Cornell University was awarded a $337,635 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 to develop scalable nanomanufacturing techniques for earth-abundant electrochromic materials. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports projects like Cornell's that advance new nanoscale manufacturing processes...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $600,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the development of user-friendly controlled cationic polymerizations under ambient conditions from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The grant funding will enable Cornell researchers to advance scientific understanding of major problems in polymer chemistry by developing new techniques for ambient temperature synthesis of cationic...
This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on using liquid crystals as templates to guide the formation of novel polymeric nanostructures via chemical vapor polymerization. The research aims to expand the capabilities of chemical vapor polymerization to enable large-scale manufacturing of surface coatings with tailored nanoscopic structures, such as nanofiber arrays, interconnected nanosheets, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $322,617 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from May 2021 through April 2024 related to actuating and sensing objects on a free surface. Specifically, the funding will support collaborative research to develop techniques for controlling and monitoring the behavior of objects located on liquid surfaces without direct contact. By enabling new types of contactless...
This $371,708 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research at Cornell University to develop heuristic rules for enhancing the stability and kinetic accessibility of nanoparticle superlattices. The research aims to formulate and test molecular-simulation based heuristics to predict the correlation between nanoparticle interactions and their self-assembly into target superlattice structures, including for...
Cornell University was awarded a $329,815 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from June 2021 through May 2024 to advance "Mesophase Engineering through Coarse-to-Fine Grained Modeling." As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems,...
Cornell University was awarded a $450,656 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research into the hydrofunctionalization of alkenes through non-redox paired electrocatalysis from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The funding will allow Cornell University's Office of Sponsored Programs to advance scientific understanding of major problems in...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $349,999 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from April 2021 through March 2024 related to the "Heaping of Sediments Under Fluctuating Pressure Gradients." As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the Engineering program supports innovation and excellence through funding scientific study of dynamic geophysical processes like sediment...
Cornell University was awarded a $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research to enhance the reactivity and photoreactivity of metal oxide surfaces through fluorination. The goal of this research is to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems....
This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Cornell University from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026. The grant funds development of a novel paradigm for scalable, continuous manufacturing of programmable polymer nanoparticles using low-temperature initiated chemical vapor deposition guided by artificial intelligence. Researchers will advance fundamental principles for reproducible production...