Project Grant DESC0023878

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), part of the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded a $1,470,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to obtain novel, radiation-resistant materials for fusion power plant first walls. The 3-year project, running from December 2024 to December 2027, aims to discover and develop materials that can maintain critical performance metrics in the extreme fusion environment, such as high thermal...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded LM Group Holdings Inc. $199,994 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop amorphous, corrosion-resistant coatings for storage canister. LM Group Holdings will provide products and services related to amorphous metal coatings and manufacturing of bulk metallic glass laminate composites and cladded surfaces using ultrasonic additive manufacturing. The period of performance is from June 28, 2021 to August 26,...

Nanocoatings Inc. (NCI) was awarded a $249,949 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop wire-arc additive manufacturing and wire-arc thermal spray methods to clad nuclear-reactor materials. The one-year project period runs from February 21, 2023 through February 20, 2024 and will be performed in Rapid City, South Dakota. Under this award, NCI will work to advance additive manufacturing and...

This $6,059,162 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development), aims to demonstrate PPG Industries Inc.'s platinum group metal-free coating process as a viable means of producing porous transport layer (PTL) materials with high electrical conductivity, high corrosion resistance, and significant stack cost reductions. The project focuses on developing scalable and economical...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,802,500.00 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation on Dec 11, 2024. The objective of this 36-month project is to develop a tungsten-ceramic composite material that meets the performance requirements for use as a plasma-facing component (PFC) in fusion energy systems. The project involves several sub-awards to support the material development and characterization efforts....

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $499,946 Cooperative Agreement to Exofusion, Inc. under CFDA 81.135 for the project "Novel Liquid Metal Plasma Facing Component Alloys". The project aims to develop new materials optimized for the core confinement and divertor plasma performance in fusion power plant (FPP) environments, which is critical to enabling an economically viable FPP. Specifically, the project will create a novel...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Starfire Industries LLC to conduct research on "IN-LINE METROLOGY FOR REAL-TIME MANUFACTURING OF THIN-FILM PVD ATF COATINGS USING IMPULSE HIPIMS + POSITIVE KICK". The project aims to develop advanced in-line metrology techniques for the real-time manufacturing of thin-film physical vapor deposition (PVD) advanced technology fuel (ATF) coatings using impulse high-power impulse magnetron...

This $335,345 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research to develop a scalable manufacturing process for phase-pure ferroelectric hafnium oxide and hafnium zirconium oxide through plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition. The University of Virginia will lead a multi-disciplinary, multi-national team in characterizing the impact of atomic layer deposition parameters on amorphous film structure and resulting material phases using advanced microscopy techniques. The research aims to...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,495,000.00 cooperative agreement to the University of Illinois for the "Centralized and On-Demand Radiation Transport and Techno-Economics (CORTEX) for Fusion Material Engineering" research and development project. The purpose of this award is to develop an open-access, open-source browser-based cloud computing framework to enable industry-wide transformation in fusion materials...

Nanoionix, LLC received a $200,000 project grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a multifunctional ceramic coating for hydropower turbine components. The coating is designed to provide antifouling, erosion, and corrosion resistance properties to improve the durability and efficiency of hydropower systems. Nanoionix, LLC is a small business that specializes in engineered self-disinfecting...