The Georgia Tech Research Corporation was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The three-year award, running from July 2021 through June 2024, will support research into side-chain driven assembly of polymer semiconductors. The grantee will leverage...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $262,500 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) for the "DMREF/Collaborative Research: Active Learning-based Material Discovery for 3D Printed Solids with Locally-Tunable Electrical and Mechanical Properties" project. This multi-disciplinary effort aims to establish an active learning approach to rapidly...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research on the assembly and organization of novel branched ionic polymers. The $640,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028, funds Georgia Tech Research Corporation's efforts to study the formation of chiral helical nanostructures and stacked organic-inorganic heterostructures using these materials. Key objectives include leveraging ionic...
This $388,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems subjected to low-energy light excitation at Georgia State University from August 2022 to July 2025. The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge in these fields. Specifically, the university will experimentally examine the magnetoelectronic...
This $380,824 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research between Georgia Southern University and the University of Texas at Austin. The research aims to utilize a closed-loop cycle of biological and materials design to create novel bio-based thermoset materials derived from microbial triglycerides. The work will integrate machine learning with materials...
This $285,435 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort between Georgia Southern University and the University of Texas at Austin. The project aims to utilize an integrated set of biological and materials design cycles to develop novel, sustainable bio-based thermoset materials derived from microbial-produced triglycerides. Key objectives include high-throughput monomer...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia TECH Research Corporation, also known as the Office of Sponsored Programs, for the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027. The grant aims to develop a framework to expand polymer physics concepts and enable the predictable and controlled self-assembly of multi-component plastic semiconducting inks that can lead to targeted device...
This $340,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research on polymer nanocomposites. The key objectives are to: (1) elucidate how the charge density of polymer brushes affects the dispersion of nanoparticles in polyelectrolyte matrices, (2) investigate the infiltration kinetics of polar polymers into bicontinuous scaffolds, and (3)...
This federal Project Grant award for $468,983, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to enhance the efficiency of n-type doping in organic semiconductor materials. The principal investigator at Georgia Tech Research Corporation will combine synthetic strategies for new organic semiconductors with the selection of n-type dopant-catalyst pairs to optimize the doping process. This research is expected to result...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a $545,613 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from August 2021 through July 2024 on optical bound states and non-linearity in geometrically-modulated dielectric nanowires. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields...