Project Grant N000142412708

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the development of redox-based bioelectronics through the Semisynbio-III award to the University of Maryland, College Park. The three-year project will advance four technological areas to create communicating microbial cells and decision-making cells that can be instructed by electric inputs to perform logic operations by writing to genomes or adjusting consortium populations....

This three-year, $782,602 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a 3D bionic network interface to enable bidirectional communication with cells and tissues at the biotic-abiotic interface. Funded under NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will design and test a multi-modality platform integrating biosensing and stimulation at the microscale to form a closed-loop network facilitating holistic integration and...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a sustainable, intelligent wearable sensor system for continuous tree health monitoring. The primary goals are to: Create a biocompatible, ion-sensitive sensor array that can be implanted in a plant's xylem to continuously monitor water and nutrient uptake in real-time. Develop energy-harvesting techniques...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER Project Grant award of $300,000.00, with a performance period from August 15, 2025 to July 31, 2027, supports research at Northwestern University to explore the development of "living textile materials" made from photosynthetic cyanobacteria colonies. The goal is to understand how these microbes can self-assemble into yarn-like structures that could potentially be used to create adaptable, responsive fabrics and building materials. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at William Marsh Rice University to develop new platforms for biological-electronic communication and biological computing. The $1,998,147 award will fund the creation of an "Electrogenetically-Networked Cyber-Bacterial Organoid" - a synthetic microbial consortium capable of integrating chemical and electronic inputs into electronic outputs. This technology aims to...

This $796,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program, supports research to understand how the soil bacterium Geobacter uses nanowire-like structures to export electrons and interact with other microbes in a process called direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET). The project aims to construct a synthetic community of Geobacter species to investigate how they employ DIET via nanowires to adapt and thrive in...

This $250,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund the development of a multi-modal integrated sensor system and through-the-soil wireless power transmission technique for continuous, real-time monitoring of soil variables over time and space. A collaboration between Tennessee Technological University, the University of Tennessee...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities provides $165,478 to Boise State University under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) for investigation of dominant controls on electrical properties of granitic regolith in the critical zone. The research aims to advance understanding of physical properties in critical zones through laboratory and field investigations combining geophysical imaging, field sampling, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award totaling $300,000 will fund the development of a sustainable wearable sensor system to continuously monitor tree health. The key products and services to be delivered include: The project will create a zero-maintenance, intelligent, and robust computer system that uses biocompatible sensor arrays implanted in plant xylem to monitor water and nutrient uptake...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a desktop system for spinning biofibers - fibers made from biomaterials - to enable sustainable innovations in smart textiles. The project aims to address the sustainability challenges posed by the projected $15 billion smart textiles market by 2030, which risks combining textile and electronic waste. The research...