrodes and produce full-scale, low-cost...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry provided a $531,376 Project Grant to Case Western Reserve University to develop simulation methods that advance the science of electrolysis, an important process for clean energy applications like hydrogen production. Over the 3-year award period from August 2024 to July 2027, the research will use first-principles molecular simulations to understand how solvent dynamics and reorganization energetics impact the kinetics of the...
This $256,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of binderless electrode manufacturing using nano-layered coatings deposited through an ultrasonic nozzle-free spray coating technique. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee Nanoresearch Inc. will investigate process-structure-property relationships to validate this new coating method for scaling production of binderless electrodes. Specifically, the company will design surfactant removal...