This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $299,999 to Rutgers, The State University to develop a novel non-equilibrium electrochemical plasma catalysis (NE-EPC) system for efficient, distributed, and electrified ammonia synthesis. The project aims to create a reactor that can produce "green" ammonia from water, nitrogen, and renewable electricity, providing a potential solution for decarbonizing chemical...
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,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to Duke University to develop a novel 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 plasma-assisted Mars-van Krevelen mechanism for ammonia production, and will involve developing novel electrochemical...
This $1,700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research to develop a bioelectrochemical process to capture and recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) into high-value chemicals using microbes. The project aims to create a circular economy by transforming CO2 into acetic acid, which will then be used as a feedstock for engineered Escherichia coli strains to produce sustainable biomaterials. Key activities include developing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Track-2 FEC (Federal-State Cooperative) Cooperative Agreement, valued at $1,010,735 and awarded on September 1, 2023, brings together a multidisciplinary team from Iowa State University and Wichita State University to explore and develop green urea fertilizers that can reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Midwest farming and ranching. The key focus areas of the...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The purpose of this 2-year award, which began on October 1, 2023, is to conduct fundamental research on convergent electrochemistry and metabolic engineering approaches to enable carbon-neutral production of ammonia, a critical component of nitrogen-based fertilizers. The research aims to merge the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) award to Northeastern University provides $458,552 over 5 years, effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2030. The project focuses on computational characterization of reaction mechanisms and catalytic microenvironments to advance ammonia electrosynthesis, an alternative and more sustainable approach to ammonia production compared to the traditional Haber-Bosch process. The key objectives are to: 1) computationally...
This $450,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to develop an electrified membrane system for recovering nitrogen from nitrate-contaminated water. Specifically, the grant funds an international collaboration between NJIT and Ben-Gurion University in Israel to employ electrochemical membrane filtration studies, computational chemistry, and numerical simulations. The goal is to explore a sustainable pathway for generating...
This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to advance electrocatalytic technologies for capturing and converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable fuels like methane and ethylene. The award to Clemson University's Division of Research will fund research to utilize captured (bi)carbonate ions rather than pure CO2 gas as the feedstock for the electrochemical reduction process. This approach seeks to improve the energy...
Under a $537,226 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Northeastern University is developing advanced computational modeling tools to understand the fundamental chemistry and reaction mechanisms involved in the electrochemical production of ammonia. The research aims to eliminate key bottlenecks in the embedded correlated wavefunction theory to enable more widespread use of this technique in computational...