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NSF program CONDENSED MATTER & MAT THEORY (176500): 289 awards, $116.9M to 123 organizations
289 NSF awards ($116.9M) under the program element CONDENSED MATTER & MAT THEORY (176500) to 123 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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- Materials Research Section
Awards
289 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics | NSF | Physics Section | 2023 | $13,209,636 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Lars Bildsten | nsf.gov |
| Programs on Critical Problems in Physics, Astrophysics and Biophysics at the Aspen Center for Physics | NSF | Physics Section | 2022 | $2,500,000 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Joshua A Frieman | nsf.gov |
| Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $1,170,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | Leo R Radzihovsky | nsf.gov |
| Theoretical Solid State Physics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $1,000,000 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Marvin L Cohen | nsf.gov |
| Bridging the Gap Between Particle-Based and Continuum Hydrodynamic Descriptions of Dusty Plasma | NSF | Physics Section | 2024 | $728,539 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Justin C Burton | nsf.gov |
| Applications of Field Theory to Condensed Matter Physics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $720,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Eduardo H Fradkin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamics and thermodynamics of ultra-strong glassformers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $698,278 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Daniel M Sussman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interplay of Electrons, Lattice, and Topology in Correlated Heterostructures for Quantum Materials and Devices | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $692,262 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Subhasish Mandal | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Band-Topology of Multipolar Magnetic Excitations | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $687,867 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Judit Romhanyi | nsf.gov |
| Methodologically Consistent Free-Energy Density Functional Theory for Warm Dense Matter and Non-Ideal Plasmas | NSF | Physics Section | 2026 | $686,056 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Valentin V Karasev | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Role of Spin-Dynamics in the Formation of Magnetic Microstructure | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $682,571 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Doyl Dickel | nsf.gov |
| Strange metals and the phases of quantum materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $660,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Subir Sachdev | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: MPATHS - Microscopic Pathway Analysis Toolkit for High-throughput Studies | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $660,000 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Sharon C Glotzer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Predicting the Synthesis and Synthesizability of Metastable Epitaxial Thin Films | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $653,618 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Wenhao Sun | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bio-inspired Nonequilibrium Design Principles of Molecular Information Machines | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $650,000 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Zhiyue Lu | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Theory of Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $650,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Steven A Kivelson | nsf.gov |
| CMMT: Slave-boson approach for electronically correlated metal oxides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $639,309 | December 1, 2022 | November 30, 2026 | Sohrab Ismail-Beigi | nsf.gov |
| Chemical Pressure Scaffolding of Emergent Behavior in Intermetallic Phases | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $625,685 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Daniel C Fredrickson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Identifying emergent dynamics in stochastic systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $612,513 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Evelyn Tang | nsf.gov |
| Fluctuations and Entanglement in Correlated Systems with Electrons and Phonons | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $606,872 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2030 | Yao Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Programmable control of biomolecular condensate self-assembly | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $600,608 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | William M Jacobs | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Designing topological superconductivity and correlated phases in Van der Waals materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $599,998 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Yi-Ting Hsu | nsf.gov |
| Collective Dynamics and Resonances of Phonons and Dislocations in Thermal Transport | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $599,994 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Youping Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Thermodynamic Limits to Nonequilibrium Response | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $599,259 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Jordan M Horowitz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Universal Dynamics of Many-Body Quantum Systems Far from Equilibrium | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $596,758 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Mohammad Maghrebi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Non-Hermitian physics of spacetime-periodic soft matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $593,407 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Jayson Paulose | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Rational Design of Ferroelectric Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $588,795 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Rohan Mishra | nsf.gov |
| Non-Fermi liquids and criticality from quantum baths | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $584,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2029 | Tarun Grover | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Decoding Crystal Growth and Phase Transformations of Complex Structures With Minimalist Self-Assembly Models | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $580,356 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Julia Dshemuchadse | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Generative Modeling of Atomic Disorder in High-Entropy Oxide Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $578,383 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Vitaliy R Yurkiv | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Correlations, responses and dynamics of interacting topological matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $564,667 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Biao Lian | nsf.gov |
| Physics-informed AI Generative Models for Crystal Structure Prediction and Materials Discovery | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $560,967 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Qiang Zhu | nsf.gov |
| Topological order and Anyons in and out of Equilibrium | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $560,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Ashvin Vishwanath | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-NSERC: Data-enabled Model Order Reduction for 2D Quantum Materials | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2024 | $555,373 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Mitchell B Luskin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Correlated Phases and Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Topological Flat bands | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $555,113 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Chunli Huang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Simulations to Inform the Design of Force Responsive Copolymer Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $551,517 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Antonia Statt | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing the Many-body Band Inversion Paradigm for Correlated Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $551,286 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Jorn W Venderbos | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Exciton-Phonon Coupling in Quantum Materials: Atomistic Insight for Defects and 2D Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $550,050 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | David A Strubbe | nsf.gov |
