Project Grant N00173201G010

This $434,507 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of new photocatalytic materials for treating water contaminated with poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by Professors Thomas Senftle and Rafael Verduzco of Rice University. Under this three-year award beginning July 1, 2023, the researchers will apply computational and experimental methods to design covalent organic frameworks (COFs) capable of adsorbing and photochemically degrading PFAS. As modular...

This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Missouri System (Missouri S&T) to discover enzymatic pathways that can break carbon-fluorine bonds in perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFAS). PFAS are a group of costly-to-remove chemicals that do not naturally degrade in the environment due to their strong carbon-fluorine bonds. The project aims to engineer specialized enzymes that can...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), focuses on developing new fundamental understanding and early-stage technology for energy- and cost-effective aqueous defluorination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using sustainable solar-assisted electrocatalysis. The $299,987 award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will support research at the University...

The University of Cincinnati was awarded a $402,387 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to support research titled "ERASE-PFAS: ELECTROCATALYTIC HYDRODEFLUORINATION OF PFAS USING MOLECULAR, METAL-FREE CATALYSTS." The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research and education. Under this...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $236,645 awarded on March 15, 2022 supports research and development of an advanced electrochemical system for degradation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The awardee, Elateq, Inc. of Amherst, MA, will design and test a novel cathodic treatment prototype employing reductive and oxidative electrodes and catalyst-coating materials to break down PFAS contaminants in water through electrochemically-induced reduction and...

This $499,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to develop and validate an integrated sorption-photocatalytic process for the ex-situ treatment and remediation of groundwater contaminated by mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and chlorinated solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The principal investigator and research team at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $515,000 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to engage highly porous carbon surfaces in an effective separation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involving surface chemistry. The project will be conducted from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports fundamental scientific research across multiple...

This Project Grant award, totaling $150,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Claremont McKenna College. The award supports a collaborative research project aimed at discovering enzymatic pathways to break carbon-fluorine bonds in perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFAS), which are costly to remove from the environment. The project will engineer special enzymes capable of degrading these stable chemical bonds, with the goal of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Oxbyel Technologies Inc. a $999,978 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a cost-effective, chemical-free water treatment system that uses electrolysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in contaminated groundwater. The objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) scale up the anode electrocatalyst coating process for large-area 3D electrodes and produce full-scale, low-cost...

This $419,463 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by Georgia Tech Research Corporation to investigate enhanced electrochemical oxidation methods for the destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The project aims to systematically study the influence of electric field strength on PFAS electromigration and oxidative degradation, leveraging locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) to...