Project Grant DESC0017852

The University of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $1,802,500.00 Cooperative Agreement on December 11, 2024 by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to develop a tungsten-ceramic composite material that meets specific performance requirements for use as a plasma-facing component (PFC) material in fusion energy applications. The key objectives of this project are to: Develop a tungsten-ceramic composite that has high fracture toughness...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, provides $3,090,000 to The Johns Hopkins University to enable transformational advances in fusion materials. The project aims to manipulate the atomic-scale chemistry and structure of internal interfaces in tungsten alloys to engineer amorphous grain boundary complexions into nanostructured tungsten. This materials concept will simultaneously enable irradiated materials to have high...

This $2,130,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CHADWICK program is focused on developing composited low-activation ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) materials for fusion energy first wall applications. The award recipient, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY) doing business as Stony Brook University, will investigate ways to create high conductivity, tough, radiation and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award of $400,000, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: TOPOLOGICALLY DESIGNED AND RESILIENT ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS," aims to develop a new method to simultaneously improve both the low temperature and high temperature properties of ultra-high temperature ceramic materials. The project will utilize a combination of computational tools, including first principles and machine learning, integrated with experimental methods...

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...

This $694,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports the development of cold spray additive manufacturing for tungsten-based plasma-facing components at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T). The project aims to advance scientific understanding and technological innovation in the field of advanced materials and manufacturing, with potential applications in energy and national...

This Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR TUNGSTEN ALLOY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ENABLED BY ROLLING-ASSISTED EXTRUSION, BINDER REMOVAL, AND HYBRID-PHASE SINTERING," is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award supports fundamental research to understand the processing mechanisms of a novel additive manufacturing (AM) approach for high-performance tungsten alloy fabrications. The $599,342 grant, with a project...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science to develop machine learning techniques for predicting the performance of tungsten alloy plasma facing components in fusion energy applications. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2022 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), with work to be completed by August 31, 2023. MIT will utilize the funding to assist the Office of...

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...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 to Dmag USA LLC to develop a nickel-boron-tungsten-carbon fullerene coating with superior performance for aerospace applications. The key products or services to be delivered include: A novel coating formulation that incorporates boron, nickel, tungsten, carbon fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and nano diamond to withstand...