This federal contract award to Northwestern University, a private research institution, is for a grant to conduct research on freeze-casting, a novel materials processing technique, in microgravity environments. The $650,000 research grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has a period of performance through March 2025. The research aims to improve scientific understanding of freeze-casting, which has potential applications for in-situ resource utilization...
This is a $149,832.63 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution, for a project titled "Coarsening of Dendritic Solid-Liquid Mixtures: The Low Volume Fraction Limit". The grant funds research to study the coarsening process of two-phase systems with a distribution of spherical particles. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of this coarsening phenomenon, which has applications...
This federal contract award, NNX16AB54G, is a grant for $729,000.00 to Northeastern University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) "Integrated Computational & Experimental Studies of Complex Dendritic Microstructure Development" program, which aims to investigate microstructure formation in metallic alloys under microgravity conditions. The research leverages state-of-the-art...
This federal contract award, NNX16AI78A, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution, by a U.S. government civilian agency. The $198,608.39 cooperative agreement supports research to improve computational modeling of the freeze-casting process, an ice-templating technique for fabricating advanced materials. The work will utilize a CubeSat platform to obtain experimental data necessary for this purpose. The award also includes a training and mentoring plan to provide...
This is a $312,512 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University to conduct research on "Grain Boundary Engineering of Thermoelectrics for RTGs". The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. Northwestern University is the prime contractor and there is no mention of any subcontractors. This research grant is focused on developing advanced thermoelectric materials...
This is a $123,778 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution, to convert custom refractory metal into feedstock for additive manufacturing. The contract has a period of performance through March 17, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. Northwestern University has a strong track record of securing federal contracts and grants across various agencies, including NASA, the Department...
This is a $975,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northeastern University, a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is for the development of multiscale and multiphysics computational models to relate solidification processing conditions with alloy microstructures and properties. This work aims to accelerate the development of advanced aerospace materials, including those produced through additive manufacturing,...
This federal contract award, valued at $852,198.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a leading private research institution. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, and supports NASA's efforts to design and assemble crews for its Artemis missions to the Moon and ultimately, Mars. Northwestern University has a strong track record of securing and executing high-impact federal contracts and grants across...
This federal contract award, with ID NAG32474, was granted by the Glenn Research Center, a civilian agency within the U.S. government, to the prime contractor Northwestern University. The contract, valued at $1,254,453.00, is for a research grant titled "COARSENING IN SOLID-LIQUID MIXTURES-2 (CSLM-2)". The contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on January 31, 2002, with a completion date of July 26, 2007. Northwestern University, a private research university,...
This is a 3-year, $1,317,092.53 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private university in Evanston, Illinois. The grant is part of NASA's CREWS (Crew Recommender for Effective Work in Space) program and aims to: (1) identify the effects of team composition on team functioning in long-duration space exploration (LDSE) and the critical factors driving this effect, (2) identify patterns of this effect with different team...