This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Johns Hopkins University supports the development of a new "dual-series gate" organic electrochemical transistor (DS-OECT) biosensor technology. The key objectives include material synthesis, device fabrication, computer modeling, and biological fluid analysis to create a highly sensitive and stable sensor capable of reliably detecting protein biomarkers for various...
This $129,226 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of soft, biocompatible ion-based transistors for responsive neuroelectronic devices. The project aims to create integrated circuits using these ion-gated transistors to enable efficient interaction with neural circuits, with the goal of transforming the design of bioelectronic devices for enhanced diagnosis and therapy of neuropsychiatric diseases. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $952,291 Project Grant on October 1, 2023 to The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: ACCELERATING THE COMMERCIAL READINESS OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS (ACROSS)", aims to accelerate the commercial readiness of organic semiconductor materials for applications in electronics, displays, lighting, power...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program awarded a $767,503 project grant to The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation (the Research Foundation) to investigate the influence of electrolyte solvents and ions on electronic and ionic transport in electrochemically doped conjugated polymers. This fundamental research aims to advance the understanding of mixed ionic and electronic conduction in these materials, which have potential applications...
This $391,972 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports research to mitigate the impact of dynamic disorder in crystalline organic semiconductors. The project aims to synthesize and study new organic semiconductor materials designed to inhibit specific phonon modes that disrupt charge transport, a critical performance metric for these materials in flexible...
This $100,000 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports research to develop a stretchable, ion-impermeable material for bioelectronic devices. The University of Massachusetts, the prime awardee, aims to create a bioinspired dielectric encapsulation that mimics cell membranes to enable reliable, long-term operation of stretchable bioelectronics under physiological...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Kansas State University a $250,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on March 15, 2022 to support research and education activities concluding February 28, 2027.
The award will fund the development of high-performance, low-noise field effect transistors and biosensors using two-dimensional atomically thin materials and one-dimensional contacts. Specifically,...
The University of Cincinnati received a $250,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for a project titled "EAGER: DEMONSTRATING THE PHYSICS OF NOVEL SOLUTION-PHASE ELECTROCHEMICAL APTAMER SENSORS" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant aims to develop and demonstrate aptamer-based electrochemical sensors for detecting analytes in solution through applying electrochemistry principles and aptamer technology. The NSF...
This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the development of redox-based bioelectronics through the Semisynbio-III award to the University of Maryland, College Park. The three-year project will advance four technological areas to create communicating microbial cells and decision-making cells that can be instructed by electric inputs to perform logic operations by writing to genomes or adjusting consortium populations....
This $342,318 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research focused on developing a novel theoretical formulation to model the mechanical deformation and interactions of biomembranes with transport and electrochemical processes. The research aims to gain a deeper understanding of cell functioning and implications for human health and disease. The project will integrate multiphysics concepts across mechanics, surface...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,313 Project Grant under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation on May 1, 2025. The project aims to advance the understanding of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), which are flexible, skin-like electronic devices that can translate biological signals into electronic signals. The key objectives are to determine the parameters affecting contact resistance, elucidate the relationship between contact and channel resistances, and identify inconsistencies in device architecture that impact transconductance. The research seeks to fill critical knowledge gaps to enable the development of OECT fabrication standards and improve the performance metrics of these devices for applications in biosensors, medical devices, body-machine interfaces, and chemical/agricultural sensors. No sub-awards are planned for this project, which is expected to run through April 30, 2030.