Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean Energy Technologies and Low-Carbon Manufacturing

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.

Application Instructions

Pre‐proposal instructions

Please submit:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach

2. CV (not NIH format) of the PI

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Monday February 28, 2022. 

Sponsor deadline: 3/16/2022 for required pre-application

Full proposals due to sponsor: 5/17/2022 with an OSP deadline of 5/6/2022