The University of Tennessee received a $285,243 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research on sloshing liquid decontamination of compliant surfaces. The primary objective is to provide a deep understanding of how surface motion impacts the movement and ejection of liquid contaminants, especially for flexible surfaces like those found on flapping-wing robots. This tightly integrated experimental,...
The University of Tennessee was awarded a $948,034 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support development of a nonlinear model reduction framework and associated data-driven inference strategies for oscillatory systems from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2027. The framework aims to improve understanding and analysis of oscillatory dynamics through...
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received a five-year, $542,220 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 funds research from September 2021 through August 2026 to control additive manufacturing geometries and conduct combustion analysis of solid rocket fuel grains. As part of NSF's mission to advance engineering research and education, this project...
The University of Tennessee received a $457,671 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTROLLING THE MICROSTRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LARGE-SCALE POLYMER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES MADE BY BIG AREA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING." The award is part of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering research and education. Under this three-year project...
The University of Tennessee was awarded a $499,500 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "Unraveling Mechanisms of Strongly Correlated Dynamics in Ionic Systems" from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. 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 University will investigate major problems in ionic...
The University of Tennessee received a $400,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "Computationally Driven Design of Synthetic Tissue-Like Multifunctional Materials." The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The project aims to advance the design of synthetic materials that mimic the structure and functions of natural tissues through computational...
The University of Tennessee received a three-year $365,910 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research to characterize and optimize nanoparticle systems functionalized with N-heterocyclic carbenes. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in nanoscience and materials chemistry through increasing the store of scientific knowledge on...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $752,674 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funds research to create bio-based peptides and determine their mechanisms as ice recrystallization inhibitors. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in core disciplines, consistent with the scope of this research. The...
The University of Tennessee received a $367,450 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on July 15, 2021 to support work on "APPROXIMATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NONSMOOTH, NONLINEAR, AND NONLOCAL EQUATIONS" through June 30, 2024. The award is being used to fund research activities aligned with the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and...
The University of Tennessee received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 1, 2021 to fund research titled "SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF MOLECULAR QUANTUM MATERIALS. PROBING SPIN-PHONON COUPLINGS AND INTERMOLECULAR MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS." The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the nation's research...