The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $599,958 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to support research probing the influence of anisotropic and disordered interactions on the dynamics of quantum information in a Rydberg tweezer array. This three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 will fund basic scientific research services at the University of Oklahoma that have the potential to lead to improvements in Department...
This Department of Defense (DoD) Project Grant, awarded under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $120,000.00 in funding to the University of Chicago for a 3-year research project to develop and characterize multivalent molten salt electrolytes for use in dual-ion batteries. The key objectives are to: Synthesize and fabricate low-melting inorganic molten salts consisting of multivalent anions, and elucidate the impact of anion bulk, charge, cation type, and eutectic...
This $124,465 Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (CFDA 12.300 - Basic and Applied Scientific Research) supports the University of Oklahoma in developing innovative 2D material-based infrared active layers for high-performance detection. The research aims to advance naval capabilities in areas like materials science, sensor technology, and infrared imaging. The project will be conducted at the University of Oklahoma from May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028. The University of...
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 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 Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $702,901 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma to support a research project titled "BIO-INSPIRED MEMBRANES FOR THE RECOVERY OF CRITICAL MATERIALS FROM COMPLEX MIXTURES BASED ON METALLOPEPTOIDS". The project will be conducted from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which funds innovative, hypothesis-driven research across scientific disciplines to...
The University of Oklahoma was awarded a $148,254 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, with a performance period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027, supports the university's research on "Harnessing Quantum Many-Body Phenomena with Long-Range Interacting AMO Platforms." This fundamental and applied scientific research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force...
This $699,770 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research into the mechanisms of ion correlations and conductivity in complex ionic systems. Led by researchers at the University of Tennessee, the project aims to develop a molecular-level understanding of how ionic interactions influence the conductivity of polymerized ionic liquids and organic ionic...
The University of Oklahoma received a $300,000 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to enhance the atomic and mesoscale understanding of microstructure-property relationships in advanced materials. The award, made under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), will support research services focusing on maintaining technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. Specifically, the one-year...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,552 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Oklahoma for research services focusing on promoting lithium sulfides redox cycle via atomically dispersed active sites for batteries. This three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support the awardee's collaborative research efforts to improve battery technology through exploring lithium sulfides' redox properties at the atomic level and...