The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35m for 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing.

These projects were selected under an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office funding opportunity, focused on advanced materials, advanced processes, and modeling and analysis tools for materials and manufacturing.

This funding opportunity allows selected projects to perform early-stage research and development (R&D) of new, advanced manufacturing technologies as well as encourage R&D contributions from new partners. Successful projects will reduce technical uncertainty and develop new knowledge associated with potential breakthrough materials, processes, and tools for U.S. manufacturers that could improve their competitiveness and enhance their energy efficiency.

The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness – from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). As a result, proposed funding levels and project durations are tailored to the workscopes necessary to advance the technologies to the proposed readiness levels. Individual awards vary between $250,000 and $2.5 million.

The list of selected projects are below:

    AK Steel Corporation

    Argonne National Laboratory

    Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies

    Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

    Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation

    Colorado State University

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Energy & Environmental Research Center

    FeNix Magnetics, Inc.

    Idaho National Laboratory

    Iowa State University

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Michigan State University

    Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics, Inc.

    Solar Turbines Incorporated

    Starfire Industries LLC

    Temple University

    United Technologies Research Center

    University of California: Los Angeles

    University of Maryland: College Park

    University of Texas at Dallas

    Yale University

    Zyvex Labs, LLC