Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials
Funds early-career teams to advance basic science for sustainable design, manufacture, and recycling of materials vital to clean energy and environmental stewardship.
Funder: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2026 (proposal submission deadline, projected)
Funding Amounts: $60,000 direct costs per team member (typically for one-year projects); teams of 2–3 fellows; usually 8–10 team awards per cycle
Summary: Supports cross-disciplinary, early-career teams advancing basic science for sustainable design, manufacture, and recycling of materials critical to clean energy and environmental stewardship.
Key Information: For early-career U.S. or Canadian faculty; teams must be newly formed at the conference and cannot include prior collaborators.
Description
This initiative, part of the Scialog series, aims to catalyze innovative, high-risk research at the intersection of chemistry, materials science, geology, ecology, engineering, and energy systems modeling. The program brings together approximately 50 early-career scientists to form new cross-disciplinary teams and develop proposals addressing fundamental challenges in the sustainable acquisition, design, manufacture, and recycling of materials—especially those critical to clean energy technologies. The focus is on projects that promote environmental stewardship and decarbonization, with an emphasis on basic science that supports the full lifecycle of materials and enables a transition to a sustainable, low-carbon energy system.
