** Funding Opportunity **
This solicitation has organizational limits on the number of submissions allowed so please let us know by 03/02/22 if you are interested in preparing a pre-application in response to this solicitation so that we will have time to institute an internal selection process, if needed. We do already have one party interested in one of the three available submission slots for Clarkson University. Please send a notice to Todd Travis in the SRS office (ttravis@clarkson.edu).
CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS SCIENCES TO ADVANCE CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND LOW-CARBON MANUFACTURING
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT (FOA) NUMBER: DE-FOA-0002676
| FOA Issue Date: | Febuary 16, 2022 |
| Submission Deadline for Pre-Applications: | March 16, 2022, at 5:00 PM EasternA Pre-Application is required |
| Pre-Application Response Date: | April 13, 2022 |
| Submission Deadline for Applications: | May 17, 2022, at 11:59 PM Eastern |
SUMMARY
The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces its interest in receiving new applications from single principal investigators (PIs) and from small teams to advance basic and fundamental chemical and materials sciences that underpin clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing. The goal is creation of foundational knowledge to support the development of approaches that will minimize climate impacts of energy technologies and manufacturing. For this FOA, clean energy technologies include approaches to capture, produce, convert, store, and use energy that reduce or eliminate unwanted emissions such as greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, etc.). These technologies also include approaches such as direct air capture (DAC) and carbon storage/sequestration to decrease emissions that have been released into the environment from energy production and use. Low-carbon manufacturing refers to manufacturing processes that minimize carbon emissions and energy consumption. Investments from this FOA are anticipated to include awards that build foundational knowledge underpinning the Energy Earthshots Initiative.
Awards under this FOA will support basic and fundamental research. Applied research, which seeks to exploit fundamental knowledge to solve specific technical challenges, is outside the scope of this FOA.
Research Objectives
This FOA solicits new applications for fundamental research to discover, understand, and design new materials and chemical systems that will enable innovations in clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing. Applications should emphasize advances in the understanding of fundamental chemical and materials mechanisms that control both energy efficiency and atom efficiency (creation of desired products without unwanted byproducts) in energy capture, production, conversion, storage, and use processes important for clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing. This FOA also requests applications for fundamental chemical and materials sciences research on critical materials and minerals, which play essential roles in many clean energy technologies and manufactured products.
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