Project Grant N629092312098

The National Science Foundation awarded a $401,696 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of October 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The award will support research to characterize, model, and mitigate the accelerated aging of electrical insulation systems exposed to high slew rate and repetitive voltage pulses generated by emerging wide bandgap power electronics. The grantee will conduct experimental investigations to...

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...

Summary of Federal Project Grant Award The University of Akron received a $200,000 Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041) awarded September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The project will deliver advanced polymer nanocomposite insulation materials designed to mitigate partial discharge (PD) degradation in electric motor windings powered by fast-switching pulse width modulated...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $361,985 to the University of Wisconsin System to develop predictive mathematical models for manufacturing processes involving complex polymeric materials. The project aims to leverage recent advances in experimental methods and data science to better understand the relationship between the flow and microstructure of these materials, which is critical for applications like printed...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to improve the modeling and prediction of long-term performance for polymer glasses, a class of non-equilibrium materials with applications in electronics, aerospace composites, and other areas. The $372,323 award, effective April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027, is funding collaborative work between researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) and the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $116,903 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to study the multi-physics of elastomer aging. The award period is from October 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. The project will characterize how the mechanical response and failure mechanisms of elastomers change over their lifetimes under coupled thermo-chemo-mechanical aging processes. Researchers will experimentally link the...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $941,186 provides funding from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2027 to support research and education activities focused on developing predictive computational models for fiber-reinforced silica aerogel composites used in building insulation components. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the award will allow the awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of the State University of New...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a new class of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRPs) based on vitrimers. Vitrimers are polymers that can reverse fatigue-induced damage when exposed to heat, improving the durability, safety, and lifecycle performance of FRPs in high-performance applications such as aerospace, automotive, and medical devices. The $150,027 award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will systematically...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $261,718 will fund research at the University of Texas at Dallas from November 2022 to October 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to improve fundamental understanding of the impact of heterogeneity and scale on the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of glassy polymers and their nanocomposites. Researchers will use mechanical spectral hole burning and large amplitude oscillatory shear techniques to characterize...

This five-year $565,337 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support fundamental research and education on electro-mechanical behaviors of soft conductive composites embedded with liquid metal fiber networks. The principal investigator will employ an integrated experimental-theoretical-computational approach to characterize network geometry evolution under extreme...