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NSF program PMP-Particul&MultiphaseProcess (141500): 207 awards, $68M to 103 organizations
207 NSF awards ($68M) under the program element PMP-Particul&MultiphaseProcess (141500) to 103 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 141500
- Directorate
- Directorate for Engineering
- Division
- Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems
Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Designing Linked Gel Networks with Tunable Valence | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $1,550,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Thomas M Truskett | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Periodically Structured Bubbling Phenomena in Dense Suspensions and Fluidized Granular Materials | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $619,094 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Christopher Boyce | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: solute-mediated transport of colloids in porous media | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $610,000 | December 15, 2024 | November 30, 2029 | Amir Pahlavan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Oscillatory shear of entangled polymers: characterization and stability analysis | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $600,203 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | Joseph D Peterson | nsf.gov |
| Impact of Salivary Rheology on Expiratory Aerosol Formation in the Vocal Folds during Phonation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $589,982 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | William D Ristenpart | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unraveling flow-fluid coupling during impact of complex fluid droplets | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $584,946 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Xiaoyu Tang | nsf.gov |
| Mechanics of Vibration-Mediated Pollen Ejection in Buzz Pollinated Plants | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $584,199 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Mark Jankauski | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Modeling and surveying sediment creep under groundwater flow forcing, to predict failure events and long-term evolution in landscapes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $576,949 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Morgane A Houssais | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:A Multiscale Mechanistic Framework for the Human Body's Active Regulation of Digestion and Absorption through the Control of Mixing and Transport in the Small Intestine | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $570,583 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2030 | Yanxing Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Impact of Extracellular Polymeric Substances on Particle Transport in Aquatic Environments | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $561,302 | August 15, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Matthew Rau | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fundamentals and Applications of Electrochemically Active Nanofluids for Energy Storage and Conversion | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $556,579 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Sujat Sen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Decoding the dynamics of complex fluids near surfaces and interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $551,557 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Sepideh Razavi | nsf.gov |
| Shape-morphing particles for dynamically reconfigurable active matter systems | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $550,000 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Ryan C Hayward | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Material design rules and predictive modeling of multiphase particulate systems | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $550,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Abhinendra Singh | nsf.gov |
| Career: Dynamics of coalescence and mixing during droplet impact on liquid films | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $549,610 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Abhishek Saha | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bacterial upstream swimming in self-regulating flow networks | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $549,476 | March 1, 2026 | February 28, 2031 | Arnoldus J Mathijssen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A unified multiscale large-eddy simulation framework for predictive modeling of multiphase flows | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $548,708 | May 15, 2026 | April 30, 2031 | Suhas S Jain | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fluid mechanics of acoustically-actuated viscoelastic fluids at microscales | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $548,417 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Nitesh Nama | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Using Stochastic Techniques to Understand and Predict the Flow of Non-spherical Particles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $543,686 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Aaron B Morris | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unsteady inertial dynamics of suspensions: transport, assembly and propulsion | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $541,265 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Bhargav Rallabandi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling Design of In Situ Forming Lipid-based Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Gels (iL3Gels) at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $535,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Zahra Niroobakhsh | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Self-propelling robots for the monitoring and data-driven modeling of bulk granular processes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $508,560 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Hongyi Xiao | nsf.gov |
| Dynamics of elastic surfactants | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $500,440 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Narayanan Menon | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An integrated study of wave-particle interaction on liquid interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $500,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Pedro J Saenz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Harnessing liquid-liquid crystal phase separation in solutions of rod-shaped particles for the design of functional materials | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $500,000 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Karthik Nayani | nsf.gov |
| Locomotion Dynamics in Yield Stress Fluids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $500,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Hadi Mohammadigoushki | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Solute and particle transport in granular microgels | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $500,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Emilie Dressaire | nsf.gov |
| Multicomponent Interfacial Assemblies: Tailoring Surface Heterogeneities | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $500,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Thomas P Russell | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Adaptive and Responsive Magnetic Swarms (ARMS) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $499,998 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Bhuvnesh Bharti | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamics of Binary Anisotropic Magnetic Colloids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $491,533 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | George J Nelson | nsf.gov |
