Project Grant 2522694
- 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...
- This $399,562 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Mississippi State University to investigate the effects of electric fields on polyelectrolytes (charged polymers). The key objectives are to: 1) control the complex formation of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in aqueous media, 2) explore how electric fields can cause adhesion between oppositely charged ionic...
- 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 $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 Division of Materials Research awarded a $326,199 Project Grant to the University of South Florida under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The award will support integrated experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to understand the mechanism and consequences of polymer adsorption in films and nanocomposites. Researchers will employ fluorescence...
- This $210,335 NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award to Drexel University supports the development of a new computational method to accelerate the design of new polymeric materials. The project aims to create a simulation technique that can simultaneously resolve both monomer-level chemistry and mesoscopic length scales within polymeric materials. This has the potential to significantly speed up the development of new polymers for diverse applications like...
- This federal Project Grant award of $244,960 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports computational research to discover new block polymer materials. The project aims to overcome the "chicken or the egg" challenge in predicting the ordered structures that will result from the self-assembly of block polymers, which have diverse applications across soft materials. The work leverages generative artificial intelligence methods...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $305,983 to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to conduct collaborative research on how charged, sequence-controlled polymers can be used to assemble surfactants into desired nano-scale structures. The research aims to establish the relationship between polymer sequence and the resulting assembled surfactant structures, leveraging both experimental and computational...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $273,291 to the University of California, Santa Barbara to develop computational tools that combine machine learning and scientific computing for the exploration and prediction of polymer systems. The goal is to accelerate the discovery of new materials and provide a framework for computationally costly problems across various scientific domains. The research...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will enable research on a new class of "active polymers" that can respond to local energy fluctuations. The $495,000 award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) will support the development of experimental methods to produce and study the mobility of these active polymers, with a focus on how energy injection at the molecular level impacts their behavior...
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 biomedical devices. The key objective is to use star-shaped block copolymers to control the thermomechanical properties of PCM-polymer composites, known as "salogels," addressing challenges with the fluidity and leakage of inorganic salt hydrate PCMs. The project leverages modeling, theory, and AI/machine learning to accelerate the development of these salogel materials. This collaborative effort between researchers in the U.S. and India is expected to produce a knowledge base correlating molecular parameters of star polymers and inorganic salt hydrates with the thermomechanical properties of salogels, enabling their accelerated development for diverse applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $384.2k | 9/5/25 |