The U.S. Department of Energy Monday announced it will award three grants totaling $450,000 to small businesses in Delaware, part of a larger group of 189 grants totaling $33 million in 32 states.
The Phase I grants will allow small businesses to research technical feasibility of new innovations that advance the mission of the Office of Science. Phase I grants are 6-12 months in duration with a median award amount of $150,000. Successful Phase I grantees will be eligible to apply for Phase II awards in fiscal year 2020 that will allow them to develop novel prototypes or processes to validate their research findings. Phase II grants have a median award amount of $1,100,000 and a duration up to two years.
Highlighted below are selected grants for each of the research and development programs that provided funding for these projects:
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
- Large-scale Computing Distributed Intrusion Detection System
- Configurable Entangled Photon Source for Quantum Networks
- Building Commercialization-ready Low-cost Deployable Room-temperature Quantum Memories
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Novel polymer-electrolyte membrane development for carbon dioxide conversion to solar fuel
- High Performance Diamond Based Transparent X-Ray Beam Imaging System
- A Low Cost Ion Selective Membrane for Redox Flow Batteries
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- A Robust, Ground-Based Microwave Radiometer for Atmospheric Water vapor and Liquid Water Measurement
- Geochemical Monitoring System and Network for Complex Subsurface Matrices
- Non-destructive, Functional Metabolic Imaging of Plant and Microbial Systems
- Office of Nuclear Physics
- Additively Manufactured Z-Channel Detectors for Heavy Ion Accelerator Diagnostics
- Superconducting MgB2 Tubes for Passive Magnetic Field Shielding for Electron Ion Collider
- Superconducting Bolometer for Neutrino Research
Additional information on the DOE SBIR and STTR programs is available at the SBIR/STTR Programs Office: http://science.energy.gov/sbir/.
