Project Grant N000142612191

This $330,643 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth focused on designing solid booster and electrolyte materials for redox-targeting flow batteries. The project aims to address limitations of redox flow batteries, a promising energy storage technology, by developing novel solid charge storage materials that can be used in conjunction with liquid electrolytes to...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $500,000 project grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to develop high-entropy nanomaterials for use as active catalysts in green hydrogen production. The project, titled "High-Entropy Nanodisks by Ultrafast Electrified Vapor Deposition for Hydrogen Production," aims to address the challenges associated with using platinum-group metals (PGMs) as catalysts, which include...

Summary: Computational Design of Solvated-Electron-Based Materials Auburn University received a $672,903 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Led by Professors Evangelos Miliordos, Marcelo Kuroda, and Konstantin Klyukin, the project delivers computational research and modeling services focused on solvated electron precursor electrides...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded to the University of Massachusetts Lowell, through the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET), will support collaborative research to design solid boosters and electrolytes for redox-targeting flow batteries (RFBs). The $223,712 award, effective May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2027, aims to address challenges with low solubility of redox active species in RFB electrolytes. The research will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $200,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research. The grant, titled "SSMCDAT2023: Database Generation to Identify Trends in Inter- and Intra-Polyhedral Connectivity and Energy Storage Behavior", supports research and education activities focused on understanding the relationships between the composition, atomic...

This $455,286 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports research at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to explore over-stoichiometric disordered rock salts as potential lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery cathode materials. The key objectives are to: 1) develop a new series of over-stoichiometric Li(Na)-Ti-Mn(Fe)-O-F-based disordered rock salts, 2) characterize their crystallographic, electronic, and vibrational properties,...

Dr. Shiyu Zhang at The Ohio State University is conducting fundamental research on the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) mechanism in multicopper oxidases (MCOs) under a $539,215 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, operating within the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research, which runs from September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, focuses on synthesizing biomimetic chemical models that replicate trinuclear copper clusters...

This $418,716 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research aims to develop new ceramic materials for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) with improved energy storage capabilities and cycling stability. The award, with a period of performance from August 2024 to July 2027, supports research at Drexel University to explore strategies for enhancing zinc-ion diffusion, suppressing cathode dissolution, and advancing electrochemical stability...

This collaborative research project, supported by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), involves $300,000 in funding awarded on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. Led by Professor Gonghu Li at the University of New Hampshire, Professor Jier Huang at Boston College, and Professor Anatoly Frenkel at Stony Brook University, the research focuses on developing and characterizing...

Polykala Technologies, LLC received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of "NANOCATALYSTS AND SINGLE-ATOM CATALYSTS DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING ASSISTED BY INEXPENSIVE CUSTOM DESIGNED LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA." The work will be performed in San Antonio, TX through June 26, 2023. The award is funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to...