The University of Utah received a two-year, $449,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support experimental characterization of microscopic properties of superconducting polyhydrides to develop a more realistic theoretical framework for warm superconductivity. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah from August 2021 through July 2023. The...
The University of Utah was awarded a $409,494 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research titled "MICROSTRUCTURE BY DESIGN: INTEGRATING GRAIN GROWTH EXPERIMENTS, DATA ANALYTICS, SIMULATION, AND THEORY" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in materials science through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant funds the EAGER: SUPER: LIGHT AND WARM SUPERCONDUCTING INTERFACES project. This project appears aimed at advancing understanding of major problems in superconductivity through research into light-induced effects at the interfaces of superconducting materials. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $375,801 Project Grant to the University of Utah to develop new synthetic routes and self-assembly strategies for fabricating large-area, defect-free 2D coordination polymers (2DCPs). This research, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to identify the kinetic bottlenecks leading to defect formation in 2DCPs and unlock their potential as topological materials for quantum...
This Project Grant award of $249,889 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Wyoming on developing and characterizing new types of superconducting materials with unique spin-symmetric pairing properties. The goal is to explore methods for stabilizing exotic spin-symmetric superconducting states, which could enable applications in spin transport, quantum memory, and topological quantum...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $230,111 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. This 3-year grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, supports two scientific research threads: (1) fundamental research on liquid crystals, their suspensions, and related applications; and (2) investigations of extreme wave phenomena in photonic devices, with a focus on epsilon near...
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 $299,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Texas at Austin for research titled "Stabilization of Warm and Light Superconductors at Low Pressures by Chemical Doping." The University will collaborate with researchers to conduct experiments stabilizing superconductors, which could transmit electricity without resistance at higher temperatures than currently possible, through...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research titled "EAGER: SUPER: ELECTROCHEMICAL PROTONATION TO ACHIEVE SUPERCONDUCTING MATTER" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The award is being used to fund research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
The University of Utah was awarded a $357,839 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on September 1, 2021. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and will support the "RANDOM POLYMER MEASURES" project through August 31, 2024. Under this award, the University of Utah will deliver products and services focused on advancing understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical...