Project Grant DESC0025085

This $255,700 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of sodium-based solid-state batteries for stationary energy storage by Unigrid LLC. The company will advance a novel halide-based sodium solid-state electrolyte material with the goal of improving its ionic conductivity by one to two orders of magnitude. Additionally, the company will explore scalable room-temperature synthesis routes. This research aims to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy generation by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $550,000 provides funding to The Washington University in St. Louis to develop high-performance, long-life electrodes for sustainable sodium-based batteries. The key objectives are to scale up cathode synthesis, demonstrate superior performance in large-format cells, and advance the fundamental understanding of the heat and mass transfer dynamics, interparticle interactions, and...

This $282,020 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research at Northern Illinois University from October 2022 to September 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of reversible sodium hydrosulfide formation in hybrid electrolytes to enable high energy density sodium-sulfur battery technology. Specifically, the university will conduct fundamental studies using X-ray scattering...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to Mana Battery, Inc. to develop electrolyte and interphase designs for stable, safe, and low-cost sodium-ion batteries targeting grid energy storage applications. The key objectives are to enable a scalable synthesis process for an optimized electrolyte chemistry, design a sodium-ion battery cell formulation suitable for grid storage, and...

This two-year, $202,433 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of composite solid electrolytes to enable high-energy, cost-effective all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. Under the award, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico will receive a fellowship to study the stability of electrode-electrolyte interfaces in solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries using composite electrolytes. A graduate...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $241,299 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame's Notre Dame Research division to develop innovative electrolytes for intermediate-temperature sodium-sulfur and potassium-sulfur batteries. The goal is to identify new solvents that can dissolve the insoluble reaction products formed during battery discharge, enabling higher specific capacity and energy density. The research will utilize a simulation-driven approach combining molecular dynamics...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $317,739 to Michigan State University to conduct research on enhancing the performance of room-temperature sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries. The research aims to elucidate the effects of cation and anion doping on molybdenum disulfide (MoSe2) electrocatalysts to improve the immobilization and catalytic conversion of sodium polysulfides, which currently hinder the widespread adoption of Na-S...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $386,258 Project Grant under their Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant funds a collaborative research project to develop innovative electrolytes for intermediate-temperature sodium-potassium/sulfur (Na-K/S) batteries to enable long-duration energy storage (>10 hours) for intermittent renewable energy applications. The project will utilize material design and...

This Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA program 81.135 "Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy", provides $500,000.00 to Mana Battery, Inc. to develop an industry-transforming anode-free sodium battery cell using the company's proprietary sodium borate electrolyte (SBE) platform. The proposed battery cells comprise safe, low-cost, fluorine-free electrolytes and nickel-free cathodes, with the goal of outperforming lithium...