Project Grant 2541599
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Award Details: Northwestern University received a $532,396 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research into the collective dynamics of self-propelled colloidal particles confined within soft, deformable boundaries. Research Deliverables: The project...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, awarded August 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2027. The award funds fundamental research on singularities in Kähler geometry and Lagrangian mean curvature flow, with the primary deliverables centered on advancing geometric and algebraic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Award Details: Northwestern University received a $750,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The collaborative research project, titled "MFS-SPEED: D-DIAMETER—Data-Driven Innovation Advancing Macromolecular Engineering Towards Efficient Recycling," is led by Professors Linda Broadbelt...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $460,347 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2028. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award funds a nine-week summer research program in nanoscale science and engineering conducted at Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027. This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award supports fundamental research to develop living textile materials composed of photosynthetic cyanobacteria colonies that self-assemble...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $300,000 Project Grant (CFDA 47.049, Mathematical and Physical Sciences program) to Northwestern University effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, led by Professors Biwu Ma and Bin Ouyang of Florida State University and Professor Lin X. Chen of Northwestern University, investigates excited state dynamics and light-induced structural changes...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded $390,000 in Project Grant funding to the University of Illinois effective March 1, 2026, through February 28, 2031, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This CAREER award supports fundamental research to establish connections between microscopic molecular rearrangements and macroscopic flow behavior in dynamic covalent networks—polymer materials with...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $600,258 Project Grant to the University of Chicago effective May 1, 2025, through April 30, 2028, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This award supports fundamental research to develop a unified elastic framework with new theoretical and computational models that explain mechanical instabilities in self-assembled monolayers under compressive...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) beginning July 15, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2028. The grant funds fundamental research in algebraic topology, specifically investigating the phenomenon of "evenness" as a unifying principle between...
- This $381,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Northwestern University to develop an accurate hierarchical modeling approach for understanding the structural and mechanical properties of polymer grafted nanoparticle materials. The research will employ molecular simulations, theory, and machine learning to explain how variability in nanoparticle and polymer graft size, known as dispersity,...
Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $439,364 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031. The award funds research and development activities focused on understanding how molecular structure controls the stability of soft, dynamic material surfaces—specifically examining PEG-lipid shedding mechanisms in nanoparticle design. The research will involve designing nanoparticles with precisely defined surface components and tracking how those components move and detach over time to establish structure-function relationships for targeted nanoparticle applications. The project aims to generate fundamental materials science knowledge that will establish clear design rules connecting chemical structure to material behavior, enabling scientists to create nanoparticles with stable surfaces suitable for biotechnology applications such as cell-targeting drug delivery. Research will be conducted at Northwestern University's Evanston, Illinois campus and is expected to advance both the fields of biotechnology and materials engineering through improved understanding of nanoparticle surface stability in complex biological environments.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $439.4k | 6/23/26 |