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Print Edition StoriesThursday, September 25, 2008
MIT scores a $19.2M NSF grant
By Mass High Tech
The National Science Foundation has awarded MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) a six-year, $19.2 million grant to fund research, educational outreach and shared experimental facilities. The CMSE enables about 700 to 800 researchers to study materials analysis, crystal growth and preparation, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction.
The MRSEC program will support research in three groups including the Design of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, Mechanomutable Heteronanomaterials and Multimaterial Multifunctional Nano-Structured Fibers. The nanomaterial design group will study ways to model and predict nanoscale-level thermodynamics, phase behavior and kinetics. The second group, Mechanomutable Heteronanomaterials, will address the mechanical behavior of “dynamically tunable multicomponent heterogeneous nanostructured systems.” And the third group will research the design, manufacturing and physical characteristics of new multicomponent nanoscale fiber materials.
The NSF grant will also support work on two projects -- “Engineering Living Cells via Nanomaterials” and “New States of Frustrated and Correlated Materials.”
CMSE officials reported plans to conduct a competition this fall to award seed funding for a new or existing interdisciplinary research group.
The grant is awarded through NSF’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers program, in which CMSE has participated since 1994.
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