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| | Award Advisors | Dan Durst | Principal |
Small Business
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Project Management Coordination Office
| | Award Advisors is a specialized consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations navigate the complexities of federal grant processes, particularly those offered by the Department of Energy (DOE). As a trusted partner, we bring a wealth of expertise in Federal project budget development and post-award compliance, ensuring that our clients are well-prepared to secure and successfully manage DOE grants.
Expert Budget Development:
Our team excels in the intricacies of federal budget formulation, including the completion of SF 424 and the DOE Budget Justification Worksheet. We work closely with organizations to develop detailed, accurate budgets that align with DOE requirements and maximize funding opportunities. Our deep understanding of cost principles and budgeting regulations ensures that your proposal is not only compliant but also competitive.
Indirect Rate Calculation and Negotiation:
Award Advisors specializes in the calculation and negotiation of indirect cost rates, a critical component for organizations seeking to optimize their funding. We guide our clients through the complex process of determining appropriate rates, negotiating with federal agencies, and applying those rates effectively within their budgets. This service is essential for organizations aiming to recover the full spectrum of allowable costs, thereby enhancing the sustainability and impact of their projects.
Post-Award Compliance Preparation:
Navigating the post-award phase requires a thorough understanding of 2 CFR 200, the "Uniform Guidance" that governs federal awards. Our services extend beyond the pre-award stage to ensure that organizations are fully prepared to meet compliance requirements after securing funding. We provide training, policy development, and ongoing support to help organizations establish robust compliance frameworks, mitigating the risk of audit findings and ensuring project success.
Partnering with Award Advisors means gaining a dedicated ally committed to your success in the DOE grant landscape. Let us help you turn your innovative ideas into funded, compliant, and impactful projects. |
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| | Pennsylvania State University | Timothy Cleary | Research & Development Engineer |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Battery System Development and Testing | Battery Application Technology Testing & Energy Research Laboratory (BATTERY) at Penn State University supports development and low volume production of battery systems. BATTERY also supports cell to full system testing and evaluation including thermal propagation testing. |
| PA |
| | MACRO Industries | Michael Breslin | Director of Special Programs |
Small Business
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Vehicles
| Battery Thermal Runaway Management | MACRO Industries has developed a tailorable family of multi-functional composite materials, Macrolite, that can be optimized to meet the operating conditions for lithium-ion batteries. Specifically, Macrolite High Temperature (MLHT) has been designed to provide both puncture and wear resistance in a structural material, while maintaining the ability to contain and minimize the catastrophic effects of high-temperature thermal runaway events on surrounding equipment should battery failure occur.
MLHT enclosures enable or enhance host platform survivability when subjected to deleterious storage, transport, and operational conditions that may have previously precluded lithium-ion battery use. MLHT composite enclosures can mitigate the risks associated with the use of lithium-ion batteries, and enable more rapid, safer implementation of high energy density storage technologies. MLHT can be tailored to withstand the combined effect of high temperatures as well as simultaneous erosive flame velocity and ejecta expulsion characteristic of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway events. MLHT can be fabricated as a sheet stock or in custom engineered component geometries, making it simple for host platforms or battery manufacturers to incorporate. MLHT displays superior resistance to wear and point load damage, reducing the frequency of battery damage in the operational environment. Built from thin and lightweight materials, incorporation of MLHT adds minimal weight to an existing enclosure or can reduce weight if replacing current enclosure configurations. |
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| | University of Mississippi | Amitav Tikadar | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Topic 2- Battery thermal runaway mitigation | -EV powertrain thermal management and HVAC
-Micro/power-electronics cooling
-Single and two-phase heat transfer |
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| | University of Texas at Arlington | Liwei Zhou | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| 2 (major), 3, 4, 5 | Prof. Liwei Zhou's research lab focuses on the power electronics for transportation electrification and renewable energy. One of the major parts of the research work is the battery cells power management and balancing for battery pack optimal thermal control. The expertise in this project includes the follows:
(1) Battery cells power management for optimal thermal control;
(2) Battery packs structural design and management for highly reliable operation;
(3) Battery management circuit optimal design for optimal power balancing. |
| TX |
| | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Xueli Sherry Zheng | Associate Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Vehicles
| Batteries and Materials | 1) Integrating new materials into high energy density batteries, including Li metal batteries, Na metal batteries, and solid-state batteries.
2) Developing, understanding, and integrating materials and devices for electrocatalysis and battery technologies;
3) Constructing a toolbox of innovative techniques (synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy and imaging) to establish the fundamental understanding of sustainable manufacturing, electrocatalysis, and battery technologies.
4) Reducing carbon emissions in industrial process, including steelmaking/ironmaking, chemical and cement production; |
| CA |
| | Giner Labs | Mario Moreira | Principal Scientist |
Small Business
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Vehicles
| Battery Materials Development and Scale Up | The Giner Labs battery team focuses on development of 'beyond Li-ion battery technologies' that offer reduced weight, size, and cost. We have a long history of success executing contract research programs for our commercial clients, government agencies (including substantial SBIR work) and not-for-profit institutions. Our facilities are equipped to handle battery materials development, prototyping, scale-up and testing. Our specialties include:
- Electrolyte slurry & coating development
- Electrolyte and additive formulation, separator and membrane development, coin and pouch cell
- Separator and membrane development
- Coin and pouch cell fabrication
- Li metal anode cell fabrication
- Electrochemical testing and characterization
- Postmortem analysis
- Prototyping |
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| | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | John Farrell | Laboratory Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Vehicles
| | NREL has deep and diverse expertise related to AOIs 2-5.
