Project Grant DESC0020025

This $275,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of nickel- and cobalt-free cathodes for high-energy and low-cost lithium-ion batteries by Fermi Energy, Inc. from March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024. The grant is funded through NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), which seeks to advance solutions to national challenges through breakthrough technologies. Specifically, Fermi Energy will design, manufacture, and characterize new...

Am Batteries Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a solvent-free manufacturing process for lithium-ion battery electrodes. The goal of the one-year project beginning February 1, 2022 is to design, manufacture, and operate a continuous feed dry spraying system to optimize fabrication of thicker battery electrodes without solvents. This novel...

This $255,976 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a novel lithium-ion battery cathode chemistry by Nanodian, Inc. to enable lower cost and safer energy storage solutions. Specifically, the company will advance a nanostructured lithium manganese oxide (LiMn2O4 or ND-LMO) cathode material that is expected to provide approximately 30% lower cost per kilowatt-hour compared to incumbent nickel manganese cobalt oxide chemistries. This new material aims to improve...

This $95,110,492 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) is supporting Nanoramic, Inc. (doing business as Nanoramic Laboratories) to establish a low-carbon, all-water-based, highly circular stationary storage battery plant based on their proprietary neocarbonix electrode technology. The award will fund the domestic development and manufacturing of this...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to The University of Akron to develop a device to safely recycle scrap cathode materials from lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities. The project aims to overcome technical challenges in solvent formulation and machine design to enable direct recycling of cathode materials back into the supply chain. This innovation has potential to create new...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) provides $114,494,918 to establish a 10,000-tonne per annum lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cathode production facility in Pineville, North Carolina. The objective is to increase America's competitiveness in lithium-ion battery manufacturing, localize the battery supply chain, and revitalize a disadvantaged...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $147,126,520 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications (CFDA 81.253) program to Albemarle U.S., Inc. The objective of the project is to retrofit a domestic manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina to produce up to 50 metric tons per annum of lithium metal anode (LMA) for next-generation lithium-ion batteries supporting the light and non-light duty transportation sectors. This grant,...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Noon Energy Inc. aims to develop a new ultra-low-cost rechargeable carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration renewable energy storage. The key objectives are to create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, design the optimized reactor and operating conditions, and build and test several prototypes to demonstrate the...

This Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program provides $976,200 to Nth Cycle Inc. to develop an electrochemical separation device for recycling cobalt and nickel from lithium-ion batteries. The two-year award running from February 2022 to January 2024 aims to validate Nth Cycle's novel electro-extraction nanotechnology for battery recycling and cobalt mining. Specifically, the company will test a flow-through water electrolysis process using high local...

This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of new anode materials for lithium-ion batteries using nickel sulfide-filled carbon nanotubes. Florida International University will scale production from research to bench and pilot scales, evaluate nickel sulfide-filled carbon nanotubes as additive materials for commercial graphite and silicon anodes, optimize loading ratios, and assess performance in...