Project Grant 2506319
- This $317,248 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to enable the design and creation of a new class of fracture-resistant mechanical metamaterials. The key objectives are to develop a hierarchical framework for understanding and optimizing fracture resistance in these materials across global and local scales. The research aims to generate new insights, design principles, and educational tools to enable...
- This $271,213 National Science Foundation award through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will support research at the Illinois Institute of Technology from September 2022 through August 2025. The project aims to advance understanding of boundary and interface issues in metamaterials through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Researchers will perform theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis of transition layers in acoustic and elastic metamaterials to develop devices that control...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $370,974 in funding to the University of Houston System for research aimed at advancing the understanding of quantum materials. The research will develop new models and methods for designing quantum materials by linking continuum mechanics with quantum field, electric field, and magnetic field interactions. This work will provide fresh perspectives on improving properties like...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $437,450 Project Grant to Purdue University to develop a new class of "nonlocal elastic metamaterials" that leverage intentional nonlocality as a design principle. The goal is to create programmable materials with broadband dynamic performance, tunable effective properties, and efficient reconfiguration, addressing limitations of current metamaterial technologies. This 3-year project (5/1/2024 - 4/30/2027) under NSF's Engineering...
- This $601,818 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of programmable materials that can control and monitor vibrations and shocks in real time at Purdue University from February 15, 2022 to January 31, 2027. The grant recipient will investigate the physics and establish a mathematical foundation governing the interplay between topology and nonlinear, time-dependent behavior in heterogeneous mechanical metamaterials....
- This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to design a new class of engineered artificial materials known as metamaterials. The goal is to develop metamaterials that exhibit high refractive indices, allowing for the creation of more advanced optical components, faster computing, enhanced augmented reality displays, and improved high-speed communications. The project will...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $299,039, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The funding supports the development of computational techniques to accelerate the simulation and design process for elastic metamaterials, a class of engineered materials with unique properties not found in nature. The research aims to create a new framework for fast periodic homogenization of...
- This $352,071 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research at Drexel University to establish a general, experimentally validated continuum modeling framework for active mechanical metamaterials. The research aims to enable efficient prediction of material behavior and systematic design across a range of geometries and actuation mechanisms. Key activities include constructing continuum models to connect...
- This $488,463 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to transform the field of adaptive structures and materials through the embodiment of intelligence in mechanical metamaterials. The research aims to harness topologically-protected wave networks and physical computing in architected materials to create intelligent structural systems with capabilities like...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $314,460 to Rutgers, The State University will support research aimed at advancing the understanding of quantum materials - a class of materials with unique behaviors due to their underlying quantum properties. The research will develop new models and methods for designing quantum materials by linking continuum mechanics theory with quantum field, electric field, and magnetic field interactions....
This $352,408 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research into "unitary mechanical metamaterials" with unique mechanical properties. The research aims to develop novel materials that can fully transfer information about applied loading conditions throughout the material interior, similar to the processing of information in a quantum computer. This could potentially enable the development of inexpensive quantum computers, advancing national technological capabilities. The project will also provide educational and training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in interdisciplinary areas like metamaterials, micromechanics, and computational mechanics. The grant was awarded to the University of Illinois, Chicago campus, and has an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $352.4k | 8/15/25 |