The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The project aims to develop "smart windows" with the ability to separately control solar heat gain and daylighting on-demand, using low-cost solution-based coatings of niobium oxide nanocrystals on glass and plastic. Key goals include overcoming technical barriers to enable stable, fast-switching...
The University of Colorado Boulder was awarded a two-year, $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop energy-efficient smart-privacy windows made of dynamic crystals under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The University aims to foster innovation in engineering research and education through this funding by supporting the development of windows that use dynamic crystals to automatically adjust transparency based on lighting conditions for energy...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) provides $945,926 to Norfolk State University (NSU) and Jackson State University (JSU) to design and fabricate tunable hybrid nanostructures for photonic materials research. The project aims to achieve precise control of light-matter interactions in nanoscale environments, enabling the development of novel photonic technologies. Key activities include experimental studies and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Techstyle Materials Inc. (doing business as Adept Materials) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The grant will fund the development of multifunctional coatings for building walls and ceilings that have climate-regulating properties, resulting in improved energy efficiency, durability, and comfort for buildings. The coatings will use the high energy storage capacity of moisture...
This $300,182 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Dartmouth College to develop new transparent conducting materials for optoelectronic applications. Specifically, the grantee will engineer the atomic composition, crystallinity, and electronic transport properties of two-dimensional metal oxide nanosheets printed from liquid metals. Initial studies show these 2D oxides have unique overlapping grain structures,...
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a $420,998 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on July 15, 2021 to develop high performance, regenerative windows for building energy reduction and clean energy production under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships seeks to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies as well as solutions to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $484,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Colorado Boulder for work spanning September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant supports research into reversible metal electrodeposition to modulate light for optoelectronic applications. Key activities include advancing metal-based technologies through novel electrode and electrolyte design to enable tunable optical properties. A subaward of $100,000 was provided...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Arizona State University Division - doing business as Orspa a $251,990 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research on electrically modulated near-field thermophotonics using metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) nanostructures. The project aims to achieve significant modulation of radiative heat transfer via electrical tuning, potentially leading to novel applications in tunable thermoelectric conversion,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) to the University of Texas at Austin. The objective of this 2-year research effort, which commenced on May 1, 2024, is to develop a new class of porous nanolattice coatings with ultra-low thermal conductivity and low solar absorption. These advanced materials are essential for long-duration storage of high-temperature solar and industrial...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $500,000 to San Diego State University Research Foundation under Project Grant CAREER: OPTOFLUIDIC SOLAR INDOOR LIGHTING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS. The five-year award beginning March 1, 2021 will support development of optofluidic solar indoor lighting technologies to advance sustainable buildings under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The Engineering program seeks to improve quality...