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 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support $625,000 in research at the University of Texas at Austin over a 5-year period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030. The project aims to advance the understanding of highly deformable, polymer-based strain-gradient electric generators and their potential applications in sensing, actuation, and sustainable energy harvesting. The research will combine theoretical and computational modeling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research at Iowa State University to understand and control multi-material aerosol jet printing. This $621,008 grant, active from July 2024 to June 2029, aims to establish mechanistic knowledge and digital control of this printing technique to fabricate custom gradients in material composition and properties for applications...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, provided under CFDA 47.041 Engineering, is focused on developing calibration-free potentiometric sensors for biofluid analysis. The $476,445 award, granted on May 15, 2025, will support the development of ready-to-use sensing platforms and prototypes through the functionalization of 3D-printed materials. The project aims to leverage the benefits of additive manufacturing, such as reproducibility, spatial control, and mass production...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $470,298 Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of California, Davis to develop scalable nanomanufacturing processes for organic electronics using laser patterning in a continuous solvent flow liquid cell. The research aims to modify existing photolithography tools and methods to enable optical micropatterning of organic semiconducting polymers into electronic circuits. This will allow for micro and...
This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on using liquid crystals as templates to guide the formation of novel polymeric nanostructures via chemical vapor polymerization. The research aims to expand the capabilities of chemical vapor polymerization to enable large-scale manufacturing of surface coatings with tailored nanoscopic structures, such as nanofiber arrays, interconnected nanosheets, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant, awarded under CFDA 47.041 Engineering, provides $607,412 in funding to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a research project focused on enabling enhanced throughput in integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing equipment. The project aims to develop a new mechatronic hardware and control co-design paradigm that overcomes the acceleration-bandwidth trade-off in precision motion systems, allowing for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop ultra-wide bandgap AlGaN channel transistors capable of 10 kV breakdown voltage and ~10x lower on-state resistance compared to incumbent SiC technology. The $563,851 project, running from July 2025 to June 2030, will focus on demonstrating these state-of-the-art power electronics transistors and investigating the underlying physical mechanisms that govern their operation and...
This $735,670 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program supports fundamental research to create strong, tough, and sustainable materials through new knowledge of small-scale fracture in architected materials. The research will involve developing bio-derived and/or biodegradable materials with precise microstructures using advanced manufacturing, testing their mechanical properties, and modeling crack growth and propagation in...
This $200,427 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports fundamental research on understanding the microstructure and deformation mechanisms of strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys produced by additive manufacturing. The project aims to elucidate the processing-structure-property relationships in these advanced metal alloys, with the goal of guiding the development of high-strength and...