Project Grant 2208681
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $783,729 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to advance the fundamental understanding of deformation behavior in amorphous solids, such as metallic glasses and granular systems, which exhibit complex, non-crystalline structures and mechanisms not captured by conventional models. Through a combination of atomistic...
- This $256,929 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project to gain a fundamental understanding of the deformation behavior of metallic glasses. The research team at the University of Michigan is employing advanced techniques like time-resolved 4-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy and machine learning to map...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $299,985 provides a research fellowship to an associate professor and training for a graduate student at the University of South Carolina. The research project, conducted in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, will investigate the fundamental deformation mechanisms responsible for the exceptional strength and ductility in heterogeneous lamella-structured metals. The project will...
- This Project Grant award of $405,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support collaborative research at The Johns Hopkins University on the kinetics of defect phases emerging from nanoscale interfaces in metallic alloys. The research aims to expand the fundamental understanding of nucleation from nanoscale confined arrangements, with the goal of promoting thermal stability and improved mechanical properties in these...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), provides $355,939 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct collaborative research on deformation mechanisms in microstructurally tailored high strength alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental understanding of dislocation nucleation and propagation as rate-limiting deformation mechanisms in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $155,215 to Auburn University from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029. The project aims to establish a transformative framework for "metastability engineering" in refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAS) that combines high-temperature strength with improved room-temperature ductility and strain hardenability. The research...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to establish a general, experimentally validated continuum modeling framework for active mechanical metamaterials. The $253,022 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will enable the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to develop this framework, which aims to enable efficient prediction of material behavior and systematic design...
- This $524,534 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research funds a collaborative research effort between The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Santa Barbara to elucidate high temperature deformation mechanisms in refractory multi-principal-element alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental scientific understanding of the ultrahigh temperature (up to 1500°C) mechanical behavior of this new class of alloy...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research effort at the University of Colorado to study the fundamental relationships that control the assembly of solid materials from small, shape-changing ribbon-like particles. The $397,494 award, spanning from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will investigate the use of reversible physical entanglement of these shape-changing particles to create porous solid...
- This $719,755 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Michigan to advance understanding of mechanical hysteresis and functional fatigue in martensitic phase transforming materials. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to foster innovation in engineering research and education. Specifically, the university will conduct multiscale, multimodal in-situ experimentation using dark-field x-ray microscopy, x-ray topotomography, and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $287,357 supports fundamental research exploring stress-assisted structural phase transformations and plasticity in bicontinuous nanoporous metals to enable uniform deformation. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the University of Rochester award runs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The project seeks to understand mechanisms enabling homogeneous phase transformations and significantly improved plastic deformability in molybdenum-based nanoporous composites. Molecular dynamics simulations and nanomechanical testing with finite element analysis will study mechanical response and microstructures for potential phase transformation-based uniform plastic deformation. Insights aim to enable design of strong, ductile nanoporous materials utilizing metastable phases unavailable in conventional bulk metals and alloys. Results may also apply to other refractory materials and large-scale structural applications. The award additionally supports undergraduate internships, a nanotechnology workshop for underrepresented high school students, and international student exchange.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $287.4k | 8/30/22 |