Materials folks – are you already working on a Phase II SBIR or STTR grants project and itching to take it to the next level? The DOE just announced that it is making available an additional $30 million to establish new small business related to clean energy.
The DOE is targeting 11 fields of technology and a wide range of applications, including innovative fuel cells, sensors, membranes, advanced materials, solar cells and concentrators, capacitors and magnets.
This is offering is being tagged as a Phase III funding offering that is part of the DOE’s Phase III Xlerator program. As noted above, Phase II recipients are eligible, but there is a catch: The deadline for applying is Aug. 4, 2010!
The range of grants are going to range from a minimum of $250,000 to a max of $3,000,000.
Here are the specific areas DOE is looking for:
| Technology | Target |
| Biomass | Harvesting/Dewatering Technology for Algal Biofuels Production. |
| Building | Transitional Technology for OLEDs |
| Solid state lighting products made from OLEDs | |
| “Core” technology for OLEDs | |
| Fuel Cell | Advanced Materials for Fuel Cell Technologies |
| Bio-Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells | |
| Geothermal | High-Temperature Downhole Tools |
| High-Temperature-High-Volume Lifting | |
| High-Temperature Downhole MWD Tools for Directional Drilling | |
| Industrial | Sensors and Controls |
| Industrial Membrane Process Systems | |
| Advanced Materials | |
| Integrated Reaction-Separation using non-thermal processes | |
| Mitigation of Heat Losses, Fouling, and Scaling in key Manufacturing Unit Operations | |
| Solar | Lightweight, Flexible and Low Cost Multi-junction Solar Cells |
| Static Module PV Concentrators | |
| New Methods of Crystallizing Silicon | |
| Vehicles | Technologies to Address Internal Heating in DC Bus Capacitors |
| Improved Magnetic Materials for Motors | |
| Advanced Materials for Lightweight Vehicles | |
| Wind | Advanced Wind Power Technologies and Systems |
| Fossil Energy | Pollution control |
| Advanced power systems | |
| Stationary power fuel cells | |
| Clean fuels | |
| Carbon sequestration | |
| Recovery of oil, natural gas, and methane hydrates | |
| Advances in materials, sensors, monitors, controls, biotechnology, and computational processes | |
| Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability | Smart Grid Technologies and Systems |
| Electric Transmission Technologies | |
| Superconducting Technology for Power Equipment | |
| Advanced Materials for Power Electronics and Energy Storage | |
| Nuclear Energy | Advanced Instrumentation and Control, Radiation Resistant Sensors |
| Wireless On-Line Monitoring Systems for Nuclear Power Plant Applications | |