This federal Project Grant award of $375,299, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports research to advance the understanding of nanostructure, ion affinity, and mobility in polymer membranes. The research aims to enable the design of improved polymer membranes for sustainable applications such as reverse osmosis water purification, chemical flow batteries, and lithium recovery....
Vanderbilt University was awarded a $336,065 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research from June 2021 to May 2024 on geometric methods for singular solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in core areas of mathematics and physics. This project aligns with...
The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $133,214 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research on trace methods and applications for cut-and-paste K-theory from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields through support of basic research and related activities. Under this award,...
This $210,335 NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award to Drexel University supports the development of a new computational method to accelerate the design of new polymeric materials. The project aims to create a simulation technique that can simultaneously resolve both monomer-level chemistry and mesoscopic length scales within polymeric materials. This has the potential to significantly speed up the development of new polymers for diverse applications like...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $412,422 Project Grant to The University Corporation from June 2021 through May 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research on developing new theory and methods for implicit molecular solvation in ligand and ion binding. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in core disciplines, consistent with the scope of this award to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $362,099 Project Grant to the University of South Carolina (USC) under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program. The funding supports research by Dr. Sheryl L. Wiskur of the USC Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to develop polymers that can be used in organic reactions to improve the sustainability of chemical processes. The goal is to understand how the microenvironment of...
The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $455,235 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to understand colloidal dynamics under electrodiffusiophoresis. The research aims to uncover the physics governing individual and collective charged colloid motions when subjected to simultaneous gradients of electrical potential and concentration. The university will measure particle forces, perform transport analysis for mechanistic insights, and...
Vanderbilt University was awarded a $497,806 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024 on "DYNAMIC MOLECULAR SWITCHING FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY ADAPTIVE SURFACES." The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $361,129 to Princeton University from January 2023 through December 2027. The funding will support the development of predictive tools to facilitate the understanding and design of stimuli-responsive polymers through multiscale molecular modeling and machine learning techniques. Specifically, the principal investigator will work to...
This $290,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at Michigan State University on singular-enthalpic limits in polymer morphology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to develop and analyze models of the entropic and enthalpic interactions between diblock polymers in suspensions, to better understand the role of polymer substructure in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,655,906 project grant to Vanderbilt University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "COMPUTATIONAL DISCOVERY OF POLYMERIC MEMBRANES FOR DEHYDRATION OF POLAR SOLVENTS." Over a four-year period from October 2021 to September 2025, Vanderbilt University will utilize the funding to conduct computational research discovering new polymeric membrane materials optimized for dehydrating polar solvents. As the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing fundamental knowledge in major problem areas, this award will further the program's goals by supporting computational discovery of advanced membrane technologies with applications in solvent purification and other chemical processes.