The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $463,417 CAREER grant to the University of Nebraska (UNL) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a scalable manufacturing approach for incorporating diverse solid particle additives into room temperature liquid metals. This work will lead to the creation of a novel class of multiphase conductive pastes with customizable physical, rheological, and chemical properties. The enhanced properties will increase the...
This five-year $565,337 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support fundamental research and education on electro-mechanical behaviors of soft conductive composites embedded with liquid metal fiber networks. The principal investigator will employ an integrated experimental-theoretical-computational approach to characterize network geometry evolution under extreme...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award provides $200,427 to the University of Southern California to investigate the fundamental processing-structure-property relationships in strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys produced through additive manufacturing. The research aims to understand how laser printing protocols affect the solidification microstructure and mechanical properties of these materials,...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $875,426 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund research titled "CAREER: SCALABLE LAMINATION PRINTING OF NEAR ATOMICALLY THIN ELECTRONIC MATERIALS WITH MECHANICAL STRETCHABILITY" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant will support the development of...
This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $580,623 to support fundamental research on probe-based hybrid nanopatterning of conductive polymers. The objective is to develop a new nanomanufacturing process that enables high-resolution and versatile patterning of conductive polymers, which have numerous applications in advanced nanoelectronics. The project aims to: (1) pilot a probe-based hybrid nanopatterning process...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $625,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. This 5-year grant will support research to advance the understanding of stretchable soft materials and their ability to generate electricity through mechanical deformations. The project aims to develop a multiscale framework to investigate how large strain gradients in polymer-based materials can...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant for $755,668, awarded on April 1, 2024, supports research at Oregon State University (OSU) to understand joining mechanisms in dissimilar metal additive manufacturing. The 5-year project focuses on investigating how laser-based additive manufacturing processes like wire-feed and powder-feed directed energy deposition affect the microstructure and joining of different metal alloys. The research aims to enable the fabrication of defect-free,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $503,167 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) for the project titled "CAREER: EFFECTIVE CONTINUUM MODELING OF MECHANISM-BASED METAMATERIALS". Under this 5-year award, effective from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028, USC will conduct fundamental research to develop modeling tools for predicting the mechanical behavior of morphing metamaterials. Metamaterials...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award provides $500,000 over 5 years to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to conduct research, education, and outreach activities in the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to gain fundamental knowledge about the interrelated electrical, chemical, and mechanical behaviors of multiscale active materials for next-generation energy storage applications. Key objectives include studying...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER program award (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $476,445 to Washington State University (WSU) to develop ready-to-use, fully printed, calibration-free solid-contact potentiometric sensing platforms and prototypes. The project aims to leverage the benefits of additive manufacturing (3D printing) to create highly stable, low-cost, and mass-producible ion-selective and reference electrodes for decentralized biofluid analysis. Key objectives include...