Project Grant FA23862411081

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $100,000 to Oregon State University to conduct research on the ultrafast laser-based synthesis of nanoparticle-doped two-dimensional (2D) material inks for printed electronics. The project aims to gain a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms controlling the synthesis of doped 2D materials using laser ablation in solution, and develop a manufacturing process to generate large volumes of these...

This $189,811 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides support for the planning, organizing, and managing of the annual 2024 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Grantees Conference. The conference, to be held on December 9-10, 2024 in Alexandria, Virginia, serves as a program review and research networking event that highlights ongoing research and educational activities in NSF's nanotechnology science and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $353,941 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, to support research on understanding and controlling the physical adhesion and aggregation of nanomaterials in liquid environments. The key objectives are to develop a predictive model for nanoparticle adhesion by considering the effects of solvent-induced...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $519,700 project grant to the Georgia TECH Research Corporation, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, to acquire a powder atomic layer deposition/chemical vapor deposition reactor for next generation nanomanufacturing. The grant was awarded on August 15, 2021 under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,973 to Cleveland State University (CSU) to synthesize and characterize amino acid-anchored two-dimensional (2D) silicoaluminophosphates and aluminosilicates. The research aims to elucidate the influence of amino acid molecular structures on the formation and properties of these 2D materials, and explore their potential applications in engineering and biomedicine. Specifically,...

This $124,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to develop novel metasurfaces based on two-dimensional and layered materials. The key objectives are to explore the optical properties of van der Waals nanoantennas, engineer multipolar resonances to achieve desirable responses, and control the directionality and linewidth of scattered light. This work aims to...

This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support a collaborative research project between the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) to investigate the molten salt synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles. The research team, led by Yuanbing Mao of IIT and Tao Li of NIU, will use advanced in situ X-ray scattering and spectroscopy techniques at Argonne National...

The U.S. Air Force awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Fundacion Centro De Alta Tecnologia, a Costa Rican non-profit research organization. The grant funds the development of "tunable plasmonic nanopatterns via aluminum anodization with integrated nanofluidics for surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy (SERRS) of magnetosensitive biomolecules and simulant molecules." This advanced research project in nanotechnology,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award for $103,689.00 from the U.S. Department of Defense's Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) supports research under CFDA Program 12.630 "Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering". The award, titled "PROBING AND SENSING ASTROCYTES-NEURON COMMUNICATION THROUGH GOLD NANOCLUSTER - ASTRO-CLUSTER", is being performed by Istituto DI Scienza, Tecnologia E Sostenibilita Per Lo Sviluppo DEI Materiali...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $475,399 to Auburn University to conduct fundamental research on laser nanoparticle powder-bed fusion, an additive nanomanufacturing process. The research aims to develop layer-by-layer fabrication of micro- and nano-scale functional structures and devices with tunable chemical compositions, interface interactions, and physical architectures. This work has potential...