The National Science Foundation awarded a $482,500 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research exploring chemically functionalized polymers for nanoscale structures and interfaces from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2025. Professor Todd Emrick and his team will work to advance fundamental aspects of polymeric and sustainable chemistry by discovering unique combinations of polymers and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will enable research on a new class of "active polymers" that can respond to local energy fluctuations. The $495,000 award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) will support the development of experimental methods to produce and study the mobility of these active polymers, with a focus on how energy injection at the molecular level impacts their behavior...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Massachusetts $452,125 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The award will support research investigating how thermal transport properties in electrically conductive polymers are affected by charge carriers and polymer backbone structures. The university will study temperature-dependent thermal conductivities, heat capacities, electrical conductivities, and Seebeck coefficients using...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $381,851 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support research investigating how nanoscale surface topography can be engineered to dictate the capillary interactions and assembly of anisotropic polymer ellipsoidal particles at fluid interfaces. Specifically, the university...
The University of Massachusetts received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to support research titled "Polymer Adhesion at Extreme Rates and Temperatures" through August 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to improve the modeling and prediction of long-term performance for polymer glasses, a class of non-equilibrium materials with applications in electronics, aerospace composites, and other areas. The $372,323 award, effective April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027, is funding collaborative work between researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) and the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $436,084 supports research at Carnegie Mellon University from May 2022 through April 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund the development of novel methods to control interactions between polymer and nanomaterial constituents in polymer nanocomposites. Specifically, the grantee will synthesize brush particle model systems and characterize the structure evolution of liquid-crystal phase...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research into an innovative manufacturing technique for producing thin polymer films. The total award amount is $517,969.00 over the period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for the electrospray deposition process by integrating experiments, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. This will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 "Engineering" supports a collaborative US-German research effort to develop multiscale data-physics models for improving the critical interface properties of overmolded thermoplastic parts. The $777,782 award to Columbia University's Sponsored Projects Administration Division will fund fundamental research to quantitatively understand the molecular processes and manufacturing parameters governing adhesion...
This $225,298 Project Grant award to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (University of Nebraska) by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to develop new approaches for predicting the long-term performance of polymer glasses. The research aims to address a major impediment in using polymeric glasses in advanced composites and other applications by improving the ability to quantify and model the mechanical and...