The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. This 3-year grant, beginning on October 1, 2023, aims to identify new 2D ferroelectric materials, understand how to control their properties, and explore the impact of their polarization on electrical conductivity. The research employs a combination of experimental techniques and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $489,946 to the University of South Florida for research on ferrimagnetic/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures for efficient opto-spintronic devices. The project aims to develop an integrated device that can efficiently emit or sense circularly polarized photons by combining electronics, spintronics, valleytronics, and photonics. Key technical objectives include using...
This $244,955 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to develop advanced computational tools and use them for describing the dynamical behavior of magnetic molecules connected to external electrodes and manipulated by magnetic fields. The research aims to provide a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy in simulating such open...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $181,543 Project Grant to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant will fund a collaborative research project to understand and manipulate magnetism and spin dynamics in intercalated van der Waals magnets, which are atomically thin layers of two-dimensional magnetic materials. The research aims to establish the relationships between...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $408,331 Project Grant on August 15, 2025 to the Regents of the University of Idaho (University of Idaho) under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant funds a collaborative research project investigating a novel mild method for the sustainable recycling of e-waste metals. Professors Kristopher Waynant and James Moberly of the University of Idaho, along with Professor Elliott Hulley of the University of...
This Project Grant award, valued at $350,000.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, supports a research project focused on developing and investigating new inorganic materials with complex compositions based on layered magnetic metal-halide compounds. The key objectives of this project are to expand the composition space of such layered metal-halide magnetic materials, advance the understanding of their fundamental electronic structures, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $532,567 to the University of Delaware to conduct theoretical research and educational activities focused on understanding quantum magnetic materials and their application to spintronics. The key objectives are to incorporate quantum entanglement effects into the study of spin-torque and spin-pumping phenomena, with the aim of resolving existing puzzles in...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) received a $183,675 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The award will support research by Professor Jeffrey Rack of UNM's Chemistry Department to develop new classes of iron complexes with interesting spectroscopic and magneto-optical properties for potential applications in photoactive materials. Specifically, Professor Rack and...
This $155,571 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research to explore new quantum states in iridium oxide materials under high pressure conditions. The research aims to elucidate the complex relationship between crystal structure, chemical bonding, and strong spin-orbit coupling in these materials, which could lead to the discovery of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) supports research on novel spin textures in non-centrosymmetric magnetic materials at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), Norfolk State University, and Rice University. The $950,566 award will fund the synthesis and characterization of materials such as SCTMGe (TM = Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu), Mn-doped SCFeGe, and chiral magnetic oxides. Key objectives include determining the...