| Multipoletronics Enabled by Collinear and Noncollinear Antiferromagnets | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $548,590 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2029 | Hua Chen | nsf.gov |
| Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter: Long Range Entanglement and Dynamics Across Quantum Phase Transitions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $544,000 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Nandini Trivedi | nsf.gov |
| Mechanical Phase Transitions and Critical Fluctuations in Fiber Networks | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $537,071 | September 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Frederick C MacKintosh | nsf.gov |
| Active Patterns in Soft and Living Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $534,000 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Cristina Marchetti | nsf.gov |
| Spintronics with entangled and strongly correlated magnetic quantum matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $532,567 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Branislav Nikolic | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum Coherence, Optical Readout, and Quantum Transduction for Spin Qubits from First-Principles Calculations | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $523,073 | November 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Yuan Ping | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unlocking Ductility in Magnesium: How to Replace Twinning and Impede Damage | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $520,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Christopher D Barrett | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Magnetic topological phases in dissipative systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $518,012 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Benedetta Flebus | nsf.gov |
| Electron transport in low-dimensional and mesoscopic topological solids | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $510,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Leonid I Glazman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing nanostructure & interface science for permanent magnets without rare earth materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $508,638 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Mahmood Mamivand | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum defects in two-dimensional materials by local-symmetry-guided data-driven design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $507,956 | April 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Qimin Yan | nsf.gov |
| Phase-field Model of Electromechanical and Optical Properties of Ferroelectric Domain Structures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $505,541 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Long-Qing Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Infinitely many new universality classes of hydrodynamics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $500,000 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Andrew Lucas | nsf.gov |
| Multiscale Modeling of Coronavirus Virions in the Respiratory System | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $499,765 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Alexander V Neimark | nsf.gov |
| Understanding and engineering geometrically frustrated self-assembly | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $496,577 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Gregory M Grason | nsf.gov |
| Theory and application of Berry phase methods in solids | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $495,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | David H Vanderbilt | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Worm Algorithm and Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $490,000 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Boris V Svistunov | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Organic Materials Discovery with the Aid of Digital Crystallography | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $485,800 | April 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Qiang Zhu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Learning and Information Processing in Non-linear Mechanical Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $480,000 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Arvind Murugan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Theories of Gapless Quantum Matter Beyond Quasiparticles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $479,561 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Debanjan Chowdhury | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Electronic and Optical Properties in Generalized Moire Systems from First Principles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $479,556 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Felipe Homrich da Jornada | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Chirality and Polymer Thermodynamics: Frustration and Amplification | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $478,476 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Poornima Padmanabhan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Simulation and Machine Learning for Smart Polymer Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $476,539 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Michael A Webb | nsf.gov |
| Physics of Non-Fermi Liquid Metals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $475,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Qimiao Si | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fundamental investigation of twin boundary engineering through cyclic cross-phase-boundary thermomechanical processing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $472,690 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Lei Cao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Correlated Superconductors under Extreme Conditions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $467,998 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Cheng-Chien Chen | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Elucidating and Controlling the Spectral, Spatial and Temporal Responses of Plasmonic Nanostructures based on a Data-Driven Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $465,795 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Yongmin Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:Superconductivity, fractionalization and quantum criticality in multilayer quantum simulator | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $460,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Yahui Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Correlated excited states of point defects in insulators | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $460,000 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Cyrus E Dreyer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of Symmetric Mass Generation | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $460,000 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Yi-Zhuang You | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hidden Topological Polar Phases Created by Ultrafast Acoustic Excitation | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $454,594 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Jiamian Hu | nsf.gov |
| Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Nanoscale Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $453,000 | April 15, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Christopher Jarzynski | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular Modeling of Ring Polymer Mechanics - Expanding Applicability of Ring Polymer | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $452,902 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Ting Ge | nsf.gov |
| Advancing Machine-Learning Augmented Free-Energy Density Functionals for Fast and Accurate Quantum Simulations of Warm Dense Plasmas | NSF | Division Of Physics | 2022 | $450,000 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Valentin V Karasev | nsf.gov |
