This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.083 - Integrative Activities) provides $549,754 to Georgetown University to acquire a state-of-the-art 3-dimensional nanolithography instrument. The instrument will enable a broad range of advanced materials research projects with potential technological impacts in areas such as information storage, nanoelectronics, filtration, biomimetics, and metamaterials. The shared instrument will support research and educational...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $468,564 to support the acquisition of a next-generation Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope (NeaSNom) at the University of Central Florida. The instrument, custom-built by NeaSpec, will enable simultaneous Atomic Force Microscopy and nanoscale (10 nm spatial resolution) Fourier Transform Infrared and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. It...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded Brandeis University a 3-year, $1,767,282 Project Grant to acquire a Thermo-Fisher Tundra cryo-electron microscope. This advanced microscope will enable visualization and analysis of complex biological structures at the macromolecular level, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across fields from materials science to cell biology. The microscope will be available to researchers at Brandeis and in the local region,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $846,986 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a division of the Texas A&M University System, to acquire a state-of-the-art x-ray instrument for advanced scattering studies of polymers, ceramics, and hybrid organic-inorganic materials. The instrument enables real-time monitoring of material nanostructure under diverse environmental conditions and external...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,195,792 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to Mississippi State University and the University of Central Florida. The grant supports the development of an optical spectrometer capable of multimodal linearly polarized, circularly polarized, and integrating-sphere-assisted spectroscopic measurements. This advanced instrument will enhance research and education in fields such as chemistry, chemical engineering,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $1,240,000 project grant to Northwestern University (NU) to acquire a state-of-the-art plasma focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (PFIB-SEM) under NSF's CFDA Program 47.083 Integrative Activities. This multi-functional PFIB-SEM system will enable high-throughput, high-fidelity nanoscale sectioning, microscopic examination, and characterization of a wide range of materials and structures across various...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $224,834 Project Grant under its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to Trustees of Union College in Schenectady, New York. The grant supports the acquisition of a multifunctional thermal analysis instrument, a TGA/FTIR/GC/MS system, to enhance interdisciplinary research and research training in advanced nanomaterial development. The instrument will enable the unambiguous characterization of the structural, mechanical, chemical, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $719,573 to The Washington University in St. Louis to acquire a multi-modal x-ray diffraction and scattering instrument. This state-of-the-art equipment will enable researchers to probe the structure of materials at scales ranging from the atomic arrangement to surface roughness. The instrument's advanced capabilities will support a wide range of materials research across...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,397,667 Project Grant under its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Denver to acquire a state-of-the-art 600 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer with a cryoprobe. This instrument will support researchers at the University of Denver and across the Greater Rocky Mountain region, enabling new research ranging from understanding biomolecular interactions to characterizing functional tools in complex biological...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,938,193 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant under the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The grant supports the acquisition of a novel "Tribeam" microscope that can rapidly generate high-resolution 3D data on a broad range of materials including polymers, composites, ceramics, metals, semiconductors, electrochemical and biological...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded Duke University a $1,530,757 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to acquire a Thermo Fischer Scientific Cryogenic Helios 5 CX DualBeam instrument. This advanced nanofabrication and nano-imaging tool will enable cutting-edge research across materials science disciplines, including the study of optical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties of both natural and engineered materials at the nanometer scale. The instrument will support a range of research projects, such as nanofabrication of hyperbolic metastructures, characterization of hard-soft material interfaces, analysis of energy storage materials, and investigation of superconductor-quantum Hall hybrid structures. The award will also provide educational opportunities for graduate, undergraduate, minority, and female students to gain hands-on experience with nanotechnology and microfluidic fabrication and characterization. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.