Cleveland State University was awarded a $609,147 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund research from June 2022 to May 2027 to elucidate the synergistic nanoscale and carbohydrate interactions of glyconanomaterials with bacterial proteins, toxins, and cells. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, provides $520,855 to Arizona State University to develop new biomaterials and organisms that can separate, recover, and recycle critical minerals from waste streams. The project aims to engineer peptides, enzymes, and microbial strains that can effectively bind and reduce critical minerals, which are essential for manufacturing computers, cell phones, solar panels, batteries, and other...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant, awarded to Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (Colorado School of Mines) under CFDA 47.041, provides $386,077 to support a project to develop molecular imprinting atomic layer deposition techniques for creating microporous silica structures near active sites in mesoporous aluminosilicate catalysts. The goal is to induce confinement effects to enhance catalytic activity and selectivity for C-C coupling reactions, particularly...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a $337,663 research project at the University of Oklahoma from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to develop a revolutionary approach to synthesizing materials and chemicals under high-pressure conditions using porous materials. It proposes leveraging the high pressures observed within adsorbed fluid or solid films on solid substrates as an alternative to traditional,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research project at Northeastern University to develop computer simulations that study how organic molecules form crystals when mixed with a liquid and placed inside materials with tiny nanometer-scale pores. The $278,077 award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, aims to improve understanding of how confinement in nanopores affects the nucleation and...
This federal Project Grant award of $375,299, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports research to advance the understanding of nanostructure, ion affinity, and mobility in polymer membranes. The research aims to enable the design of improved polymer membranes for sustainable applications such as reverse osmosis water purification, chemical flow batteries, and lithium recovery....
This Project Grant award of $397,494 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research by the University of Colorado on the fundamental relationships that control the assembly of solid materials from shape-changing ribbon-like particles made of liquid crystal elastomers. The research aims to develop a new class of responsive materials that can self-assemble via reversible physical entanglement, enabling porous synthetic materials with tunable...
This Project Grant award for $320,117, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is focused on developing machine learning tools to rapidly predict the attractive forces between target molecules and candidate adsorbent materials. The goal is to use these predictions to identify optimal adsorbents for industrially important separation processes involving chemisorption. The project will dramatically boost data generation capabilities to train artificial...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $425,000 in funding to The Johns Hopkins University to develop a new type of zeolite membrane for separating chemical mixtures. The key objectives are to: (I) synthesize highly crystalline, intergrowth-free, and high-aspect ratio 8-member ring (8-MR) zeolite layers, (II) exfoliate the 8-MR layers, (III) deposit thin films on hollow fiber supports, and (IV) prepare...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort led by New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. The project aims to enhance the design of fluorinated protein fibers and hydrogels for medical applications. Key objectives include: 1) generating coiled-coil fluorinated fibers for controlled drug delivery, 2) developing temperature-responsive fluorinated hydrogels,...