The National Science Foundation awarded a $427,576 project grant to The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices Of The University Of Pennsylvania, to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROGRAMMING NON-LINEAR WAVES IN COMPLIANT MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS." The grant period runs from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The funding will allow the University of Pennsylvania researchers to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program project grant awarded to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, provides $654,278 in funding from May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2027 to support fundamental research on the microscale origins of ductile failure in engineering metals. The research aims to identify links between microstructural features in metals and their propensity for failure under real-world loading conditions, using a combination of...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a three-year $426,556 project grant from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: LEVERAGING FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS FOR EFFICIENT CONTROL IN GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The University will conduct collaborative research from November 2021 to October 2024 leveraging fluid-structure interactions to develop more efficient control technologies for...
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania received a $462,832 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to complete the project "Design, Synthesis, and Assembly of Composite Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers" by July 31, 2024. This award supports research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year Project Grant of $369,499 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from September 2021 through August 2024 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds research on interfacial freezing and shape transformations in surfactant/particle-co-stabilized emulsions. Specifically, the University of Pennsylvania will conduct experiments and analysis to improve understanding of freezing dynamics at fluid interfaces and how...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $289,495 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for improving the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. The research will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interactions between raw material properties, manufacturing processes, and process control to enable more integrated and...
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania was awarded a $251,438 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences on September 1, 2022 to complete the project by August 31, 2027. The grant supports research titled "CAREER: THE GEOMETRY OF FRACTALS MEETS FOURIER ANALYSIS" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on March 1, 2021 to support research under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund development of two-dimensional straintronic field effect transistor technology from March 2021 through February 2026 at Penn State's University Park campus. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education,...
The Pennsylvania State University received a five-year, $604,113 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAREER: PHOTONIC INTEGRATED GUIDED-WAVE-DRIVEN METASURFACES" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. This Project Grant will fund Penn State...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) award of $526,211 provides funding from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) for the development of a novel multimodal bioelectronic device to map and modulate neural circuit dynamics. The project aims to integrate advanced materials, designs, and fabrication methods to create an implantable interface capable of simultaneously monitoring electrophysiology, neurochemistry,...