The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $131,364 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The grant funded research from October 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022 to develop corrugated graphene superlattice structures through strain-induced shrink nanomanufacturing techniques. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,865 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The award will support collaborative research between October 1, 2022 and August 31, 2024 to understand the interactions of novel synthetic models of environmental nanoparticles with microalgae at the single-cell level. Specifically, the researchers will develop polymer-coated nanocrystals with non-spherical...
This $475,000 federal Project Grant award, issued by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to enable the creation of solid-state nanopore systems with fluctuating pore openings. The University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) is the primary awardee, responsible for designing nanopore structures using precision-tuned silicon nitride, gold, and silica layers. The researchers will attach DNA and proteins to the gold layer to dynamically control the pore...
The University of California Irvine received a $670,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will support research into the "Dynamics and Perceptions of Ultrahazardous Flooding Across the Wildland Urban Interface" from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant funding will enable UC Irvine researchers to study how flooding risks are understood...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will support research on electrochemical technologies for a carbon-free economy from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Specifically, the University will conduct research at its Irvine, California location to develop electrochemical...
This $1.3 million National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), funds research at the University of California Irvine toward developing geomimetic concrete materials through 2027. Led by Dr. [Vendor Name], the research aims to fundamentally understand chemical reactions at fluid-solid interfaces, leveraging insights to design carbon-negative concrete alternatives. Ordinary Portland cement production contributes significantly to global carbon...
The University of California Irvine received a $250,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund research to discover precipitation pathways in reactive magnesium oxide cements via nanoscale interfacial engineering. This research aims to develop durable structural composites through understanding cement reactions at the nanoscale level. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $335,976 Project Grant under the Engineering CFDA Program (47.041) to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) for a 3-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. This grant will fund research to investigate the dynamics of particulate suspensions confined by flexible elastic membranes, which are common in biological micro-scale environments. The project aims to develop a fundamental understanding of the...
This $149,459 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between the University of Illinois and other institutions on interactions between photoreactive two-dimensional nanomaterials and biofilms. The researchers will explore the effects of emerging graphitic carbon nitride and black phosphorus nanosheets on biofilms that play an important environmental role. As photoreactive nanomaterials can produce oxidative species or...
This three-year, $499,998 National Science Foundation project grant funds research into mechanosensitive ion transport through hexagonal boron nitride nanopores. Awarded September 1, 2021 under the Engineering program of the NSF Directorate for Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, the grant supports work at the University of California, Merced to investigate ion channel behavior at the nanoscale. A sub-award of $200,000 per year to the University of California,...