Project Grant DESC0026265
- The Rice Laboratory for Emergent Magnetic Materials was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026, will support advanced scientific research and development conducted by William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding and technological development of novel magnetic materials...
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $346,682 to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas to conduct research on "MULTI-MODAL CHARGE TRANSFER INTERFACES FOR POLARITON SENSING". The award period is from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding and technological innovation in areas such as quantum computing, advanced imaging, and complex...
- The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science provided a $597,131.00 Project Grant award to William Marsh Rice University on June 4, 2025 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award is supporting advanced research to accelerate the development of the U.S. neutrino program through innovative computational science. The university will leverage its broad interdisciplinary expertise in areas such as quantum computing, space science, advanced imaging,...
- This federal Project Grant award of $499,320 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to Lithios Inc. located in Medford, MA. The funding supports the development of "Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE)", a new electrochemical technology to selectively extract lithium from difficult feedstocks with high purity. The goal is to help overcome limitations in current lithium extraction methods and support more sustainable and domestic lithium...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), is funding $875,277 to Auburn University to conduct research on "Elucidating Operational and Chemical Factors Affecting the Function of Novel Polymeric Brush Active-Layer Membranes for Lithium Recovery from Aqueous Solutions". The award period runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026. As part of this research, Auburn University will be...
- This $350,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by William Marsh Rice University to develop a fundamental understanding of salt formation, movement, and accumulation in carbon dioxide reduction (CO2RR) electrolyzers. The goal is to identify strategies to inhibit salt buildup and improve the long-term performance and stability of CO2RR technology, which can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen...
- The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Storagenergy Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The grant supports the company's research and development of an eco-friendly electroextraction process to extract lithium metal from brines, as part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This grant-funded project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of polymeric membranes for use in low-cost filtration processes to improve the recovery of critical minerals from aqueous waste streams. The $345,625 award to William Marsh Rice University, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, will focus on precisely controlling and measuring the sizes of pores and voids in these membranes. Through a...
- This $539,921 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of chemical processes occurring at the interfaces within next-generation all-solid-state batteries. The research will develop and apply advanced time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) methods to characterize solid-solid interfaces in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $231,810 to the University of Louisville provides funding for a collaborative research project on the selective extraction of lithium from seawater. The principal investigators, Professors Xiaowei Teng and Badri Narayanan, aim to develop new classes of manganese oxide layered materials for electrochemical lithium extraction from seawater. The project will integrate materials synthesis,...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding of $806,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to William Marsh Rice University. The grant supports research on "Direct Lithium Extraction from Aqueous Solutions with Solid-State Electrolyte: Mechanisms of Ion Transport and Selectivity" with an award period from September 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding and technological innovations related to lithium extraction from aqueous solutions, which is a critical process for energy and materials applications. As a leading private research institution, William Marsh Rice University will leverage its interdisciplinary expertise and capabilities in areas such as materials science, electrochemistry, and computational modeling to conduct this fundamental scientific investigation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $806.0k | 9/25/25 |