Cooperative Agreement W911NF1720080

This $300,001 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research will fund collaborative research between Princeton University and other institutions to understand polymer adsorption mechanisms and optimize nanocomposite material properties. Over three years, the researchers will employ fluorescence experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to probe how irreversibly adsorbed polymer layers form at interfaces in films and nanocomposites. They aim to establish...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $265,026 to Lafayette College to conduct research on the "Role of Crystallinity and Morphology in Degradation and Drug Release of PEO-b-PCL Films." The key objectives are to understand how the physical structure of the polymer material, including crystallinity and phase separation, impacts the controlled release of drug additives and the overall...

This $660,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Cornell University into block copolymer-based multicomponent self-assembly of porous nanostructures from non-equilibrium processes. Specifically, the grantee will study the formation of porous nanostructures using block copolymers and investigate asymmetric ultrafiltration membranes from chemically distinct block copolymers exposed to non-solvent-induced phase...

This three-year, $491,708 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of hybrid bonding polymers at Northwestern University. Researchers will integrate traditional covalent polymers with supramolecular polymers using small molecules as co-crystallized domains. This is intended to generate functional structures combining the mechanical benefits of polymer backbones and crystalline lattices at sites connected by...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry aims to develop novel polymeric materials based on segmented polar-polyolefin copolymers with complex architectures. Professors Eva Harth at the University of Houston and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on this 3-year effort, which seeks to advance energy storage materials and plastic upcycling capabilities. The key products and services to be delivered...

This $125,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to develop new materials processing strategies for flexible packaging films. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Amherst, in collaboration with the UMass Donahue Institute, will investigate melt-mastication and layer multiplying sonication techniques to create high-performance barrier films from single polyolefin types. This seeks to replace traditional...

This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on using liquid crystals as templates to guide the formation of novel polymeric nanostructures via chemical vapor polymerization. The research aims to expand the capabilities of chemical vapor polymerization to enable large-scale manufacturing of surface coatings with tailored nanoscopic structures, such as nanofiber arrays, interconnected nanosheets, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will establish a framework to advance the predictable and controlled self-assembly of multicomponent plastic semiconducting materials. The $1,000,000 award to North Carolina State University aims to expand polymer physics concepts and develop new descriptors to better understand and categorize the complex molecular structures and assembly processes of these advanced...

This $495,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program funds research to develop structurally programmable adhesives with actively modulated performance for specialized applications such as wearable electronics, biomedical devices, and soft robotics. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through its Office of Sponsored Research, will lead a 3-year effort to better understand how molecular brush architecture...

This $480,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports Professor Claridge of Purdue University in designing molecular building blocks that enable precise control over the surface chemistry of technologically important soft materials. The project focuses on developing a new approach to on-surface diacetylene polymerization reactions, creating building blocks that exhibit long-range...