Funding Opportunity: Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2021

October 21, 2020

Sponsor:	NSF, DOE, & National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Title:	Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2021 (EFRI-2021), NSF 20-614
Website:	https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf20614
Deadline:	LOI (required) due: December 09, 2020
	Pre-Proposal (required) due: January 05, 2021
	Full Proposal (required) due: April 19, 2021
Funding range:	Up to $2,000,000 covering a 4-year period of performance.
Topics:	At minimum, 1 PI and 2 Co-PIs will participate. Interdisciplinary research encouraged, particularly for E3P applications. At minimum, 1 tenure or tenure-track PI must hold a faculty appointment within a College of Engineering. Topics are as follows… Topic 1: Distributed Chemical Manufacturing (DCheM): Applicants must address Research Thrust 1 and at least one of Thrusts 2 and 3: Research Thrust 1: Fundamental Chemical and Physical Transformations of Matter. Research Thrust 2: Process Integration and Advanced Manufacturing. Research Thrust 3: Process Modeling, Optimization and Control. Topic 2: Engineering the Elimination of End-of-Life Plastics (E3P): Applicants must address at least two of the three research thrusts below: Research Thrust 1: Depolymerization of plastic materials. Research Thrust 2: Valorization of plastic materials and plastic-derived molecules. Research Thrust 3: Processes, methods, and tools that advance a circular economy for plastics.