Project Grant 2522658
- This $112,988 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to establish a transformative framework for "metastability engineering" in refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs). The research focuses on developing new alloy design methods that can achieve both high-temperature strength and improved room-temperature ductility and strain hardenability in this class of materials. The project, led by Clemson...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to establish a transformative framework for "metastability engineering" in refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs). The $107,900 award to the University of Oklahoma will support research to simultaneously achieve high-temperature strength and enhanced room-temperature ductility in this new class of metallic materials. The project...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $625,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "DMREF: Simulation-Informed Models for Amorphous Metal Additive Manufacturing". The goal is to develop simulation-informed models and computational tools that can predict the strength and toughness of amorphous metals produced through additive...
- This $524,534 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research funds a collaborative research effort between The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Santa Barbara to elucidate high temperature deformation mechanisms in refractory multi-principal-element alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental scientific understanding of the ultrahigh temperature (up to 1500°C) mechanical behavior of this new class of alloy...
- This $876,311 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to design grain interfaces in polycrystalline metallic materials that improve damage resistance. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports fundamental research and education in these fields to strengthen the national science enterprise. The three-year project beginning January 2022 will investigate functionalizing grain boundaries...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to enable the design and creation of a new class of fracture-resistant mechanical metamaterials (MMS). The $317,248 award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, aims to develop a hierarchical framework for understanding and optimizing fracture resistance in MMS across global and local scales. The key hypothesis is that local constitutive behavior can...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $659,445 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The grant, titled "DESIGNING DAMAGE-RESISTANT ALLOYS WITH POTENTIAL ENERGY LANDSCAPE ROUGHNESS USING EXPERIMENTAL THERMOCHEMISTRY AND RAPID STRUCTURAL DAMAGE INFERENCE," aims to establish a more universal principle for designing damage-resistant metallic materials. The 3-year...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research to establish a general, experimentally validated continuum modeling framework for active mechanical metamaterials. The $253,022 award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, will enable efficient prediction of material behavior and systematic design across a wide range of geometries and actuation mechanisms for applications in aerospace, biomedical...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $390,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Iowa State University to conduct a fundamental, in-situ quantitative study of coupled severe plastic deformation, nanostructure evolution, and phase transformations in titanium, titanium-zirconium alloys, and an aluminum-iron-cobalt-nickel-copper high entropy alloy. The research will involve experiments using a dynamic rotational diamond anvil...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $260,436 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to establish a transformative framework for "metastability engineering" in refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs). This collaborative research project, conducted in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology of India, aims to develop novel structural alloys that achieve high strength at high temperatures while also exhibiting enhanced ductility at room temperature. The research integrates combinatorial synthesis, advanced in-situ experiments, atomistic and mesoscale simulations, and machine learning-guided discovery to activate novel nano-scale deformation mechanisms by controlling dislocation dynamics and phase stability in RMPEAs. The project will also contribute to training the next generation of materials scientists and support international collaboration through partnerships with U.S. universities and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The award period is from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $260.4k | 9/4/25 |