| Interfacial Phenomena of Natural Pulmonary Surfactants at the Perfluorocarbon-Water Interface | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $491,121 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Yi Zuo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Aerosol transport in well-defined periodic porous metamaterials | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $486,271 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Catherine Fromen | nsf.gov |
| Viscous and Inertial Nonlocal Rheology of Dense Suspensions of Frictionless Particles | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $475,603 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Sarah Hormozi | nsf.gov |
| Structural Control at Fluidic Interfaces with Nanoparticle Surfactant Assemblies | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $471,407 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2025 | Thomas P Russell | nsf.gov |
| Designing Novel Tunable Colloids Via Inverse Statistical Mechanics | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $463,485 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Salvatore Torquato | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Fine Particle De-Mixing in Granular Flows | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $461,982 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2026 | Richard M Lueptow | nsf.gov |
| The dynamics of ultrafast cold cavitation in liquids | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $460,353 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Claudiu A Stan | nsf.gov |
| CAS-Climate: Elucidating Fundamental Mechanisms of Cellulose Nanocrystal-Stabilized Pickering Emulsions Through Computational and Experimental Methods | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $460,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Esteban Urena-Benavides | nsf.gov |
| Assembly, Dynamics and Rheology of Colloidal Kinetoplast Clusters | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $460,000 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | PATRICK S DOYLE | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Telechelic triblock copolymers as a platform to design functional colloidal gels | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $456,973 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Ryan Poling-Skutvik | nsf.gov |
| Electrowetting Bursting: Electric Field-Induced Contact Line Instability for Massive and Controllable Droplets Generation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $455,251 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Shih-Kang Fan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Colloidal Dynamics under Electrodiffusiophoresis | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $455,235 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Carlos A Silvera Batista | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Bacterial Transport in Porous Media | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $455,126 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Nuris Figueroa-Morales | nsf.gov |
| Reconfigurability of deformable DNA origami nanoparticles on biomembranes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $455,000 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Steven M Abel | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Biomimetic Swarm of Active Colloids with Off-Center Interaction Sites | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $454,772 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Amir Nourhani | nsf.gov |
| ISS: Protein flow and gelation in the absence of solid-wall nucleation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $452,847 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Amir H Hirsa | nsf.gov |
| Adhesion and Self-Assembly of Flexible Nanofilaments on Biological Membranes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $451,093 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Samaneh Farokhirad | nsf.gov |
| Rheology of Polymer Melts with Designed Hairy Nanoparticles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $450,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Hung-Jue Sue | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Designing Linked Gel Networks with Tunable Valence | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $450,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Glen M Hocky | nsf.gov |
| Interplay between orientation and lift forces on non-spherical particles in complex fluids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $450,000 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Vivek Narsimhan | nsf.gov |
| Understanding and tailoring molecular interactions governing the formation of nanoparticle mesocrystal tiles at functionalized fluid interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $450,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Tobias Hanrath | nsf.gov |
| Colloidal Quasicrystals at Optical Length Scales: Assembly, Dynamics, and Thin-film Fabrication | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $450,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Ning Wu | nsf.gov |
| Understanding the impact dynamics of nanoparticles on liquid surfaces via molecular simulations and machine learning | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $449,879 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Zhi Liang | nsf.gov |
| Swirling Propulsion in Complex Fluids and Micro-Swimming Rheometry | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $447,000 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Eric Stefan G Shaqfeh | nsf.gov |
| Settling and Transport of Actively Buoyant Particles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $447,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Nicholas Ouellette | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Collective hydrodynamics within viscous interfaces: activity and assembly in membranes and monolayers | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $439,105 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Harishankar Manikantan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: in situ Polymer Gelation in Confined Flows | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $435,599 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Sara M Hashmi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Elements: Multiparticle collision dynamics simulations of mesoscale hydrodynamic interactions in complex soft materials and environments | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $430,413 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Michael P Howard | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Controlling Droplet Shape and Liquid-Crystal Order via Interfacial Freezing | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $430,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Daeyeon Lee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Design Principles of Deformable and Adhesive Particles in Multiphase Flow through Microchannels | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $429,384 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Qin Qi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Inertio-Capillary Dynamics of Particles at Interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $425,653 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | Daniel M Harris | nsf.gov |
