The University of Tennessee was awarded a $180,444 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The grant will fund research to develop a generalized optimization framework for high-order, metric-based mesh adaptation of high-order finite-element discretization. This research aims to advance Air Force and Space Force capabilities in areas such as aerospace systems and materials science. The project will be conducted at...
The University of Tennessee received a $457,671 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTROLLING THE MICROSTRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LARGE-SCALE POLYMER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES MADE BY BIG AREA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING." The award is part of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering research and education. Under this three-year project...
The University of Tennessee has been awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to conduct research on the "Thermodynamics of Strength and Ductility in Refractory Compositionally-Complex Alloys". The 3-year grant, which commenced on August 15, 2023 and will run through August 14, 2026, will fund fundamental research to improve the understanding of the relationships between composition,...
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to conduct research on "ELASTO X-RAY SCATTERING FOR PROBING NOVEL MAGNETIC SWITCHING" under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The 3-year project, which began on August 15, 2023 and will be completed by August 14, 2026, aims to advance the understanding of novel magnetic switching mechanisms through the use of elastic x-ray scattering...
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received a five-year, $542,220 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award funds research from September 2021 through August 2026 to control additive manufacturing geometries and conduct combustion analysis of solid rocket fuel grains. As part of NSF's mission to advance engineering research and education, this project...
The University of Tennessee received a $400,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "Computationally Driven Design of Synthetic Tissue-Like Multifunctional Materials." The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The project aims to advance the design of synthetic materials that mimic the structure and functions of natural tissues through computational...
This $161,351.00 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to visualize the nanoscale formation dynamics of Turing nanoparticle patterns. The award, spanning September 2024 to September 2027, will leverage the university's expertise in quantum computing, advanced materials, and nanoscale science to develop novel techniques for observing and...
This Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $135,085 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2024. The funding supports the acquisition of an ultrahigh-resolution microscope Raman and synchronous fluorescence system to conduct materials characterization and analysis. As the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant award of $501,760 to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) supports a project titled "CAREER: Multiscale Characterization of Heat Transfer in Nanoporous Materials Assisted by Machine Learning". The project aims to provide a detailed characterization of nanoscale heat transfer behavior in aerogel materials as a function of their physical parameters. It will use molecular dynamics simulations and...
The federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research's Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) will support the "HYPERSONIC-FOCUSED ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND OUTREACH FOR UNDERGRADUATE TRAINING (HERO-UT)" at the University of Tennessee. The award, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026, will fund research and outreach activities focused on hypersonic engineering for undergraduate students. The University of Tennessee, a prominent...