Project Grant 2548719
- This $399,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Houston and Carnegie Mellon University. The goal is to develop novel segmented polar-polyolefin copolymer materials with complex molecular architectures, including spheres, cylinders, and wormlike structures. These materials have potential applications in energy storage and plastic...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station $570,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Spatially Defined Radical-Containing Polymers for Enhanced Charge Transfer" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The award will support the development of spatially defined radical-containing polymers to improve charge transfer, in line with the program's goals of...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $482,500 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research exploring chemically functionalized polymers for nanoscale structures and interfaces from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2025. Professor Todd Emrick and his team will work to advance fundamental aspects of polymeric and sustainable chemistry by discovering unique combinations of polymers and...
- This $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) will investigate the solid-liquid phase behavior of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) and polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs). The project aims to better understand the molecular factors that control the phase boundary in these materials and how their assembly and properties vary under different...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will enable research on a new class of "active polymers" that can respond to local energy fluctuations. The $495,000 award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) will support the development of experimental methods to produce and study the mobility of these active polymers, with a focus on how energy injection at the molecular level impacts their behavior...
- This $399,562 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support fundamental and applied research on the effects of electric fields on polyelectrolytes (charged polymers) at Mississippi State University. The key objectives are to investigate how electrochemical processes can control the formation and properties of polyelectrolyte complexes, as well as the adhesion between oppositely charged ionic gels. This...
- This $210,335 NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award to Drexel University supports the development of a new computational method to accelerate the design of new polymeric materials. The project aims to create a simulation technique that can simultaneously resolve both monomer-level chemistry and mesoscopic length scales within polymeric materials. This has the potential to significantly speed up the development of new polymers for diverse applications like...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $831,521 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for collaborative research titled "Accelerated Design of Redox-Active Polymers for Metal-Free Batteries." The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $465,000.00 to Texas A&M University from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The research aims to develop the knowledge required to create capsules with liquid cores and polymer shells, which have applications in medicine, food science, energy discovery, textiles, and other fields. The research will investigate how to localize precursors to the polymer shell, such as...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to develop polymers with unprecedented mechanical properties and processibility for use in advanced applications like wearable sensors, soft actuators, and energy harvesting devices. The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) is leading this collaborative $350,229 research effort, which uses a systematic, data-driven approach to create adaptive polymer networks...
This federal Project Grant award of $642,571.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Dr. Emily Pentzer and Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus of Texas A & M University. The researchers will design, synthesize, and characterize new polymers for electrochemical energy storage, with a focus on understanding how polymer composition and structure impact electron movement and storage capacity. The goal is to expand fundamental scientific knowledge of polymers for energy storage, leading to rapid development of new materials. The work will involve training students in cross-disciplinary research related to polymers and energy storage, and developing new educational modules on these topics for public outreach. The award runs from September 15, 2025 through November 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $642.6k | 9/10/25 |