The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,552 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Oklahoma for research services focusing on promoting lithium sulfides redox cycle via atomically dispersed active sites for batteries. This three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support the awardee's collaborative research efforts to improve battery technology through exploring lithium sulfides' redox properties at the atomic level and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $396,734 to the University of Illinois under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on March 1, 2024. The purpose of this 5-year grant is to conduct research to elucidate the fundamental interfacial processes that occur in lithium-ion battery electrolytes, with the goal of guiding the development of safer, higher-energy, and more durable battery technologies. The project will utilize advanced in-situ and ex-situ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Regents Of The University Of Michigan, doing business as University Of Michigan-Dearborn. The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, aims to develop and integrate advanced optical sensors into lithium-ion batteries to gain real-time insights into the battery formation process, specifically the dynamic evolution of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer....
This $170,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) aims to uncover the relationship between liquid electrolytes and battery performance, which is crucial for developing next-generation rechargeable batteries. The research team at the University of Illinois will systematically vary electrolyte composition and concentration to identify optimal solutions, leveraging high-throughput characterization, computational simulations, and machine...
This $299,463 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project to elucidate the impact of microstructural defects on the mechanical and ionic properties of composite electrodes for all-solid-state batteries. The research aims to quantify defect formation mechanisms and monitor operando microstructural evolution, and to determine how these changes impact the electrochemical and mechanical performance...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant award of $292,402 to the University of Oklahoma aims to advance the state-of-the-art in energy storage systems by promoting the understanding of emerging solid-state battery (SSB) technology. The project will develop a holistic multiphysics model to investigate functional connections across different scales in SSB systems, advance nonlinear control theory to safely steer the SSB system, and conduct...
This $549,771 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of Houston to develop advanced solid-state lithium metal battery technology. The project aims to understand the formation and optimization of pore-free carbon-metal ionic-electronic conductor (C-MIEC) interlayers, which can enhance the reliability and cost-effectiveness of solid-state lithium metal batteries for next-generation electric vehicles. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $760,000 Project Grant under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to Northern Illinois University. The project aims to systematically vary the composition and concentration of battery electrolytes to determine optimal solutions for advanced rechargeable batteries. Key objectives include: 1) Gaining a better understanding of solvation structure through high-throughput experimentation and characterization using techniques like Raman spectroscopy and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $330,187 in funding to San Jose State University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The award supports collaborative research into the effect of cyclic mechanical stress on ionic conduction in composite polymer electrolytes for solid-state batteries. This work falls under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's $47.041 Engineering program, which seeks to foster...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $261,286 to Purdue University will fund research to gain a fundamental understanding of the interface dynamics between a liquid metal anode and a solid electrolyte in solid-state lithium-ion batteries. The research team will utilize in-situ and operando focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques to analyze morphological changes and phase...