Project Grant 2134643
- The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, received a $384,439 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to upcycle consumer plastic waste into high-value graphitic carbons for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The research seeks to test the hypothesis that plastic waste can serve as a high-quality feedstock for graphene...
- The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, received a $405,000 three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on nanomanufacturing of emerging two-dimensional materials and devices. Through the award commencing June 1, 2023, Penn State will train ten undergraduate students per year via a ten-week summer research experience...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $534,324 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: LASER-INDUCED SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS FOR THE DIRECT-WRITE, MICROSCALE ADDITIVE PROCESSING OF METALS AND OXIDES." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the...
- Penn State University received a three-year, $568,745 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research titled "Functionally Graded Metallic Materials by Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing: Computational Design, Fabrication and Validation" from May 2021 through April 2024. The research aims to advance the computational...
- The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on March 1, 2021 to support research under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund development of two-dimensional straintronic field effect transistor technology from March 2021 through February 2026 at Penn State's University Park campus. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education,...
- The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) received a $520,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. This 3-year award will fund research to develop an understanding of the crystalline structures and chain conformations of ferroelectric polymers with chemical defects. The project aims to investigate how the defect-modified crystalline structure impacts the polarization, ferroelectric properties, and electrocaloric...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $289,495 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for improving the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. The research will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interactions between raw material properties, manufacturing processes, and process control to enable more integrated and...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a five-year, $556,586 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award funds a research project titled "CAREER: Consideration of Manufacturability in Early Stage Design for Additive Manufacturing" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA #47.041). The project aims to develop new design methodologies and tools to incorporate manufacturability considerations earlier in...
- This $368,899 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Penn State University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to develop thermally-driven catalytic decomposition of natural gas as a semi-continuous process through coupling with carbon regeneration reactions. Penn State researchers will conduct experiments on thermally-driven catalytic decomposition using synthetic natural gas mixtures to...
- The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, received a $330,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund Professor Jay Amicangelo's research to characterize the infrared spectra and study the kinetics of hydrogenated aromatic radicals - important chemical intermediates in processes like pyrolysis, combustion, and hydrogenation. Using...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on January 1, 2022 to support work under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support the Integration and Recycling of High Quality Ceramics and Composites Enabled by Scalable Cold Sintering Manufacturing project being conducted at Penn State's campus in State College, Pennsylvania through December 31, 2023. Specifically, the funding will enable research and development activities focused on advancing scalable cold sintering manufacturing techniques to integrate and recycle high-quality ceramics and composites in an environmentally sustainable manner. The project aims to foster innovation in engineering materials and manufacturing processes.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 8/10/21 |