Project Grant 2554798
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $323,952 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on electrochemical nitrogen fixation. The award funds research by professors Alexander Miller (UNC Chapel Hill), Alan Goldman (Rutgers University), and Patrick Holland (Yale University) to develop new catalytic routes to convert atmospheric nitrogen into...
- Rutgers, The State University was awarded $530,387 under a Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into more sustainable methods for producing chemicals through electrocatalysis and renewable energy. Specifically, Dr. Kate M. Waldie's project aims to develop the electrochemical ionic hydrogenation of carbonyl and imine substrates using...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $299,999 to Rutgers, The State University to develop a novel non-equilibrium electrochemical plasma catalysis (NE-EPC) system for efficient, distributed, and electrified ammonia synthesis. The project aims to create a reactor that can produce "green" ammonia from water, nitrogen, and renewable electricity, providing a potential solution for decarbonizing chemical...
- Under a $537,226 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Northeastern University is developing advanced computational modeling tools to understand the fundamental chemistry and reaction mechanisms involved in the electrochemical production of ammonia. The research aims to eliminate key bottlenecks in the embedded correlated wavefunction theory to enable more widespread use of this technique in computational...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded The Johns Hopkins University $608,871 on April 1, 2026, under the CAREER program (Assistance Listing 47.041, Engineering) to develop bioelectrochemical methods for decentralized ammonia production from atmospheric nitrogen fixation. The research combines experimental characterization and metabolic modeling to understand how electrochemical stimulation increases ammonia production...
- This $458,552 CAREER project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Northeastern University to computationally characterize the reaction mechanisms and catalytic microenvironments involved in a sustainable, electrochemical approach to ammonia production. The project focuses on leveraging first-principles calculations and artificial intelligence to identify key steps...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $535,830 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Charles Musgrave and his research team at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The goal of this 3-year grant, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, is to accelerate the discovery and design of novel electrocatalysts for carbon-free fertilizer synthesis using renewable energy. The researchers will leverage...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Oregon State University $296,872 on August 15, 2026, for a collaborative research project investigating electrochemical co-reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrate to synthesize urea under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Kelsey Stoerzinger of the University of Minnesota and Professor Liney Arnadottir of Oregon State University are leading research to transform nitrate and carbon dioxide waste...
- This $431,454 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry was provided to The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell to study the design of catalytic materials for electrochemical synthesis of organonitrogen compounds. The overarching goal is to develop a fundamental understanding of electrochemical carbon-nitrogen coupling using metal-organic frameworks called boron imidazolate frameworks (BIFs) as the catalyst platform....
- This $450,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to develop an electrified membrane system for recovering nitrogen from nitrate-contaminated water. Specifically, the grant funds an international collaboration between NJIT and Ben-Gurion University in Israel to employ electrochemical membrane filtration studies, computational chemistry, and numerical simulations. The goal is to explore a sustainable pathway for generating...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Rutgers, The State University $364,588 on August 15, 2026, to support collaborative research on electrochemical nitrogen fixation. The project, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), brings together researchers from Rutgers University (principal investigator Alan Goldman), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Alexander Miller), and Yale University (Patrick Holland) to develop catalytic methods for converting atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia through electrochemical processes. The research aims to enable on-site fertilizer and fuel production at ambient temperature and pressure, reducing energy intensity compared to the current industrial Haber-Bosch process and mitigating vulnerabilities from global supply chain disruptions. The technical approach focuses on two coupled mechanisms: binding and splitting nitrogen into nitride complexes, then reducing nitrides via proton-coupled electron transfer. The team will employ theory, computation, electrocatalysis performance assessment, and mechanistic investigation to design new electrocatalysts and examine the roles of catalyst promoters in nitrogen reduction. The project includes an educational outreach component expanding the nitrogenfixers.org program through collaboration with teacher groups to develop and disseminate hands-on electrochemistry activities for both in-person and remote student audiences. Work is performed in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The award period runs through July 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $364.6k | 8/5/26 |