Project Grant W911NF2510164

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 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $266,600.00 to the University of Texas at Dallas to investigate the effects of strain on field-effect transistors (FETs) with monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) channels. The research aims to advance the performance limits of TMD-based FETs and address integration and reliability challenges associated with strain. Key activities include fabricating devices on flexible...

This $653,097 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to advance the fundamental understanding of the mechanics of multilayered van der Waals materials and heterostructures. The grant funds the development of theoretical and computational models, as well as experimental methods, to characterize van der Waals interactions between two-dimensional materials and the strain distributions that govern their mechanics. Specifically, the research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,984 to Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. (KSU R&SF) to study the impact of mechanical strain on the thermal transport characteristics of various 3D carbon nanostructures, such as pillared graphene structures, 3D graphene foam, and carbon nanotube network films. The goal is to enhance understanding of how mechanical deformation affects the heat...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provides $375,000 to develop a fundamental understanding of 3D-woven architected nanocomposite sensors. The research aims to create highly deformable, woven materials that can sense pressure and deformation through coupled electrical and mechanical responses. This will enable their use as sensitive, tunable sensors for applications like soft robotics,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $100,000 to William Marsh Rice University to develop a strain-sensing smart skin technology using carbon nanotubes. The technology is intended to enable non-contact, laser-based strain measurement with advantages over existing digital image correlation methods. It has applications in infrastructure maintenance and safety inspections across industries such as aerospace, bridges, pipelines, wind turbines. Successful development...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $194,734 provides funding from March 1, 2022 through February 29, 2024 to investigate the effects of topological design on the piezoresistive behavior of nanocomposites. The award is made through the NSF's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program in support of the agency's mission to advance engineering research and education. Specifically, the awardee Cal Poly Corporation will conduct research at San Luis Obispo, California to characterize the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a two-year, $250,000 EAGER grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the development of gate-all-around (GAA) field-effect transistors (FETs) using two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D-TMD) materials. The project aims to advance the scalability and performance of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors by leveraging the unique properties of 2D-TMDs compared...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant will support $607,792 in research at the University of Illinois from February 2023 through January 2028 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to develop a theoretical and computational framework for strain engineering two-dimensional material systems at the nanoscale by exploring the effects of incommensurability and structural response at two-dimensional heterointerfaces. The grantee will characterize the temperature,...