The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,986 Project Grant to Arieca Inc. under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2022. The grant funds research to develop a liquid metal-elastomer composite for electromagnetic shielding. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award supports those goals by funding...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Taumat LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The grant aims to establish a new approach to high-performance central processing unit (CPU) thermal management by developing and applying innovative solid-state thermal energy storage (TES) materials and hardware. The project objectives are to: 1)...
This Project Grant award, granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), provides $550,000 in funding to Carnegie Mellon University for the development of high-performance, nanostructured thermal pads to enhance heat dissipation in electronics. The key products or services to be delivered under this award include scalable and cost-effective manufacturing strategies to mass produce the nanostructured thermal pads,...
This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of thermoformable technical ceramics for thermal management solutions. The award recipient, Fourier LLC, aims to address key technical challenges in manufacturing scalable, three-dimensional thermoformable ceramic parts that can effectively conduct heat while remaining electrically insulative. This innovation has...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $550,000 to William Marsh Rice University to develop advanced thermal packaging materials for the semiconductor industry. The project aims to create enhanced hexagonal boron nitride (HBN)-enabled molding compound materials with improved thermal conductivity, reliability, and thermal expansion characteristics. This is intended to address thermal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $999,561 Cooperative Agreement under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Apogee Semiconductor, Inc. to develop a cost-effective and reduced-size packaging solution for space-grade and high-reliability integrated circuits. The project aims to redesign the redistribution layer within wafer-level chip-scale packaging (WLCSP) to improve reliability under the extreme temperature cycling experienced in space...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to Gelastomerics LLC to conduct R&D activities to develop a new hydrogel elastomer technology. The goal is to create an intrinsically lubricious elastomer material that can serve as a versatile, drop-in alternative for use in medical device components, particularly intravascular catheters. The new technology aims to eliminate the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,830.98 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Laser Thermal Analysis, Inc. The purpose of this award is for the company to build a hybrid atomic force microscopy-thermoreflectance (AFM-TR) instrument capable of generating high-resolution thermal resistance, thermal boundary interface resistance, and temperature profile maps of microprocessors and wide bandgap semiconductor...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), is focused on refining and optimizing a temperature control and insulation system that leverages thermoelectric coolers and a vacuum flask. The key innovation is decoupling the thermoelectric coolers from the cooled payload to minimize energy use while maintaining precise temperature control. The $998,527 project, awarded to Insu...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research to enable scalable manufacturing of high-resolution, liquid metal-based stretchable electronics. The $546,713 award to the University of Southern California aims to develop a novel approach combining colloidal self-assembly, surface functionalization, and micro-transfer printing to pattern gallium-based liquid metals on stretchable substrates....