The University of Illinois was awarded a $599,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research to push the boundaries of classical and quantum information processing toward enhanced security and energy-efficient reliability. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields to...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $330,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to support research related to hydrodynamics of collective phenomena and applications under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, issued June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research exploring major problems confronting the Nation through advancing the store of scientific knowledge...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $405,493 Project Grant to the University of Illinois to support research into the Mechanics of Fatigue in High to Medium Entropy Alloys from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under the grant, the University of Illinois will conduct research to improve understanding of the fatigue behavior of multi-principal element alloys (MEAs), also known as high to medium entropy alloys. MEAs have...
The University of Illinois was awarded a two-year, $249,538 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support the "LEAPS-MPS: ANALYTIC APPROACHES TO LIMIT THEOREMS AND RANDOM STRUCTURES" project conducted from September 2021 through August 2023. The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences...
The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year $541,824 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support spectroscopic and mechanistic studies of odd-electron palladium complexes being conducted from July 2021 through June 2024 at the University's campus in Urbana, Illinois. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals of advancing scientific knowledge...
The University of Illinois was awarded a two-year, $100,408 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "HYPERPOLARIZATION CATALYSTS FOR IN SITU MECHANISTIC STUDIES" under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, funding will allow researchers at the University...
The Illinois Institute of Technology was awarded a $404,776 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on characterization of materials using synchrotron and x-ray based tools. The award period is from March 15, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the...
The University of Illinois received a $135,532 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "EAGER: INTEGRATING FRACTURE NUCLEATION AND PROPAGATION INTO OPTIMIZATION: TOWARDS MATERIALS WITH OPTIMAL FRACTURE PROPERTIES." The two-year award beginning August 1, 2021 falls under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's CFDA #47.041 Engineering program, which supports innovation and excellence in...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $1,043,656 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Leveraging Main-Group Redox Catalysis for Enantioselective Alkene Difunctionalization" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2025. The grant aims to advance the University's research efforts in promoting progress in the mathematical and physical sciences through...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Illinois a $700,485 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop two-dimensional amorphous carbon materials with tunable atomic structures for use as a novel dielectric in electronic devices. Over a four-year period ending February 2026, the university will utilize a solution-based process to precisely control the thickness and degree of medium-range ordering in carbon monolayers and...