Funding Opportunity Announcement: Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: DE-FOA-0003254

Total Estimated Funding: $5 Million

Deadline for Pre-Applications (required): February 9, 2024 at 5:00pm ET

Deadline for Applications: March 29, 2024 at 11:59pm ET

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science announced up to $5 million in federal funding for research projects that will help universities and non-profit organizations advance the fundamental understanding of basic plasma science and engineering.

This funding, which has been made available under the Office of Fusion Energy Science's General Plasma Science program, supports research at the frontiers of basic and low temperature plasma science. The aim of this funding opportunity announcement is to increase the understanding of plasma processes including:

• Dynamical processes in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma, such as magnetic reconnection, plasma dynamo, shocks, turbulence cascade, structures, waves, flows, and their interactions;
• Behavior of dusty plasma, non-neutral, single-component matter or antimatter plasma, and ultra-cold neutral plasma; and
• Plasma chemistry and processes in low temperature plasma, interfacial plasma, and interaction of plasma with materials and/or biomaterials.