Project Grant DESC0025388

This $524,534 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research funds a collaborative research effort between The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Santa Barbara to elucidate high temperature deformation mechanisms in refractory multi-principal-element alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental scientific understanding of the ultrahigh temperature (up to 1500°C) mechanical behavior of this new class of alloy...

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Illinois a $150,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on nanoscale structural and compositional instability-driven ductility in refractory high-entropy alloys. The research will develop an atomic-level understanding of how the manufacturing of refractory high-entropy alloys relates to their ductility and tensile strength properties. It will also seek to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award of $400,000, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: TOPOLOGICALLY DESIGNED AND RESILIENT ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS," aims to develop a new method to simultaneously improve both the low temperature and high temperature properties of ultra-high temperature ceramic materials. The project will utilize a combination of computational tools, including first principles and machine learning, integrated with experimental methods...

This two-year, $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research exploring phase stability and related deformation mechanisms in refractory high-entropy alloys. Specifically, the University of Tennessee will investigate precursors to phase transformations, such as structure-induced local lattice distortions and chemical short-range ordering, in disordered multi-principal component alloys. The research aims to determine the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $482,041 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on elucidating high-temperature deformation mechanisms in refractory multi-principal-element alloys. The research aims to develop a fundamental scientific understanding of the ultrahigh temperature deformation behavior of this new class of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research into additive manufacturing of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) to achieve exceptional strength and ductility. The $310,170 award to the University of Southern California will investigate the processing-structure-property relationships in 3D-printed eutectic HEAs, including understanding how printing parameters affect solidification...

This Project Grant award of $599,342 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to understand the processing mechanisms of a novel additive manufacturing (AM) approach for high-performance tungsten alloy fabrications. The research aims to advance innovations in next-generation, scalable AM processes for refractory alloy manufacturing through compression-enabled filament-extrusion AM, binder removal, and hybrid-phase sintering. Key...

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...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $536,195 supports research into abnormal grain growth in ultrafine grained metals under high cycle loading at room temperature. The principal investigators will conduct high-throughput characterization of cyclic-load-induced grain growth in ultrafine grained metal films using scanning electron microscopy with electron backscatter diffraction. Six different metallic films with varying degrees of elastic anisotropy and face-centered...

This five-year, $641,328 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at the Colorado School of Mines to advance additive manufacturing of nickel-based superalloys for clean energy applications. Funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award will develop a mechanistic understanding of how wire arc additive manufacturing processing conditions influence the microstructure and high-temperature mechanical properties of Haynes 282 superalloy. The research combines...