Project Grant 2044688

Award Date 3/15/21
Completion Date 2/28/26
Dollars Obligated $500K
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Similar Awards
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports the development of a high-performance, low-cost chip-scale platform for medical imaging under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). MIT will leverage the funding to create a new medical imaging technology that integrates photonics, microfluidics, and electronics onto a single silicon chip. The...
This $375,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a fundamental understanding of the multi-functional response of three-dimensional (3D) woven architected nanocomposite sensors. The project aims to create highly deformable 3D-woven architected materials that can provide electrical responses based on the degree of deformation, enabling their use as sensitive and tunable sensors. The research will connect...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program grant, in the amount of $400,000, supports the development of a tissue-like, converged sensing platform for tracking excitation-contraction dynamics in cardiac organoids. The project aims to: Develop a scalable assembly strategy to fabricate an array of three-dimensional sensor structures using planar semiconducting graphene material, designed to detect both electrical and mechanical stimuli. Evaluate the multifunctional...
This $625,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award will support research at the University of Texas at Austin to advance the understanding of stretchable soft materials and their ability to generate electricity through mechanical deformations. The project aims to establish a multiscale framework to investigate how large strain gradients in polymer-based materials can induce electric polarization, with theoretical and...
This $175,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of multi-modal soft tissue characterization technologies for non-invasive breast imaging at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from April 2022 through March 2024. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the research aims to establish optimization algorithms and parameters for visualizing breast tissue cross-sections non-invasively using an integrated...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop an environmentally benign replacement for lead-containing piezoelectric transducers. The project aims to fabricate nano-structured silicon devices that can leverage a newly observed phenomenon, space charge induced flexoelectricity, to create high-performance transducers for sensing, actuation, and energy...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $609,605 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funds the CAREER: FINITE ELASTICITY OF MORPHING METAMATERIALS. THEORY AND APPLICATIONS project. This project will support the development of theoretical and applied research on finite elasticity of morphing metamaterials. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of scalable, high-precision optoelectronic lab-on-a-chip technologies towards next-generation precision therapeutics. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been awarded a 5-year, $487,873 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant to develop advanced label-free microscopy technologies for deep-tissue biological imaging. The project aims to create innovative fiber optic light sources, excitation methods, and algorithmic reconstruction techniques to enable label-free multiplex imaging that can visualize dynamic cellular processes within living tissue with...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of a novel non-surgical bioelectronic brain implant technology. The $599,918 award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aims to create intravenously-introduced bioelectronic devices that can autonomously implant in target brain regions without the need for invasive surgery. The proposed technology promises to enable high-resolution brain stimulation...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from March 2021 to February 2026 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041).

The grant funds the CAREER: CONFORMABLE PIEZOELECTRICS FOR SOFT TISSUE IMAGING project. The project aims to develop conformable piezoelectric materials and devices for soft tissue imaging applications. Piezoelectric materials can generate electric charges when subjected to mechanical stress, making them useful for ultrasonic imaging. The grant recipient will work to create piezoelectric materials that can conform to soft, irregularly shaped body tissues to improve imaging capabilities. Outcomes will include prototype conformable piezoelectric devices and demonstrations of their potential for medical imaging applications. The work supports the Engineering program's goal of fostering innovation in engineering research.

Generated 1/6/24, 11:42 AM