What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AA6 of PE 0601102A. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Will investigate the transport and stability of new electrolytes, salts, and solvents as well as their compatibility with high capacity and high voltage electrode materials; study molten salt and eutectic electrolyte composition along with their structure, transport properties, physiochemical properties, and their interactions with lithium- and metal sulfide-based electrodes; explore phase structure and electrochemical stability of metal sulfide based cathodes; conduct research on structure, capacity, rate-capability, and stability of high-voltage nickel- and metal-oxide cathode materials; investigate phase, chemical, thermal, and microstructural stability of lithium-rich cathode active materials; study anode-free and lithium-metal anode materials and interfaces; investigate the initial plating and first cycle efficiency of anode-free and lithium-metal anode cells; conduct research on cylindrical cell designs for high power primary cells based on lithium-ion cathode materials optimized for power, thermal stability, and low temperature performance; study electrode-electrolyte interphase formation as well as its stability and electrochemical properties for electrolytes that promote enhanced safety; explore advanced computational chemistry methods that can be integrated with experimental efforts and data science methods to enable advanced battery and electrochemical materials discovery and analysis; characterize the kinetic and transport phenomena governing the electrochemical separation of critical battery materials in relevant electrolytic media.
FY 2027 funding increase reflects support development of next generation batteries.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 15.9 |
This activity is 51% of project AA6's FY2027 request and 7.4% of PE 0601102A's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
9 activities in project AA6
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.