(October 24, 2024) The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy has announced a new program that will pioneer novel approaches to studying chemistry and materials using quantum computing. The Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program allocates $30 million to support the research and development of scalable, generalizable quantum computing approaches to computational chemistry and materials science which can lead to significant energy impact or reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Read the ARPA-E press release about QC3 here: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/press-releases/us-department-energy-announces-30-million-use-quantum-computing
View the full Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) here: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/#FoaId195cf4c7-1192-4435-8306-80c969ad5272