Project Grant N629092412043

This $299,999 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, under the International Research and Education program (CFDA 47.079), will fund the development of novel synthetic living materials to improve the construction, performance, and maintenance of buildings. Specifically, the International Partnership for Responsive Infrastructure Using Sustainable Multifunctional Materials project will leverage advances in bioinspired materials...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $300,000 to the University of Washington to conduct research on developing sustainable polymer foams from renewable biomass-derived polymer mixtures. The key focus is on synthesizing hierarchical polymeric foams with controllable structure and mechanical properties directly from unprocessed polymer mixtures found in...

This $1,425,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (DMR) under the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to develop programmable soft materials design and synthesis capabilities. The research aims to integrate molecular design codes, automated synthesis, and structural analysis to create an artificial intelligence-driven materials design platform with...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,596 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a framework for modeling the mechanical behavior of living building materials for structural applications from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. Specifically, the award will support research to develop a new multiscale cellular and granular material poroelastic formulation for a microbial precipitation-based living...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will support a two-day workshop at North Carolina State University (NC State) focused on the emergence of self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and their potential to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation in fields like energy, sustainability, and healthcare. The workshop will bring together a diverse group of academic and industry researchers to...

This two-year, $211,846 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research supports research into programmable living materials through synthetic biofilm engineering and quantitative computational modeling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The researchers will develop bioengineering tools to control bacterial cell deposition and assembly into "material blocks" with distinct interfaces. They will also establish modeling approaches to...

This National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities Project Grant award, titled "EFRI ELIS: BIOSYNTHETIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF LIVING BUILDING MATERIALS", provides $1,999,999.00 in funding over the period of September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The award aims to integrate advanced manufacturing, synthetic biology, and materials science to transform microbe-engineered lignocellulosic biomass into a printable ink for biosynthetic additive...

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of ELASTICA, an open-source software ecosystem for modeling, simulation, design, and control of soft, compliant, and heterogeneous structures interacting with their environment. Key products to be delivered include a scalable and efficient Cosserat rod solver capable of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $1,150,000 over 4 years to the University of Texas at Austin to develop new design principles for creating tunable gel materials with controlled mechanical and optical properties. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a unified computational modeling approach to simulate and design gel materials assembled from well-defined star-polymers and ligand-functionalized...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 will fund research into engineered living materials at the University of Michigan from March 2023 through February 2025. Specifically, the award will support the establishment of a foundational understanding of the deformation and failure behavior of algae-laden hydrogels, a type of engineered living material. The grantee will develop a new multi-field continuum mechanics model and computational framework to describe the deformation...