Project Grant 2522811
- This $130,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to advance the state-of-the-art in industrial material removal processes for high-temperature refractory metals. The research aims to enhance machining, grinding, and comminution of relatively soft yet challenging-to-cut refractory metals like tantalum and niobium,...
- Purdue University received a $461,650 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to fund research activities through May 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the funding will support Purdue University's research efforts to disrupt plastic flow in metals through...
- This $194,897 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to investigate the deformation mechanisms during ultra-precision machining of single crystal materials, such as ceramics used in aerospace, biomedical, and semiconductor applications. By combining precision cutting experiments and computer simulations, the research project seeks to develop predictive models to enhance the productivity and efficiency of ultra-precision machining...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a $337,663 research project at the University of Oklahoma from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to develop a revolutionary approach to synthesizing materials and chemicals under high-pressure conditions using porous materials. It proposes leveraging the high pressures observed within adsorbed fluid or solid films on solid substrates as an alternative to traditional,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $230,000.00 to the University of Oklahoma to establish a transformative framework for "metastability engineering" in refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAS). The research aims to develop RMPEAS that simultaneously achieve high-temperature strength and improved room-temperature ductility. Key technical thrusts include understanding dislocation dynamics for...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to establish a transformative framework for developing refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs) that achieve both high-temperature strength and improved room-temperature ductility. The $230,000 project, awarded to the University of Alabama, will integrate combinatorial synthesis, advanced experiments, computational modeling, and machine learning to enable accelerated design of...
- This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Purdue University will support research to characterize the motion and orientation of non-spherical particles in viscoelastic fluids. The research will involve microfluidic experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling to quantify the interplay between lift forces and particle orientation for different flow rates, particle geometries, fluid properties, and channel confinement....
- This $250,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Purdue University to develop a fundamental understanding of the process-microstructure-property relationships for additive manufacturing of metal matrix composites via cold spray technology. The key objectives are to expand the applicability of cold spray to a broader range of materials and applications, and to develop manufacturing science and mechanistic...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,204 to Purdue University to conduct an integrated molecular dynamics and machine learning investigation of gas-liquid interfaces in transcritical reacting flows. The project aims to improve the understanding of the underlying physics governing interfaces, phase changes, and molecular transport within high-pressure, transcritical fluid flows, which are critical for the efficiency of...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $702,284 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Purdue University. The funding will support research on the "Thermal Stabilization of 2D and Layered Carbides through Surface Modification for Functional High-Temperature Devices." The project aims to advance the feasibility of ultra-thin next-generation nanoelectronics capable of operating in extreme environments by designing...
This NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $250,000 provides funding to Purdue University from August 15, 2025 to July 31, 2028 to conduct collaborative research on exploring chemical effects in surface plasticity to enhance material removal processes for refractory metals. The research aims to advance the state-of-the-art of industrial material removal processes for high-temperature refractory metals through a recently uncovered chemical effect, referred to as organic monolayer embrittlement (OME), that can induce local embrittlement and enable fracture-based material removal with lower forces, improved surface quality, and increased productivity. The project will involve high-speed in situ observations of deformation, chemistry/material interactions, and surface science to explain how nanoscale organic films influence the gummy behavior of refractory metals during machining, grinding, and comminution. The research results are expected to enable the development of a suite of high-performance chemomechanical manufacturing processes that can benefit aerospace, hypersonics, nuclear energy, and electronics applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 8/21/25 |