DOE DE-FOA-0003155: 2024 Critical Materials Accelerator

No applicants  //  Limit: 5* // Tickets Available: 5 

*An entity may submit only one Concept Paper and one Full Application for each topic area of this FOA.

The goal of this FOA is to engage industry in the prototyping and validation of technologies and processes proven at the bench scale to accelerate commercial readiness and adoption. Successful projects will: 

• Validate the materials and manufacturing technologies that reduce demand or extend the lifetime of critical materials;
• Enable informed decisions, optimize processes, and build confidence in technology scale up through life-cycle assessment (LCA) and technoeconomic analysis (TEA);
• Address the urgency to meet critical material demand with secure and sustainable critical material manufacturing technologies.

The topics listed in this FOA address specific manufacturing challenges facing critical material supply chains in the U.S.: 

• Topic 1 – Use of Magnets with Reduced Critical Materials Content
• Topic 1a – Critical Material Lean/Free Magnets for Clean Energy Technologies
• Topic 1b – Motors and Drivetrains using Critical Material Lean/Free Magnets
• Topic 2 – Improved Unit Operations of Processing and Manufacturing of Critical Materials
• Topic 3 – Critical Material Recovery from Scrap and Post-Consumer Products
• Topic 4 – Reduced Critical Material Demand for Clean Energy Technologies