This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $566,566 to The University of Iowa to develop an integrated photocapacitive and electrocatalytic technology to capture, concentrate, and convert nitrate from contaminated water sources.
The key goals of this 4-year project are to: 1) advance the discovery and design of selective photocapacitive systems to capture and concentrate nitrate, 2) develop and test durable, earth-abundant...
This $566,666 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a collaborative research project to develop an integrated photocapacitive and electrocatalytic reactor system for capturing and converting nitrate contamination from water sources into useful products.
The key objectives are to: 1) advance the design of selective photocapacitive systems to concentrate nitrate, 2) develop durable and efficient electrocatalysts to...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop an integrated photocapacitive and electrocatalytic technology for the sustainable capture and conversion of nitrate, a widespread groundwater pollutant, into useful products. The $566,667 award to the University of Texas at Austin, spanning from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, supports four key research thrusts: 1) advancing the discovery and design of selective...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the "ECO-DESIGN OF HYDROGENATION CATALYSTS FOR OXYANION REDUCTION: THE OVERLOOKED ROLES OF NITROGEN-CONTAINING GROUPS ON THE CATALYST SUPPORTS" project. This 3-year research effort aims to characterize the structure and performance of palladium (Pd) nanoparticle catalysts immobilized...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant for $458,552 awarded to Northeastern University aims to advance the fundamental scientific understanding of lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction reactions for electrochemical ammonia synthesis. The key research activities focus on:
Computationally characterizing the microenvironments and dynamic evolution of the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer formed on the copper electrode to identify active...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $535,830 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Charles Musgrave and his research team at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The goal of this 3-year grant, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, is to accelerate the discovery and design of novel electrocatalysts for carbon-free fertilizer synthesis using renewable energy. The researchers will leverage...
This $165,802 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research at Iowa State University to understand the stability and coking resistance of platinum nanolayer catalysts supported on molybdenum-titanium-carbon (MXene) materials. The research aims to advance the basic science of heterogeneous catalysis and develop improved catalyst formulations for the dehydrogenation of ethane and propane into ethylene and...
This $600,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program, with an award date of September 15, 2024 and a completion date of August 31, 2029, will 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 create a paradigm shift in green chemical manufacturing by investigating a...