| U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: AQUASORB: Predictive Modeling of Atmospheric Water Sorption | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $450,000 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Brian Space | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Many-Body Physics of Quantum Computation | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $450,000 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Alex Kamenev | nsf.gov |
| Quantum Phenomena in Solids | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $450,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Leon M Balents | nsf.gov |
| Predicting and Programming Plasticity, Flow, and Arrest in Dense Active Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $450,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Mary Lisa L Manning | nsf.gov |
| Structure and Dynamics of Low-Energy Excitations in Glassy Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $450,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Stefan Boettcher | nsf.gov |
| Interacting States of Low Dimensional Electrons | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $450,000 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Herbert A Fertig | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Fluctuation phenomena out of equilibrium | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $441,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Mehran Kardar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Novel platforms for topology and non-Fermi liquids: From projected topological branes to non-Abelian and fractional materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $440,000 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Bitan Roy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Design and modeling for modular bionanotechnology and citizen science | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $440,000 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Petr Sulc | nsf.gov |
| Novel Phases of Electronic Insulators and Quantum Hall Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $436,585 | September 1, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Senthil Todadri | nsf.gov |
| Exploring Phases of Matter With Restrictive Conservation Laws: Anomalies, Topology, and Dynamics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $435,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Fiona J Burnell | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Real-Time First-Principles Approach to Understanding Many-Body Effects on High Harmonic Generation in Solids | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $435,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Diana Y Qiu | nsf.gov |
| Programmable Assembly of Nanocrystals: Many Body Effects, Dynamics and Multifunctional Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $434,833 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Alex Travesset | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Geometric and topological mechanics of flexible structures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $430,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | David Z Rocklin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Self-organization and shape change in elastic active matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $430,000 | May 15, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Kinjal Dasbiswas | nsf.gov |
| The Mechanics of Piezo Ion Channels | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $420,000 | December 1, 2021 | November 30, 2026 | Christoph Haselwandter | nsf.gov |
| Computational modeling to determine strategies to optimize self-limited assembly | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $420,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Michael Hagan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum Information Theory of Many-body Physics | NSF | Physics Section | 2024 | $420,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Isaac Kim | nsf.gov |
| The many-body problem in the age of quantum machine learning | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $420,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Adrian E Feiguin | nsf.gov |
| Heat transport and neutral modes in topological matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $420,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Dmitri E Feldman | nsf.gov |
| Theoretical Studies of Contrastive Local Learning Networks | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $419,299 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Andrea J Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Developing Quantum Algorithms for High-Entropy Alloy Discovery | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $419,200 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Houlong Zhuang | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Inverse Design of Electrically Conductive and Magnetically Bi-stable Coordination Polymers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $416,841 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Farnaz A shakib | nsf.gov |
| Theoretical study of anyons in fractional quantum hall effect | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $416,000 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jainendra K Jain | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Analysis of dense suspension properties and dynamics by network methods | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $412,497 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Jeffrey F Morris | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Probing Quantum Matter using Programmable Quantum Simulators | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $411,000 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Soonwon Choi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum spin liquids meet spintronics: Theory of probing quantum spin liquids with spin Hall effects | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $410,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | So Takei | nsf.gov |
| Topological quantum matter and crystalline symmetry | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $409,379 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2028 | Maissam Barkeshli | nsf.gov |
| Density Functional Theory of Electronic Structure | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $407,556 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | John P Perdew | 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 |
| Theoretical Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics of Correlated Electron Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $405,001 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Kristjan Haule | nsf.gov |
| Heat transport in topological matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $405,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Dmitri E Feldman | nsf.gov |
| Nonequilibrium quantum mechanics of strongly correlated systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $405,000 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Aditi Mitra | nsf.gov |
| Theoretical approach to weakly bound triplet-triplet multiexciton in intramolecular singlet fission chromophores | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $405,000 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Shufeng Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Strong-Coupling Phenomena at the Metal-Insulator Transition | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $405,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Vladimir Dobrosavljevic | nsf.gov |
| Dynamical Instabilities in Solids and Two-Phase Flow | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $401,620 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Michael P Marder | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Active Feedback to Control Dynamic Quantum Phases | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $400,324 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Justin H Wilson | nsf.gov |
| Transport and Optical Phenomena in Correlated Electron Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $400,000 | December 1, 2022 | November 30, 2026 | Dmitrii Maslov | nsf.gov |
| Disorder and the Emergence of Inhomogeneous Phases in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $399,956 | December 15, 2023 | November 30, 2026 | Peter J Hirschfeld | nsf.gov |
| Spin Transport Across Interfaces in Unconventional Superconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $399,319 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Ilya Vekhter | nsf.gov |
