This $299,998 federal Project Grant award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to investigate emergent correlated-electron phenomena and phases within a family of highly reproducible two-dimensional semiconductor materials, known as rhombohedral graphene multilayers. The key objectives are to establish this unique...
This $350,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of New Hampshire into controlling correlated physics in two-dimensional materials through twist engineering. The goals are to accelerate development of next-generation quantum technologies by achieving unprecedented control over quantum behaviors in these materials and to build a quantum-literate workforce. Specifically, the award funds...
This Project Grant award, totaling $416,387.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award will fund a collaborative research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on investigating emergent phenomena, phases, properties, and principles in an unusual family of crystalline 2D semiconductor materials. The key objectives are to study spontaneous symmetry breaking, demonstrate novel...
This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
This $198,463 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research and educational initiatives conducted by Rutgers, The State University. The project aims to develop new tools and refine existing techniques to analyze the effects of interactions in three types of particle systems: interacting Bose gases, classical hard-core particle models, and interacting lattice Fermi gases. The research...
This $1,065,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support collaborative research by the University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northeastern University to develop novel quantum materials through deep learning-guided "twistronics". The researchers will use computer-aided deep learning models and theoretical tools to predict and guide the self-assembly of two-dimensional...
This $388,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems subjected to low-energy light excitation at Georgia State University from August 2022 to July 2025. The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge in these fields. Specifically, the university will experimentally examine the magnetoelectronic...
This five-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, totaling $239,749, supports theoretical and computational research as well as educational efforts related to emerging layered materials. Specifically, the awardee, Stanford University, will utilize large-scale simulations and develop new methods to study the electronic and optical properties of vertically stacked two-dimensional materials with moiré patterns. This includes calculating effective...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Berkeley to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome current limitations of topological insulators by focusing on quasi-1D materials, which have the potential to enable new...
This Project Grant award, valued at $303,710, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award, titled "CAREER: Investigating Unconventional Superconductivity with Reconfigurable Graphene Heterostructures," is being administered by the University of California, Berkeley. The primary research goals of this 5-year project are to develop tools for studying graphene heterostructures and use them to elucidate the...