Project Grant 2532344
- Purdue University was awarded a $332,957 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to support research into thermal transport in two-dimensional semiconductor materials. With a completion date of July 31, 2024, this award funds work under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant will allow Purdue researchers to study heat...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,745 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Purdue University. Through this 3-year grant from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028, Professor Christina W. Li and her research team will study the defect chemistry of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenide (TMD) materials. The goal is to develop strategies for controlled creation of defects on TMD surfaces and utilize those defects to modulate the...
- Purdue University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: SCALABLE NANOMANUFACTURING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS FOR QUANTUM DEVICE APPLICATIONS." The award has a completion date of April 30, 2026. The funding is provided through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under...
- Purdue University was awarded a three-year, $443,065 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research developing a general synthetic platform for atomically-precise functionalization of two-dimensional nanomaterials. By advancing techniques to functionalize two-dimensional materials at the atomic level with precise control, this work is expected to generate new...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded Purdue University a $190,936 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on February 15, 2024. The objective of this 2-year project is to design, synthesize, and characterize a new family of two-dimensional rare-earth transition metal carbide materials called "RE-MXenes." Through a combination of computational modeling and experimental efforts, the researchers aim to...
- This $330,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems and Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between Purdue University and the University of St. Thomas focused on investigating two-dimensional (2D) materials and developing photoswitchable interlayer exciton devices. Key activities include constructing 2D heterostructured hybrid devices from transition metal dichalcogenides and photochromic...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports Purdue University's research to advance the fundamental understanding of four-phonon and exciton-phonon interactions and their impact on thermal transport and energy dissipation in emerging layered electronic and optoelectronic materials. The $293,927 award runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The research aims to address key knowledge gaps around how highly nonlinear...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Illinois a $700,485 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop two-dimensional amorphous carbon materials with tunable atomic structures for use as a novel dielectric in electronic devices. Over a four-year period ending February 2026, the university will utilize a solution-based process to precisely control the thickness and degree of medium-range ordering in carbon monolayers and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $352,829 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to conduct collaborative research on manipulating the thermal properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials through interface structure and chemistry. The key research objectives are to: Understand and control thermal boundary conductance at 2D-2D and 2D-bulk material interfaces by applying extreme pressure...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $343,766 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Purdue University. The grant supports Dr. Jianing Li's research to develop data-driven, hierarchical computational modeling methods to predict the properties of biocompatible, bioactive nanomaterials for applications in sensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. The project aims to create systematic, adaptable approaches to coarse-grain molecular...
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 and modeling conductive two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbide materials. The research will combine experiments, simulations, and modeling to develop these high-temperature-capable 2D conductive materials to enable innovations in dependable energy and space exploration technologies. All research results and models will be made publicly available to support education, workforce development, and the creation of new machine learning models. The project period is from September 15, 2025 to August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $702.3k | 8/20/25 |