Cooperative Agreement W911NF1820205

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,804 Project Grant on Jul 22, 2024 to Ceramic Tubular Products LLC, a for-profit limited liability company in Lynchburg, Virginia. The grant supports the "Development of a High Thermal Conductivity SiC Cladding Using a Method for Predicting Tubular Thermal Properties" under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This research aims to advance innovative ceramic and composite materials for...

This $599,998 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) supports research at Boise State University and Purdue University to understand how irradiation induces unusual amorphous-to-crystalline phase transformations in structural ceramics and their associated mechanical resilience. The primary work under this 3-year award involves molecular dynamics simulations at Purdue to model the crystalline phase nucleation process and internal...

This $603,512 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel additive manufacturing techniques for complex structural ceramics. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award to the University of Iowa aims to mature a powder bed ceramic additive manufacturing process assisted by water-based inks, layerwise uniaxial compression, and temperate heating for selective particle fusion. By employing selectively deposited water-based inks followed by...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $200,000.00 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to support basic research on the design and characterization of microstructured media for protection against extreme loadings. The award will fund foundational and applied research to develop advanced materials and computational modeling capabilities with potential military applications. The University...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,915 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Alternative Energy Materials, LLC, a small for-profit limited liability company based in Pullman, Washington. The grant, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports the development of a novel dry powder pressing additive manufacturing technique for fabricating multifunctional ceramic monoliths with internal flow structures....

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $335,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York to conduct collaborative research on developing tough and 3D-printable ceramic nanocomposites. The research aims to overcome the intrinsic fragility of ceramic materials by introducing small quantities of boron nitride nanotubes into polymer-derived ceramics. This work will enable the development of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award of $400,000, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: TOPOLOGICALLY DESIGNED AND RESILIENT ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS," aims to develop a new method to simultaneously improve both the low temperature and high temperature properties of ultra-high temperature ceramic materials. The project will utilize a combination of computational tools, including first principles and machine learning, integrated with experimental methods...

This $616,537 award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a project led by Lehigh University to investigate the solid-state synthesis of novel entropy-stabilized ceramic materials. The key objectives are to: 1) elucidate the reaction mechanisms and material transport processes governing the formation of these advanced ceramics; 2) understand the role of induced elastic deformation in the reaction kinetics; and 3) characterize the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $322,809 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct collaborative research on designing and manufacturing ultrahigh temperature ceramics. The overarching goal is to develop ceramics with improved toughness and deformation resistance at both low and high temperatures, enabling their use in extreme environment applications like hypersonic flight,...

Summary Arizona State University received a $250,000 cooperative agreement from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2027. This award supports innovative research into nanoporous metal foam (NMF) technology, specifically the development of a new class of flowable spherical micron-sized NMF powders (SM-NMF) designed to form and...