Project Grant 2516042
Award Date 8/15/25
Completion Date 7/31/28
Dollars Obligated $534K
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Similar Awards
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $346,593 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to develop an accurate and efficient method for large-scale simulations of heterogeneous electrocatalysis. The project will enhance machine learning force field (ML FF) capabilities by adding features to describe electron behavior under the grand canonical ensemble in the catalyst, creating an expanded "E-GCE-FF" model. This...
- This $125,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research and education activities under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with the University of Texas at El Paso, will establish an atomic-scale understanding of the interplay between structure, chemistry, catalytic activity, and mechanisms in transition metal...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research investigations of monometallic, bimetallic and dual-anion transition metal hydroxide water oxidation electrocatalysts. The three-year award, issued on August 15, 2021 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2024, will fund the University's work exploring the catalytic properties and mechanisms of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $191,000 Project Grant through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), a Hispanic-serving and minority-serving institution. This 2-year EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant aims to establish an atomic-scale understanding of the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanocrystal catalysts through in-situ electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under CFDA program 47.041 Engineering is focused on collaborative research to link nanoscale heterogeneities with macroscale reactivity of electrocatalytic materials. The $283,480 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, aims to investigate how tiny structural differences in materials can affect their performance and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $629,756 to support a collaborative research program led by Professors Simon M. Humphrey and Graeme Henkelman at the University of Texas at Austin. The project aims to discover and study new catalyst materials containing three or four different metallic species, with the goal of achieving advanced reactivity to convert bioethanol into hydrogen and methanol. The targeted...
- This $1,000,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) supports fundamental research on dynamic ferroelectric catalysis to transform hydrogen electrocatalysis. The 3-year project aims to advance the scientific knowledge and enable the development of new, potentially precious-metal-free, electrocatalysts for hydrogen production through water splitting. The research will integrate computational...
- This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Professor Shannon Boettcher of the University of Oregon to develop a fundamental understanding of advanced alkaline water oxidation catalysts for green hydrogen production. The key objectives are to: (1) study the structure and properties of Fe-based active sites that drive high catalytic activity; (2) derive chemical descriptors to explain...
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support a collaborative research project to investigate the relationship between nanoscale material defects and macroscale reactivity of electrocatalytic materials. The $221,000 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will enable researchers from Duke University to employ advanced experimental and computational techniques to understand how...
- This federal Project Grant award of $902,786.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to accelerate the discovery and design of dynamically evolving catalyst material surfaces. The primary objectives are to: Construct a unified, predictive model of the dynamic restructuring of metal nanoparticles on metal-oxide supports to understand how materials properties and reaction environments impact catalyst performance. Apply...