Project Grant 2445875
- This $199,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to elucidate the performance and mechanisms of nanofiltration (NF) for removing short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water. The research aims to evaluate NF removal of diverse (ultra)short-chain PFAS, establish structure-property-performance relationships using machine learning, and investigate PFAS interactions with NF...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $1,200,000 to a collaborative research team led by the University of South Carolina, in partnership with several other universities across Delaware, Alabama, and South Carolina. The project aims to develop innovative technologies for the removal and conversion of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are synthetic chemicals that pose health and environmental...
- This federal Project Grant award of $269,991, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to advance a new pollutant detection technology called Molecule-Probed Raman Spectroscopy (MPRS) for rapidly and cost-effectively detecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals," in water supplies. The project, led by Villanova University, will integrate experiments with computational modeling to understand...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Engineering Directorate provides $419,999 to Rice University from October 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The funding supports research to develop synthetic membranes for filtering per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water to below 70 parts-per-trillion, as well as education and training. Specifically, the awardee will design recognition sites for anionic...
- This two-year, $194,025 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund the development of a low-cost, mass-scale sorbent for removing toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from drinking water. Montclair State University will design a fluorinated block copolymer sorbent that leverages self-assembly at solid-liquid interfaces to facilitate PFAS elimination. The porous polymer will be synthesized...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041, Engineering, provides $241,750 to the University of Missouri System to research the transformation mechanisms and products of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during water disinfection processes. The 3-year project, running from August 2024 to July 2027, aims to determine how PFAS and their precursors react with common disinfectants like chlorine and ozone during drinking water treatment. The research...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to a collaborative research team led by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), in partnership with several other universities across Alabama, Delaware, and South Carolina. This project aims to develop innovative technologies for the removal and conversion of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are synthetic chemicals that pose health and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000 to Georgia Tech Research Corp to conduct research on the use of nanofiltration (NF) for removing short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water. The overarching goal is to elucidate the performance and mechanisms of (ultra)short-chain PFAS removal by NF through an integrated approach of experimental studies and computational modeling, including...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $420,000.00 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to develop a new method for degrading per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The project, titled "ERASE-PFAS: Understanding and Application of a New Photocatalytic Mechanism for PFAS Degradation," aims to discover the optimal configuration of a treatment system involving ultraviolet (UV)...
- The National Science Foundation has awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Water Illumination Inc., a small minority-owned business, to develop a tunable deep ultraviolet (UV)-based technology for the destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. This grant, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to create a cost-effective, chemical-free water treatment system capable of nearly complete PFAS elimination without...
This $190,168 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) focuses on developing a hybrid multilayer membrane system to remediate perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination in drinking water. The project, led by West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC), aims to leverage enzymes and specialized membranes to safely and efficiently remove PFOA and its breakdown products from water supplies. Key aspects of the work include tailoring membrane properties, immobilizing biocatalysts, and validating the system's PFOA degradation and separation capabilities. In addition to the technical research, the project will also incorporate educational initiatives to train students and teachers at the graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 levels on topics such as membrane fabrication, enzyme reactions, and advanced characterization techniques. The award spans from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2028, with the goal of developing an environmentally benign solution to address the growing challenge of "forever chemicals" like PFOA in drinking water.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $190.2k | 5/21/25 |