Project Grant 2510937
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041), awarded a $369,424 project grant to Michigan State University (MSU) for collaborative research on end-linked polymer networks. This 3-year project, starting on February 1, 2025, aims to investigate the fundamental role of topological defects in regulating the strain-induced crystallization of these macromolecular materials. The research will combine experimental and modeling approaches to develop a better...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $461,594 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will support research to advance the understanding of polymer gels, an important class of materials used in a variety of health, industrial, and defense applications. The project aims to correlate spatiotemporal fluctuations of individual polymer...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will enable research on a new class of "active polymers" that can respond to local energy fluctuations. The $495,000 award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) will support the development of experimental methods to produce and study the mobility of these active polymers, with a focus on how energy injection at the molecular level impacts their behavior...
- This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop new methods for analyzing and optimizing polymer network structures. Professors Jeremiah A. Johnson and Bradley D. Olsen of MIT's Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering will work to invent chemical strategies, theories, and simulations to provide deeper understanding of topology in...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $1.2 million Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct collaborative research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The four-year award, made on October 1, 2021 and running through September 30, 2025, will support MIT's "Designer 3D Mesoscale Materials Synthesized in the Self-Assembly Foundry" project. This project aims to advance the design and synthesis of...
- 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 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...
- This $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports the development of new composite materials with applications in optical devices. Professor Rob Macfarlane and his research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will synthesize polymer-grafted nanoparticles containing large volumes of high refractive index nanoparticles embedded in a mechanically robust...
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 microscopes to study single polymer molecule dynamics within these mixtures. Key outcomes include training students for the workforce, providing research opportunities for high school teachers and undergraduates, and developing demonstration kits for school teachers to introduce molecular connectivity concepts. The discoveries from this project are expected to impact the design of future high-performance polymer systems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $460.0k | 7/24/25 |