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.
This FOA seeks fundamental research to provide the understanding needed for advances in current technologies and for innovations that could lead to new technological approaches, including efforts to advance the objectives of the Energy Earthshots Initiative. Research is encouraged that seeks understanding of the relationships between the chemical mechanisms and the properties of complex materials that underlie clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing. For team efforts, interdisciplinary approaches that combine experimental with theoretical, computational and data science approaches are encouraged.
Please note that the requirements for this submission differ from the standard limited submission.
Institutional Limit: 3 Pre-Applications
Internal Deadline: March 4, 2022 4:45 pm
