This $223,010 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a new class of ultralight, manufacturable materials with jointly optimized mechanical and transport properties. The key activities include:
- Characterizing the benefits of exploiting local uniformity and hyperuniformity in materials design and fabrication,
- Measuring the mechanical and transport properties of these novel materials to establish the structure-process-property relationships, including the influence of heterogeneity and defects, and
- Developing new computational tools to optimize the integrated theory, synthesis, and experimental process for material development.
The research will pursue three approaches for co-optimizing the targeted mechanical, thermal, acoustic, and electrical properties: adjusting the initial material configuration, controlling microscale heterogeneity from additive manufacturing, and designing time-varying signals to create specific spatial correlations. The award provides funding from December 2023 through November 2027 to The Johns Hopkins University, a private research institution, to advance this work.
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