Project Grant 2515818
- This $308,031 three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on the nonlinear electrohydrodynamics of motile particles in confinement. The project aims to develop mathematical models, analytical solutions, and computational methods to understand the behavior of micron-sized colloidal particles driven to rotate or roll by electric fields between two planar electrodes. The research integrates...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $550,000 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to explore the behavior of active particles that can change shape. The project will leverage electric fields to manipulate the movement and interactions of these shape-morphing particles, with the goal of understanding how to control their collective behaviors. The results may lead to applications in areas such as...
- This Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to develop mathematical models and numerical simulations describing the propulsion of an active droplet. The research aims to elucidate how the internal and surface activity of a droplet can generate sustained forward motion, which is fundamental to understanding movement in soft materials and living cells. The project...
- This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at Penn State University to develop microfluidic platforms that harness energy from chemical reactions to enable autonomous fluid transport. Specifically, the award will examine the effects of molecular-scale chemistry on microscale confined fluid flow, and vice versa, to uncover new modes of chemically induced motion and...
- This $309,797 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a two-pronged research effort to study the emergence of long-range coherence in motile microorganismal systems with quenched disorder. The first component involves experimental studies of bacteria, amoeba, and bladder cancer cells in disordered environments to understand how self-propelled motion leads to large-scale collective behavior. The...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $306,369 in funding to the University of Delaware to conduct computational modeling and education research on the multiscale simulation of nanofluid assembly for the design of smart materials. The research aims to gain a fundamental understanding of how microscale self-assembly processes in particle-stabilized multiphase fluids can be used to control the mesoscale...
- This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Potsdam in Germany to develop virtual microfluidic devices utilizing light-activated flow patterns. The funding is provided through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to investigate chemically-induced phoretic flow and how optical stimuli can manipulate colloidal particles with applications in areas such as cell sorting, DNA manipulation, and...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $107,124 to Florida Institute of Technology Inc. to advance research in diffusive partial differential equations from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. Key work under this award includes advancing well-posedness and regularity theory for the Boltzmann and Landau kinetic equations, which feature...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences provides $163,383 to the University of Arizona under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The award supports research on nonlinearity in reaction-diffusion and kinetic equations, with a focus on developing tools to understand the long-time behavior of several reaction-diffusion systems and the well-posedness theory of various collisional kinetic...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $333,827 to Brandeis University for research developing quantitative continuum theories of composite active fluids from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The research will develop theoretical and computational frameworks to describe the dynamics of multi-component biological and synthetic fluids containing self-powered...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports Professor Oliver Steinbock at Florida State University's research into the mechanisms by which the motion of nano- and micro-particles driven by concentration gradients of solutes (diffusiophoresis) is influenced and controlled by self-organizing reaction-diffusion patterns. The $452,542 award, spanning September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will fund the development of experimental model systems that combine synthetic micromotors with pattern-forming chemical reactions to investigate scenarios in which particle motion and chemical self-organization coexist, disrupt each other, or give rise to emergent order. This research aims to provide insights into novel types of complex chemical systems and inform the analysis of similar phenomena in living systems. The project includes educational and outreach components to engage students and the public.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $452.5k | 8/26/25 |