Project Grant 2104902
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $425,174 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023 with a completion date of August 31, 2026, funds RPI's research project titled "Chiral Strain Engineering of Polar Semiconductors." The project aims to utilize elastic strain to transform non-chiral semiconductors into chiral phases that possess topological chiral...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) received a $304,084 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2022. The award supports RPI's acquisition of a single crystal x-ray diffractometer for research, education, and regional use under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. The grant period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024. Under this award, RPI will conduct research on "LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS WITH SPIN-RESOLVED AND TWISTED INFRARED PHOTONS." The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) received a three-year $129,939 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research between RPI and other institutions to compare computer simulations of gas clouds falling into a galaxy with new observations of clouds near the Milky Way galaxy. The goal is to determine if the clouds grow as fuel for star...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) received a $399,470 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study nucleation and growth dynamics of lithium dendrites in solid electrolytes from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The award will support RPI researchers in probing nucleation and growth pathways of lithium dendrites formed in solid electrolytes using advanced ceramic...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $352,903 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering (47.041) program to develop a new theoretical and simulation approach for understanding the packing structures of soft, self-adjusting objects. Through this three-year award ending June 2026, RPI will use coarse-grained computer modeling to test the hypothesis that packing structures are determined more by particle surface area than volume fraction. The models will...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable persistent...
- The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a Project Grant in the amount of $788,474.00 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on June 1, 2025. The grant funds "QUASI-DIFFERENTIAL EXPERIMENTS FOR VALIDATION OF NEUTRON SCATTERING EVALUATIONS FOR MATERIALS USED IN FUSION SYSTEMS", with a period of performance through May 31, 2026. As a leading research university specializing in STEM disciplines, RPI will...
- The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $120,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Army Research Office under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The 3-year grant, effective January 21, 2025, supports RPI's research on "Sample-Efficient Image Classification and Object Detection with Provable Guarantees." This fundamental research aims to advance scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in areas critical to national security, such as artificial...
- This Project Grant award of $292,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on "DISORDER, QUASIPERIODICITY, AND STRONG CORRELATIONS IN 2D MATERIALS AND TOPOLOGICAL INTERFACES." The research aims to theoretically and computationally address fundamental questions raised by recent experimental advancements in two-dimensional materials, which can exhibit remarkable tunability and emergent properties. Key...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $281,321 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct collaborative research on correlated states in twisted hetero-bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides. The award was made under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields and strengthens the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Over a three-year period from June 2021 through May 2024, RPI researchers will work to advance understanding of major problems in condensed matter physics by investigating electron correlations in twisted van der Waals heterostructures, with a focus on transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers. The grant will support RPI's research efforts toward elucidating new quantum phases of matter through this collaborative work.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/21/21 | ||
| Not listed | $281.3k | 4/5/21 |