Project Grant FA9550261B215

Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded The Johns Hopkins University $114,924 on May 1, 2026, to organize and execute the Materials Data and Artificial Intelligence Biennial Principal Investigator Workshop. This conference, scheduled for August 2026 in downtown Washington, DC, convenes awardees from the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) program and the Materials Innovation Platform (MIP), along with...

This $129,105 National Science Foundation project grant supports a conference on critical materials and clean sustainable energy to be held by the Colorado School of Mines in December 2022. The conference aims to explore challenges to adopting clean energy technologies due to constraints on critical minerals and materials supply chains. It seeks to inform scoping of a potential Materials Genome Initiative grand challenge by identifying opportunities to accelerate clean energy adoption through...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded The Leland Stanford Junior University $299,596 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for a conference on low-dimensional materials and electronics. The award, obligated on February 15, 2026 with completion targeted for July 31, 2026, supports a national convening of leading experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories in Palo Alto, California. The conference...

The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) awarded $100,000 to the University of Colorado Boulder on June 1, 2026, to support the 5th International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI 2026). The conference, scheduled for June 29–July 1, 2026, at the University of Colorado Boulder, will convene researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders to present and synthesize cutting-edge work on scientific...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded $480,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on October 1, 2025, for a collaborative research project titled "Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Nanomaterials Using Distributed Self-Driving Labs." The project, which extends through September 30, 2029, aims to deliver lead-free metal halide...

The University of Massachusetts Lowell will provide collaborative research services under a $312,381 National Science Foundation Project Grant award titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: TRANSFORMING PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS WITH DIGITAL ALLOY MATERIALS." The award's period of performance is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The research services will advance the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these...

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded $320,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a collaborative research project on combinatorial solution processing of optical phase change materials. The researchers will develop a high-throughput synthesis and characterization paradigm for accelerated discovery and customization of multi-component phase change alloy thin films tailored for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Project Grant award, valued at $150,000 and running from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, supports collaborative research to develop simulation-informed models for additive manufacturing of amorphous metals. The research team at The Washington University aims to derive meaningful measures of material structure from electron nanodiffraction and simulation data, and build predictive...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on dynamic catalytic materials. Effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, this Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) initiative will investigate the dynamic behavior of mobile...

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to support research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The award will fund the development of novel classes of organized nanoscale biomolecular materials for controlled molecular transport. Specifically, the grantee will synthesize and study biomolecular magnetic organic...