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NSF Announces New DMREF Awards

Of the 37 awards, 13 include Air Force Research Laboratory collaborators through the NSF-Air Force Partnership in Advanced Material Sciences.
From Theory to Application: How the DMREF Program Helps Accelerate Advanced Materials Research

What began as a small program with roughly 14 projects has now expanded to more than 150 projects. DMREF teams from universities across the U.S. collaborate to discover, develop, and help manufacture new materials.
Better Understanding Molybdenum disulfide

MoS2 is a layered material with outstanding electrical and optical properties. Here, parameters for MoS2 with record accuracy are introduced, including validation and application to explain specific binding of peptides and amino acid residues.
Precise Tuning of Processing Conditions during 3D Printing

Mimicking the brilliant structure-based coloration of chameleons, butterflies, and opal requires creation of highly ordered layered structures at length scales a thousand times thinner than a human hair. This work leverages precise tuning of processing conditions during 3D printing and the self-assembly behavior of highly branched ‘bottle-brush’ block copolymers to create vivid photonic crystals on demand from a single ink solution.
How Correlated Materials Perform as Transparent Conductors of Electricity

It has been a long-standing challenge to find a material that combines the mutually exclusive properties of high electrical conductivity and high optical transmission in the visible, and even harder, in the ultraviolet spectrum. A new class of transparent conductors – correlated metals – was recently discovered and found suitable.

From Theory to Application: How the DMREF Program Helps Accelerate Advanced Materials Research

What began as a small program with roughly 14 projects has now expanded to more than 200 projects. DMREF teams from universities across the U.S. collaborate to discover, develop, and help manufacture new materials.

By Divya Abhat

NSF Announces New DMREF Awards

From Theory to Application: How the DMREF Program Helps Accelerate Advanced Materials Research

Better Understanding Molybdenum disulfide

Precise Tuning of Processing Conditions during 3D Printing

How Correlated Materials Perform as Transparent Conductors of Electricity

From Theory to Application: How the DMREF Program Helps Accelerate Advanced Materials Research