This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $280,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award supports computational and theoretical research at New York University (NYU) aimed at efficiently sampling complex energy landscapes, predicting nonequilibrium entropies, and predicting the structure of novel inorganic crystals. The research objectives are to elucidate the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $450,000 in funding to New York University to design gel materials with controlled mechanical and optical properties. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: Developing new computational simulation methods and open-source software to design colloidal gel networks with tunable characteristics. The project will advance strategies to modularly control the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $492,284 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 to study acoustic forces and active fluctuations in levitated granular matter. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems in mathematical and physical...
This $142,013 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049) supports research conducted by New York University (NYU) on the development of new mathematical methods for analyzing complex physical systems with behaviors across multiple length scales. The primary goals of this 3-year project are to: 1) improve quantitative homogenization theory to better account for key parameters and allow for more flexible...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,999 project grant to the National Academy of Sciences to support research activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the design of novel materials with the goal of advancing technologies through March 2022. Key deliverables include utilizing engineering principles to develop materials that can revolutionize future applications in accordance with the program's objective to strengthen the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $298,911 Project Grant to New York University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on water-responsive, shape-shifting supramolecular protein assemblies. Over a three-year period from August 2023 to July 2026, NYU will work with professors from New York University, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, and CUNY City College to develop protein polymers that can respond to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $264,300 Project Grant to Northwestern University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026. This grant funds collaborative research to investigate how the geometry and patterned heterogeneity of soft polymer gel materials influence their failure mode and mechanical performance. The researchers will use experimental and computational techniques, including photoelastic imaging and extended...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $475,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The funding will support the university's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: PROGRAMMABLE DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND FORENSICS OF SOFT MATERIALS" project over a 4-year period from October 2023 to September 2027. The research aims to develop a foundation for programmable materials design, synthesis, and analysis,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded New York University a $282,883 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research titled "CHARGE TRANSPORT IN HELICOIDAL MOLECULAR CRYSTALS" from February 1, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The grant aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research and education in the fields of computational materials science and soft matter engineering. The $337,337 award to Cornell University aims to predict how polyphilic molecules can assemble into solid-like and liquid-like domains, allowing the material to both absorb large strains and self-heal. The project will use molecular dynamics simulations to...