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 25-48 of 496 grants
ARO Core BAA — Single Investigator
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Offers core basic research grants across physical, engineering, and information science domains in the Army.
CHIPS R&D BAA — White Paper
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds microelectronics teams in the United States through CHIPS BAA with practical support for near market technology development.
Air Dominance BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Funds air dominance innovation in sensing, autonomy, and engagement systems for national security priorities.
Army SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Army · United States
Funds United States Army-focused small businesses demonstrating technology feasibility for soldier and mobility needs.
Army SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Army · United States
Supports United States Army-aligned innovators advancing validated technologies toward deployable military-ready systems.
DARPA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States small businesses validating high-risk defense science concepts for practical technical development.
DARPA SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports United States defense innovators building on validated concepts into advanced prototypes and field testing.
DIU Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Funds commercial companies prototyping advanced technology for US defense through fast Other Transaction agreements.
AEDC SBIR Matching Grant
🇺🇸AEDC · United States
Funds Arkansas firms by co-financing federal research commercialization efforts to strengthen real-world implementation.
AFOSR BAA — Basic Research
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds basic research at United States universities across defense science, materials, aerospace, and quantum topics.
AFOSR STTR
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds collaborative basic research pathways for technology transfer from concept through scalable prototypes.
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds early-career investigators in United States defense research through multi-year applied projects.
AFRL/AFOSR Center of Excellence — FOAs
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds sustained university center partnerships with the United States defense research community.
ART — NSF 25-548
🇺🇸NSF TIP · United States
Supports university infrastructure growth in technology transfer through NSF research grants.
Basic Research Grant Program
🇺🇸AEDC · United States
Supports Arkansas institutions with matching grants for original-research costs and stronger academic enterprise collaboration.
Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (BPI)
🇺🇸NIBIB · United States
Funds academia-industry partnerships for biomedical engineering development with sustained milestones and shared commercialization planning.
Business Innovation Funding
🇺🇸MTI · United States
Funds Maine technology businesses with grants, loans, or equity ranging from ten to two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research into how the Earth's core, mantle and crust formed and changed — including volcanology and ore deposits.
Chemical Process Systems (CPS)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds fundamental research to make chemical and biochemical processes more efficient, sustainable and resilient — from catalysis to separations.
CHIPS R&D Office — LOI/Competitive Awards
🇺🇸NIST · United States
Funds semiconductor manufacturing, packaging, and metrology development in the United States through competitive initiatives.
Clean Energy Grants
🇺🇸WA Commerce · United States
Funds Washington clean energy builders in solar, storage, grid resilience, and infrastructure deployment across utilities and communities.
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.
CoMotion Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program (PEP)
🇺🇸CoMotion · United States
Provides one-year support for University of Washington postdocs to test and commercialize disclosed university technologies.
Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds materials-community work that fits no single programme — summer schools, workshops, conferences and cross-programme projects.