Project Grant 2055529
- The University of Tennessee received a $400,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "Computationally Driven Design of Synthetic Tissue-Like Multifunctional Materials." The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The project aims to advance the design of synthetic materials that mimic the structure and functions of natural tissues through computational...
- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received a five-year, $542,220 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award funds research from September 2021 through August 2026 to control additive manufacturing geometries and conduct combustion analysis of solid rocket fuel grains. As part of NSF's mission to advance engineering research and education, this project...
- This five-year, $526,186 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund fundamental research on wire arc additive manufacturing of molybdenum alloys for high-temperature applications at Tennessee Technological University. The university will explore process-induced residual stresses and pore formation in molybdenum alloy structures fabricated via wire arc additive...
- The University of Tennessee was awarded a $531,823 project grant from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant supports the project "CAS: MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF EFFICIENT COMPATIBILIZERS IN POLYMER RECYCLING" under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The University will conduct research to engineer efficient compatibilizers for polymer recycling. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,997 Project Grant to the University of Texas at El Paso through the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund the "BRITE RELAUNCH: Realizing the Benefits of Additive Manufacturing for the Microstructural Control of Polymer Material Systems" project from January 15, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The project aims to advance additive manufacturing-enabled microstructural control of polymers to enable shape memory and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $200,627 project grant to the Florida Institute of Technology Inc. (Florida TECH), a private university and non-profit organization, to conduct research on understanding fracture mechanics in additively manufactured functionally graded microcellular solids. The objectives of this 3-year research project are to: (1) demonstrate the production of different microcellular structures using additive...
- The University of Tennessee received a three-year, $432,200 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research tuning liquid jet and splash dynamics by deformable and heterogeneous boundaries from September 2021 through December 2024. The work will advance understanding of complex multiphase flows important to applications such as 3D...
- The University of Tennessee at Tullahoma was awarded a $383,621 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research characterization and simulation of dispersive elastodynamic media in the time domain. This award, made on January 15, 2022 under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program, will support research through December 31, 2025 focused on improving understanding of the behavior of materials that...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $129,552 to the University of Tennessee to conduct collaborative research on directed assembly of nanoparticles and polymers via co-crystallization. The primary objectives are to: 1) understand the co-crystallization process of polymers and nanoparticles; 2) control the structure of nanoparticle crystalsomes formed through co-crystallization; and 3) tune nanoparticle crystalsomes...
- The University of Tennessee was awarded a $434,669 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support the development of programmable laser-assisted synthesis instrumentation for large-scale machine learning-driven nanomanufacturing of composite energetic nanomaterials (ENMs) with tunable interfacial activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA #12.800). Through April 2024, the University will utilize the funding to...
The University of Tennessee received a $457,671 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTROLLING THE MICROSTRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LARGE-SCALE POLYMER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES MADE BY BIG AREA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING." The award is part of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering research and education. Under this three-year project grant concluding in February 2024, the University of Tennessee will conduct research focused on controlling the microstructure of large polymer composite structures produced using big area additive manufacturing techniques. The goal is to develop an improved understanding of how to enhance the mechanical properties of such structures. The funding will support University of Tennessee's research efforts in this area through February 2024.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/21/21 | ||
| Not listed | $457.7k | 2/19/21 |