Project Grant 2527151
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $370,974 in funding to the University of Houston System for research aimed at advancing the understanding of quantum materials. The research will develop new models and methods for designing quantum materials by linking continuum mechanics with quantum field, electric field, and magnetic field interactions. This work will provide fresh perspectives on improving properties like...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $314,460 to Rutgers, The State University will support research aimed at advancing the understanding of quantum materials - a class of materials with unique behaviors due to their underlying quantum properties. The research will develop new models and methods for designing quantum materials by linking continuum mechanics theory with quantum field, electric field, and magnetic field interactions....
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to advance the modeling and design of porous materials, such as foams and energy-absorbing materials, that play a critical role in various industries. The $593,965 project, awarded to the University of Utah, will develop a hybrid quantum-classical finite element method (FEM) framework to model fracture in heterogeneous porous materials. The research will integrate quantum solvers for...
- This $593,598 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research at Vanderbilt University to develop and test new quantum computing algorithms for solving complex nonlinear and history-dependent mechanics problems. The research aims to transform how engineering computations are performed by leveraging quantum mechanics principles like superposition and entanglement to achieve exponential memory capacity and algorithmic...
- This $352,408 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research into "unitary mechanical metamaterials" with unique mechanical properties. The research aims to develop novel materials that can fully transfer information about applied loading conditions throughout the material interior, similar to the processing of information in a quantum computer. This could potentially enable the development of inexpensive...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $624,884 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to conduct research that aims to enable the reliable design of nanostructured devices. The key objectives are to: Investigate the probabilistic strength distribution of nanoscale materials and structures using high-throughput testing to generate statistically significant data. This data will be used to evaluate and develop more...
- This $700,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of machine learning tools and quantum-classical hybrid algorithms to advance quantum materials research and optimize the use of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Led by Cornell University with subawards to Princeton University, New York University, and Harvard University, the project will deliver new topological materials, a...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049, supports theoretical and computational research and education to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of first-principles quantum mechanical simulations for studying the electronic structure of materials. The $220,991 award aims to develop innovative machine learning-based approximations to the exact functional within density functional theory, which is critical for...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $453,738 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at Austin to develop an integrated experimental and computational framework for analyzing the fracture behavior of soft materials, including hydrogels, elastomers, and biological tissues. The objective is to understand and model soft material fracture mechanics from full-field deformation measurements by resolving inaccuracies near crack tips. The research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to support fundamental research on understanding the mechanics of strongly correlated materials using quantum computing. The grant, titled "BRITE PIVOT: Nanomechanics of Strongly Correlated Materials", aims to develop algorithms to characterize the mechanical properties, stress-strain behavior, surface mechanics, and dynamical response of this emerging class of materials on quantum computers. The research seeks to address the challenges in accurately determining the electron-electron correlation energies in strongly correlated materials, which is critical for applications in lightweight high-strength alloys, energy conversion, catalysis, and porous materials for sensing and separations. The 3-year project includes an education and outreach plan to provide training opportunities in the interdisciplinary areas of quantum computing, mechanics, and correlated materials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $600.0k | 8/3/25 |