Project Grant 2120947
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,049,994 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from January 2022 through December 2026 to develop solvent-free synthesis methods for creating polymeric nanostructures with targeted material properties. Leveraging its expertise in materials engineering and nanotechnology, Cornell University will work to advance environmentally-friendly and cost-effective production...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $305,498 project grant to Cornell University to research and develop low-dimensional chiral perovskites for circularly polarized light (CPL) detection. The 3-year project, commencing on November 1, 2025, aims to enhance the chirality, charge transport, and dynamic photoresponse of these materials to achieve highly selective, sensitive, and fast CPL photodetectors. This research could lead to transformative...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $322,617 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from May 2021 through April 2024 related to actuating and sensing objects on a free surface. Specifically, the funding will support collaborative research to develop techniques for controlling and monitoring the behavior of objects located on liquid surfaces without direct contact. By enabling new types of contactless...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $349,999 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from April 2021 through March 2024 related to the "Heaping of Sediments Under Fluctuating Pressure Gradients." As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the Engineering program supports innovation and excellence through funding scientific study of dynamic geophysical processes like sediment...
- This $371,708 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research at Cornell University to develop heuristic rules for enhancing the stability and kinetic accessibility of nanoparticle superlattices. The research aims to formulate and test molecular-simulation based heuristics to predict the correlation between nanoparticle interactions and their self-assembly into target superlattice structures, including for...
- This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on using liquid crystals as templates to guide the formation of novel polymeric nanostructures via chemical vapor polymerization. The research aims to expand the capabilities of chemical vapor polymerization to enable large-scale manufacturing of surface coatings with tailored nanoscopic structures, such as nanofiber arrays, interconnected nanosheets, and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $392,649 project grant to Cornell University on February 15, 2025. The grant supports research to design an approach for Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) that can manage multiple climate objectives by tuning the amount of forcing in different regions. This research aims to assess the climate impacts of MCB and its potential to be combined with Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention (SAI) to better reduce climate impacts....
- Cornell University received a $299,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research related to quantum manufacturing and enabling integrated quantum network nodes. Specifically, the university will conduct early-concept research to tackle the challenge of networking local quantum computers using integrated optical networks. Key activities include integrating materials needed for high-quality optical...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $636,910 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "CAREER: IN OPERANDO INVESTIGATION OF LASER POWDER-FED DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION: PROCESS PHYSICS, MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION, AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES." The five-year project beginning February 1, 2021 will investigate laser powder-fed directed energy deposition, a metal additive manufacturing technique. Specifically, Cornell University...
- Cornell University was awarded a $537,796 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of computational tools to revitalize the U.S. textile manufacturing workforce from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. As part of the grant, Cornell University will work to advance research and...
Cornell University was awarded a $337,635 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 to develop scalable nanomanufacturing techniques for earth-abundant electrochromic materials. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports projects like Cornell's that advance new nanoscale manufacturing processes with potential applications in energy technologies. Cornell will leverage its expertise in nanofabrication to deliver improved methods for producing electrochromic thin films from inexpensive raw materials. Outcomes from this research could enable more affordable electrochromic windows and displays.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $337.6k | 11/4/21 |