Project Grant 2519599
- This $375,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at Trustees of Boston University on wave engineering using hierarchical nanostructured dynamical systems. The research aims to advance the understanding of sound wave propagation in tailored two-dimensional mediums composed of a periodic array of nanoscale cavities with single-atom-thick membranes. The project will explore how these nanostructures...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a new class of architected "moiré metastructures" capable of guiding and confining nonlinear elastic waves. The $504,312 award, effective October 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028, aims to enable applications of these engineered materials to vibration protection for large-scale wind turbine blades and...
- This $499,518 National Science Foundation project grant supports fundamental research at the University of Minnesota to develop metamaterial architectures for programmable droplet motion control. The three-year award under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will investigate designing vibrating metamaterials to program the locomotion of liquid droplets on solid surfaces. Specifically, the university researchers aim to realize control strategies that allow deep manipulation of fluid...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. This 3-year grant will fund fundamental research on the remote and contactless actuation of objects using acoustic waves and engineered metasurface structures. The technical objective is to develop bidirectional models that map...
- This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to systematically understand the dislocation-phonon drag regime in metallic materials across a wide range of strain rates. The research aims to develop a novel, small-scale, high-throughput approach to study the characteristics of dislocation-phonon interactions in metals and alloys at extremely high deformation rates. The integrated experimental-computational...
- This National Science Foundation award provides $249,901 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports fundamental research on consistent treatment of boundaries and interfaces in metamaterials. A multi-disciplinary team will perform theoretical and computational analysis of transition layers and use inverse design principles to create devices that control propagation of...
- This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on linear partial differential equations in settings with singular spaces, such as wave propagation in discontinuous media. The principal investigator at Northwestern University will investigate fundamental questions regarding the behavior of wavefunctions in quantum mechanics and acoustic waves in media with non-smooth...
- This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the acquisition of an all-in-one optical measurement workstation by Boise State University. The workstation will provide micro-scale vibration and topography characterization capabilities to enhance research and education capacity in materials science, biomedical engineering, additive manufacturing, and quantum physics. It will be integrated into course projects, research internships,...
- This $574,999 federal project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton to develop broadband tunable nano-opto-electro-mechanical resonators for ultrasensitive adaptive sensing. The research aims to create a highly tunable mechanical resonator that can operate across a wide range of frequencies, signals, and conditions, enabling advanced adaptive sensing in various applications like...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award in the amount of $300,150 supports collaborative research aimed at designing and optimizing topological metamaterials with programmable levels of softness and rigidity. The research will investigate the relationship between the geometric features of these materials and their emergent topological polarization properties, which enable the materials to manage applied loads through soft and rigid edges. The...
This $507,424 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research on surface Bloch waves in phononic crystals at the University of Minnesota. The research aims to develop a theoretical framework to describe, manipulate, and harness the sensing potential of surface waves in these engineered materials, which have applications in vibration control, noise reduction, energy harvesting, sensing, and communication technologies. The 3-year project, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will train graduate students in advanced computational and experimental methods while generating fundamental insights to benefit the broader scientific community in wave physics, material characterization, and additive manufacturing. This work serves the national interest by advancing non-destructive evaluation techniques for infrastructure safety, aerospace applications, and improving quality control of next-generation composite materials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $507.4k | 8/21/25 |