Project Grant N629092112037

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research titled "FERROELECTRICITY EMERGING FROM ANTISITE DEFECTS IN COMPLEX OXIDES" from February 1, 2022 through November 30, 2023. The grant funds basic research into ferroelectricity, a property of certain materials that allows them to polarize in response to an external electric field. Specifically, MIT researchers will...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by a team of U.S. and Israeli collaborators on a new type of electrostriction effect in ceramic materials. The key objectives are to: (1) obtain fundamental descriptors of the non-classical electrostriction effect driven by dynamic elastic dipoles, (2) provide a basis for theoretical modeling of this...

This two-year, $252,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research will support research into mechanically controlling the electronic properties of two-dimensional ferroelectrics. The grantee, the University of Nebraska, will investigate using mechanical stress and strain as novel methods to deterministically modulate polarization states and related changes in electrical resistance in 2D ferroelectric materials. Researchers will use scanning probe...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant award supports research to achieve a fundamental understanding and deterministic control of the piezoelectric properties of hafnia-based ferroelectric materials. The $620,097 award to the University of Nebraska will fund a collaborative project with the Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology to conduct systematic experimental studies and theoretical modeling on the impact of factors...

The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley received a $700,077 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate nonequilibrium states and photoinduced transitions in topological superlattices. The research focuses on a ferroelectric/paraelectric heterostructure composed of alternating strontium titanate and lead titanate layers (STO-PTO), which exhibit complex...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. This 3-year grant, beginning on October 1, 2023, aims to identify new 2D ferroelectric materials, understand how to control their properties, and explore the impact of their polarization on electrical conductivity. The research employs a combination of experimental techniques and...

The University of Massachusetts Lowell's Office of Research Administration received a $197,500 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop printable barium strontium titanate ink for tunable electronic device fabrication on flexible substrates. The two-year grant, awarded on June 1, 2023 under the National Science Foundation's Engineering (47.041) program, will fund research to synthesize novel tunable materials,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop an environmentally benign replacement for lead-containing piezoelectric transducers. The project aims to fabricate nano-structured silicon devices that can leverage a newly observed phenomenon, space charge induced flexoelectricity, to create high-performance transducers for sensing, actuation, and energy...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program aims to advance understanding of the piezoelectric effect and structural organization in room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). The $450,938 award to Michigan State University, with a project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will fund experimental and theoretical investigations to characterize the dependence and length scale of the piezoelectric...