Advanced Materials grants in the United States
Explore Advanced Materials grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for novel materials, composites, nanomaterials, coatings and materials science from US innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United States, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Materials in the United States come first.
Showing 217-240 of 499 grants
Navy SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports United States naval innovation teams transitioning validated concepts into stronger prototypes and mission-ready solutions.
Advancing Discovery to Market
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M teams translating early discoveries through commercialization support and enterprise readiness.
AIC-Bakar Award (Climate)
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds UC Berkeley climate research with commercial promise for practical deployment and adaptation tools.
Alaska SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸AK DCCED / AIDEA · United States
Supports Alaska small businesses with federal innovation awards using state match funding to strengthen commercialization.
American-Made Challenges: Perovskite Startup Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Paid new US for-profit companies cash and lab vouchers to move perovskite solar-cell research out of the lab and into commercial manufacturing.
American-Made Heliostat Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. innovators developing and demonstrating heliostat components through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.
American-Made Solar Desalination Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. teams developing low-cost solar-thermal desalination systems through a multi-stage prize competition with a $1 million grand prize.
ARPA-E IGNIITE (Early-Career Innovators)
🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States
Supports United States early-career energy researchers building disruptive energy solutions beyond conventional approaches.
Bakar Award
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds UC Berkeley STEM faculty moving research discoveries toward commercially viable products and services.
Bakar Award — UC Berkeley / UCSF Collaborative
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds joint UC Berkeley and UCSF teams translating translational research into healthcare impact.
BIRD Energy
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel energy collaborations across technology, grid optimization, advanced manufacturing, and infrastructure security.
CHIPS Metrology SBIR — Phase I
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses developing semiconductor measurement tools, instrumentation, and metrologies for the domestic chip-making supply chain.
Clean Energy Grants
🇺🇸WA Commerce · United States
Funds Washington clean energy builders in solar, storage, grid resilience, and infrastructure deployment across utilities and communities.
CMMA Topic Area 1 — Rare Earth Elements Recovery
🇺🇸CMEI (formerly EERE) · United States
Supports production and material efficiency innovations for rare earth and critical minerals.
CMMA Topic Area 2 — Semiconductor Material Refining and Alloying
🇺🇸CMEI (formerly EERE) · United States
Supports innovative refining and alloying to improve semiconductor-related material performance.
CMMA Topic Area 3 — Direct Lithium Extraction
🇺🇸CMEI (formerly EERE) · United States
Supports direct lithium extraction innovation from domestic brines and minerals.
Collaborative Seed Grants
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M interdisciplinary faculty collaborations focused on high-risk, high-impact cross-domain research.
Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator — Topic 1: Production & Material Efficiency
🇺🇸DOE AMMTO · United States
Provides research teams and institutions for Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator: Production in materials science, energy systems, and manufacturing.
Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator — Topic 2: Semiconductor Material Refining
🇺🇸DOE AMMTO · United States
Connects research teams and institutions for Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator: Semiconductor in materials science, semiconductors, and energy systems.
Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator — Topic 3: Direct Lithium Extraction
🇺🇸DOE AMMTO · United States
Administers research teams and institutions for Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator: Direct in materials science, energy systems, and climate technology.
CSIR-USISTEF Critical Minerals and Quantum Technology Grant
🇮🇳CSIR India · India
Funds joint U.S.-India applied R&D teams working on Critical Minerals and Quantum Technology through the USISTEF competitive grants program.
Desalination and Water Purification Research Program: Research Projects
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds lab-scale and pilot-scale research that cuts the cost or energy of treating impaired water for reuse.
DOE Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize — Phase 1: Design
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds teams designing cost-effective industrial energy storage concepts through a DOE prize competition for thermal and electric storage at industrial scale.
DOE ITO SBIR/STTR Phase I
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses (≤500 employees) developing innovative industrial energy efficiency and cross-sector manufacturing technologies through DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I feasibility grants of up to $200,000.