Project Grant DESC0024028

This $6,699,894 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), supports the development of a rapid, low-cost, continuous Ultrafast High-Temperature Sintering (UHS) process for manufacturing high-performance Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOECs). The project, led by Hight-Tech, Inc., a for-profit corporation based in College Park, Maryland, aims to...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science, through its Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Tech4Imaging LLC on July 10, 2023. The grant supports the development of a "Two-Phase Hydrogen Mass Flow Meter for Fuel Transfer in Ground Based Infrastructure". Tech4Imaging, a developer of non-invasive imaging technology, will leverage its Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) sensor technology to create a prototype mass flow meter for...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The 18-month project aims to advance low-cost, scalable, in-line electrochemical defect quantification platforms to elucidate the impacts of light- and thermal-induced halide migration at buried interfaces that contribute to decreased stability in...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $4,902,057 to Clemson University to demonstrate the accelerated discovery, design, and laser convergent manufacturing of low-temperature (< 650°C) oxygen-conducting solid oxide electrolyzer cells (LT-O-SOECs). The technical goal is to achieve a minimum active area greater than 15...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1.7M Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Brightspot Automation LLC. The project aims to develop a new metrology system for imaging solar cell defects and glass crack defects in CdTe solar panels, and to create an AI software platform to automatically detect these defects. The project will also correlate photoluminescence signatures to the...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4,779,120 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to WL Gore & Associates Inc. The overall project goal is to advance Gore's ultra-thin diaphragms from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to TRL 5 to meet or exceed DOE's next-generation liquid alkaline water electrolyzer (LAWE) performance targets. Key expected outcomes include...

This $6,249,994 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) will focus on optimizing non-perfluorosulfonic acid (non-PFSA) ionomer molecular architecture and membrane design to achieve the DOE's 3.0 A/cm2 at 1.8V performance target for proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. The project aims to enable safe, low-cost hydrogen production...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,949,450 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to Palo Alto Research Center LLC (PARC) on Sep 1, 2023. The primary goal of this 1-year project is to develop a distributed network of low-cost sensor arrays printed with functionalized carbon nanotubes for monitoring hydrogen gas (H2) emissions in outdoor applications. The detection system aims...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $305,000 to Sentec LLC, a small business in Greenville, SC, to develop a high-temperature pressure sensor for industrial process monitoring applications. The project aims to design and fabricate a pressure sensor using wide-bandgap semiconductor materials that can reliably operate at high temperatures, overcoming the limitations of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation in the amount of $398,498 will fund the development of a fast, accurate, compact, trustable, low-cost and low-power (FACTCOP) sub-terahertz/terahertz dielectric sensor for ubiquitous access. The project aims to bridge the gap between optical and electronic dielectric sensing techniques to create a sensor that meets requirements for widespread daily usage, such as...