For details and contact information, see https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/foa-capabilities.html |
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| | Cool Amps | Nicholas Anderson | CTO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Area of Interest 3 | Cool Amps is a technology development and consultation firm focused on lowering battery production costs by enabling a circular supply chain controlled by our customers. Our small-footprint, low capital recycling equipment is deployed on-site at battery manufactures to process production scrap and defective or end-of-life batteries back into fabrication-ready materials. Our clients benefit from reduced waste accumulation while gaining a clean, domestic, and secure supply of battery-grade materials. Cool Amps eliminates the need to transport hazardous waste while putting control of supply chains in our customers' hands.
Traditional recovery of critical minerals from lithium-ion batteries, such as cathode and anode active materials, relies on dirty, energy-intensive, large-scale, centralized processes & facilities. Our competitors rely either on high temperatures (pyrometallurgy) or toxic chemicals (hydrometallurgy), without any selective extraction of desired materials, resulting in complex and costly downstream processing. In addition, these large-scale processes incur significant capital and financing risk, face competition for key raw material black mass, and have a near-impossible road to profitability in light of aggressively costed battery cell prices from Asia.
Cool Amps has developed a wholly differentiated approach that enables distributed battery recycling using highly selective processes that:
*Minimize battery dis-assembly
*Eliminate the need for complex downstream processing
*Use near ambient conditions and safe, commodity chemicals
*Flexibly process end-of-life battery cells or manufacturer production scrap
*Is modular and requires minimal CapEx such that critical mineral recovery can be carried out in a localized & distributed, and profitable, fashion
Furthermore, the Cool Amps process has demonstrated the ability to selectively recover, upcycle, and validate performance across a broad range battery cell chemistries & valuable components, including:
*Various NMC cathode active materials
*LFP cathode active material (not economically feasible for other recycling processes)
*Graphite anode active material
Cool Amps is looking to expand its business by seeking partners to deploy its MVP localized recycling technology on-site. We are specifically interested in battery manufacturers and companies in the reverse logistics supply chain. |
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| | Supernova Industries Corp. | Nirup Nagabandi | CTO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | At Supernova, we develop and manufacture materials and machines for Additive manufacturing via viscous lithography Manufacturing technology (VLM). VLM builds on top of traditional DLP style AM to enable processing highly viscous materials, unto 500,000 Cps enabling material set that was unthinkable to be 3D printed previously. Further, this can apply to printing parts with high filler loadings unto 90% (metals, fibers, nano materials, etc).
This unique print technology enables a wide variety of material set and also opens up opportunities to 3D print solid state batteries, which are not not easy to manufacture using current methods.
We hope to develop Battery manufacturing solutions that can shore up the national supply chain through the strategic use of critical
minerals and cell manufacturing. We also expect to manufacture with relative ease and cost for Solid state batteries with Li metal or anode less, to minimize size weight and charging times. |
| TX |
| | Saint-Gobain Ceramics | Stephen Bottiglieri | Business Dev Mgr - Lithium Solutions |
Large Business
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Vehicles
| Cost reductions in Li-ion battery materials | Saint-Gobain Ceramics comprises Saint-Gobain’s businesses specialized in ceramic-based solutions for industrial clients. Our solutions range from grains and powders, through hierarchically structured porous shapes, single crystals, specialty refractories, ceramic components and systems to services such as ceramic materials recovery and recycling. Our battery materials products include sorbents for lithium extraction, lithium-compound powders, boron nitride and silicon carbide kiln furniture for cathode powders. |
| MA |
| | Fedsprout | Aalap Shah | President and CEO |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| DEI Plan, Project Planning, and Project Reporting | Fedsprout helps businesses and non-profits navigate government funding opportunities and provide support during project execution. We help strategize, plan, and ensure successful projects when working with the federal government, especially regarding clean energy and other DOE initiatives.
Area of Technical Expertise: DEI Planning and Federal Regulations, Community Benefits Planning for Proposals, Community Engagement, Implementation of Community Benefits Plans, Clean Energy Demonstration Planning. We are experts in community engagement, workforce development, DEIA, and Justice 40.
Brief Description of Capabilities: We help write, strategize, and implement community benefits (and DEI) plans for proposals and projects. We provide planning and strategy for successful government-funded projects. Our experts are familiar with federal regulations, budgeting, and compliance.
Area of Interest: Develop DEI Plans for proposal and implementation during project |
| NJ |
| | CrossLink Composites | Connie Jackson | CTO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Advanced Manufacturing | We apply our proprietary technology to make the world’s first and only high-performance low-cost carbon fiber, serving automotive, wind energy, civil infrastructure, marine, aerospace and transportation markets. We also pultrude composite products and produce oxidized PAN fiber (OPF). We don’t have standardized products but rather we work with large-volume customers to tailor products to their specific applications. Our revolutionary, patent-pending processes enable the lowest cost carbon fiber products available in today's market. Our technology also reduces by two thirds the carbon fiber manufacturing emission levels.
