Closed · DE-FOA-0003506 · CFDA 81.135 · Discretionary
CATALYTIC APPLICATION TESTING FOR ACCELERATED LEARNING CHEMISTRIES VIA HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION AND MODELING EFFICIENTLY SBIR/STTR (CATALCHEM-E SBIR/STTR)
Federal grant opportunity posted by Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $2.5M-$3.5M
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- December 17, 2024
- Close date
- 12
- Expected awards
The verdict
CATALYTIC APPLICATION TESTING FOR ACCELERATED LEARNING CHEMISTRIES VIA HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION AND MODELING EFFICIENTLY SBIR/STTR (CATALCHEM-E SBIR/STTR) is a closed discretionary listing from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy that offered $2,500,000 -- $3,500,000 across 12 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 183 other opportunities from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy.
- $2.5M-$3.5M
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 12
- expected awards
- 81.135
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
CATALYTIC APPLICATION TESTING FOR ACCELERATED… is closed (last close December 17, 2024). The parent program page for CFDA 81.135 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy still indexes 183 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed December 17, 2024
Est. Total Funding
$35,000,000
Expected Awards
12
Instrument
Other
Description
This is Modification 02 to the NOFO: • Clarified the meaning of the Program Policy Factors in Section V.C. • The CP due date for this NOFO has already closed and is not being extended with this modification. To obtain a copy of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) please go to ARPA-E eXCHANGE at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. Program Overview The Catalytic Application Testing for Accelerated Learning Chemistries via High-throughput Experimentation and Modeling Efficiently (CATALCHEM-E) program aims to disrupt and accelerate the design and development cycle for heterogeneous catalyst R&D workflows. The program will span from rational material discovery to synthesis and final reactor testing. These novel workflows will be developed by coupling the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) with high-throughput experimentation (HTE) to verifiably complete 10–15 years of traditional catalysis R&D work within 12–18 months, thus achieving more than a ten-time acceleration in the catalyst development cycle.[1] The program will then use these new tools to discover and optimize catalytic chemistries relevant to ARPA-E’s goals. These new chemistries will ultimately help advance the objective of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.[2] Innovations developed under the CATALCHEM-E program will involve: · Future refinery relevant or other next-generation feedstocks such as hydrogen (H2), nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), methanol (MeOH), ethanol (EtOH), bio-intermediates (CxHyOz), waste plastics, and triglycerides (TAGs); and · Products like ethylene (C2=) and propylene (C3=) as low carbon monomers, and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), diesel, and syngas as distillate range hydrocarbons. [1] Sharon Mitchell, Nina-Luisa Michels, and Javier Pérez-Ramírez, “From Powder to Technical Body: The Undervalued Science of Catalyst Scale Up,” Chemical Society Reviews 42, no. 14 (June 21, 2013): 6094–6112, https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CS60076A. [2] U.S. Department of Energy. “How we’re moving to net-zero by 2050,” (April 2021). https://www.energy.gov/articles/how-were-moving-net-zero-2050.
Small-business / for-profit corridor · DE-FOA-0003506
CATALYTIC APPLICATION TESTING FOR ACCELERATED… prints a for-profit / small-business applicant door (Small businesses). Treat the listing as business-facing unless the full Grants.gov announcement narrows it further. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Other. Funding-activity codes span Opportunity Zones · Science and Technology / R&D (OZ;ST). 35 other Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy listings share this eligibility-code string (19% of 184).
- Code 23
- Small businesses
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
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Parent Grant Program
Environmental Cleanup
U.S. Department of Energy
Agency Contact
ARPA-E CO
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What to do next
CATALYTIC APPLICATION TESTING FOR ACCELERATED… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
- Parent CFDA 81.135 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
- Environmental Cleanup indexes 2 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
- Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy lists 183 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog
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