| Data-Enabled Theoretical Understanding of the Structure and Properties of Solvent-cast Polymer Nanocomposites | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $398,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Sanat K Kumar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Charge-density based ML framework for efficient exploration and property predictions in the large phase space of concentrated materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $395,375 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Dilpuneet S Aidhy | nsf.gov |
| Theoretical Prediction of Hydrogen Rich High-Temperature Superconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $395,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Eva Zurek | nsf.gov |
| Dynamical Ion Correlations in Polymer Electrolytes | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $392,642 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Venkat Ganesan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: New Regimes of Coherent Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Many-Body Systems | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $392,550 | July 1, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Thomas Iadecola | nsf.gov |
| Charge Patterning and Molecular Interactions in the Phase Behavior of Polyelectrolyte/Particle Solutions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $392,233 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2028 | Charles E Sing | nsf.gov |
| Rigidity and Shape Transitions in Living and Nonliving Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $392,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Jennifer Schwarz | nsf.gov |
| Nonlinear and geometric effects in quantum condensed matter systems | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $390,000 | February 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Alexander G Abanov | nsf.gov |
| Structure Prediction and Design of Molecular Crystals with the GAtor Genetic Algorithm | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $390,000 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Noa Marom | nsf.gov |
| Linear and nonlinear exciton dynamics with time-dependent density-functional theory | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $390,000 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Carsten A Ullrich | nsf.gov |
| Growth and size in living matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $390,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | David K Lubensky | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Emergence of in-liquid structures in metallic alloys by nucleation and growth | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $390,000 | May 15, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Deep Choudhuri | nsf.gov |
| Modeling glass formers: Allying with experiment to study families of complex materials and new molecular pathways to equilibration | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $390,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Jane E Lipson | nsf.gov |
| Electron transport in topological conductors and superconducting systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $390,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Anton V Andreev | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Frontiers of Superconductivity: Unconventional, Topological, and Low-Density Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $390,000 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2031 | Vladyslav Kozii | nsf.gov |
| DMRG Studies of Strongly Correlated Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $388,397 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Steven R White | nsf.gov |
| Interface, Edge and Bulk of Complex States of Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $387,177 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Kun Yang | nsf.gov |
| Harnessing unconventional structural degrees of freedom to design new hybrid layered perovskites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $385,683 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Nicole A Benedek | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Monostructural Topological Spin-Insulatronics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $385,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Ran Cheng | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Facets of gapless quantum matter: new phenomena, new tools, and new platforms | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $385,000 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Zhen Bi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling High Free Volume Polymers: Influence of Free Volume Element Distribution and Chain Dynamics on Physical Aging | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $384,961 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Janani Sampath | nsf.gov |
| Scale-dependent theory of the disordered electron liquid | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $384,772 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2029 | Georg Schwiete | nsf.gov |
| Interplay Between non-Fermi Liquid, Superconductivity, and Pseudogap Behavior in Quantum-Critical Metals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $384,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Andrey V Chubukov | nsf.gov |
| Understanding Excimers in Molecular J- and H-aggregates: A Holstein-Peierls Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $381,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Francis C Spano | nsf.gov |
| Topology in many-body quantum systems in and out of equilibrium | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $381,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Lukasz Fidkowski | nsf.gov |
| Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $380,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Katsuyo S Thornton | nsf.gov |
| Design of Heteroanionic Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $380,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | James M Rondinelli | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Orbital-based Descriptors for Dynamical Properties of Quantum Defects | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $379,900 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Yuanxi Wang | nsf.gov |
| Manipulation of single spins in ferroelectric oxides from first principles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $379,734 | December 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Elizabeth A Nowadnick | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: AI-Enabled Analysis of Grain-Boundary-Mediated Hydrogen Diffusion Kinetics within Polycrystals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $378,381 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Xingsheng Sun | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ab Initio Engineering of Doped-Covalent-Bond Superconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $378,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Alexey Kolmogorov | nsf.gov |
| Disorder, Topology and Frustration in Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $375,389 | July 1, 2023 | October 31, 2026 | Natalia B Perkins | nsf.gov |
| Nanostructure, ion affinity, and mobility in polymer membranes | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $375,299 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Scott T Milner | nsf.gov |
| Quantum Mechanics of Interacting Electron Fluid in Berry-curved Materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $375,000 | December 1, 2021 | November 30, 2024 | Dmytro Pesin | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Inferring Lattice Dynamics from Temporal X-ray Diffraction Data | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $375,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Niaz Abdolrahim | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Developing New Paradigms for Hybrid Light-Matter Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $372,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Luiz Santos | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Analysis of dense suspension properties and dynamics by network methods | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $369,850 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Lou Kondic | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Nonlinear Quantum Effects in Disordered Interacting Electronic Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $369,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Maxim O Dzero | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Fractional quantum Hall effect on noisy quantum computers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $368,238 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Pouyan Ghaemi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms of Resistive Switching in Monolayer Materials Based on Interface and Defect Chemistry from First Principles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $367,319 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Wennie Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unconventional superconductivity and disordered criticality in two dimensions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $366,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Alex Thomson | nsf.gov |
