Project Grant 2506044
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $350,000.00 to The Trustees of Princeton University to conduct collaborative research on the design, kinetics, and reconfigurable assembly of multicomponent crystals. The goal is to understand how to precisely arrange microscopic colloidal particles to create new materials with customizable properties. The project will use experiments and computer simulations to develop new strategies...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $278,077 to Northeastern University to create computer simulations that will help scientists study how organic molecules form crystals when mixed with a liquid and placed inside nanomaterials. The project aims to understand how confinement in nanopores affects the nucleation of crystal formation, which is important for developing more effective medicines and stronger materials for...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research effort to create computer simulations that study how organic molecules form crystals when mixed with liquids and placed inside nanomaterials. The $312,589 award to North Carolina State University will run from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The goal is to better understand how the tiny spaces of nanopores affect the nucleation and formation of these crystals,...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research effort at the University of Colorado to study the fundamental relationships that control the assembly of solid materials from small, shape-changing ribbon-like particles. The $397,494 award, spanning from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will investigate the use of reversible physical entanglement of these shape-changing particles to create porous solid...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $460,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the project "ASSEMBLY, DYNAMICS AND RHEOLOGY OF COLLOIDAL KINETOPLAST CLUSTERS." This 3-year grant, running from July 15, 2025 to June 30, 2028, will fund research on assembling two-dimensional polymers into complex structures by introducing additional molecular components. The project will utilize specialized cameras and...
- This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to understand and control the interfacial dynamics governing the formation of discrete tiles of nanoparticle assemblies on functionalized fluid interfaces. The research combines experimental and computational methods to investigate and manipulate the thermodynamic and kinetic factors influencing nanoparticle assembly at fluid interfaces. The goal is to achieve precise control...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports a collaborative research project at Drexel University aimed at fabricating ordered nanoparticle-polymer superstructures through co-crystallization. The $328,000 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will focus on (1) understanding the co-crystallization process of polymers and nanoparticles, (2) controlling the structure of nanoparticle crystalsomes formed...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program grant of $362,000.00 awarded to The Johns Hopkins University on August 1, 2024 aims to develop models to predict and describe the behavior of colloidal assemblies on curved surfaces. The project will use microscopy, computer experiments, and feedback control to understand the dynamics of particle-scale microstructure formation and evolution on curved surfaces. The goals are to gain fundamental insights into how different...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $129,552 to the University of Tennessee to conduct collaborative research on directed assembly of nanoparticles and polymers via co-crystallization. The primary objectives are to: 1) understand the co-crystallization process of polymers and nanoparticles; 2) control the structure of nanoparticle crystalsomes formed through co-crystallization; and 3) tune nanoparticle crystalsomes...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $465,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a research project titled "Discovery of Self-Assembled Network Phases and Metallic Nanostructures Driven by Confinement." The goal of the 3-year project is to investigate a novel class of Janus multiblock bottlebrush copolymers that can self-assemble into unusual nanoscale...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $390,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Brandeis University. The goal of this 3-year project, from August 2025 to July 2028, is to develop new strategies for designing and synthesizing multicomponent crystalline materials by arranging microscopic colloidal particles. The researchers will use experiments and computer simulations to investigate the assembly kinetics of these materials and engineer reconfigurable colloidal mixtures. The project aims to create an online platform to share the design tools with other researchers and develop a new training program to introduce students to the experimental and theoretical methods required for this research. The results of this collaborative project are expected to yield design principles for optimizing the assembly of multicomponent crystals, which have potential applications in creating advanced materials with customizable properties.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $390.0k | 8/15/25 |