| Segregation and Mixing in Continuous Fine Particle Phase Granular Flows | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $425,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Richard M Lueptow | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Convection and Particle Self-Assembly during Directional Solidification | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $420,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Ulrike G K Dr Wegst | nsf.gov |
| Exploiting the paradoxical effect of surface roughness on the interfacial pinning of colloids to engineer stimuli responsive emulsions | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $412,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Peter J Beltramo | nsf.gov |
| Comprehensive Eulerian models for electrostatic phenomena in polydisperse gas-particle flows | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $409,993 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Alberto Passalacqua | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards a Comprehensive Theoretical Framework to Predict Multiscale and Multicomponent Electrolyte Transport in Porous Media | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $409,876 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Ankur Gupta | nsf.gov |
| Soft Microbots for in vivo Transport | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $406,613 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | David W Marr | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Droplet breakup in homogenous turbulence: model validation through experiments and direct numerical simulations | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $406,601 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Michael Olsen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Designing Polymer Grafted-Nanoparticle Melts through a Hierarchical Computational Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $406,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Sinan Keten | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Intensifying multi-material additive manufacturing using advective assembly | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $404,595 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Alexandra V Bayles | nsf.gov |
| A Study of Water-Spread Polymer Micelles on Water Surface: Toward Developing a First-in-Kind Polymer Lung Surfactant Therapy | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $403,394 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | You-Yeon Won | nsf.gov |
| Understanding and engineering multiphase amphiphilic block copolymers | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $401,000 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Joe P Patterson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Harnessing the Interplay of Morphology, Viscoelasticity, and Surface-Active Agents to Modulate Soft Wetting | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $400,191 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Wei Wang | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG Confine: Chemically-induced phoretic flow, or how to turn a curtain of light into virtual micro-fluidic boundaries | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $400,000 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | John F Brady | nsf.gov |
| Enabling new microactuation materials through understanding the influence of shear-dependent viscosities on acoustic field-driven assembly of particles | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $398,903 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Jinhye Bae | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Data-enabled closed-loop Koopman control of encapsulated microbubbles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $398,813 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Xin C Yee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Phoretic Transport of Membrane-Bound Biological Colloids in Complex Environments | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $397,364 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Sangwoo Shin | nsf.gov |
| Disentangling Inertial Particle-Turbulence Mechanisms in the Absence of Gravity | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $395,999 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Raul Cal | nsf.gov |
| Using Dispersions of Soft and Rigid Vesicles to Stabilize Suspensions Against Sedimentation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $395,000 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | David S Corti | nsf.gov |
| Control of Bacterial Turbulence | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $393,694 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Xiang Cheng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Design, kinetics, and reconfigurable assembly of multicomponent crystals | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $390,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | William B Rogers | nsf.gov |
| Air-blast atomization of liquid films: Modeling of droplet size distribution based on bag-breakup mechanism | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $387,488 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Gbemeho G Agbaglah | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG Confine: Building functional supraparticles through directed assembly of nonspherical nanoparticles under confinement | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $382,055 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Xingchen Ye | nsf.gov |
| Wet Particle Collisions | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $380,500 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Robert H Davis | nsf.gov |
| Feedback Controlled Assembly of Colloidal Precursors into Low-Defect Membranes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $380,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Michael A Bevan | nsf.gov |
| Designing Time-varying Fields to Encode the Autonomous Navigation of Micro-robots | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $379,600 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2025 | Kyle Bishop | nsf.gov |
| Shear thickening under high shear using bimodal dispersions | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $377,818 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Yakov Lapitsky | nsf.gov |
| Slender body theory and finite difference computations to characterize particle-fluid interactions at moderate Reynolds numbers | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $371,000 | July 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Donald L Koch | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Non-Antiperiodic Nonlinear Electrophoresis (NANEP): Towards Novel Separations of Anisotropic Particles Using Optimized Voltage Waveforms | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $369,898 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Blanca H Lapizco-Encinas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: data-enabled dynamic microstructural modeling of flowing complex fluids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $361,985 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Michael D Graham | nsf.gov |
| Intrinsically Magnetic High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles for Self-Assembly into Hierarchical Structures | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $360,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Xiaoguang Wang | nsf.gov |
| Bubble-Free Fluidization of Granular Materials Subject to Combined Gas Flow and Vibration | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $360,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Christopher Boyce | nsf.gov |
