The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $360,000 Project Grant to Georgetown University from December 2021 through November 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds research into integrated material design and processing approaches applied to recycled plastics. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering...
Northeastern University was awarded a $765,688 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: RHEOSTRUCTURALLY-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR GEOPOLYMER MATERIAL DESIGN. Through this funding, Northeastern University will deliver research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 to develop rheostructurally-informed neural networks for geopolymer material...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Georgetown University a $349,838 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant will support research into the effects of quantum confinement in photosensors made from transition metal dichalcogenides. As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the NSF Directorate for Engineering provides...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,596 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a framework for modeling the mechanical behavior of living building materials for structural applications from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. Specifically, the award will support research to develop a new multiscale cellular and granular material poroelastic formulation for a microbial precipitation-based living...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $612,379 supports research on the mechanics of soft, multiphase architected materials. The award recipient, Washington State University, will investigate the effects of solid-liquid phase interactions and geometric arrangement on the mechanical properties of these materials, which have potential applications in biomedical, healthcare, and soft robotics. The research aims to develop a nonlinear...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Georgetown University is for $275,000 over a 3-year period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027. The project aims to achieve energy-efficient skyrmion-based memory by creating, manipulating, and annihilating skyrmions (topological spin textures) in two-dimensional van der Waals magnets using magneto-ionic and ferroelectric control techniques. The research includes developing a magneto-ionic gate to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Northwestern University a $379,022 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on artificial intelligence-driven multi-scale design of materials under processing constraints. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $294,992 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports fundamental research to develop a symbolic artificial intelligence framework for automatically discovering physically interpretable constitutive laws of soft functional composites. The framework will incorporate general tensor functions, scalar and tensor-based operators, and statistical analysis for noisy...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $358,885 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ENGINEERING FRACTURE RESPONSE AND TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR IN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED, LAYERED CONCRETE MATERIALS." The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support research at Princeton University to study fracture properties and material transport within additively...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $559,998 awarded under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to understand and quantify seismic performance for the design of reinforced concrete structures using highly ductile fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs). Beginning August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2027, the awardee will integrate physical experimentation, computational modeling, and risk assessment to develop new...