This $300,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) will support Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University's research into "Quantum Digital Twins" over a 12-month period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in quantum information science. The award leverages...
This $800,000 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The grant was awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct comprehensive research initiatives aimed at maintaining existing nuclear reactor capabilities, developing advanced reactor technologies, securing the nuclear fuel cycle, and...
This $1,073,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop rigid polynorbornenes prepared by vinyl addition polymerization for gas separation membranes. The award has an effective date of August 1, 2024 and a target completion date of October 31, 2025. As a leading public research university, Virginia Tech will leverage its extensive...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $966,607 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for the "QUANTUM UTILITY WITH HARDWARE- AND APPLICATION- INFORMED NEAR-TERM ALGORITHMS (QUINTA)" project. The grant, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, supports fundamental scientific research in quantum information science to...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "EXPLORATION OF RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR SEEDING MECHANISMS IN LASER- AND PULSED-POWER-DRIVEN INERTIAL FUSION PLATFORMS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that advance energy technologies...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) received a $800,000 project grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to conduct research titled "SECURE CONTROL FOR RENEWABLE DERS IN POWER GRID (SECURED-GRID)" under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The four-year project beginning June 1, 2023 aims to support basic, applied, or advanced research with good long-term potential for contributing to...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) has awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to support fundamental scientific research on a "DEAZAFLAVIN-DEPENDENT FLAVIN-GATED THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE AND AN IRON-SULFUR CLUSTER SYNTHESIZING THIOREDOXIN: SYNTHESIZING, ACTIVATING AND REPAIRING REDOX CATALYSTS IN A HYPERTHERMOPHILIC METHANOGEN." This 1-year research project, with a...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy awarded a $560,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support research on interface-resolved experimental and numerical studies of two-phase flow for nuclear engineering applications. This work aims to advance nuclear energy science and technology by...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) will provide research services under a $800,000 project grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense titled "Multi-Material Integration for Porous 4D Materials." The grant is part of the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program administered by the Department of Defense, with a focus on supporting research with potential long-term benefits for defense technologies. Under the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to fund research on disordered quantum matter. The three-year grant, active from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will support Virginia Tech's work to develop an underlying mathematical theory to better understand the properties of materials that could play a crucial role in creating...