Lehigh University received a $398,806 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF SUSTAINABLE HYDROGENATION SYSTEMS VIA A NOVEL COMBINATION OF DATA SCIENCE, OPTIMIZATION, AND AB INITIO METHODS." The award is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under the award, Lehigh...
Lehigh University received a $499,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on May 1, 2021 for work concluding on April 30, 2024. The grant funds research to molecularly design solid acid catalysts for upgrading shale gas ethylene to butenes. This work supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) administered by NSF, which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
Lehigh University received a $185,424 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The award will support the development of a computational framework and software suite for high-fidelity simulation of multi-material flows involving multiple interacting fluids and structures. Key deliverables include an embedded boundary method capable of performing...
Lehigh University was awarded a $769,298 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences on July 15, 2021 to complete work by June 30, 2024. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems. Through this funding, Lehigh University will conduct molecular...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Princeton University a $347,715 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on Chemical Reactions and Chemically-Driven Transport in Channels and Porous Media. This three-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will fund Princeton University's research examining chemical processes and transport phenomena in confined and porous spaces,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $459,461 to Lehigh University to conduct research on artificial microswimmers modeled after microorganisms for potential biomedical applications such as minimally invasive surgery and targeted drug delivery. The 5-year project, commencing on December 1, 2024, aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the emergent behavior in finite microswimmer clusters in Newtonian and complex...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded Lehigh University a $226,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "KINETIC EQUATIONS IN BOUNDED DOMAINS" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. This three-year grant will fund research exploring kinetic equations in bounded domains to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences. The Mathematical and Physical...
Lehigh University received a $389,917 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2025. The grant supports the collaborative research project "MICROSTRUCTURE BY DESIGN: INTEGRATING GRAIN GROWTH EXPERIMENTS, DATA ANALYTICS, SIMULATION, AND THEORY" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded New York University a $453,103 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 on the mechanism and utility of laser-induced nucleation using microfluidics. The Engineering program supports innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research and education to improve quality of...
This $399,998 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Lehigh University from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The university will investigate molecular structure-activity relationships of mixed oxide catalysts for converting ethane to ethylene via oxidative dehydrogenation. Researchers will employ in situ and operando spectroscopy, transient kinetics analysis, and theoretical modeling to determine surface...