This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $635,593.00 to the University of Alabama to support a research project titled "COMPUTATIONAL-GUIDED AND DATA-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF HIGH-ENTROPY TWO-DIMENSIONAL MXENES". The award is effective from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific...
This $746,020 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports the University of Alabama in Huntsville's research to conduct a multimodal analysis of solid-state and hybrid solid-state batteries. The research project will run from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025, with the goal of advancing U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in energy storage...
The University of Alabama was awarded a $999,189 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to enhance quantum networking research capabilities in Alabama. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2025, will fund the integration of RF photonic controls for high-frequency cryogenic links in the GHz-THz bands to advance quantum networking research. This project aligns with the Office of Science's...
The University of Alabama received a $499,803 Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program within the U.S. Department of Energy, under CFDA Number 81.135. The 2-year grant, which runs from July 2024 to July 2026, supports the development of a novel bipolar membrane interface configuration to boost the performance of direct borohydride fuel cells for marine transportation applications. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Synthesize a...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of South Carolina to conduct research on "AI-ENABLED INVESTIGATION OF MECHANISMS FOR MULTISCALE ION TRANSPORT IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTES AS ANION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANES." The project aims to leverage AI techniques to investigate the mechanisms underlying multiscale ion transport in polymer electrolytes, which have applications...
The University of Alabama's Office for Sponsored Programs Division received a $50,000,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program. The purpose of the grant is to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering. The award period runs from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. As part of this grant, the University of Alabama has...
This $477,596 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to the University of Alabama supports research to improve the selectivity of polyamide reverse osmosis (PARO) membranes for seawater desalination. The project will use a combined computational-experimental approach to investigate how surfactant molecular structure affects the interfacial polymerization process...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to the University of South Alabama under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support a research project titled "MEMRISTOR ENABLED NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEM WITH ROBUST IMMUNITY TO NON-IDEAL PROPERTY". The project period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The University of South Alabama, a public research university, will be the prime awardee and is registered in...
This federal Project Grant award of $700,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports fundamental research by Auburn University to develop first-row transition metal complexes with tethered quinols as low overpotential electrocatalysts for the selective reduction of dioxygen to water. The award, which commenced on August 1, 2024 and is scheduled for completion by July 31, 2025, focuses on advancing U.S. energy, economic, and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $540,000 Project Grant to the University of Arkansas to enhance the performance of thin film oxynitride photoanodes for solar water splitting. The project will be conducted from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025, and is funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The goal of this research is to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific...