Project Grant 2522693
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $384,233 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: NSF-DST: ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMER SALOGELS" project. This 4-year project, beginning on October 1, 2025, aims to develop phase change materials (PCMs) for temperature regulation applications in personal care products, buildings, and...
- This is a $675,234 Project Grant awarded on August 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049). The grant recipient is the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a state government agency and institute of higher learning. The grant will fund research to develop a new class of "shape-morphing" polymer materials that can transform their shape in response to temperature changes, without requiring...
- This $480,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a 3-year research project conducted by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to investigate the phase behavior of polyelectrolyte complexes and multilayers. The project aims to expand the understanding of how molecular factors, such as hydrogen bonding and charge, influence the solid-liquid phase boundaries in these charged polymer materials,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $407,495 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo through the CAL Poly Corporation to develop novel, thermally responsive polymeric materials. The grant supports research by Professors Philip Costanzo and Daniel Bercovici to create polymer structures with dynamic-covalent linkages that can be cleaved and reformed at different temperatures. This...
- This $465,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports a research project at Texas A&M University to develop the knowledge and capabilities required to create polymer-encapsulated liquid-core capsules. The goal is to address how to localize monomer and initiator precursors to form a polymer shell around a liquid droplet core. This research has applications in diverse...
- This $399,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Houston and Carnegie Mellon University. The goal is to develop novel segmented polar-polyolefin copolymer materials with complex molecular architectures, including spheres, cylinders, and wormlike structures. These materials have potential applications in energy storage and plastic...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant for $272,001 to William Marsh Rice University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports fundamental research to advance the understanding of stimuli-responsive materials by investigating structure-function relationships in entangled polymer chains and fibrous systems across scales. The project aims to address three key research questions: 1) how supramolecular hydrogen bonding...
- The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) received a $520,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. This 3-year award will fund research to develop an understanding of the crystalline structures and chain conformations of ferroelectric polymers with chemical defects. The project aims to investigate how the defect-modified crystalline structure impacts the polarization, ferroelectric properties, and electrocaloric...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $424,389 to The Pennsylvania State University for research on developing novel thermogel biomaterials. The key product is the creation of a modular, injectable hydrogel system using thermosensitive polymeric nanoparticles that can self-assemble into well-defined hydrogel networks when exposed to body temperature. This novel hydrogel design aims to provide greater control over...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $461,594 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will support research to advance the understanding of polymer gels, an important class of materials used in a variety of health, industrial, and defense applications. The project aims to correlate spatiotemporal fluctuations of individual polymer...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to conduct collaborative research on the development of polymer salogels - phase change materials that can regulate temperature in personal care and building applications. The 4-year project will explore the use of star-shaped block copolymers to stabilize and control the thermomechanical properties of inorganic salt hydrate-based phase change materials, enabling their practical application. The research aims to create a knowledge base correlating polymer molecular parameters and inorganic salt hydrate types with the resulting salogel properties, accelerating the development of these advanced thermal energy storage materials. The project will also provide training opportunities for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students through hands-on demonstrations and computational research outreach events.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.6m | 9/5/25 |