Project Grant DESC0017772

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program provides $3,090,000 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct a research and development project titled "Complexion Engineered Nanocrystalline Tungsten Alloy Plasma Facing Materials for Long-Pulse Tokamak Operation". The purpose of this award is to enable transformational advances in fusion materials by manipulating the atomic-scale chemistry and structure of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $599,342 to support fundamental research aimed at developing a novel additive manufacturing (AM) approach for fabricating high-performance tungsten alloy components. The 5-year project, which began on March 1, 2025, seeks to establish a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms for a compression-enabled filament-extrusion AM process integrated with binder removal and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, provides $2,130,000.00 in funding to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY) to investigate first wall materials for magnetic (MFE) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) systems. The project, titled "Composited Low-Activation UHTC Materials for First Wall Applications", will focus on developing high-conductivity, tough, radiation and...

This $175,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports collaborative research to achieve crack-free additive manufacturing (AM) of tungsten using ultrashort pulsed lasers. The project aims to identify optimal laser processing conditions for laser powder-bed fusion that can produce desirable thermal and mechanical profiles and enable crack-free AM of high-temperature materials like...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) has awarded a $499,946 Cooperative Agreement to Exofusion, Inc. for the development of novel liquid metal plasma facing component (PFC) alloys. This project aims to create new materials that can optimize core confinement and divertor plasma performance, which is critical to improving the economic viability of fusion power plants. The two-year project, running from January 2025 to January 2027, will...

Hyper TECH Research Inc. received a $413,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research and development of high critical current density and low ac loss niobium-tin superconductors for 16-20 Tesla fusion magnets through March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and...

Ultramet received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop porous yttrium-chromium hydride as an increased-performance and reduced-cost microreactor moderator. The award is being carried out under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

High Energy Metals, Inc. received a $199,912 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support research and development of explosively bonding corrosion resistant bimetallic materials for liquid-cooled, high temperature reactor systems. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was awarded a $2,002,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program. The purpose of this 3-year project, titled "GRADED: Gradient Composites with Radiation Amorphization-Enabled Dimensional Stability and Energy," is to develop a novel structural component that can survive in a fusion environment and function between the plasma-facing first wall and the tritium breeding...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to Clemson University to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies in developing radiation-tolerant single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAS). The research aims to generate new knowledge on SP-CSAS' radiation tolerance and their intrinsic compositions, structures, and defects through experimental and computational...