The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support research titled "Stabilization of Warm and Light Superconductors at Low Pressures by Chemical Doping." The grant is funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Through this two-year award ending July 2023, the grantee will...
This $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and education to examine superconductivity in the strong coupling regime. The principal investigator and graduate students will focus on several fundamental issues related to quantum-critical metals, including understanding the competition between fermionic incoherence and Cooper pairing, the emergence of dynamical vortices, and the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research into developing carbon-based superconductors stable at ambient temperature and pressure. The two-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will fund University of Illinois researchers to advance scientific understanding and discovery of major materials challenges, with the goal of progressing carbon superconductor...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $900,000 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research to accelerate the discovery of artificial multiferoic materials with enhanced magnetoelectric coupling. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing fundamental knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania Clinical Practices Of The University Of Pennsylvania to support research titled "EAGER: SUPER: LIGHT-INDUCED ROOM-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AT LIGHT PRESSURE" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant is funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these...
This $232,553 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research at the University of Houston focused on developing superconductor nanocomposites with enhanced performance for commercial applications. The key objectives are to: Investigate the growth mechanism of artificial pinning centers (APCs) in high-temperature superconductor (HTS)...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $561,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on November 15, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the university will conduct research to modulate metalloprotein activities through fine-tuning reduction...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $245,906 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant supports research on the nonequilibrium dynamics of spin-correlated excitons in semiconducting van der Waals magnets. The project aims to gain a profound understanding of these exotic particles, explore their microscopic interactions, and develop methods to enhance their coherence over macroscopic...
This $499,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Arizona State University's Division (doing business as Orspa) is funding a collaborative research project to accelerate the discovery of new superconducting materials. The research team, which includes experts in materials synthesis, local probes, and computation, aims to exploit the characteristics of known copper- and iron-based superconductors to design and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $800,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research to transform photonics and electronics through the development of digital alloy materials. The University of Texas at Austin will leverage the award over four years to advance scientific understanding and progress in major problems related to...