Project Grant 2339618
Award Date 10/1/24
Completion Date 9/30/29
Dollars Obligated $315K
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Similar Awards
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $200,198 to Louisiana State University (LSU) supports research on developing robotic construction technologies using 3D printed waterless concrete made from in-situ lunar and Martian materials. The two-year project aims to provide a fundamental understanding of the impacts of high-temperature sulfur concrete printing process parameters and extreme environmental conditions on the performance of 3D...
- This Project Grant award of $499,999.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of 3D-printed, self-healing sustainable concrete using industrial and household waste materials such as spent foundry sand, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, and marine organisms like algae. The key objectives are to: 1) Fabricate the 3D-printed self-healing concrete and assess its durability, using numerical simulations and experimental validation...
- This National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities Project Grant award, titled "EFRI ELIS: BIOSYNTHETIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF LIVING BUILDING MATERIALS", provides $1,999,999.00 in funding over the period of September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The award aims to integrate advanced manufacturing, synthetic biology, and materials science to transform microbe-engineered lignocellulosic biomass into a printable ink for biosynthetic additive...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,596 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a framework for modeling the mechanical behavior of living building materials for structural applications from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. Specifically, the award will support research to develop a new multiscale cellular and granular material poroelastic formulation for a microbial precipitation-based living...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support fundamental research to develop novel fungal composite materials with advanced mechanical properties. The $248,773 award to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) aims to understand the mechanisms that govern the interfacial bonding between fungal hyphae and synthetic glass particle fillers, using a hydrogel-based interfacial engineering approach....
- This $299,999 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), supports a research project at Louisiana State University (LSU) focused on the multiscale and multiphysics characterization of additively manufactured self-sensing concrete structures. The project aims to establish an innovative framework for investigating the critical manufacturing parameters and material properties of 3D printed self-sensing concrete...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) in the amount of $599,491 supports research to develop scientific principles for extrusion-based robotic 3D printing of reinforced concrete. The research aims to enable the reliable deposition of concrete in complex geometries to create materially efficient building components, addressing limitations of current 3D concrete printing methods. The project, awarded to the Regents of the University...
- This $525,181 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at North Carolina State University to explore harnessing soil microbes to improve soil supporting civil infrastructure. The university will identify active microbial communities in relevant soil microcosms and manipulate microcosm geochemistry to induce byproducts like mineral precipitation or gas generation. An integrated meta-omics approach will characterize microbial...
- This $301,771 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project between Northwestern University and unspecified partners. The project aims to study the relationship between fungal growth and water condensation on plant and engineered surfaces, with a focus on understanding the interplay of these phenomena and their impacts on infrastructure, indoor air quality, and contamination. The research...
- Louisiana State University received a $247,800 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NANO-ENGINEERED SUPERWOOD FOR RESILIENT FOUNDATION SYSTEMS" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. Under this award, Louisiana State University will conduct research to develop nano-engineered...