Have an idea? See who funds it.

This part of The Grant Lattice is organised by research idea, not by funder. Pick the idea closest to yours to see every open or upcoming call that could pay for it, and which funders back it. Crystallization ideas come first.

What’s getting funded Calls for industry and international partners

Research ideas (18)

Nucleation, crystal growth and polymorph control

How crystals start, grow and which crystal form you get.
18 open calls
113 recent awards in our sample

Pharmaceutical crystallization and formulation

Making medicines with the right solid form, purity and stability.
23 open calls, 3 opening soon
10 recent awards in our sample

Continuous and process crystallization

Scaling crystallization and chemical processes up for manufacturing.
13 open calls, 3 opening soon
8 recent awards in our sample

Protein and biomolecular crystallography

Seeing the 3D structure of proteins and other biomolecules.
11 open calls
94 recent awards in our sample

MOFs, COFs and porous crystals

Crystals full of tiny pores for storage, capture and separation.
No open calls; see recent awards
8 recent awards in our sample

Crystal structure prediction and computational materials

Using computers to predict structures and properties before the lab.
3 open calls
40 recent awards in our sample

Crystal growth in space and microgravity

Growing crystals and testing materials on the ISS or in orbit.
3 open calls
0 recent awards in our sample

Characterization, synchrotron and neutron facilities

Beamtime, instruments and shared facilities to measure your samples.
16 open calls, 10 opening soon
62 recent awards in our sample

Semiconductors and thin-film growth

Chips, electronic materials and growing thin layers of crystals.
3 open calls, 1 opening soon
43 recent awards in our sample

Battery and energy materials

Materials for batteries, solar cells, hydrogen and energy storage.
7 open calls, 3 opening soon
37 recent awards in our sample

Catalysis

Speeding up and steering chemical reactions.
2 open calls
58 recent awards in our sample

Sustainable and green chemistry

Cleaner chemistry, recycling, carbon capture and net zero.
15 open calls, 12 opening soon
32 recent awards in our sample

Critical minerals and separations

Finding, extracting, separating and recovering key elements.
8 open calls, 3 opening soon
24 recent awards in our sample

AI and data-driven chemistry

Machine learning, automation and data for chemistry and materials.
2 open calls
28 recent awards in our sample

Quantum materials

Materials with unusual electronic, magnetic or quantum behaviour.
1 open call
30 recent awards in our sample

Advanced and functional materials

New materials with useful properties, from polymers to ceramics.
15 open calls, 6 opening soon
77 recent awards in our sample

Chemistry for biology and medicine

Chemical tools, probes and molecules for health research.
12 open calls, 1 opening soon
61 recent awards in our sample

Open topic (bring your own idea)

Calls that fund your best idea in any area of chemistry or materials.
56 open calls, 11 opening soon
24 recent awards in our sample

How calls are sorted into ideas

Each call is matched to ideas by simple, published rules: keywords in the call’s title, funder and summary, plus a few of our field tags. A call can fit more than one idea. Each call page shows why it was matched. We check the rules by hand and fix mistakes with a short override list. Always read the official call to confirm your idea fits.

Idea counts are smaller than the topic pages under Fields on purpose: for example the Crystallization topic page lists 45 calls because it also counts separations, purification and solid-state chemistry, while each crystallization idea here needs a specific keyword.

146 current calls · updated 22 Oct 2026.