Project Grant DESC0025233

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $978,993 Cooperative Agreement to Unigrid Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA #47.084) program. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop and demonstrate a new non-flammable, cost-effective, and domestically-sourced stationary energy storage solution based on sodium-based solid-state battery technology. The goal is to advance the technology from the laboratory to a...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Noon Energy Inc. aims to develop a new ultra-low-cost rechargeable carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration renewable energy storage. The key objectives are to create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, design the optimized reactor and operating conditions, and build and test several prototypes to demonstrate the...

This $95,110,492 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) supports the establishment of a low-carbon, all-water-based, highly circular stationary storage battery plant based on Nanoramic, Inc.'s proprietary neocarbonix electrode technology. The award will enable Nanoramic, a small business based in Wakefield, MA, to develop advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Mana Battery, Inc., a small business based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The grant, awarded on June 1, 2025, will fund the development of electrolyte and interphase designs for stable, safe, and low-cost sodium-ion batteries targeted at grid energy storage systems with 2- to 8-hour duration. The project aims to address limitations around battery...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded Aesir Technologies Inc. a $847,543 cooperative agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an aqueous lithium and zinc ion battery for stationary energy storage applications. Aesir will optimize individual battery components to improve cycle life, power, and scale production from pouch cells to larger prismatic cells. This includes refining intercalation electrodes to increase capacity retention...

This $1.7 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy will fund a three-year project led by Columbia University to explore the use of lithium-ion battery materials and alkaline cell packaging for grid-scale energy storage. Specifically, the university will conduct model studies on lithium-ion bobbin cells that utilize existing commodity lithium-ion battery components and alkaline cell packaging designs. The goal is to determine if this...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $997,018.00 to XL Batteries Inc. to design and fabricate a prototype 1 kW/10 kWh flow battery system using proprietary electrolytes and low-cost materials. The goal is to develop a long-duration, grid-scale energy storage solution to support the increased deployment of renewable energy and achieve climate goals. The 2-year project...

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...