Project Grant DESC0018872

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 U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $500,000 project grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to develop high-entropy nanomaterials for use as active catalysts in green hydrogen production. The project, titled "High-Entropy Nanodisks by Ultrafast Electrified Vapor Deposition for Hydrogen Production," aims to address the challenges associated with using platinum-group metals (PGMs) as catalysts, which include...

This $456,907 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into metal-free bond activation using redox-active carborane clusters. Principal Investigator Dmitry Peryshkov of the University of South Carolina will synthesize cluster compounds of boron, carbon, phosphorus and hydrogen that can donate and accept electrons to cycle through two-electron redox states. The compounds' redox activity will be utilized to enable bond...

This $350,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Catalysis Program funds a collaborative research project to develop catalytic materials for the electrochemical synthesis of organonitrogen compounds. The principal investigators, Professor V. Sara Thoi of Johns Hopkins University and Professor Fanglin Che of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will study the use of boron imidazolate frameworks (BIFs) as catalysts to couple...

This $431,454 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support collaborative research led by Professors V. Sara Thoi of Johns Hopkins University and Fanglin Che of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. The research aims to design and develop new metal-organic catalytic materials for the electrochemical synthesis of commercially valuable organonitrogen compounds, such as urea, acetamide, and...

Under a $595,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Professor Thomas Lectka of Johns Hopkins University will pursue two complementary strategies to selectively modify specific carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bonds within complex molecular structures. The first approach will utilize hydrogen bonding to direct site-selective functionalization reactions, while the second will leverage metal ion binding to deactivate...

Professor Karen Goldberg of the University of Pennsylvania will develop new catalytic systems for the selective conversion of natural gas to higher-value chemicals using oxygen as the oxidant under a $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry. The three-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support the design of transition metal complexes capable of selectively activating and functionalizing alkane C-H...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $375,000 over 3 years, starting on July 1, 2024, to Professors Eranda Nikolla of the University of Michigan and Will Medlin of the University of Colorado Boulder to conduct research on new heterogeneous catalysts for the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide. The researchers aim to systematically study how the near-surface environment, including the structure and density of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, totaling $499,660, will support research into elucidating the electron transfer pathways involved in photo-catalytic hydrogen generation using semiconductor nanocrystals and hydrogenase enzymes. Principal Investigator Professor Gordana Dukovic of the University of Colorado Boulder will examine how properties of quantum dot nanocrystals, such as composition, diameter, and surface chemistry, impact binding with...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $150,000 to researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) City College to investigate using hydrogen peroxide, a toxic waste product generated by certain bacteria, as an energy source for efficient biofuel and biochemical production. The key objectives are to: 1) develop an E. coli strain platform to control and monitor hydrogen...