Accelerating Scale-up and Pre-piloting of Emerging Chemical Technologies (ASPECT)

Accelerating Scale-up and Pre-piloting of Emerging Chemical Technologies (ASPECT) is a funding call from U.S. Department of Energy – Golden Field Office that closes 01 December 2026. Funding: Up to $20,000,000. Eligibility: Industry-led: US universities can lead only Topic Area 1 and are subrecipients in Topic Area 2; national labs participate only as subrecipients.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy – Golden Field Office
Deadline: 01 Dec 2026 (47 days)
Amount: Up to $20,000,000
Region / eligibility: United States
Career stage: industry / SME
Fields: chemistry, materials
Reference: DE-FOA-0003647
Official call: Grants.gov listing

Eligibility in plain language

Industry-led: US universities can lead only Topic Area 1 and are subrecipients in Topic Area 2; national labs participate only as subrecipients.

Who should apply

Synthetic, physical and analytical chemists, materials scientists and engineers — best fit for companies and SMEs; academics typically join as partners or subcontractors rather than lead.

Summary from source

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Raw eligibility text

As one of the main goals of this NOFO is to move technologies quickly to market, participation of the following entities is limited as follows: Institutions of higher education are eligible to participate as a recipient or subrecipient for Topic Area 1 but are only eligible to participate as a subrecipient for Topic Area 2. Provided there is no conflict of interest, DOE FFRDCs3 are eligible to apply for funding as subrecipients but are not eligible to apply as recipients. Non-DOE FFRDCs are eligible to participate as subrecipients but are not eligible to apply as recipients. Federal agencies and instrumentalities (other than DOE) are eligible to participate as subrecipients but are not eligible to apply as recipients. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is eligible to apply as a subrecipient, not as prime recipient.