The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The five-year award will support research titled "CAREER: STRUCTURE-EXPLOITING OPTIMIZATION FOR POWER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS TO LARGE-SCALE NETWORKS" from February 2021 through January 2026. The research focuses on developing optimization techniques to improve the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 project grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on September 15, 2022. The three-year award will support research to develop new plasmonic nanodevices for mid-infrared photodetection. Specifically, the university researchers will study multiphoton-assisted tunneling in nanoscale metal-insulator-metal structures as a potential mechanism for ultrafast, efficient, room-temperature mid-infrared...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $420,821 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The grant will fund the "RAPID AND ROBUST HIGH ORDER SPECTRAL SOLVERS FOR LEARNING PHOTONIC STRUCTURES" project being conducted from September 1, 2021 through August 31,...
This $149,459 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between the University of Illinois and other institutions on interactions between photoreactive two-dimensional nanomaterials and biofilms. The researchers will explore the effects of emerging graphitic carbon nitride and black phosphorus nanosheets on biofilms that play an important environmental role. As photoreactive nanomaterials can produce oxidative species or...
The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year, $355,159 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research to uncover the self-sustaining cycle in the outer region of turbulent boundary layers. The University of Illinois will conduct the research from June 2021 through May 2024 in Urbana, Illinois. The goal of the NSF Engineering...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $415,098 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from February 2022 to January 2027 related to climate-driven risks to the urban environment through hybrid modeling and adaptation strategies. Specifically, the University of Illinois will utilize hybrid modeling approaches to better understand climate change impacts on urban areas and identify strategies for...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant falls under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund the CAREER project "Risk-Sensitive Market Design for Power Systems: Scalable Learning and Pricing" from February 2021 through January 2026. The project aims to develop scalable algorithms for learning and pricing in power systems to account for risk factors...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $320,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLEXIBLE BIOSENSOR ENABLING LABEL-FREE SPATIAL MAPPING OF INTRA-ORGANOID FUNCTIONS." The grant period runs from February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The funding supports the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through...
The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to develop spatially encoded hard-soft colloidal nanomaterials. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Funds will support the University's work to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "CAREER: COMMUTATED-LC CIRCUITS FOR NEXT-GENERATION RF-DOMAIN SIGNAL PROCESSING" from February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2026. The grant will support the development of commutated-LC circuits to advance radio frequency domain signal processing capabilities, in line with the program's goal of fostering innovation...