We frequently work with grant recipients to produce specific carbon fiber, OPF or composite products for their research projects. We have received multiple NSF SBIR and DoE grants ourselves and are familiar with federal grants and associated requirements.
Our founder and CTO Connie Jackson is an industry veteran with senior level experience running CF and pultrusion operations. Previously she ran operations for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility. |
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| | Loans and Grants Help | Darrin Riberdy | Member |
Small Business
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Project Management Coordination Office
| | We assist you to complete and submit your grant application. |
| ME |
| | Strategic Analysis, Inc. | Mark Jensen | Dr. |
Small Business
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| Techno-economic Analysis | Strategic Analysis (SA) specializes in techno-economic and manufacturing analysis, market studies, and technology due diligence. Our expertise spans a wide array of materials, components, and systems for hydrogen production and storage, fuel cells, batteries, gas purification, chemical synthesis (monomers/polymers, catalysts, MOFs, electrochemical), carbon capture, and energy transmission. With an extensive background in capital cost and life-cycle cost estimation, our techno-economic analysis integrates cost estimation with discounted cash flow models to identify key drivers for commercialization.
SA's analyses encompass both process definition and capital cost estimation of production plant facilities (e.g., battery plant, electrolysis plant, wind turbine production facility) as well as the manufacturing cost of the finished product (cost of batteries ($/kWh), H2 ($/kg), electricity ($/kWh)). To meet the diverse needs of our clients, we offer a suite of advanced tools including: thermodynamic and energy assessments with Aspen Plus® or Aspen HYSYS®; capital cost estimation using bottoms-up methods like Design for Manufacture and Assembly® (DFMA) considering multiple rates of production and manufacturing pathways; and capital, installation, and operational cost models with industry correlations. |
Website: sainc.com
Email: mjensen@sainc.com
Phone: 8018228035
Address: 4075 Wilson Blvd. Suite 200, Arlington, VA, 22203, United States
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| | Auburn University | Mehmet Arik | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Integrated Strategies
| Packaging and Thermal Management | ARTgroup at Auburn University has been working on air and liquid cooling technologies for electronics thermal management, heat exchanger technologies, medical and photonics technologies. We have been also working on two phase flow (boiling and condensation), phase change heat transfer (frost formation). Microfluidics cooling technologies such as synthetic jets are also another area that our group has studied over two decades now. Our group performs computatiıonal analysis and also owns dedicated experimental systems. We would love to collaborate in packaging and thermal management of battery technologies. |
| AL |
| | Ohio State University | Matilde D'Arpino | Research Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Topic 2 | - study and analysis of fault propagation in battery packs based on lithium-ion batteries;
- modeling of lithium-ion batteries cell/modules/pack including TMS and BMS;
- integration of advanced sensing;
- development of diagnostic and prognostic algorithms for battery packs;
- prototyping, testing and validation using HIL and hardware. |
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| | University of Hawaii at Manoa / HNEI | Matthieu Dubarry | Associate Researcher |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Battery diagnosis and prognosis | Matthieu Dubarry (PhD, Electrochemistry & Solid-State Science, University of Nantes), has close to 20 years of experience in renewable energy, with an emphasis in lithium ion batteries. Dr. Dubarry joined the University of Hawaii in 2005 to work on the analysis of a fleet of electric vehicles. He later focused on battery testing, modeling and simulation. While working for HNEI, Dr. Dubarry pioneered the use of new techniques for the non-destructive analysis of the degradation of Li-ion cells using degradation modes and developed numerous software tools facilitating the prognosis of Li-ion battery degradation both at the single cell and the battery pack level. He is leading the PakaLi Battery Laboratory that hosts 46 testing channels for prototypes cells (coin cells, PAT cells, and Swagelok) that can be prepared in house and tested at different temperatures. In addition, 84 channels are also available for the testing of commercial size cells (5-100A, 5V) and two channels for module testing (100A, 60V) all with access to temperature chambers. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Jaswinder Sharma | Group Leader |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Vehicles
| AO-2, 3,4, and 5 | The Battery Manufacturing Facility (BMF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory offers comprehensive capabilities for analyzing all stages of battery cell development. From handling raw materials and preparing electrode dispersions to testing the finished product’s performance, the BMF supports a full range of battery research.
Equipped with cutting-edge technology, the BMF focuses on advanced materials, electrolyte development, electrode formulation chemistry, slurry rheology, innovative coating technologies, and high-performance electrode architectures. Key resources include three coating lines, a 1,400 square-foot dry room, and a cell assembly line.
The facility can produce pouch cells measuring up to 66 × 99 × 12 mm with a 6 Ah capacity. This size is ideal for making market decisions and demonstrating the impact of new technologies affordably.
The BMF also features state-of-the-art characterization tools such as X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), microcalorimeters and various electrochemical performance testers, including several Maccor and Biologic cyclers. |
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