| Elucidation of Polymer-Grafted Nanorod Transport Behaviors and Brush Structure | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $360,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Michael-Jon A Hore | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Non-Antiperiodic Nonlinear Electrophoresis (NANEP): Towards Novel Separations of Anisotropic Particles Using Optimized Voltage Waveforms | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $360,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Aditya Khair | nsf.gov |
| Dynamics of Spontaneous Emulsification in Microchannels | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $359,641 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Thomas Cubaud | nsf.gov |
| Understanding microscopic dynamics in sheared highly polydisperse soft materials | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $359,259 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Eric R Weeks | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Measurement, Simulation, and Theory of Molecular Connectivity Effects on Nanoscale Interfacial Rheology of Glass-Forming Fluids | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $355,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Rodney D Priestley | nsf.gov |
| Quantifying unsteady shear effects on clay-loaded media: stability and surface roughness implications | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $354,943 | May 15, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Leonardo P Chamorro | nsf.gov |
| Ultrasound directed self-assembly of non-periodic patterns of particles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $354,541 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Bart Raeymaekers | nsf.gov |
| New theoretical and simulation approach for understanding packing structures of soft self-adjusting objects | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $352,903 | July 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Patrick T Underhill | nsf.gov |
| CAS-Climate: Bubble generation and ripening in underground hydrogen storage | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $352,047 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Yashar Mehmani | nsf.gov |
| Measuring the non-uniform surface interactions experienced by a Janus particle | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $350,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Christopher L Wirth | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multi-scale modeling of surface tension-driven dynamics with physics-informed sub-grid closures | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $350,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Olivier Desjardins | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Design, kinetics, and reconfigurable assembly of multicomponent crystals | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $350,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | William M Jacobs | nsf.gov |
| Understanding droplet production mechanisms in ultrasonic atomization | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $350,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Fabien Evrard | nsf.gov |
| Direct numerical simulations of droplet break-up in turbulence in inertial and viscous regimes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $348,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Luc Deike | nsf.gov |
| Colloidal Transport, Self-Assembly, and Deposition in Evaporating Droplets | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $347,379 | April 15, 2024 | October 31, 2024 | Hassan Masoud | nsf.gov |
| Colloidal Transport, Self-Assembly, and Deposition in Evaporating Droplets | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $347,379 | August 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Hassan Masoud | nsf.gov |
| Unfolding the elementary building blocks of dynamics and rheology of soft glassy materials | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $345,410 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Fardin Khabaz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Grain to Channel Scale Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cohesive Sediment Transport | NSF | Division Of Earth Sciences | 2022 | $343,176 | April 15, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Judy Q Yang | nsf.gov |
| Assembly Mechanism Investigation and Theoretical Framework Development of Magnetorheological Emulsions for Low Power Energy Dampers | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $342,355 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Amanda S Koh | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Mass Transport Mediated by Microbial Biosurfactants in Unsaturated Porous Media: Multiscale Experimental and Modeling Investigations | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $340,743 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Judy Q Yang | nsf.gov |
| ISS: The Influence of Microgravity on Bacterial Transport and Pellicle Morphogenesis | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $340,033 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Howard A Stone | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating the role of non-continuum hydrodynamic interactions in the growth of droplets in warm cumulus clouds | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $340,000 | February 15, 2026 | January 31, 2029 | Donald L Koch | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multi-scale modeling of surface tension-driven dynamics with physics-informed sub-grid closures | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $337,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Fabien Evrard | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Dynamics of flowing particles in soft confined systems | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $335,976 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Bhargav Rallabandi | nsf.gov |
| Burrowing Dynamics in Sediment Beds | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $330,001 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Arshad A Kudrolli | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Cohesive Immersed Granular Flows: Multiscale Experiments and Particle-Resolved Modeling | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $330,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Eckart H Meiburg | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Data-driven next-generation Lagrangian models for swarms of deforming and interacting droplets | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $329,976 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Yue Ling | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Cohesive Immersed Granular Flows: Multiscale Experiments and Particle-Resolved Modeling | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $329,956 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Alban O Sauret | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles and Polymers via Co-Crystallization | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $328,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Christopher Li | nsf.gov |
| Aggregation Scale Eddy Generation During Collective Active Particle Migration: Spectral Energy Flux, Mechanisms, and Impact on Mixing Efficiency | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $325,089 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Lei Fang | nsf.gov |
