This federal Project Grant award for $716,000.00 was granted by the Department of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The award will fund the acquisition of a characterization and measurement system (correlative Raman-AFM microscopy) for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to develop polymer/polymerization-based bioanalytical sensors. This advanced research and development project has the potential to...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) will support the development of "Chemically Active Metal-Organic Framework Films, Structures and Composites" at North Carolina State University. The award, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027, will fund high-risk, high-payoff basic research in areas such as materials science,...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $3,793,289 Project Grant on September 1, 2024 to North Carolina State University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "MURI ENABLING EXTREME BANDGAP ELECTRONICS EXBE," supports fundamental and applied research to develop innovative ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor materials, device structures, and characterization techniques. The research will be conducted by North Carolina State...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $400,753.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will fund research by Duke University to accelerate scientific discovery through the automatic identification of state variables. The research, titled "Accelerating Scientific Discovery via Automatic Discovered State Variables", will be conducted over a 3-year period from...
This federal Project Grant award of $798,202.00 from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) will enable North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to acquire a plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) system for advanced materials research and education. The award, effective September 1, 2024, will support the university's work in developing innovative materials and technologies with...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $1,300,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431). The funding will support the acquisition of a metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor at Morgan State University to conduct research on ultrawide bandgap III-nitride materials for power, RF, and optoelectronics applications. This research aims to advance fundamental...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $187,976 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Duke University. The grant, effective February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026, will fund research to characterize the chiro-optic and dynamical responses of bespoke semiconducting materials for spin transport and long-wavelength information transmission. This work aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S....
North Carolina State University received a $394,707 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on September 15, 2021 to complete work by September 14, 2022. The award is supporting the development of an electromagnetic property measurement apparatus to test ceramic materials at high temperature environments under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA #12.800). The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...
This federal Project Grant award of $330,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant supports fundamental research on "Unconditional Superconducting States in Bilayer Semiconductors" at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a historically Black university. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2028. A sub-award of an unspecified amount...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $222,403 Project Grant to Duke University under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant will support the development of a high speed imaging system for research on ultrafast, repeated-use materials and systems from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023. The Basic Scientific Research program aims to fund basic research that can improve Army programs and operations. Under this...