This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research provides $225,904 to Brown University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for collaborative research on rare earth materials under extreme conditions from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026.
The award supports experimental and computational research to determine the thermodynamic and structural properties of refractory rare earth ceramic materials at high temperature and pressure....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $314,920 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Tuskegee University. The grant will fund a collaborative research project focused on the computationally driven discovery and synthesis of novel 2D materials through selective etching. Researchers will combine computational, experimental, and machine learning techniques to develop an enabling process for the electrochemical extraction of atomic layers...
This three-year, $566,530 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Clemson University focused on synthesizing new materials displaying unusual optical and magnetic properties. Researchers will use high-temperature hydrothermal methods to grow high-quality single crystals of low-dimensional transition metal oxyanions for characterization of their magnetic...
This $232,786 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program. The grant funds a collaborative research project between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets. The project aims to investigate metastable magnetic states, manipulate magnetic phase transitions,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $509,725 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on understanding and controlling the properties of magnetic two-dimensional (2D) crystals. The grant, awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will support fundamental studies to investigate how factors such as adsorbed molecules, adjacent layers, and mechanical strain can impact the magnetic...
The University of Missouri System was awarded a $465,916 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research focused on the computationally driven discovery and synthesis of 2D materials through selective etching. The project aims to advance a new process for the synthesis of 2D materials and accelerate their discovery by combining computational, experimental, and machine-learning techniques in a...
This Project Grant award of $581,809.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on epitaxial engineering of layered magnetic pnictides at the University of Notre Dame. The key objectives are to design, synthesize, and study a new class of topological materials that leverage the interaction of magnetism and electrons to enable novel electrical and optical properties. This research aims to advance high-density data...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to study the magnetic properties of vanadium-based intercalation compounds of transition metal dichalcogenides (CFDA #47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences). The researchers aim to synthesize and characterize these novel "altermagnet" materials, which hold promise for next-generation spintronic devices. Through solid-state synthesis,...
This $527,669 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Utah to enable L10 ordering in bulk FeNi alloys. The project aims to develop low-cost permanent magnets as an alternative to neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets, which are in high demand but rely on imports of rare earth elements. The research focuses on enhancing the diffusion kinetics in FeNi alloys to achieve...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $480,014 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The funding supports research to engineer novel magnetic garnet thin film materials through interface and site occupancy control. Key objectives include developing magnetic garnet superlattices, films with ordered rare...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded Purdue University a $190,936 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on February 15, 2024. The objective of this 2-year project is to design, synthesize, and characterize a new family of two-dimensional rare-earth transition metal carbide materials called "RE-MXenes." Through a combination of computational modeling and experimental efforts, the researchers aim to develop a fundamental understanding of how incorporating rare-earth elements like neodymium and gadolinium can be used to control the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of these novel 2D materials. The project seeks to enable the first room-temperature 2D magnets, which could have applications in quantum computing, spintronics, and magnetoelectronics. All research results and models will be made publicly accessible to accelerate innovation in this emerging field of 2D materials research.