Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy
Building Efficiency
Electrical Efficiency
Generation
Manufacturing Efficiency
Resource Efficiency
Storage
Transportation Energy Conversion
Transportation Fuels
Transportation Storage
Program Description:
The objective of Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) is to support early-career innovators seeking to convert disruptive and unconventional ideas into impactful new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications.
IGNIITE 2024 aims to empower these early-career scientists and engineers in becoming independent researchers and unleashing their creativity to address the urgent energy-related challenges our society currently faces. In addition to funding research efforts, IGNIITE 2024 will include dedicated events, meetings, and mentorship activities.
This program will help ensure that the United States maintains its technological leadership in the development and deployment of advanced energy technologies.
Contact
Program Director:
Dr. Laurent Pilon
Press and General Inquiries Email:
ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov
Project Listing
• Battelle Energy Alliance (Idaho National Laboratory) - Performance of Brazed Materials for Molten Salt Energy Technologies
• ChemFinity Technologies - Tunable Porous Polymer Networks with Unprecedented Efficiency in Recovering Critical Metals
• Duke University - Upgrading Plastic Waste into Low-Cost Porous Adsorbents for Direct Air Capture
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Carbon-Negative and Ambient Production of Fertilizer Precursor
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - C1 Bioconversion Platform: Integrating Acetogenic Consortia for Circular Economy Solutions in Sustainable Fuel Production, Industrial Efficiency, and Decarbonization
• Michigan State University - Robotic 3D Bioprinting of Entire Building Structures Using Biogenic Concrete
• Michigan State University - Optically Powered Ultra-high-Speed (OPUS) Wound-Field Synchronous Generators
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Electrochemically Looping Adsorptive Heat Pumps for Next-Generation Building Decarbonization
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Mixed Polyester Deconstruction & Monomer Recovery to Enable a Circular Bioeconomy
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - BUILD’EM: Chemistry, Performance, and Path to Market of a Cement-less Construction Material
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Leveraged Redox Flow Batteries (SUPERCOOL-RFB)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - Ductile Bulk Ionic Glasses for Electric Vehicle Batteries (BIGBATT)
• Peregrine Hydrogen - Advanced Electrolysis Architectures for Low-Cost Green Hydrogen
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Critical Metal-Free, Conversion-Type Solid-State Batteries for Advanced Air Mobility
• Syracuse University - Ultra-High Power Photoneutralization Cavity for Neutral Beam Injection in Fusion Reactors
• University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) - High-Performance, Modular Piezoelectric Components for Miniaturized Power Conversion
• University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) - Solar Thermal Membrane Desalination via Thin-film Phase Change
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) - Multicell Electrical-Transient-Accelerated Press-Pack Modules (METAPAK)
• University of Washington (UW) - Development of an Adaptive Catalytic Reactor to Store Intermittent Green Hydrogen Using Plastic Waste
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) - AlloyBot: Autonomous Platform to Develop Alloys for Energy and Propulsion Technologies 100x Faster
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) - Direct High-Temperature Electrochemical Hydrogenative Depolymerization for Waste Plastic Upcycling
• University of Alabama - Tailoring Bipolar Membrane Interfaces to Boost Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell Performance for Marine Transportation Applications
• University of California-Irvine - High-Entropy Nanodisks by Ultrafast Electrified Vapor Deposition for Hydrogen Production
• ChemFinity Technologies - Tunable Porous Polymer Networks with Unprecedented Efficiency in Recovering Critical Metals
• Duke University - Upgrading Plastic Waste into Low-Cost Porous Adsorbents for Direct Air Capture
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Carbon-Negative and Ambient Production of Fertilizer Precursor
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - C1 Bioconversion Platform: Integrating Acetogenic Consortia for Circular Economy Solutions in Sustainable Fuel Production, Industrial Efficiency, and Decarbonization
• Michigan State University - Robotic 3D Bioprinting of Entire Building Structures Using Biogenic Concrete
• Michigan State University - Optically Powered Ultra-high-Speed (OPUS) Wound-Field Synchronous Generators
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Electrochemically Looping Adsorptive Heat Pumps for Next-Generation Building Decarbonization
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Mixed Polyester Deconstruction & Monomer Recovery to Enable a Circular Bioeconomy
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - BUILD’EM: Chemistry, Performance, and Path to Market of a Cement-less Construction Material
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Leveraged Redox Flow Batteries (SUPERCOOL-RFB)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - Ductile Bulk Ionic Glasses for Electric Vehicle Batteries (BIGBATT)
• Peregrine Hydrogen - Advanced Electrolysis Architectures for Low-Cost Green Hydrogen
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Critical Metal-Free, Conversion-Type Solid-State Batteries for Advanced Air Mobility
• Syracuse University - Ultra-High Power Photoneutralization Cavity for Neutral Beam Injection in Fusion Reactors
• University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) - High-Performance, Modular Piezoelectric Components for Miniaturized Power Conversion
• University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) - Solar Thermal Membrane Desalination via Thin-film Phase Change
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) - Multicell Electrical-Transient-Accelerated Press-Pack Modules (METAPAK)
• University of Washington (UW) - Development of an Adaptive Catalytic Reactor to Store Intermittent Green Hydrogen Using Plastic Waste
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) - AlloyBot: Autonomous Platform to Develop Alloys for Energy and Propulsion Technologies 100x Faster
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) - Direct High-Temperature Electrochemical Hydrogenative Depolymerization for Waste Plastic Upcycling
• University of Alabama - Tailoring Bipolar Membrane Interfaces to Boost Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell Performance for Marine Transportation Applications
• University of California-Irvine - High-Entropy Nanodisks by Ultrafast Electrified Vapor Deposition for Hydrogen Production