Project Grant 2438000
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), provides $355,939 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct collaborative research on deformation mechanisms in microstructurally tailored high strength alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental understanding of dislocation nucleation and propagation as rate-limiting deformation mechanisms in...
- This $480,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The grant supports research to study the thermodynamics and kinetics of nanostructured metallic alloys containing a large quantity of grain boundary defects. The goal is to promote specific chemical and structural environments at these defects to study local phase transitions and their...
- This $524,534 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research funds a collaborative research effort between The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Santa Barbara to elucidate high temperature deformation mechanisms in refractory multi-principal-element alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental scientific understanding of the ultrahigh temperature (up to 1500°C) mechanical behavior of this new class of alloy...
- This $195,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research and educational activities at Lehigh University aimed at gaining fundamental insights into the segregation of multiple elemental species to grain boundaries and its effects on grain growth in nanocrystalline metallic alloys. The research involves developing theoretical and computational models to simulate the dynamics of grain boundary segregation...
- This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support The Johns Hopkins University's research on amorphous metal additive manufacturing. The project aims to develop simulation-informed models and computational tools to enable design of additively manufactured amorphous metals with desired strength and toughness properties. This will involve using machine learning to quantify structural order parameters...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $459,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to The Johns Hopkins University. This Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) project aims to revolutionize the creation of novel engineering alloys by focusing on the relationship between the production process and the resulting material microstructure. Using machine learning and data science, the research team...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $155,215 to Auburn University from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029. The project aims to establish a transformative framework for "metastability engineering" in refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAS) that combines high-temperature strength with improved room-temperature ductility and strain hardenability. The research...
- This Project Grant award of $142,686.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research at Northwestern University to investigate the atomic structure and solidification dynamics of liquid metals under non-equilibrium conditions, such as those encountered in laser additive manufacturing. The research aims to advance the fundamental scientific understanding of metal solidification and microstructure formation, with potential applications...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $299,985 provides a research fellowship to an associate professor and training for a graduate student at the University of South Carolina. The research project, conducted in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, will investigate the fundamental deformation mechanisms responsible for the exceptional strength and ductility in heterogeneous lamella-structured metals. The project will...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049, provides $221,462 to The Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research aimed at developing advanced strategies for controlling the distribution of nanoparticles during the solidification of metal matrix nanocomposites, with a focus on lightweight aluminum alloys. The research seeks to understand the fundamental mechanisms governing nanoparticle redistribution...
This Project Grant award of $405,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support collaborative research at The Johns Hopkins University on the kinetics of defect phases emerging from nanoscale interfaces in metallic alloys. The research aims to expand the fundamental understanding of nucleation from nanoscale confined arrangements, with the goal of promoting thermal stability and improved mechanical properties in these materials. Key project activities include synthesizing, characterizing, and simulating the thermodynamics and kinetics of nanostructured metallic alloys containing a large quantity of interfacial defects known as grain boundaries. The insights gained will advance the emerging paradigm of intentional "defect phase" design to enable more purposeful engineering of new materials with enhanced properties. The award period runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $405.0k | 7/21/25 |