Project Grant 2501555
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $401,696 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of October 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The award will support research to characterize, model, and mitigate the accelerated aging of electrical insulation systems exposed to high slew rate and repetitive voltage pulses generated by emerging wide bandgap power electronics. The grantee will conduct experimental investigations to...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $224,845 in funding to support fundamental research on the self-limiting electrospray deposition of nanowire-particle composites for advanced coatings. The goal is to enable the mass production of nanowire coatings on versatile surfaces through the development of new manufacturing processes based on electrostatically-induced sprays of waterborne gelling polymers. The research team...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $941,186 provides funding from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2027 to support research and education activities focused on developing predictive computational models for fiber-reinforced silica aerogel composites used in building insulation components. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the award will allow the awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of the State University of New...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $375,000.00 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop a fundamental understanding of the multi-functional response of a new class of engineered materials: three-dimensional woven architected nano-composites. The research will leverage advanced additive manufacturing techniques to create highly deformable woven materials that can provide electrical responses tied to the level of...
- This $562,789 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Arizona State University aims to deepen the understanding of deformation mechanisms in axially bi-continuous graphene-nickel composites. The project will leverage new laser-based material processing and microdevice-based characterization methods to investigate the strengthening mechanisms of these graphene-metal composites, which can potentially lead to the development of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $632,838 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. This 3-year grant supports fundamental research to accelerate the discovery of a new family of polymers called Covalent Adaptable Networks (CANs) and their composites. The goal is to develop mechanically strong yet reversible materials that enable...
- This $447,589 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and educational activities at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of how electrochemically active nanofluids - colloidal suspensions of nano-sized particles in fluids like water - can be leveraged for energy storage and conversion applications. Key objectives include modifying nanoparticle surfaces to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to improve the modeling and prediction of long-term performance for polymer glasses, a class of non-equilibrium materials with applications in electronics, aerospace composites, and other areas. The $372,323 award, effective April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027, is funding collaborative work between researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) and the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $730,240 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Washington to conduct fundamental research on "Selective Microstructure and Surface Engineering of Functional Polymer Composites through Laser-Induced Foaming." The project aims to advance scientific understanding of selective polymer foaming techniques, which could enable applications such as miniaturized sensors and wearable electronics. The research...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $436,084 supports research at Carnegie Mellon University from May 2022 through April 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund the development of novel methods to control interactions between polymer and nanomaterial constituents in polymer nanocomposites. Specifically, the grantee will synthesize brush particle model systems and characterize the structure evolution of liquid-crystal phase...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $199,999 to The University of Akron aims to develop an advanced insulation system using polymer nanocomposites to address the accelerated aging of motor winding insulation in electric machines powered by fast-switching pulse width modulated (PWM) inverters. The project will integrate numerical modeling and experimental validation to design nanocomposite insulation materials with tailored dielectric properties, advancing the fundamental understanding of interphase-driven dielectric behavior in polymer nanocomposites and establishing insulation design strategies for wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor-based inverter-fed electric machine winding insulation. The award has a project period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $200.0k | 8/20/25 |