The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Duke University a $200,000 project grant under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the "Accelerated Design, Discovery, and Deployment of Electronic Phase Transitions (ADEPT)" research project. The goal of this 4-year effort is to develop integrated protocols that transform the standard sequential materials discovery process into a closed-loop, iterative approach. This will enable the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) for the "Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Design, Discovery, and Deployment of Electronic Phase Transitions (ADEPT)" project. The goal of the ADEPT project is to implement an accelerated discovery and co-design engine to efficiently deploy insulator-metal transition (IMT) materials for...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to accelerate the design, discovery, and deployment of electronic phase transition materials at the University of Notre Dame. The goal is to deliver new classes of insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) materials that can enable low-power computing systems and advanced communication technologies like 6G. The interdisciplinary research team will develop...
Northwestern University received a $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to support collaborative research titled "DMREF: ACCELERATED DATA-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF ION-CONDUCTING MATERIALS." The award will fund research through September 30, 2025 under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant aims to advance the discovery of new ion-conducting materials through accelerated data-driven methods. As outlined in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to President and Fellows of Harvard College for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: DISCOVERY OF UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS BY DESIGN". The goal is to accelerate the discovery of new superconducting materials through a multi-disciplinary approach that combines computational modeling, advanced thin film deposition, and experimental...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $262,500 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) for the "DMREF/Collaborative Research: Active Learning-based Material Discovery for 3D Printed Solids with Locally-Tunable Electrical and Mechanical Properties" project. This multi-disciplinary effort aims to establish an active learning approach to rapidly...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $142,686 to Northwestern University to investigate the mechanism behind the "abnormal columnar-to-equiaxed transition" in metals processed using wire-laser directed energy deposition techniques. The research aims to leverage state-of-the-art operando synchrotron X-ray experiments and numerical...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Northwestern University for a 3-year research project on the "Transient Physicochemical Properties of Nanomaterials." The grant supports experimental studies by Professor Richard Schaller to investigate the crystal lattices, surfaces, and surface ligand behavior of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. The research aims to elucidate the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $398,131 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Northwestern University to conduct the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: ACCELERATED DESIGN, DISCOVERY, AND DEPLOYMENT OF ELECTRONIC PHASE TRANSITIONS (ADEPT)" project. This interdisciplinary research endeavor aims to accelerate the discovery, development, and deployment of advanced insulator-metal transition (IMT) materials to enable novel computing, storage, and communication technologies. The project will leverage computational approaches, high-throughput materials synthesis and characterization, and adaptive learning methods to produce new classes of IMT materials, refine theories of IMT behavior, develop innovative thin film synthesis and contactless characterization techniques, and provide quantitative models of device performance. The research team plans to deliver open-access databases, novel IMT materials, and knowledge to benefit future scalability and manufacturing in collaboration with industrial partners. This 4-year award commenced in October 2023.