Project Grant 2440941
Award Date
1/1/25
Completion Date
12/31/29
Dollars Obligated
$522K
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Similar Awards
Clemson University was awarded a two-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research titled "EAGER: MAGNETICALLY INDUCED CATALYSTS FOR ACTIVE AND SELECTIVE CO2 REDUCTION UNDER MILD CONDITIONS" to develop new magnetically induced catalysts for reducing carbon dioxide into useful products under mild...
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) 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant award, under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering), provides $428,182 to the University of California, Irvine to conduct research on magnetically driven propane dehydrogenation catalysts. The project aims to improve the sustainability and efficiency of industrial processes for producing propylene, a key chemical used in many commercial products. Specifically, the research will explore the use of induction heating, which generates heat using...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $291,349 Project Grant to the University of Alabama under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop and apply advanced machine learning force fields to simulate nanoparticle catalysts under realistic reaction conditions. The goal is to elucidate the catalytic active sites and how nanoparticle shapes evolve during catalytic processes. This research will help enable more sustainable chemical manufacturing by improving the computational...
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 $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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $638,566 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Delaware. The grant supports a collaborative research effort to develop a computational-experimental methodology using machine learning to design stable, active, and selective single-atom catalysts for industrial applications. The project aims to uncover physics-inspired descriptors to predict how the support material properties influence the stability,...
This three-year, $566,530 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Clemson University focused on synthesizing new materials displaying unusual optical and magnetic properties. Researchers will use high-temperature hydrothermal methods to grow high-quality single crystals of low-dimensional transition metal oxyanions for characterization of their magnetic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $453,701 Project Grant to Clarkson University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research on improving electrochemical processes for sustainable fuel and chemical production. The project aims to gain a deeper understanding of the complex chemistry occurring at the interface between electrocatalysts and liquid or polymer electrolytes. Key objectives include: 1) quantifying how solvent, ion, and surface effects influence...