The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $563,319.06 Project Grant on January 1, 2025 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The grant supports fundamental scientific research to leverage macrocyclic chelators for rare earth element separations, which aligns with the program's focus on advancing U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through scientific discovery and technological...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded NCO Technologies LLC a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop hydrophilically reinforced amidoxime based fiber for selective uranium recovery from seawater. The goal of the February 22, 2021 through February 21, 2022 award is to produce materials that can selectively extract uranium from seawater in support of the Office of Science's mission to deliver transformational...
The University of Iowa received a $628,150 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research titled "Exploratory Synthesis of Metal Borohydride Complexes for F-Element Separations by Selective Volatilization" from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2022. The grant funding will support the University's research exploring the synthesis of metal borohydride compounds and their potential...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $900,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop "NEW BIOIMAGING TOOLS TO CHARACTERIZE LIGNIN BREAKDOWN IN ANAEROBIC ENVIRONMENTS". This award, made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will support fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through the development of novel bioimaging tools. The...
This federal Project Grant award of $600,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports fundamental scientific research on "EXCITON SELF-TRAPPING IN LOW-DIMENSIONAL ORGANIC METAL HALIDE HYBRID MATERIALS FROM GW/BETHE-SALPETER CALCULATIONS AND MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED FORCE FIELDS" at the University of California, Merced. The award period runs from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026. The Department of Energy's Office...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $800,000.00 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to conduct research on the "Mechanistic Understanding of Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Interplay for Selective and Intercalative Extraction of Uranyl Ions Using Disordered Metal Oxides." The award period runs from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026. The research aims to advance the fundamental scientific...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $525,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to support research on "Robust Approximation Methods for Time-Dependent Many-Electron Systems." The one-year grant, effective from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025, will fund UC Irvine's work to develop advanced computational methods for modeling the complex behaviors of many-electron...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $198,147 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Decision Sciences International Corporation in Poway, CA. The grant, with a performance period from July 2023 to April 2024, will support research and development on monitoring the integrity of spent nuclear fuel using muon imaging technology. This project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop techniques to enhance the...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $668,800.00 to The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) for a 2-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The funding supports research on the "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Electronic Study of Supported and Unsupported Actinide-Arene Complexes." This fundamental scientific research aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $174,121 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Davis. The grant supports fundamental scientific research on "PROVABLY CORRECT IMPLEMENTATIONS OF DENSITY FUNCTIONAL APPROXIMATIONS." The award period runs from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026. As a leading public research university, the University of California, Davis has extensive expertise in scientific...