Project Grant 2511002
- This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) is focused on research related to nematic liquid crystal materials. The key objectives of this 3-year project from August 2025 to July 2028 are: Investigating the hydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystals modeled by the Ericksen-Leslie system, with a focus on establishing the existence of global weak solutions in 3D. Analyzing phase...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program, with an estimated value of $325,000 over 3 years starting December 1, 2023, will fund research on the properties and behaviors of complex liquid crystal materials. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will conduct theoretical and computational studies to investigate the morphology, topological defects, and non-equilibrium transport in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals....
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research by The Ohio State University on the use of geometric confinement and fluid interfaces to induce reconfigurable dipole lattices in apolar nematic liquid crystals. The $247,797 award, with a project period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will involve fabricating patterned microstructures, introducing nematic liquid crystals, and applying...
- This $583,191 National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences Project Grant supports research into hydrodynamics of liquid crystals and heat flow of harmonic maps at New York University from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The principal investigator and their team will conduct interdisciplinary research exploring the Ericksen-Leslie system describing liquid crystal dynamics, singularities in fluid flows and topological defects. They will also investigate geometric variational...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $230,111 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. This 3-year grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, supports two scientific research threads: (1) fundamental research on liquid crystals, their suspensions, and related applications; and (2) investigations of extreme wave phenomena in photonic devices, with a focus on epsilon near...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a Project Grant of $207,638 to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) to conduct a rigorous mathematical study of equations modeling nematic liquid crystals. The grant, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will investigate various models of nematic liquid crystals across different scales, from macroscopic to microscopic theories. The research aims to...
- This $299,385.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to develop predictive models for energy dissipation and actuation in polydomain liquid crystal elastomers. The project aims to experimentally investigate the mesogen-scale processes in these soft, rubber-like materials that can be manipulated with external forces. The research will focus on materials produced through scalable manufacturing processes,...
- This $455,140.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to develop predictive models for dissipation and actuation in polydomain liquid crystal elastomers. The research aims to experimentally probe mesogen-scale processes in these soft, rubber-like materials that can be manipulated with external forces, with potential applications in biomedical implants, vibration isolators, helmet liners, and soft...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year $442,985 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on flow-induced structuring in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals. MIT will explore how these water-based bio-compatible liquid crystals respond to external flows and self-organize into large-scale ordered structures. The research will investigate the conditions under which periodic...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $599,979 to Kent State University to conduct research on the hydrodynamics and electrokinetics of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals. The key objectives are to explore the fluid dynamics and electric polarization of these materials under shear force and electric fields, with potential applications in future microscale devices and advanced soft...
This $300,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research focused on two areas: (1) ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals, which exhibit switchable electric polarization and show promise for improved electro-optical devices, and (2) nematic liquid crystals with high symmetries, such as tetrahedral and cubic, which require advanced mathematical techniques like tensors for accurate modeling. This research aims to develop new theoretical frameworks and computational methods to improve understanding of structural ordering and defects in these liquid crystal systems, supporting advances in sensing and simulation technologies. The project, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will be conducted by the Regents of the University of Minnesota through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/21/25 |