| Physics of virus assembly and disassembly: Energetics and dynamics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $364,000 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Roya Zandi | nsf.gov |
| Electronic phases and transport in quantum matter at strong coupling | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $360,000 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2025 | Alex Levchenko | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Geometry and topology of quantum materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $360,000 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Raquel Queiroz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Topological quantum devices as a window into strongly correlated matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $360,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Jukka Vayrynen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem in Moire Materials with Quantum Geometry & Tensor Networks | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $360,000 | February 1, 2026 | January 31, 2031 | Daniel E Parker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Electronic and optical phenomena in moire materials beyond the flat-band paradigm | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $360,000 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2031 | Cyprian K Lewandowski | nsf.gov |
| Advancing Atomic-level Understanding and Prediction of Kinetics of Solid-Solid Phase Transitions from First Principles and Machine Learning | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $359,790 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Liping Yu | nsf.gov |
| Interaction of electromagnetic pulses and nanostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $359,461 | October 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Kalman Varga | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Database-Enabled Discovery and Design of Ferroics Using Materials Theory and Computing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $357,757 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Joseph W Bennett | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: CDS&E: Tensor Train methods for Quantum Impurity Solvers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $355,410 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Emanuel C Gull | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: First-Principles Discovery of Optically Excited States in Van der Waals Magnetic Structures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $355,160 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Ting Cao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Geometric Quantum Order: Fractons, Tensor Gauge Theories and Beyond | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $351,425 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2026 | Andrey Gromov | nsf.gov |
| Non-perturbative studies of electron-lattice interactions in quantum materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $351,270 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Steven S Johnston | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Effective Hamiltonian Downfolding Methods for Studying Linear and Nonlinear Responses of Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $350,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Stephen Winter | nsf.gov |
| Electron liquids and crystals in nonreciprocal and topological quantum systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $350,000 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2028 | Alex Levchenko | nsf.gov |
| Quantum Monte Carlo methods beyond the fixed-node approximation: excitonic effects and hydrogen compounds | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $346,461 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Lubos Mitas | nsf.gov |
| RHEOLOGY, ENTROPY PRODUCTION AND RATCHETING OF DEFORMABLE ACTIVE SYSTEMS | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $344,930 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Angelo Cacciuto | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: First-Principles Thermodynamic Models for Defect Phase Diagrams | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $344,494 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Sara Kadkhodaei | nsf.gov |
| Data-driven exploration of dissolution and precipitation of high entropy metal oxide nanoparticles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $344,349 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Bin Ouyang | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: A Deep Learning Framework for Material Parameters Estimation in Multi-principal Element Alloys | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $344,276 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Mahmood Mamivand | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Synergistic Effects of Irradiation and Molten Salt Corrosion on NiCr Alloys | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $340,370 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Miaomiao Jin | nsf.gov |
| Modeling and Design of Self-Healing Multifunctional Networks from Polyphilic Oligomers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $337,337 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Fernando A Escobedo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum Optics of Correlated Electrons in Cavity Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $334,132 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Martin Claassen | nsf.gov |
| Developing quantitative continuum theories of composite active fluids | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $333,827 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Aparna Baskaran | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Inverse Design of Sequence-Defined Macromolecules using Generative Deep Learning | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $330,121 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Antonia Statt | nsf.gov |
| Symmetry and topology for quantum matter in and out of equilibrium | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $330,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Meng Cheng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Motif-Based Deep Learning for Discovery and Chemical Insights into Disordered Phases | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $328,828 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Taylor D Sparks | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Integrated experiments and simulations to understand the mechanism and consequences of polymer adsorption in films and nanocomposites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $326,199 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | David S Simmons | nsf.gov |
| Topology Driven Flows in Chromonic Liquid Crystals and Active Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $325,000 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Jorge Vinals | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Coupled Electro-Thermal Transport in Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $322,189 | May 15, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Zlatan Aksamija | nsf.gov |
| Solution and Interfacial Properties of Catenated Polymers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $321,000 | July 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Mesfin Tsige | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Chemically specific polymer models with field-theoretic simulations | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $320,259 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Joshua Lequieu | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Excited-state properties and the impact of random defects in quantum materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $318,775 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Ivan Biaggio | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Evaluating Theories of Polymer Crystallization by Directly Calculating the Nucleation Barrier in a Polymer Melt | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $316,204 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Douglas R Tree | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Explore Quantum Many-Body Dynamics Beyond Thermalization | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $315,758 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Shenglong Xu | nsf.gov |
