Project Grant FA86552517061

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $300,000 in funding to support a collaborative research project between researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology and Oklahoma State University. The goal of the project is to study the motion of ions in mixtures of ionic liquids and polymers, known as ionogels, using a combination of experimental techniques (neutron spectroscopy, dielectric...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $517,023 will fund research at Tufts University into lithium ion transport in self-assembled zwitterionic nanochannels containing ionic liquids for next-generation energy storage applications. The research aims to study lithium ion movement within zwitterionic conducting nanochannels formed by self-assembly of amphiphilic comb copolymers. These nanostructured electrolytes will be swollen with controlled amounts of a nonvolatile ionic...

This three-year, $464,665 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of Illinois to develop multifunctional zwitterionic solid polymer electrolytes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. The grant supports molecular-level design of a series of lithium ion-conducting zwitterionic polyurethane electrolytes with excellent electrochemical and mechanical stability. Researchers will investigate the effect of...

This three-year, $345,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research between the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State University to investigate ion mobility in aqueous acids, bases, and salts. The researchers will take a fully integrated experimental and theoretical modeling approach to explore ionic mobility at the molecular level and achieve a unified understanding of how counterions and ion-pairing...

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to improve fundamental understanding of the structure, dynamics, and electromechanical actuation of aqueous electrolytes in nanoporous media. Over a three-year period beginning September 1, 2022, the grantee will apply experiments and molecular simulations to characterize the formation of the electric double layer in...

This three-year, $1,031,012 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Chicago to develop active adaptive materials inspired by cell mechanics. The goal is to elucidate design principles for soft biomolecular materials whose actuation and shape are reprogrammable, similar to how actin cytoskeleton networks control cell shape and locomotion. Researchers will reconstitute cytoskeleton-like composite networks in vitro and optimize molecular engineering...

This five-year $565,337 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support fundamental research and education on electro-mechanical behaviors of soft conductive composites embedded with liquid metal fiber networks. The principal investigator will employ an integrated experimental-theoretical-computational approach to characterize network geometry evolution under extreme...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, supports fundamental research into the role of defects in the electrical actuation of elastomers (elastomer dielectrics) and explores strategies to mitigate their negative impact. The $325,555 award to Purdue University, with a period of performance from September 2023 to August 2026, aims to develop insights that could enable the adoption of low-cost polymer actuators for...

This $398,098 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Purdue University focused on understanding the interplay between electronic, ionic, and mechanical responses in organic conductors. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 will investigate the concurrent ionic-electronic transport and chemo-mechanical responses in polymeric conductors. Specifically, the university will formulate a theoretical framework and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $330,187 in funding to San Jose State University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The award supports collaborative research into the effect of cyclic mechanical stress on ionic conduction in composite polymer electrolytes for solid-state batteries. This work falls under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's $47.041 Engineering program, which seeks to foster...