This $381,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Northwestern University to develop an accurate hierarchical modeling approach for understanding the structural and mechanical properties of polymer grafted nanoparticle materials. The research will employ molecular simulations, theory, and machine learning to explain how variability in nanoparticle and polymer graft size, known as dispersity,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded Purdue University $182,271 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on bulk-interface coupled response in novel materials from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new mathematical models to analyze migration patterns of interfacial layers and microfluidic flows in composites containing multi-phase bulks and...
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...
Purdue University was awarded a three-year, $443,065 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research developing a general synthetic platform for atomically-precise functionalization of two-dimensional nanomaterials. By advancing techniques to functionalize two-dimensional materials at the atomic level with precise control, this work is expected to generate new...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $215,139 Project Grant to Purdue University from May 2021 to October 2022 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research on carbonylation methodologies and strategies for building complex chemical structures. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support of mathematical and physical sciences research. This...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $306,369 in funding to the University of Delaware to conduct computational modeling and education research on the multiscale simulation of nanofluid assembly for the design of smart materials. The research aims to gain a fundamental understanding of how microscale self-assembly processes in particle-stabilized multiphase fluids can be used to control the mesoscale...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Purdue University a $575,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports Professor Christopher Uyeda's research on developing multi-metallic catalysts to improve the efficiency and sustainability of chemical processes used in medicine, agriculture, and polymer chemistry. Key activities include designing new ligands that can bind multiple metals to create more active and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Purdue University $502,550 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "PRECISION MONOLAYER CHEMISTRY ON AMORPHOUS MATERIALS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. This three-year Project Grant will support Purdue University's research efforts to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing understanding of major problems through the development...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Purdue University will support research to characterize the motion and orientation of non-spherical particles in viscoelastic fluids. The research will involve microfluidic experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling to quantify the interplay between lift forces and particle orientation for different flow rates, particle geometries, fluid properties, and channel confinement....
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $343,766 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Purdue University. The grant supports Dr. Jianing Li's research to develop data-driven, hierarchical computational modeling methods to predict the properties of biocompatible, bioactive nanomaterials for applications in sensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. The project aims to create systematic, adaptable approaches to coarse-grain molecular simulations and back-mapping techniques, overcoming limitations of current methods. This will enable more accurate predictions of self-assembly processes and resulting nanostructures from simple building blocks like peptides and DNA. The grant provides educational opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, including underrepresented groups, to participate in the interdisciplinary research. The award period runs from December 2023 through April 2025.