Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
Posted
- Opportunity number
- 25-521
- Agency
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National Science Foundation
- Applications due
- Not on record
- Award size
- $18,000,000 to $30,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Science Foundation is soliciting cooperative agreement applications for the Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) program, a mid-scale materials research infrastructure initiative within the Division of Materials Research, with no application deadline stated in the source material.
Only accredited U.S. institutions of higher education with domestic campuses may submit proposals, acting on behalf of faculty. Each proposed project must be directed by a team of at least three Senior/Key Personnel with complementary expertise spanning materials synthesis/processing, characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation.
MIP operates as a scientific ecosystem combining in-house research scientists, external users, and collaborating researchers to accelerate materials discovery and development. The program mandates iterative "closed-loop" efforts integrating materials synthesis/processing, characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation, with explicit expectation to engage data science methods. Applicants must demonstrate knowledge-sharing mechanisms designed to strengthen collaborations and enable novel research modalities, with outcomes including accelerated discovery of new materials and novel phenomena/properties.
The third MIP competition, held in 2025, accepted proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials. The source indicates that proposals focused primarily on biomaterials and polymer research will not advance, given emphasis on these topics in the second competition. Scientific focus shifts between competitions; applicants should reference existing platforms at mip.org and prior competitions (2015, 2019) to understand program expectations and ecosystem scope.
This opportunity is assigned to NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), under which the Division of Materials Research has obligated $2.82 billion across 4,032 awards in recent activity.
Synopsis
Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. These tools in a user facility benefit both a user program and in-house research, which focus on addressing grand challenges of fundamental science and meet national needs. MIPs embrace the paradigm set forth by the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which strives to "discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost," and conduct research through iterative "closed-loop" efforts among the areas of materials synthesis/processing, materials characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. In addition, they are expected to engage the emerging field of data science in materials research. Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other scientists who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how. The knowledge sharing is designed to strengthen collaborations among scientists and enable them to work in new ways, fostering new modalities of research and training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment.
The scientific focus of the MIP program is subject to change from competition to competition. Information about the existing MIPs, from two previous competitions in 2015 and 2019, can be found at mip.org. The third MIP competition, in 2025, will accept proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials. Given that the second MIP competition included an emphasis on biomaterials and polymer research, proposals mainly on these topics will not be considered in the third MIP competition.
Eligibility
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) accredited in, and having a campus located in the U.S., acting on behalf of their faculty members. *Who May Serve as PI: Each proposed project must be directed by a team of at least three Senior/Key Personnel with complementary expertise on materials synthesis/processing, characterization, theory/modeling/simulation, etc.
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