This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $269,542 to Rutgers, The State University in New Brunswick, NJ to develop a combined numerical-experimental approach to model the synthesis of large populations of advanced materials at the nanoscale. The key products include: (1) in-situ environmental transmission electron microscopy measurements of metal oxide nanoparticle formation, evolution, and catalytic activation; (2) automated...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $245,155 to Rutgers, The State University supports fundamental research on the electrospray deposition of polymeric nanowires and nanoparticle composites. The goal is to develop new manufacturing processes for scalable production of functional nanomaterial coatings with applications in energy storage, tissue engineering, smart textiles, and filtration. Through collaborative experimental and modeling...
Rutgers, The State University received a $250,151 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTROLLING PROCESS VARIABILITY IN BOTTOM-UP NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES." The award will fund research through July 31, 2024. The research aims to control process variability in bottom-up nanoelectronic devices and is supported through the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The NSF...
Rutgers, The State University received a $382,260 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2022 to support an REU Site for advanced materials research through March 31, 2025. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Under this award, Rutgers will host undergraduate students for research experiences in its Department of Materials...
This $353,941 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, will fund a 3-year research project to understand and control the physical adhesion and aggregation of nanomaterials in liquid environments. The project aims to develop a new theoretical model and experimental techniques to characterize how "solvent-induced interactions" - the...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $1,265,946 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research titled "Machine Learning and Robotics for the Data-Driven Design of Protein-Polymer Hybrid Materials." The research appears aimed at advancing the use of machine learning and robotics...
Rutgers University, Newark was awarded a $556,878 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate boron-functionalized pi-conjugated materials with tailored properties. Under this award effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026, Professor Frieder Jäkle of Rutgers University-Newark's Department of Chemistry will synthesize and analyze conjugated organic materials functionalized with boron-nitrogen Lewis pairs to alter...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $470,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct mechanistic studies of organic reactivity under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Over a three-year period from July 2021 through June 2024, Rutgers researchers will leverage this funding to increase understanding of major problems in chemistry through advancing the store of scientific knowledge on organic reaction mechanisms. Specifically,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Project Grant of $579,734 awarded to Rutgers, The State University, aims to accelerate the design and development of synthetic enzymes through a combination of artificial intelligence, polymer science, and robotics. The project will implement an iterative design-build-test-learn process to reveal the underlying structure-function relationships that can produce enzyme mimetic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant award of $249,999 provides funding for the Rutgers University-Camden project "Rational Design of Macromolecular Assemblies Controlled via Plasmonic Activation" from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The project will investigate using light-activated gold nanoparticles to disrupt and control the structure of polymer vesicles and DNA origami assemblies. Researchers aim to gain high spatiotemporal...
Rutgers, The State University received a $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to develop new methods for tailored nanomaterials synthesis. Specifically, the three-year award funds research using reactive microdroplets in confined 2D microflows to produce high-quality nanoparticles with controlled size, composition, crystallinity and other properties. The project aims to address current gaps between laboratory studies and industrial manufacturing of functional flame-synthesized nanoparticles by investigating droplet-to-particle and gas-to-particle conversion mechanisms within a microfluidic reactor system. In-situ diagnostics and computational modeling will complement characterization of nanoparticles produced under different process conditions. If successful, the customized synthesis approach could improve practical production of nanomaterials with applications in catalysis, energy storage, sensors and other technologies. The award falls under the National Science Foundation's $360K Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to foster innovation in engineering research and education.