Project Grant DEAR0001659

This $199,999 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), funded the development of an OxyCycle membrane for high-purity oxygen separation from air. Luna Innovations Incorporated was awarded the funding on February 22, 2021 to develop the membrane technology with the goal of completing work by November 21, 2021. Under the award, Luna Innovations tasked sub-awardee Trimeric Corporation with evaluating...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project grant for $275,000 awarded to Avanpore LLC will develop a novel membrane filtration process to enable energy-efficient separation and recovery of small molecules from industrial process streams across industries such as chemicals, petrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The project aims to advance organic solvent nanofiltration (OSNF) and organic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $414,710.00 to the University of Miami aims to establish a controlled membrane fabrication process to improve the performance of carbon molecular sieve membranes for industrial gas separations. The project will systematically investigate the relationships between the microstructure of the polymer precursor, physical aging, and gas separation properties of these membranes. The goal is to develop...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I Project Grant to Airomatix, Inc. supports the development of a portable oxygen concentrator capable of producing breathable oxygen at higher flow rates than current models. The concentrator utilizes a novel photocatalytic reaction to separate oxygen from ambient air and store it in a chemical solution. It will then release oxygen on demand through a temperature-controlled reaction. During the one-year period of performance ending March 2023,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $469,833 to the University of Florida to develop two-dimensional polymer membranes with precisely engineered gas-selective nanocavities. The goal is to create an energy-efficient, cost-competitive solution for separating gas molecules in industrial applications like carbon dioxide capture and petrochemical purification. The research will focus on designing macrocycle-based membranes that...

Ionicscale LLC was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to develop membrane-based inlet systems for compact mass spectrometry-based chemical sensors. The goal of the seven-month project ending February 2024 is to enable risk reduction in deploying low-cost sensors for soil or liquid sampling. Work will focus on designing membrane inlets compatible with...

Compact Membrane Systems Inc. received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop low cost membranes for carbon capture. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under the one-year award concluding on June 26, 2022, Compact Membrane...

This $299,973 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop pore-engineered membranes using an in situ atomic layer deposition process for improved chemical separations. The key research objectives are to eliminate molecular-scale membrane defects, precisely tune membrane pore sizes, and introduce facilitating interactions between metal oxides and diffusing gases to maximize gas selectivity and permeance. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $260,002 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CROSSING THE PERCOLATION THRESHOLD FOR SELECTIVE GAS TRANSPORT USING INTERCONNECTED CRYSTALS OF METAL?ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS IN POLYMER-BASED HYBRID MEMBRANES" from July 2021 through June 2024. The grant funding will support MIT researchers in developing hybrid membrane materials...

Noble Gas Systems Inc. received a $255,946 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop conformable high pressure gas storage systems. Funded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), the award supported the company's work from May 2021 through February 2022 to advance engineering research and innovation in enabling technologies for storing gases at high pressures in flexible containers. The NSF Engineering program seeks to...