Project Grant 2311848
- 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) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports Purdue University's research to advance the fundamental understanding of four-phonon and exciton-phonon interactions and their impact on thermal transport and energy dissipation in emerging layered electronic and optoelectronic materials. The $293,927 award runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The research aims to address key knowledge gaps around how highly nonlinear...
- 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...
- This $344,743 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to Portland State University will develop advanced computational methods to simulate lattice vibrations and heat transfer in complex materials beyond the standard quasiparticle approximation. The research aims to provide more reliable predictions of thermal properties, especially in technologically important materials like thermoelectrics and thermal barrier coatings. The project outcomes will...
- 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...
- 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 $298,507 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research will fund the development of two new open-source software packages for performing state-of-the-art quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon interactions in strongly correlated quantum materials. The project, titled "ELEMENTS: Efficient Open-Source Packages for Non-Perturbative Simulations of Electron-Phonon Interactions in Quantum Materials", aims to fill a...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $702,284 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Purdue University. The funding will support research on the "Thermal Stabilization of 2D and Layered Carbides through Surface Modification for Functional High-Temperature Devices." The project aims to advance the feasibility of ultra-thin next-generation nanoelectronics capable of operating in extreme environments by designing...
- Purdue University was awarded a $332,957 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to support research into thermal transport in two-dimensional semiconductor materials. With a completion date of July 31, 2024, this award funds work under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant will allow Purdue researchers to study heat...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $447,008 five-year Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant will fund research to provide a comprehensive understanding and prediction of thermal transport across successive material interfaces, which is critical for improving the design of advanced electronics, thermal barrier coatings, thermoelectrics, and other technologies. Key research activities...
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 four-phonon scattering processes, which play a key role in determining thermal transport properties of materials. The improved FOURPHONON tool will transform four-phonon scattering analysis from a research breakthrough to a routine industry and academic capability, with applications across thermal management, insulation, coatings, and thermoelectric waste heat recovery technologies. This 3-year project aims to expand the functionality and computational efficiency of the FOURPHONON software to benefit users worldwide.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/18/23 |