| Investigation of measurement protected many-body quantum states | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $315,074 | January 15, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Xiao Chen | nsf.gov |
| Mesoscale modeling of Controlled Degradation and Erosion of Polymer Networks | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $310,000 | May 15, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Olga Kuksenok | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Geometries of Topological Defects in 3D Nematics, from Equilibrium Structure to Active Dynamics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $310,000 | January 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Daniel Beller | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Learning Explainable Microstructure Representations for Material Property Prediction and Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $310,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Yi Ren | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Charge-density based ML framework for efficient exploration and property predictions in the large phase space of concentrated materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $303,790 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Pejman Tahmasebi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: First-principles Predictive Understanding of Chemical Order in Complex Concentrated Alloys: Structures, Dynamics, and Defect Characteristics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $302,912 | March 15, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Wei Chen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Motif-Based Deep Learning for Discovery and Chemical Insights into Disordered Phases | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $300,880 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Prashun Gorai | nsf.gov |
| Exact model for extremely correlated electrons in a magnetic field | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $300,000 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Jainendra K Jain | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: QFT & beyond: new structures and tools for compressible phases | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $300,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Luca V Delacretaz | nsf.gov |
| Ionic Conductivity in Confinement | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $300,000 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2028 | Monica Olvera de la Cruz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Non-linear Response for Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $300,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Rahul M Nandkishore | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Non-linear Response for Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $300,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Sarang Gopalakrishnan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Simulations of Nanofluid Assembly for Smart Materials Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $295,356 | May 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Ulf D Schiller | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Novel Dynamics of Locally-Driven Quantum Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $295,279 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Babak Seradjeh | nsf.gov |
| Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Closed Interacting Quantum Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $294,777 | March 15, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Anatoli Polkovnikov | nsf.gov |
| Emergent phases in Kitaev spin-orbital magnets | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $292,284 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2026 | Onur Erten | nsf.gov |
| Disorder, Quasiperiodicity, and Strong Correlations in 2D Materials and Topological Interfaces | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $292,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2029 | Jedediah H Pixley | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Decipher the Mechanism of High-performance Novel Memristors by Phase-field Simulation | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $291,183 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Ye Cao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Computational Design of High-Performing V2O5 Cathodes for Zn-ion batteries | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $288,878 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Hartwin Peelaers | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-NSERC: Data-enabled Model Order Reduction for 2D Quantum Materials | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2024 | $288,693 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Vikram Gavini | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unlocking New Phases of Quantum Matter with Quantum Error-Correction | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $288,497 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2030 | Sagar Vijay | nsf.gov |
| Topological Materials Beyond Symmetry Indicators | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $282,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Barry Bradlyn | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantifying the Complexity of Materials Landscapes by Basin Sampling | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $280,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Stefano Martiniani | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Inverse Design of Sequence-Defined Macromolecules using Generative Deep Learning | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $277,930 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Wesley F Reinhart | nsf.gov |
| RUI: Exciton-Phonon Interactions in Solids based on Time-Dependent Density Functional Perturbation Theory | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $277,515 | November 15, 2022 | October 31, 2026 | Xu Zhang | 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 |
| Quantum geometric effects in interacting systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $270,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Bruno Uchoa | nsf.gov |
| Multipartite Entanglement and Dynamics in Many-body Quantum Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $269,798 | December 15, 2024 | November 30, 2028 | Shinsei Ryu | nsf.gov |
| Understanding Exciton Transport Within Ordered Organic Assemblies from First-Principles Modeling | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $267,000 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2028 | Sahar Sharifzadeh | nsf.gov |
| Stochastic Thermodynamics: from active molecular pumps to chimera states | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $266,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2027 | Andre Barato | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Peptide-Functionalized Surfaces for Designing Tunable Nanoscale Patterns | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $263,999 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Camille L Bilodeau | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interacting Topological Bands in Moire Superlattices and Beyond | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $260,000 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Eslam Khalaf | nsf.gov |
