The National Science Foundation awarded a $149,960 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for work on "INVESTIGATION OF LOCAL STRAIN AND SINGLE PHOTON EMITTERS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS" from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. The grant funding will support the University of Delaware's research into local strain and single photon emitters in two-dimensional materials, in alignment with the...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Delaware to develop new methods for constructing polynomial approximations of complex mathematical functions. The research aims to advance the fundamental mathematical understanding of how to efficiently build such polynomial approximations, which have important applications in fields like engineering, science, and...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Berkeley to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome current limitations of topological insulators by focusing on quasi-1D materials, which have the potential to enable new...
The University of Delaware received a three-year, $508,023 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct a systematic study of plasmon-induced charge and energy transfer in metal-semiconductor hybrids under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research from August 2021 through July 2024 to advance understanding of major problems in these scientific fields. Specifically, the university will use the funding to promote...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The funding supports a collaborative research project to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome key challenges in current topological insulator materials by focusing on quasi-one-dimensional...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $306,369 in funding to the University of Delaware to conduct computational modeling and education research on the multiscale simulation of nanofluid assembly for the design of smart materials. The research aims to gain a fundamental understanding of how microscale self-assembly processes in particle-stabilized multiphase fluids can be used to control the mesoscale...
This $156,571 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports fundamental research to advance the understanding of four-dimensional manifolds with symplectic structures, employing tools from topology, dynamics, and geometry. The primary objectives are to explore the properties and symmetries of four-manifolds, compare symplectic and Kähler cones, solve isotopy problems for...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $545,491.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports the principal investigator at Penn State University in designing, synthesizing, and studying a new family of "hybrid topological semimetal heterostructures" whose topological properties can be electrically tuned. The research aims to develop a rigorous understanding of emergent quantum...
This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
This $299,998 federal Project Grant award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to investigate emergent correlated-electron phenomena and phases within a family of highly reproducible two-dimensional semiconductor materials, known as rhombohedral graphene multilayers. The key objectives are to establish this unique...