Current Solicitations
See also: Scholarships, Fellowships, & Postdoctoral Positions
Note: Not all federal agencies have specific webpages for nanotechnology funding opportunities. In addition, solicitations often are worded generally and the technological tools to be employed, whether micro-, nano- or macro-scale, are not specified. Looking broadly into areas of interest—for instance, toxin removal or semi-conducting materials— is often the best approach.
New Solicitations
- January 15, March 9, May 11, July 13, 2009 deadlines—Technology Innovation Program; Call for White Papers. TIP is seeking white papers to help shape the Programs' collaborative outreach and competitions in the future.
- February 11, 2009 deadline— The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a national nanoscience user facility, is currently accepting requests for no cost access to its instruments, capabilities and skilled technical staff from scientists and engineers seeking to enhance their own research projects. Requests from potential users, in the form of web-based proposals, must be received by the deadline.
- May 21, 2009 deadline—DARPA - Microsystems Technology Office; NanoThermal Interfaces (NTI). DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of NanoThermal Interfaces (NTI). The primary goal of this program is the development and demonstration of ideas based on novel materials and structures that can provide significant reductions in the thermal resistance of the interface layer (often called the TIM) between the backside of an electronic device and the next layer of the package, which might be a spreader or a heatsink (this might be based on technologies developed in the DARPA-sponsored TGP and/or MACE programs, respectively).
- October 30, 2009 deadline (continuously open) — U.S. Army; The U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command-Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM-ARDEC) is looking to identify and develop nanotechnologies for the purpose of generating future armament systems.
- January 7, 2011 deadline— National Institutes of Health, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to stimulate nanoscience and nanotechnology research approaches that have the potential to make valuable contributions to biology and medicine.
- Federal Agency Funding Opportunities
- Commerce Department Grant Opportunities
Department of Commerce
- U.S. Army Funding Opportunities
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
Department of Defense
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Office of Industrial Technologies
Department of Energy
- DHS Research Areas and Funding Opportunities
Department of Homeland Security
- National Center for Environmental Research Grants and Research News
- Also see NCER News & Events
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- NASA Grants Information Homepage
- Also see NASA Research Opportunities Online
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) Aliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer: Funding Opportunities
- NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts and Notice
- NIH Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Information
- NIH NIEHS Genes, the Environment and Health Initiative Funding Opportunities
- Small Business Research Funding Opportunities
National Institutes of Health
- NIST Funding Opportunities
National Institute of Standards & Technology
- NSF Activities, Solicitations and Their Outcomes