Project Grant 2527164
- This Project Grant award of $335,959 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the "Collaborative Research: REDOX Electrolyte Co-Design for Enhanced Solubility and Stability (RECESS)" project at the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The project aims to design new battery components made from earth-abundant materials dissolved in water, which can provide cheaper and safer alternatives to conventional lithium-ion batteries. 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 awarded a $241,299 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame's Notre Dame Research division to develop innovative electrolytes for intermediate-temperature sodium-sulfur and potassium-sulfur batteries. The goal is to identify new solvents that can dissolve the insoluble reaction products formed during battery discharge, enabling higher specific capacity and energy density. The research will utilize a simulation-driven approach combining molecular dynamics...
- This federal Project Grant award of $368,557, made on August 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports collaborative research to gain a fundamental understanding of the behavior of water-in-salt electrolytes (WISES) at electrified interfaces. The research aims to explore how tuning the WISE electrical double layer can modulate the heterogeneous electron transfer rate, with the potential to drive economic growth and technological...
- 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 $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund fundamental high-risk research at Iowa State University on new polycrystalline solid electrolytes for developing safer, more energy dense solid-state batteries. The University will examine the structural chemistry of mixing boron, oxygen, and sulfur to create new lithium thioborate and oxygen-doped lithium oxy-thioborate solid electrolytes. It will test hypotheses that...
- This $330,643 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth focused on designing solid booster and electrolyte materials for redox-targeting flow batteries. The project aims to address limitations of redox flow batteries, a promising energy storage technology, by developing novel solid charge storage materials that can be used in conjunction with liquid electrolytes to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $570,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The grant supports collaborative research to develop high-throughput screening methods for exploring novel electrolyte materials to enable the next generation of rechargeable batteries. The key activities include: (1) utilizing advanced...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) in the amount of $258,304 supports research to develop new biphasic charge carriers for redox flow battery (RFB) energy storage systems. The goal is to create a new generation of RFBs capable of storing intermittent renewable energy from solar and wind power. The research focuses on designing novel chemical compounds that can store electric power in both soluble and solid forms, addressing...
- This $550,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will be used by the University of Utah to conduct fundamental research on the electro-reduction of iron ions and oxides in aqueous electrolytes. The project aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms and reactivity involved in this process, which is core to the development of low-cost, grid-scale energy storage technologies like water-based iron batteries, as well...
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 more readily available components compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries. The project will leverage robotic experiments and machine learning models to rapidly explore the complex chemical space and identify promising water-based battery materials. The research aims to guide efforts to enhance the nation's energy economy and support energy security by developing safe, abundant, and non-toxic energy storage solutions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $336.0k | 7/24/25 |