Project Grant 2315343
Award Date 2/1/24
Completion Date 1/31/27
Dollars Obligated $451K
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Penn State University, PA 16802, USA
Similar Awards
- The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, received a $384,439 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to upcycle consumer plastic waste into high-value graphitic carbons for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The research seeks to test the hypothesis that plastic waste can serve as a high-quality feedstock for graphene...
- This $539,052 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research by North Carolina State University (NC State) to characterize adhesion, friction, and delamination on non-smooth interfaces between soft polymers and functional surfaces. The research aims to elucidate the multiscale mechanisms driving these phenomena, which are critical for a range of engineering innovations in aeronautics, biotechnology, microelectronics,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program project grant awarded to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, provides $654,278 in funding from May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2027 to support fundamental research on the microscale origins of ductile failure in engineering metals. The research aims to identify links between microstructural features in metals and their propensity for failure under real-world loading conditions, using a combination of...
- This $490,868 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University to advance understanding of solid-liquid interactions and interfacial water structuring in turbulent boundary layer flows. The goal is to reduce fluid drag and improve transportation efficiency through fundamental investigation of hydrodynamic slip mechanisms using molecular dynamics simulations,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $289,495 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for improving the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. The research will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interactions between raw material properties, manufacturing processes, and process control to enable more integrated and...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a five-year, $604,113 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAREER: PHOTONIC INTEGRATED GUIDED-WAVE-DRIVEN METASURFACES" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. This Project Grant will fund Penn State...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $534,324 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: LASER-INDUCED SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS FOR THE DIRECT-WRITE, MICROSCALE ADDITIVE PROCESSING OF METALS AND OXIDES." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $394,939 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a 3-year research project led by Professors Randy Vander Wal and Adri van Duin to explore an innovative process for graphitizing bio-based precursors like cellulose and lignin using graphene oxide additives and controlled heating. The researchers will use a...
- The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on March 1, 2021 to support research under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund development of two-dimensional straintronic field effect transistor technology from March 2021 through February 2026 at Penn State's University Park campus. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $363,304 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research towards developing a universal roughness model for fluid flows over complex boundaries from June 15, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The research aims to establish a new computational framework based on space/time averaging of the Navier-Stokes equations to accurately model fluid flows over a wide range of rough...