Project Grant DESC0025488

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Northwestern University in the amount of $569,433. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant supports research by Dr. Julia Kalow to develop polymer networks with photoswitchable dynamic covalent crosslinks. This approach aims to provide precise, reversible control over the mechanical properties of these materials, 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 $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry aims to develop novel polymeric materials based on segmented polar-polyolefin copolymers with complex architectures. Professors Eva Harth at the University of Houston and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on this 3-year effort, which seeks to advance energy storage materials and plastic upcycling capabilities. The key products and services to be delivered...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $405,431 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, to conduct collaborative research on developing polymers with adaptive molecular structures that can withstand extreme conditions. The key objectives are to: 1) pioneer the use of double-threaded polymers to fabricate slide-ring polymers for enhanced...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded a 3-year, $500,000 project grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to develop advanced polymeric materials with precisely controlled physical properties and hierarchical nanostructured architectures. The research aims to understand how the internal organization of polymer networks affects the mechanical, swelling, and surface properties of thin hydrogel coatings. Key objectives include: (A) studying the...

This three-year, $491,708 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of hybrid bonding polymers at Northwestern University. Researchers will integrate traditional covalent polymers with supramolecular polymers using small molecules as co-crystallized domains. This is intended to generate functional structures combining the mechanical benefits of polymer backbones and crystalline lattices at sites connected by...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $400,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Trustees of Boston University for their research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: CLOSED-LOOP DESIGN OF POLYMERS WITH ADAPTIVE NETWORKS FOR EXTREME MECHANICS." The project aims to develop an integrated experimental and computational platform for accelerated discovery and design of novel polymers exhibiting unprecedented...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $300,000 to fund research on cyclodextrin-poly(ethylene glycol)-based dynamic covalent networks at the University at Buffalo from August 2023 through July 2026. The award aims to advance membrane materials science and sustainability applications through the development and study of polymer networks with dynamic covalent bonds between cyclodextrin and poly(ethylene glycol) building...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $250,000 to support the synthesis of innovative polymeric materials using biologically inspired nanoparticles called "bundlemers". Professors Christopher J. Kloxin and Darrin J. Pochan at the University of Delaware will leverage the unique features of bundlemers to precisely position molecular species and enable the creation of new complex...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $680,000 to Carnegie Mellon University to develop new dual catalytic systems for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP). The goal is to create powerful catalytic systems that can operate with very low copper-based catalyst concentrations, enable polymer synthesis under mild conditions, and facilitate high-throughput synthesis of bioconjugates...