The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, received a three-year $420,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct collaborative research on deformation mechanisms in microstructurally tailored high strength alloys. The grant aims to develop a fundamental understanding of rate-limiting dislocation nucleation and propagation mechanisms to enable metallic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $149,999 EAGER/Collaborative Research grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant, under CFDA Program 47.041 Engineering, supports research at the intersection of structural mechanics and network theory. The project aims to develop a network-theoretic framework to study "switching structures" - load-bearing systems made of bars...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $381,375 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support research titled "Microscale Concave Interfaces for Structural Reflective Coloration" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Sponsored Projects Services, will utilize the funding to develop microscale concave interfaces for achieving structural reflective...
The Research Foundation For The State University of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, received a $417,872 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research in quasiconformal analysis, optimal triangulations, and fractal geometry from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. Through this award, RF SUNY will develop algorithms to compute optimal angle bounds and practical triangulations for...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides $334,027 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from February 2021 through January 2024. The funding supports research into self-adaptive electromechanical metamaterials under the NSF's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The goal of this program is to improve engineering research and education to foster innovation and strengthen the national economy. Specifically, the award will allow research into...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering grant (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at Montana Technological University to develop a new class of shape-changing materials that respond to alternating magnetic fields. The $199,927 project, titled "ERI: Harnessing Chaotic Dynamics for Remote Morphing of Magnetic Metamaterials," aims to establish a framework for controlled, energy-efficient shape transformations in soft magnetic spherical multistable mechanical metamaterials. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $503,167 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) for the project titled "CAREER: EFFECTIVE CONTINUUM MODELING OF MECHANISM-BASED METAMATERIALS". Under this 5-year award, effective from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028, USC will conduct fundamental research to develop modeling tools for predicting the mechanical behavior of morphing metamaterials. Metamaterials...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, was awarded a $335,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research titled "CAREER: FLAT SINGULAR OPTICS: GENERATION AND DETECTION OF OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS WITH PLASMONIC METASURFACES IN LINEAR AND NONLINEAR REGIMES" under the NSF's Engineering (ENG) program (CFDA #47.041). The two-year project period, which began on October 1, 2021 and ends...
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) received a $244,203 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to advance fundamental understanding of thermal drawing for manufacturing multifunctional composite fibers. RF SUNY will conduct research from May 2023 to August 2025 to elucidate failure mechanisms during thermal drawing of composite fibers containing nanostructured carbon electrodes and polymer electrolytes....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $223,232 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The funding supports collaborative research at the intersection of geotechnical engineering and structural mechanics, with the goal of realizing flexible burrowing probes for...