Project Grant 2515046
- The Ohio State University received a $437,330 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to support research efforts titled "Engineering Principles for Sustainable Organic Electrode Materials." The three-year award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Under this project grant, The Ohio State University researchers will apply engineering principles to...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $335,956 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The University of Iowa for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: REDOX ELECTROLYTE CO-DESIGN FOR ENHANCED SOLUBILITY AND STABILITY (RECESS)" project. The goal of this 3-year project is to design new battery components made from earth-abundant materials dissolved in water that can store more energy, be charged and discharged more times, and be assembled with less expensive and...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $467,544 to Brown University to conduct research and development on rational design of fast-charging, composite electrodes with next-generation battery materials and complex architectures. The goal is to develop safer, cheaper, and more efficient battery technologies to support widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2025 to September 30,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $306,199 Project Grant to Trustees of Boston University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research on the physical-chemical processes that lead to unstable electrodeposition in electrochemical energy storage systems, such as batteries. The research will involve an integrated computational-experimental approach to study the complex coupling of interfacial phenomena during electrodeposition, with the goal of developing a...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,995 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) to conduct research and development on the holistic manufacturing of 3D architected electrodes for high volumetric conversion. The goal is to advance an innovative manufacturing process to mass-produce customized 3D electrodes from abundant natural resources, enabling unprecedented volumetric capacity compared to traditional planar...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $210,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to conduct research on the development of environmentally sustainable anode materials for electrochemical energy storage. The project aims to repurpose toxic particulate matter waste from fossil fuel combustion as a valuable charge-storage material for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries. Over the 3-year award period from May 2024 to...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) for $540,025 awarded to Wayne State University will develop predictive computational tools for designing electrocatalysts, elucidating electrolyte decomposition chemistries, and investigating interfacial reaction mechanisms in nonaqueous magnesium-carbon dioxide (Mg-CO2) batteries. The 5-year project aims to provide insights to guide the development of sustainable, high-capacity rechargeable batteries as an...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Cincinnati a $275,968 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program. The grant funds research into the effects of electrode microstructure and lithium peroxide growth on lithium-air battery performance. Specifically, the university will develop a closely integrated program including novel electrode fabrication, multi-scale modeling, characterization, electrochemical testing, and high-performance computing to examine how electrode...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $512,568 Project Grant to The Ohio State University on Sep 1, 2025 for the research project "Engineering Principles for Sustainable Organic Electrode Materials". The project aims to develop new organic electrode materials as sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, which rely on limited and unsustainably sourced transition metals. The research will focus on advancing battery technology using earth-abundant elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. In addition to the technical research, the project will provide hands-on training for graduate students in artificial intelligence, organic synthesis, and electrochemistry, and develop educational materials for an undergraduate general chemistry course on connections between electrochemistry and environmental water quality testing.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $512.6k | 7/24/25 |