Project Grant DEAR0001930
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Alabama received a $582,747 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded August 1, 2026, with a completion date of July 31, 2031. This CAREER award supports research to establish structure-property relationships in anion exchange membranes designed to improve water electrolysis technology for hydrogen production. The primary deliverables include the development of design rules linking...
- The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,570,309 cooperative agreement to Carnegie Mellon University on May 2, 2022 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2025. The award will support development of ionomer-free electrodes for ultrahigh power density proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Specifically, the university aims to create a mixed conducting cathode support that eliminates the separate ionomer phase currently used in...
- The Department of Defense awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to conduct an "Assessment of Battery Degradation Pathways with Multiscale Multimodal Imaging and Impedance Techniques." The 3-year project, starting on June 30, 2024, will develop physics-based models and experimental analyses to understand the degradation mechanisms and failure modes of silicon-based lithium-ion...
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Department of Energy's (DOE) Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.121). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, is focused on advancing nuclear energy science and technology. Specifically, the grant funds UAB's research project titled "Polymer-Derived C-SiC Coatings on Kernel Particles for Advanced Nuclear...
- This $870,626 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CFDA Program 81.135 supports the "PROPEL-1K" project at The Johns Hopkins University to develop "HIGH ENERGY DENSITY FUEL CELLS WITH CYCLIC HYDROGEN CARRIERS". The project aims to advance railroad, oceanic, and aviation electrification through 1 kWh energy storage systems. Key tasks include system integration for metal-ceramic composite hydrogen...
- The University of Alabama's Office for Sponsored Programs Division received a $50,000,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program. The purpose of the grant is to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering. The award period runs from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. As part of this grant, the University of Alabama has...
- The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3,674,627 Project Grant under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the University of Alabama. The objective of this project, titled "CO-E3T: Energy-Efficient and Equitable Transit through User-Centric Hardware and Software Co-Development and Community Co-Design", is to develop an innovative mobility system approach for providing energy-efficient and equitable transit...
- This $477,596 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to the University of Alabama supports research to improve the selectivity of polyamide reverse osmosis (PARO) membranes for seawater desalination. The project will use a combined computational-experimental approach to investigate how surfactant molecular structure affects the interfacial polymerization process...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Alabama received a $240,146 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This collaborative research initiative, with a completion date of July 31, 2028, focuses on developing specialized microfluidic devices to investigate how physical cell deformation affects proliferation and...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) [CFDA 81.135] provides $1,317,842 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop an "Alkali Hydroxide Triple Phase Flow Battery (3PFB)". The proposed 3PFB system will enable reversible operation of ultra-high energy density battery chemistries (>1,000 Wh/kg and Wh/L) through an innovative design inspired by fuel injection and conventional flow batteries. A...
The University of Alabama received a $499,803 Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program within the U.S. Department of Energy, under CFDA Number 81.135. The 2-year grant, which runs from July 2024 to July 2026, supports the development of a novel bipolar membrane interface configuration to boost the performance of direct borohydride fuel cells for marine transportation applications. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Synthesize a pH-gradient-enabled microscale bipolar interface comprised of a cation exchange membrane and an anion exchange membrane with matched properties to mitigate fuel and oxidant crossover; and 2) Leverage this bipolar membrane interface to increase the current density of direct borohydride fuel cells from 465 mA/cm2 to 1,000 mA/cm2 at 1.5 V, a 5-fold increase in power density compared to traditional polymer electrolyte fuel cells. This high-risk, transformative research aims to disrupt the marine transportation sector by providing a more compact, high-performance fuel cell system using a dense, readily transportable liquid fuel.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $499.8k | 7/22/24 |