| Role of Polymer Adsorption on Extensional Rheology of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $324,100 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Jacinta Conrad | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding and Controlling Multiscale Structural Ordering in Particle Self-assembly | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $324,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Yijin Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Convection and Particle Self-Assembly during Directional Solidification | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $320,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Joel L Plawsky | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Physics of Breakup and Population-Balance Modeling of Oil-Coated Air Bubbles in Strong Turbulence | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $308,748 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Chung Kei Chris Lai | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Measurement, Simulation, and Theory of Molecular Connectivity Effects on Nanoscale Interfacial Rheology of Glass-Forming Fluids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $300,000 | July 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | David S Simmons | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Linking Structure with Transport in Graphene-Based Films at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $300,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Joseph Samaniuk | nsf.gov |
| Origin and mechanisms of cancer blood flow anomalies: Linking blood cell dynamics and vascular structural abnormalities | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $300,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Prosenjit Bagchi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Topological Defects and Dynamic Motion of Symmetry-breaking Tadpole Particles in Liquid Crystal Medium | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $298,678 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2028 | Xiao Li | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Explainable deep learning for cavitation control: from first-principles simulations to reinforcement-learning strategies | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $296,993 | February 15, 2026 | January 31, 2029 | Ricardo Vinuesa | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding and Controlling Multiscale Structural Ordering in Particle Self-assembly | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $296,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Jiamian Hu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Statistical mechanics of dense suspensions - dynamical correlations and scaling theory | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $294,603 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Jeffrey F Morris | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Linking Structure with Transport in Graphene-Based Films at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $290,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Emily B Pentzer | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Mass Transport Mediated by Microbial Biosurfactants in Unsaturated Porous Media: Multiscale Experimental and Modeling Investigations | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $289,807 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Bo Guo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Physics of Breakup and Population-Balance Modeling of Oil-Coated Air Bubbles in Strong Turbulence | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $279,048 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Cosan Daskiran | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Designing Polymer Grafted-Nanoparticle Melts through a Hierarchical Computational Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $271,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2026 | Sanat K Kumar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Explainable deep learning for cavitation control: from first-principles simulations to reinforcement-learning strategies | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $270,522 | February 15, 2026 | January 31, 2029 | Hector Gomez | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Statistical mechanics of dense suspensions - dynamical correlations and scaling theory | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $269,703 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Bulbul Chakraborty | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Advancing turbidity currents: moving sources, polydispersity and aggregation | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $255,634 | February 1, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Thomas Peacock | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Dynamics and Stability of Multi-Component Lipid Vesicles in Flow | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $250,542 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Charles M Schroeder | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Marangoni-Driven Propulsion, Assembly, and Disassembly along Curved Interfaces and Membranes | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $250,209 | August 15, 2024 | October 31, 2024 | Hassan Masoud | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Marangoni-Driven Propulsion, Assembly, and Disassembly along Curved Interfaces and Membranes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $250,209 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Hassan Masoud | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Marangoni-Driven Propulsion, Assembly, and Disassembly along Curved Interfaces and Membranes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $250,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Jonathan P Rothstein | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Assessing the Effect of Microgravity on Growth and Properties of Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Crystals | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $247,500 | September 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Debbie Senesky | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ISS: Assessing the Effect of Microgravity on Growth and Properties of Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Crystals | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $247,500 | September 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Roya Maboudian | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating the role of non-continuum hydrodynamic interactions in the growth of droplets in warm cumulus clouds | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $245,969 | February 15, 2026 | January 31, 2029 | Sarma L Rani | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Collaborative Research: Fast Numerical Simulations of Low Void Fraction Disperse Multiphase Systems using Event-Triggered Communication | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $242,730 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Vijay Gupta | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Particle dynamics at the free surface: waves, turbulence, and microplastics | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $242,260 | April 1, 2025 | January 31, 2028 | Michelle H DiBenedetto | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unlocking the Potential of Active Lipid Vesicles for Directed Delivery and Controlled Release of Therapeutic Payloads | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $234,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Jie Feng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unlocking the Potential of Active Lipid Vesicles for Directed Delivery and Controlled Release of