Project Grant DESC0025255

This $309,563 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of California Irvine to develop new methodologies for isolating the effects of electric fields on sintering ceramic materials. The grant period runs from February 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. Under the award, the University of California Irvine will conduct experiments using in situ laser heating and transmission electron microscopy-based nanomechanical testing methods. This work aims to quantify...

The National Science Foundation awarded $495,963 under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York for a project titled "Mechanistic Understanding of Multi-Scale Sintering Behavior Influenced by Anisotropic Particle and Pore Distributions in Extrusion-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing." The award period is from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The project will fund fundamental...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Dr. Anthony Shoji Hall at Johns Hopkins University to develop methods for the low-temperature synthesis of ordered intermetallic nanomaterials. The $164,302 award, effective June 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, will fund research to understand how atoms move within solid materials to enable the room temperature production of these advanced...

This three-year, $354,328 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research to develop predictive simulations of grain boundary network evolution in metals and ceramics. The Carnegie Mellon University research team will work to uncover mechanisms of grain boundary migration through iterative experimentation and simulation. X-ray microscopy will be used to measure grain boundary structure changes over time in ferritic iron, nickel, and strontium titanate samples during in situ...

This $616,537 award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a project led by Lehigh University to investigate the solid-state synthesis of novel entropy-stabilized ceramic materials. The key objectives are to: 1) elucidate the reaction mechanisms and material transport processes governing the formation of these advanced ceramics; 2) understand the role of induced elastic deformation in the reaction kinetics; and 3) characterize the...

The University of Tulsa Office of Research and Sponsored Programs received a $429,952 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program. This 5-year award supports research to understand and control the sintering process for metal powders with nanoscale additives, with the goal of enabling more sustainable metal manufacturing through additive manufacturing techniques like binder jet 3D printing. The research integrates hands-on STEM education...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research provides $320,000 to support collaborative research on combinatorial solution processing of optical phase change materials at the University of Central Florida and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through August 2026. The award aims to develop a high-throughput synthesis and characterization approach for discovering and optimizing new multi-component phase change alloy compositions tailored for...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $456,786 Project Grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to investigate robust superconductivity in high-entropy alloys under high pressure and low temperature conditions. The work aims to provide a fundamental understanding of superconducting phenomena in these novel materials, with the goal of tailoring their microstructure using 3D printing techniques to enhance their ability to generate high...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $500,000 project grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to develop high-entropy nanomaterials for use as active catalysts in green hydrogen production. The project, titled "High-Entropy Nanodisks by Ultrafast Electrified Vapor Deposition for Hydrogen Production," aims to address the challenges associated with using platinum-group metals (PGMs) as catalysts, which include...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $566,234 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The grant supports research investigating a novel approach for synthesizing high-entropy transition metal borides using microwave-induced plasma. This non-conventional process is expected to offer advantages over traditional...