Project Grant FA86552417035

Rowan University received a $199,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on February 1, 2022 to support research exploring dynamic origami for controlling acoustic waves under the NSF Engineering (ENG) program. The award provides two years of funding through January 31, 2024 for research exploiting origami techniques to develop reconfigurable and versatile control of acoustic waves. The NSF ENG program seeks to...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an autonomous origami-inspired transformable system. Over a three-year period ending September 2025, the University will conduct research in four areas: modeling multi-shape origami structures using network analysis; designing integrated sensing and control strategies; developing programmable untethered actuation via thermal...

This $662,943 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER: New Polarizations of Elastic Waves in Architected Materials project grant awarded to the University of Utah will support research to enable the design of dynamic systems capable of targeted functionalities such as vibration mitigation, ultrasonic imaging, and thermal phononic manipulation. The 5-year award will build the analytical, computational, and experimental foundations for three novel polarizations of elastic waves - non-paraxial...

This $455,488 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of origami-patterned silicone elastomer mechanoreceptors for fast, reconfigurable, and soft deformation sensing through Northeastern University from October 2021 to March 2024. The goal is to investigate whether soft material origami can demonstrate advantageous mechanical properties for selective or multimodal strain, pressure, and curvature sensing. Researchers will model and characterize origami-patterned...

This $271,213 National Science Foundation award through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will support research at the Illinois Institute of Technology from September 2022 through August 2025. The project aims to advance understanding of boundary and interface issues in metamaterials through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Researchers will perform theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis of transition layers in acoustic and elastic metamaterials to develop devices that control...

The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $650,081 CAREER grant to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project, titled "CAREER: Non-Local Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Next Generation Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices," will fund research to develop advanced acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces that can manipulate sound waves in asymmetric, non-reciprocal ways. This work aims to enable new applications in fields such as...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) in the amount of $330,000 will support 5 years of theoretical and computational research, as well as educational and outreach activities, focused on the geometric and topological mechanics of flexible structures. The research will explore the design and characterization of flexible mechanical metamaterials, which are systems composed of...

This Project Grant award of $299,039 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of computational techniques to accelerate the simulation and design of elastic metamaterials. The research, conducted by the University of California, Davis, aims to create a framework for fast periodic homogenization of nonlinear elasticity and optimal design of metamaterials to exhibit target properties over...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $503,167 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) for the project titled "CAREER: EFFECTIVE CONTINUUM MODELING OF MECHANISM-BASED METAMATERIALS". Under this 5-year award, effective from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028, USC will conduct fundamental research to develop modeling tools for predicting the mechanical behavior of morphing metamaterials. Metamaterials...

This $499,518 National Science Foundation project grant supports fundamental research at the University of Minnesota to develop metamaterial architectures for programmable droplet motion control. The three-year award under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will investigate designing vibrating metamaterials to program the locomotion of liquid droplets on solid surfaces. Specifically, the university researchers aim to realize control strategies that allow deep manipulation of fluid...