| Electronic, transport and topological properties of frustrated magnets | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $258,480 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Igor I Mazin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Entanglement of Active Polymers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $254,187 | May 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Eleni Panagiotou | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: ADAPT: Machine Learning Thermodynamic Speed Limits for Dynamic Materials | NSF | Division Of Chemistry | 2022 | $250,000 | August 15, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Jason R Green | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Computational crystallization of polymer blends: application to recycled plastics and more | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $248,000 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | Wenlin Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Computational discovery of block polymer materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $244,960 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Kevin D Dorfman | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Quantum Magnetization Dynamics in Open Molecular Junctions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $244,955 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Juan E Peralta | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Emergent Phases: Fracton, Symmetry, and Decoherence | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $240,000 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2030 | Yizhi You | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transport and optical properties of spin-compensated materials for next-generation non-volatile memory devices | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $240,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Gen Yin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Coupling Between Correlated Electrons and Phonons from First Principles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $238,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Zhenglu Li | nsf.gov |
| Local relaxation rates and heterogeneity in glassy dynamics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $235,528 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Horacio E Castillo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Optimally designed exchange-correlation functionals for solids using machine learning | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $232,250 | November 15, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Maria Victoria Fernandez Serra | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Worm Algorithm and Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $230,000 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Anatoly Kuklov | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Optimally designed exchange-correlation functionals for solids using machine learning | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $220,991 | November 15, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Kieron J Burke | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: New Regimes of Coherent Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Many-Body Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $206,550 | October 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Thomas Iadecola | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ab Initio Engineering of Doped-Covalent-Bond Superconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $200,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Igor I Mazin | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Database generation to identify trends in inter- and intra-polyhedral connectivity and energy storage behavior | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $200,000 | August 15, 2023 | December 31, 2025 | Megan M Butala | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models for Automated Extraction of Materials Chemistry Data from Scientific Literature | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $200,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Taylor D Sparks | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Revealing Local Symmetry Breaking in Intermetallics: Combining Statistical Mechanics and Machine Learning in PDF Analysis | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $199,112 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2025 | Eric S Toberer | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Deep learning Gibbs free energy functions to guide solid-state material synthesis | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $198,498 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Yong-Jie Hu | nsf.gov |
| Fundamental Insights into Multi-element Grain Boundary Segregation in Nanocrystalline Alloys | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $192,650 | October 1, 2023 | July 31, 2025 | Fadi Abdeljawad | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: ADAPT:Charting the Space of Material Microstructures with Artificial Intelligence | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $192,372 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Benjamin D Schweinhart | nsf.gov |
| Computational Studies of Solid Electrolytes | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $186,395 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Natalie A Holzwarth | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: A Deep Learning Framework for Evaluation of Electron Microscopy Images of Chemically-Complex Metallic Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $168,653 | March 15, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Vitaliy R Yurkiv | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum defects in two-dimensional materials by local-symmetry-guided data-driven design | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $151,415 | July 1, 2022 | May 31, 2023 | Qimin Yan | nsf.gov |
| Novel Phases of Quantum Matter in Numerical Simulations, Field Theory and Materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $133,135 | March 1, 2023 | December 31, 2025 | Ribhu Kaul | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale and Machine Learning Approaches for Electrified Interfaces | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2023 | $124,742 | December 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Oliviero Andreussi | nsf.gov |
| Density Functional Theory of Electronic Structure | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $112,576 | February 1, 2024 | October 31, 2024 | John P Perdew | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum many-body physics beyond the Boltzmann paradigm: prethermalization, many-body localization, and their applications | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $108,991 | December 1, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | Sarang Gopalakrishnan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Data-driven Predictive Understanding of Oxidation Resistance in High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $108,007 | September 1, 2023 | September 30, 2024 | Wei Chen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Data-driven Predictive Understanding of Oxidation Resistance in High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $108,007 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Wei Chen | nsf.gov |
| Multimodal and Multiscale-driven Quantification of Micromechanical Metrics for Location-specific Fatigue Microcracking | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $106,992 | August 1, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Leslie T Mushongera | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: ADAPT: Charting the Space of Material Microstructures with Artificial Intelligence | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $106,769 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Jeremy K Mason | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Community Development of the Material Core Metadata (MatCore) Standard | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $99,283 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Ellad B Tadmor | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: SSMCDAT2023: Data-driven Predictive Understanding of Oxidation Resistance in High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $91,989 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Reza Shahbazian-Yassar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: SSMC Collaboration Incubator: Integrating Experiment, Theory and Data for Materials Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $91,746 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Daniel C Fredrickson | nsf.gov |
