Project Grant NRCHQ12G380056

Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing, LLC was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to develop structural components with corrosion resistant surface layers for advanced nuclear reactor systems. The grant is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,962 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD), a subsidiary of Dynasil Corporation of America. The grant supports the development of "LOW-COST, LIGHTWEIGHT DOPED POLYMER COATINGS FOR MICROELECTRONICS VIA 3D PRINTING" from July 2024 to April 2025. RMD, a small business specializing in advanced radiation detection and imaging technologies,...

The University of Texas at Dallas received a $170,000 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct theoretical research on radiation effects in electronic materials, circuits, devices, and systems from September 29, 2021 to September 28, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs...

Radiasoft LLC was awarded a $204,297 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work titled "RAPID ELECTRON BEAM MODELING AT UNPRECEDENTED PHASE SPACE DENSITIES" from June 27, 2022 through June 26, 2023. The grant funding will allow Radiasoft LLC to deliver products and services focused on modeling electron beam dynamics at extremely high phase space densities, a priority research...

High Energy Metals, Inc. received a $199,912 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support research and development of explosively bonding corrosion resistant bimetallic materials for liquid-cooled, high temperature reactor systems. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

Cerium Laboratories LLC was awarded a $206,400 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop silicon nitride protective coatings for accident tolerant fuels through April 28, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Cerium Laboratories will leverage its...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,495,000.00 cooperative agreement to the University of Illinois for the "Centralized and On-Demand Radiation Transport and Techno-Economics (CORTEX) for Fusion Material Engineering" research and development project. The purpose of this award is to develop an open-access, open-source browser-based cloud computing framework to enable industry-wide transformation in fusion materials...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded Alphacore Inc. a $206,383 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a radiation-hardened intelligent readout ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) for nuclear physics experiments. The project is intended to advance microelectronics technologies for scientific applications in high-energy and nuclear physics, with a focus on delivering specialized, radiation-tolerant electronic...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), part of the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded a $1,470,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to obtain novel, radiation-resistant materials for fusion power plant first walls. The 3-year project, running from December 2024 to December 2027, aims to discover and develop materials that can maintain critical performance metrics in the extreme fusion environment, such as high thermal...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $448,491 to the University of South Carolina to develop a novel metal-oxide-silicon carbide (MOS) device that can convert radiation energy from a radioactive source into electrical power without requiring an external biasing voltage (i.e., a self-biased radiovoltaic battery). The project aims to create a high-efficiency betavoltaic device by investigating the properties of the...