Project Grant 2541375
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida received a $599,999 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041) effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2030. This project grant supports the development of high-performance gas separation membranes using polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) to improve energy efficiency in industrial chemical separations. The primary research deliverables...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded $390,000 through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Illinois beginning March 1, 2026, through February 28, 2031. This CAREER grant supports fundamental research to establish how mixtures of dynamic covalent bonds and topological entanglements can be engineered to co-optimize viscosity and elasticity in polymer networks. The project will develop new...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research received a $175,231 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective January 1, 2026. This project grant funds fundamental research into proton transport mechanisms through atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Pennsylvania received a $510,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. This research initiative delivers fundamental scientific investigation into ion transport mechanisms in polymer electrolytes, with particular emphasis on understanding how nanoscale morphologies and selective solvents...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded $305,983 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for collaborative research on sequence-driven assembly in polyelectrolyte/surfactant complex coacervates. The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2029, supports fundamental research into how sequence-controlled polymers and polypeptides can be used to...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Florida State University received a $360,000 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for a five-year project period beginning June 1, 2026, and concluding May 31, 2031. The award supports fundamental research on electronic and optical phenomena in moiré materials—engineered layered structures with patterned atomic-scale...
- This $118,229 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of novel, chemically recyclable polymer materials at the University of New Haven. The project aims to design low-strain cyclic olefin monomers that can be polymerized and then easily depolymerized back to their constituent monomers under mild conditions, addressing the energy-intensive nature of current polymer recycling methods. Through this 5-year...
- This CAREER grant award of $264,141, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a five-year research and education initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder beginning July 1, 2025. The primary deliverable is fundamental research on the mechanical properties of ultrathin polymer films, utilizing recently developed techniques to characterize how mechanical strength varies with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station received a $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. The award supports experimental research investigating the phase behavior of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) and polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs)—charged polymer materials with...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded $384,961 to the University of Florida under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to support computational research addressing physical aging in high free-volume polymers. The five-year CAREER award, effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2031, will advance understanding of how polymer chain configurations relax over time and influence material properties—knowledge critical for developing more durable polymer membranes used in industrial separation applications. The research focuses on polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIM), which possess desirable molecular structures that enable efficient gas separation but suffer from performance degradation due to physical aging. By modeling free volume distribution and chain dynamics at the molecular level, the project will uncover the structural mechanisms underlying polymer densification and relaxation, addressing a significant knowledge gap that currently limits industrial adoption of these promising separation technologies. This CAREER award integrates research and educational objectives to strengthen the nation's scientific workforce while advancing fundamental materials science. The computational modeling approach will provide mechanistic insights into polymer aging that cannot be captured through indirect performance measurements alone, potentially enabling the development of stabilization strategies that preserve membrane efficiency and mechanical integrity over extended service periods. Such advances could substantially reduce energy consumption in industrial separation processes, which currently represent a substantial fraction of global energy use.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $385.0k | 2/12/26 |