Project Grant 2311203
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), awarded a $200,000 project grant to the University of South Carolina (USC) to develop a comprehensive phonon database and related analysis and visualization tools. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: (1) a database of approximately 40,000 phonon dispersions and 15,000 lattice thermal...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop a computational framework using advanced machine learning techniques to model atomic vibrations and their effects on material properties. The $249,726 award to Portland State University supports research to: 1) create universal machine learning force fields using graph neural networks for phonon modeling, 2) expand a phonon database through active...
- Through a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Purdue University is enhancing the FOURPHONON open-source computational package to enable accurate and affordable prediction of thermal conductivity in materials. This award under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of advanced computational methods and machine learning models to accelerate the calculation of...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $325,441 will fund research into chemically tunable acoustic phonons in two-dimensional materials under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Professor Kristie Koski at the University of California, Davis will study acoustic phonons, or sound waves that control material properties, in new two-dimensional materials only a few atoms thick using precise laser spectroscopy...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to study scattering selection rules of chiral phonons and thermal transport. The three-year project, beginning October 1, 2022 and ending September 30, 2025, will use inelastic x-ray scattering from synchrotrons to measure vibrations in solids induced by heat, known as phonons, including circular vibrations. The...
- This Project Grant award of $344,743 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of a first-principles computational framework to simulate lattice vibrations and heat transfer beyond the quasiparticle approximation. The key advancements include explicit treatment of higher-order phonon coupling and a unified thermal transport formalism applicable to both crystals and glasses. These capabilities will be implemented in open-source software...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University a $601,980 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate strong electron-phonon interactions in semiconducting crystals. Principal Investigator Roel Tempelaar and his team will develop quantum-classical modeling methods to describe electrons quantum mechanically and nuclei classically. This will enable the simulation of materials at significantly larger sizes to...
- This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to systematically understand the dislocation-phonon drag regime in metallic materials across a wide range of strain rates. The research aims to develop a novel, small-scale, high-throughput approach to study the characteristics of dislocation-phonon interactions in metals and alloys at extremely high deformation rates. The integrated experimental-computational...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $560,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: SYMMETRY-GUIDED MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE DISCOVERY OF TOPOLOGICAL PHONONIC MATERIALS." The award period runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. Under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports the development of an open-source high-fidelity materials database using the DFT+DMFT method. The $149,983 award to Rutgers, The State University, aims to overcome the limitations of existing materials databases built using basic Density Functional Theory (DFT) by incorporating the more precise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University to develop a comprehensive phonon database and related analysis, visualization, and prediction tools. The grant, under CFDA Program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, aims to generate a database of 40,000 phonon dispersions and 15,000 lattice thermal conductivity properties, as well as phonon data for 300,000 predicted structures. The project will create a web platform for researchers to access, navigate, and compare this phonon data to accelerate materials discovery and design. Additionally, the grant will support the development of educational resources and the engagement of underrepresented students in materials science research. This effort is intended to address a critical gap in existing materials databases and enable more data-driven, AI-assisted breakthroughs in materials with diverse functionalities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $100.0k | 7/21/23 |