Therapeutic Payloads | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $232,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | On Shun Pak | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Experimental and Computational Studies of Droplet and Bubble Flows through Complex Geometries | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $230,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Corey S O'Hern | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Experimental and Computational Studies of Droplet and Bubble Flows through Complex Geometries | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $230,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Mark D Shattuck | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Proposal: How to Gel Oil (or Water) in an Immiscible Oil-Water Mixture: A Systematic Study of Phase-Selective Gelation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $225,000 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | George John | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Proposal: How to Gel Oil (or Water) in an Immiscible Oil-Water Mixture: A Systematic Study of Phase-Selective Gelation | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $225,000 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2026 | Srinivasa R Raghavan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Advancing turbidity currents: moving sources, polydispersity and aggregation | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $224,990 | February 1, 2022 | September 30, 2024 | Eckart H Meiburg | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Dynamics and Stability of Multi-Component Lipid Vesicles in Flow | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $222,917 | January 15, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Vivek Narsimhan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Experimental and Computational Studies of Droplet and Bubble Flows through Complex Geometries | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $220,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Eric R Weeks | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Particle dynamics at the free surface: waves, turbulence, and microplastics | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $207,676 | February 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Michelle H DiBenedetto | nsf.gov |
| Theoretical and numerical investigation of particle-vortex interaction in semi-dilute dusty flows | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $200,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Mohamed H Kasbaoui | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Cavitation Bubble Dynamics Near Mixed Solid-Gaseous Surfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $200,000 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Nathan B Speirs | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Impact of pore-scale heterogeneity on precipitation and transport in porous media | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $199,955 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2026 | Shima Parsa | nsf.gov |
| Conference: The Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion: An Exhibition for Informal Learning and Visitor Engagement with Fluid Dynamics | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $199,901 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2028 | Azar P Barakati | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Oscillatory patterns in sessile droplets induced by shear flow of surrounding gas phase | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $199,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2027 | Mehdi Mortazavi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Topological Defects and Dynamic Motion of Symmetry-breaking Tadpole Particles in Liquid Crystal Medium | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $198,458 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Ying Bao | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Revealing the Reconfiguration Dynamics of Lipid Bilayer and Its Hydration Structures with Nanoscale Resolution during Electroporation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $191,995 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | SHAN ZHOU | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals to Advance Magnetic Particle Imaging | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $184,994 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Geoffrey D Bothun | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Evolution of Detached Liquid Sheet Edges from Patterned Boundaries | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $177,911 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Hans C Mayer | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: Non-Antiperiodic Nonlinear Electrophoresis (NANEP) of Colloidal Particles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $169,200 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2026 | Aditya Khair | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Controlled Coating via Charged Droplet Impact and Deposition on Dielectric and Conducting Surfaces | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $164,965 | October 1, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Farzad Mashayek | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals to Advance Magnetic Particle Imaging | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $150,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Carmen Scholz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: Non-Antiperiodic Nonlinear Electrophoresis (NANEP) of Colloidal Particles | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $129,750 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Blanca H Lapizco-Encinas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles and Polymers via Co-Crystallization | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $129,552 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Bin Zhao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals to Advance Magnetic Particle Imaging | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $128,740 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Edward G Walsh | nsf.gov |
| Colloid dynamics in porous media induced by fluid flow and solute transport | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $125,977 | October 1, 2021 | October 31, 2023 | Sangwoo Shin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Wetting and dynamics on soft and swollen polymeric surfaces | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $124,050 | January 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Jonathan T Pham | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Determining the structure and properties of cell re-engineered microenvironments using rheology in synthetic wound healing scaffolds | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $120,381 | January 1, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Kelly M Schultz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unveiling the Stability, Rheology, and Topology of Active Fluids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $110,585 | November 15, 2025 | October 31, 2027 | Tong Gao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transport and collective behavior of microswimmers in porous media | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $108,112 | May 1, 2025 | September 30, 2026 | Sujit S Datta | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Capillary flows of particulate suspensions | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2025 | $106,309 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2026 | Alban O Sauret | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: data-enabled dynamic microstructural modeling of flowing complex fluids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $79,814 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Matthew E Helgeson | nsf.gov |
