Project Grant 2521442
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research into an innovative manufacturing technique for producing thin polymer films. The total award amount is $517,969.00 over the period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for the electrospray deposition process by integrating experiments, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. This will...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) grant award supports research to develop a probe-based hybrid nanopatterning process for conductive polymers. The $580,623 award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030, will enable the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton to conduct fundamental research on creating high-resolution and versatile nanopatterning techniques for conductive polymers. These advanced nanomanufacturing...
- This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on using liquid crystals as templates to guide the formation of novel polymeric nanostructures via chemical vapor polymerization. The research aims to expand the capabilities of chemical vapor polymerization to enable large-scale manufacturing of surface coatings with tailored nanoscopic structures, such as nanofiber arrays, interconnected nanosheets, and...
- This Project Grant award of $198,932 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to improve the additive manufacturing of soft elastomers. The research aims to develop novel experimental techniques to uncover the fundamental process dynamics of vat photopolymerization 3D printing, addressing critical knowledge gaps that prevent high-quality printing of soft materials for applications like biomedical devices and soft robotics. The...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $257,697 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to conduct collaborative research on engineering selective membranes from lipid-polyelectrolyte complexes. This 4-year project, which began on October 1, 2025, aims to harness biology-like performance and the chemical versatility of synthetic polymers to develop high-precision membranes for applications such as water...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 in funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct collaborative research on liquid crystal-templated chemical vapor polymerization for manufacturing novel nanofiber network coatings. The research aims to expand the capabilities of chemical vapor polymerization to enable the large-scale production of structured polymer coatings with tailored nanoscale...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research at The Leland Stanford Junior University to engineer a transformative new vat polymerization process for advanced manufacturing, named "ICLIP". The key objectives are to develop computer simulation and theory to enable injection of resin through the printed part during the additive manufacturing process, which could result in a two order of magnitude increase in...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $245,155 to Rutgers, The State University to conduct fundamental research on self-limiting electrospray deposition of nanowire-particle composite coatings. The project aims to enable the mass production of these multifunctional nanomaterial coatings on versatile surfaces with complex shapes, which can be used in applications such as energy storage, tissue engineering, smart...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $353,941 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, to support research on understanding and controlling the physical adhesion and aggregation of nanomaterials in liquid environments. The key objectives are to develop a predictive model for nanoparticle adhesion by considering the effects of solvent-induced...
- This $394,621 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of a multiscale modeling framework to predict the composition of colloidal-particle coatings made by solvent drying. The project aims to create new knowledge about how composition gradients form in these coatings under realistic conditions and enable the systematic study of how surface chemistry and processing control the formation of self-stratified...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $469,995.00 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to investigate a novel Roll-to-Roll Assisted Polymerization (RRP) process for printing large-scale micropatterned surfaces with multifunctional properties. The research aims to address limitations in current surface engineering methods and significantly increase the efficiency of synthesizing surfaces with customized mechanical, optical, and hydrodynamic capabilities. Key focus areas include utilizing light patterns and magnetic guiding to control microstructure formation and enable rapid production of engineered surfaces for applications in water desalination, aircraft drag reduction, self-cleaning textiles, and targeted drug delivery. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, and the outcomes will be incorporated into graduate and undergraduate manufacturing and data assimilation courses.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $470.0k | 8/15/25 |