Chemical Process Systems (CPS)
Funds fundamental research to make chemical and biochemical processes more efficient, sustainable and resilient — from catalysis to separations.
Society turns raw materials into products through chemical processes, and this programme funds the science of doing that better. NSF names where new technologies from it would matter: manufacturing, biotechnology, critical minerals, energy and food.
The span is the full breadth of chemical and biochemical process innovation — reaction engineering and molecular thermodynamics, reactor design, cata…
Fundamental research on chemical and biochemical processes — reaction engineering and molecular thermodynamics, reactor design, catalysis, electrochemical systems, separations and process design — connecting molecular scale to process and plant scale, including the nuclear fuel cycle, critical mineral recovery, bioprocessing and AI-driven process optimisation.
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