| Development of an ultrafine aerosol particle mobility analyzer with separation and sensitivity enhancement and real-time monitoring | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $72,000 | July 1, 2024 | April 30, 2025 | Carlos Larriba Andaluz | nsf.gov |
| Understanding the merging dynamics of surface nanobubbles and the resulting capillary force between particles from molecular simulations | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $62,334 | October 1, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Zhi Liang | nsf.gov |
| 2024 NSF Student Poster Competition and ME Rising Star Celebration at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); Portland, Oregon; 17-21 November 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $55,144 | August 1, 2024 | August 31, 2025 | Wenbin Yu | nsf.gov |
| 2026 NSF Student Poster Competition & ME Rising Star Celebration at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); Vancouver, Canada; 8-12 November 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $53,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2027 | Linxia Gu | nsf.gov |
| Student Poster Competition & Networking Breakfast at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); New Orleans, Louisiana; 29 October to 2 November 2023 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $50,000 | August 1, 2023 | April 25, 2025 | Wenbin Yu | nsf.gov |
| 2025 NSF Student Poster Competition & ME Rising Star Celebration at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); Memphis, Tennessee; 16-20 November 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $50,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2026 | Wenbin Yu | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Exhibition of Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $49,989 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Azar P Barakati | nsf.gov |
| Conference: DFD Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $49,970 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2025 | Julia Watson | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2026 Granular Matter Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $49,725 | April 1, 2026 | September 30, 2026 | Kerstin Nordstrom | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Travel Support for the 9th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $49,588 | February 1, 2024 | July 31, 2024 | David L Blunck | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Travel Support for the 8th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $47,800 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2024 | Krishna Kota | nsf.gov |
| Conference: AI-Driven Solutions for Sediment Transport: Bridging Science, Engineering, and Innovation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $35,749 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2027 | Jennifer G Duan | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Granular Matter GRC and GRC Particle Systems Science and Extreme Environments | NSF | Division Of Earth Sciences | 2024 | $32,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2025 | Kimberly M Hill | nsf.gov |
| Travel: APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Travel Support | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $30,000 | November 15, 2022 | December 31, 2023 | Cortney A Bougher | nsf.gov |
| Travel: DFD Meeting Travel Grant Program | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $30,000 | July 1, 2024 | February 28, 2026 | Julia Watson | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2025 Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRC/GRS | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $30,000 | May 15, 2025 | October 31, 2025 | Jennifer L Ross | nsf.gov |
| Travel: Travel Support for the 10th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2025 | $25,000 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2025 | Kausik Sarkar | nsf.gov |
| 2022 GRC on Granular Matter: Particulate Systems Across Scales: From Colloidal Science to Geophysical Flows | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $24,000 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2023 | Xiang Cheng | nsf.gov |
| Active Matter and Complex Media | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $15,000 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2023 | Petia M Vlahovska | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 97th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $15,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Lilian C Hsiao | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $15,000 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2024 | Daeyeon Lee | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Fluidization XVII Conference Support | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $10,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2024 | Christine M Hrenya | nsf.gov |
| Workshop on advancing fluid and soft-matter dynamics with machine learning and data science | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $10,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2025 | Michael D Graham | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Impact of Extracellular Polymeric Substances on Particle Transport in Aquatic Environments | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $6,005 | June 1, 2022 | September 30, 2022 | Matthew Rau | nsf.gov |
| Travel: CECAM Flagship Workshop | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $5,000 | March 1, 2023 | August 31, 2023 | Petia M Vlahovska | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 98th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $5,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2025 | James J De Yoreo | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 33 | $11,140,930 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 43 | $13,377,675 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 51 | $13,564,805 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 48 | $14,897,644 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 39 | $13,634,088 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.041 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) | 20-558 | NSF | 47.041 | November 10, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.041 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.041 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.041 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.041 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.041 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.041 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) | 24-564 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.041 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.041 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.041 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.041 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) | 24-590 | NSF | 47.041 | September 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science | 24-503 | NSF | 47.041 | October 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.041 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
| Transport Phenomena (TP) | PD-26-366Y | NSF | 47.041 | August 20, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 207 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.