This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, totaling $306,307, will fund research into elucidating the rate-limiting steps of biopolymer dissolution and developing new biopolymer derivatives for oral drug delivery systems. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, will lead the collaborative research effort to understand how additives impact the dissolution rates of polysaccharide derivatives....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $343,766 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Purdue University. The grant supports Dr. Jianing Li's research to develop data-driven, hierarchical computational modeling methods to predict the properties of biocompatible, bioactive nanomaterials for applications in sensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. The project aims to create systematic, adaptable approaches to coarse-grain molecular...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to The Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The goal of this 4-year research project is to develop novel polysaccharide-based soft materials through the use of precision polysaccharide synthesis techniques. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing new methods for synthesizing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded Purdue University $182,271 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on bulk-interface coupled response in novel materials from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new mathematical models to analyze migration patterns of interfacial layers and microfluidic flows in composites containing multi-phase bulks and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $326,199 Project Grant to the University of South Florida under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The award will support integrated experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to understand the mechanism and consequences of polymer adsorption in films and nanocomposites. Researchers will employ fluorescence...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $215,139 Project Grant to Purdue University from May 2021 to October 2022 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research on carbonylation methodologies and strategies for building complex chemical structures. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support of mathematical and physical sciences research. This...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $265,026 to Lafayette College to conduct research on the "Role of Crystallinity and Morphology in Degradation and Drug Release of PEO-b-PCL Films." The key objectives are to understand how the physical structure of the polymer material, including crystallinity and phase separation, impacts the controlled release of drug additives and the overall...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $361,129 to Princeton University from January 2023 through December 2027. The funding will support the development of predictive tools to facilitate the understanding and design of stimuli-responsive polymers through multiscale molecular modeling and machine learning techniques. Specifically, the principal investigator will work to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Purdue University $502,550 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "PRECISION MONOLAYER CHEMISTRY ON AMORPHOUS MATERIALS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. This three-year Project Grant will support Purdue University's research efforts to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing understanding of major problems through the development...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $461,594 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will support research to advance the understanding of polymer gels, an important class of materials used in a variety of health, industrial, and defense applications. The project aims to correlate spatiotemporal fluctuations of individual polymer...