Project Grant DESC0024023

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Tetramer Technologies LLC a $203,946 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a continuous, cost-effective Kr (krypton) Xe (xenon) capture process for nuclear fuel reprocessing. This 9-month award, starting on July 10, 2023 and ending on April 9, 2024, will support Tetramer's research and development efforts to advance materials science and manufacturing capabilities for this critical...

Federal Grant Award Summary: Krypton Sorbents Palladias LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded on July 8, 2025, with a completion date of July 7, 2026. The award supports research and development of krypton sorbents at the company's Los Alamos, New Mexico facility. Based on Palladias LLC's demonstrated expertise in advanced materials research and specialized separation technologies, this project likely involves the design,...

Numat Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $199,966 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research on the continuous synthesis of metal-organic frameworks for xenon capture. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, Numat Technologies...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $199,917 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Mainstream Engineering Corp in Rockledge, Florida on February 12, 2024. The grant supports the development of high-purity, ultra-low-radioactivity capacitors for use in cryogenic detectors for fundamental physics experiments, specifically the NEXO collaboration's search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The capacitors are required to operate the application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in...

Xtallized Intelligence Inc. was awarded a $199,999 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop fast, dense, non-hygroscopic scintillators for particle detectors. The grant-funded project will be completed by March 26, 2023. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Star Cryoelectronics, LLC on July 10, 2023 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop aluminum-based superconducting tunnel junction radiation detectors for a sterile neutrino search. Star Cryoelectronics, a for-profit manufacturer of cryogenic solutions, will leverage specialized facilities and expertise at Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) to characterize the...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Xcimer Energy, Inc. received a $3.57 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) for a three-year research and development program commencing November 18, 2025 and concluding November 17, 2028. The project, titled "Hybrid Pumped Excimer Laser (HYPER-LASER)," aims to develop a more efficient pumping approach for krypton-fluoride (KRF, 248 nm) excimer lasers being commercialized for...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Radiabeam Systems, LLC $399,110 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a Cold Plasma Cathode for High Resolution Condensed Matter Electron Spectroscopy. The project aims to deliver a new type of electron source for microscopy and spectroscopy that offers improved resolution over traditional thermionic electron sources. Work will be conducted between June 2022 through March 2023 in Santa Monica,...

Scintilex, LLC received a $199,976 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop high performance lutetium yttrium garnet (LuYAG) crystal scintillating fibers for nuclear physics experiments. The grant-funded project will run through January 13, 2023. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $645,309 to Northwestern University to develop techniques for precision measurements on atoms and molecules trapped within inert cryogenic crystals from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The researchers will produce the first doped cryocrystals suitable for searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. They will grow large inert...