Project Grant 2505727
- This $298,143 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of a portable instrument for measuring poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by the University of Texas at Arlington from September 2022 through August 2025. PFAS are man-made chemicals used in firefighting foams and cleaning products that accumulate in the environment and pose health risks. Typically analyzed using expensive laboratory equipment, this new portable instrument aims to reliably measure...
- This $1,200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports a collaborative research effort to address the challenge of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) removal and conversion. Led by the University of Delaware, in partnership with several Southeastern universities, the project aims to build regional research capacity and infrastructure to enable PFAS mitigation within a circular economy framework. The key...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports collaborative research aimed at discovering enzymatic pathways to break carbon-fluorine bonds in perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFAS). PFAS are a group of persistent chemicals that are costly to remove from the environment. The $350,000 project, awarded on November 1, 2025 with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2028, will take a new approach toward remediating PFAS...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000 to Rowan University to develop a portable, low-cost sensor system that can detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as "forever chemicals," in water in real-time. The sensor integrates a specially designed fluorous electrochromic polyaniline material with an extended gate field-effect transistor to achieve high accuracy and reliability in detecting...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry federal Project Grant award for $600,000 will support a 3-year research project led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside. The project, titled "Mechanistic Understanding of Biodechlorination-Facilitated Defluorination of Polychlorofluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)," aims to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the dechlorination and defluorination of PFAS, which are a class of "forever...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $150,000 to Claremont McKenna College to develop enzymatic pathways that can break carbon-fluorine bonds in perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFAS). PFAS are a group of harmful chemicals that are costly and difficult to remove from the environment due to their stable carbon-fluorine bonds. The project aims to engineer specialized enzymes that can degrade these bonds, which could unlock...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041), will provide $212,973 to the University of Utah from July 2023 to June 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the molecular and nanoscale structure and interactions of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals." The research will investigate PFAS surfactants in aqueous solutions and at water-air, water-oil, and water-solid...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,997 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund research aimed at advancing the use of persulfate and powdered activated carbon for in situ capture and destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminating groundwater. The 3-year project will: 1) evaluate reaction kinetics for PFAS degradation using the persulfate/activated carbon treatment process, 2)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECLIPSE-PFAS: INTERFACIAL PLASMA-LIQUID TRANSPORT AND REACTIVITY WITH SURFACTANT MOLECULES FOR EFFICIENT PFAS REMOVAL" project. This 3-year collaborative research effort aims to investigate how plasma interacts with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)-contaminated...
- 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $386,199 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop a novel in-situ high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) approach to detect short-lived degradation intermediates generated from the thermal or electrochemical degradation of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The project, led by Professor Hao Chen, aims to better understand PFAS degradation mechanisms, which is critical for enabling new and effective methods for PFAS removal from the environment. The research is expected to benefit the public by advancing analytical chemistry and environmental science related to these "forever chemicals". The project is set to commence on September 1, 2025 and conclude by August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $386.2k | 8/19/25 |