| The Mechanics of Self-Folding Structures | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $88,660 | April 1, 2022 | February 29, 2024 | Christian D Santangelo | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 8th International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC-2024) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $84,900 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2025 | Christoph F Schmidt | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Stimuli-Responsive Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Block Copolymers: Hierarchical Structures and Kinetic Pathways | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $72,967 | May 15, 2022 | August 31, 2023 | Dong Meng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Fractional quantum Hall effect on noisy quantum computers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $72,547 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Armin Rahmani | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for the Eighth Triennial Conference on Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation (FOMMS 2022) | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $48,375 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | Jeffrey R Errington | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Workshop on Best Practices in Modeling Across Scales from Materials Discovery to Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; Summer 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $46,865 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2024 | Elif Ertekin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Organic Materials Discovery with the Aid of Digital Crystallography | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $45,769 | September 1, 2022 | April 30, 2024 | Qiang Zhu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Quantum Criticality, Localization and Dynamics in Quasiperiodic Systems | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $34,540 | August 1, 2023 | September 30, 2024 | Sarang Gopalakrishnan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantum Coherence, Optical Readout, and Quantum Transduction for Spin Qubits from First-Principles Calculations | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $32,201 | July 1, 2022 | November 30, 2023 | Yuan Ping | nsf.gov |
| Travel: New Statistical Physics of Living Matter: non-equilibrium states under adaptive control | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $30,000 | July 1, 2023 | December 31, 2023 | Frederick C MacKintosh | 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 |
| Conference: 2024 Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation Conference (FOMMS) | NSF | Division Of Chemistry | 2024 | $29,825 | May 15, 2024 | November 30, 2024 | Evan Flach | nsf.gov |
| Conference: CALPHAD 50 - 50th anniversary of CALPHAD meeting | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $27,000 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2024 | Gregory B Olson | nsf.gov |
| Travel: 2023 African School for Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA2023) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $24,340 | June 1, 2023 | November 30, 2024 | Andre Schleife | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Computational Materials Science and Engineering Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $24,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2025 | Katsuyo S Thornton | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: SSMC Collaboration Incubator: Integrating Experiment, Theory and Data for Materials Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $22,387 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2026 | Nicole A Benedek | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2025 Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems GRC | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $22,000 | February 1, 2025 | December 31, 2025 | Tyler N Shendruk | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Electronic Structure Workshop (ES24) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $19,995 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2025 | Sahar Sharifzadeh | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure 2026 (ES26) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $19,875 | April 15, 2026 | March 31, 2027 | Yuan Ping | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Quantum materials in the post Covid-19 era | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $19,366 | June 1, 2022 | July 31, 2023 | Gregory Fiete | nsf.gov |
| International Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $19,300 | June 1, 2022 | November 30, 2022 | Renata M Wentzcovitch | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Atomic-Level Understanding of Kinetically Driven Solid-Solid Phase Transitions from First Principles and Machine Learning | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $17,849 | March 1, 2023 | August 31, 2023 | Liping Yu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: SSMC Collaboration Incubator: Integrating Experiment, Theory and Data for Materials Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $16,528 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2026 | Anton Oliynyk | nsf.gov |
| Conference: The 6th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $15,000 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2023 | Michael Rawlings | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Participant Support for The 7th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME); Orlando, Florida; 21-25 May 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $15,000 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2024 | Michael Rawlings | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: MateriAlZ Winter School 2024 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $12,000 | January 1, 2024 | March 31, 2025 | Krishna Muralidharan | nsf.gov |
| Conference: International Workshop on Electronic Structure 2025 (ES25) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $12,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2026 | Eunja Kim | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: MateriAlZ Winter School 2024 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $11,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2025 | Christina S Birkel | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Third US School and Workshop on Theory and Applications of TDDFT | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $10,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Carsten A Ullrich | nsf.gov |
| 2023 Crystal Growth and Assembly Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $10,000 | June 1, 2023 | November 30, 2023 | Kristen A Fichthorn | nsf.gov |
| Electronic Structure Workshop (ES23) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $10,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Aurora Pribram-Jones | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Aspen Winter Conference: Disorder and Quantum Phases of Matter | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $10,000 | December 15, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Steven A Kivelson | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Rice Spring School on Electron Correlation and Topology | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $10,000 | January 15, 2025 | December 31, 2025 | Qimiao Si | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Short Course on Physics of Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $10,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2026 | Jennifer Laaser | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 96 | $22,134,466 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 118 | $28,392,956 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 114 | $24,727,409 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 89 | $24,479,739 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 69 | $16,555,678 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geometric Analysis | PD-22-1265 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Topology | PD-22-1267 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.049 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants | 22-624 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Applied Mathematics | PD-16-1266 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Plasma Physics | PD-23-1242 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.049 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Computational Mathematics | PD-16-1271 | NSF | 47.049 | December 1, 2026 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Statistics | PD-18-1269 | NSF | 47.049 | December 15, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.049 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (NSF SaTC) | 25-515 | NSF | 47.049 | January 25, 2027 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.049 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program | PD-20-1260 | NSF | 47.049 | February 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.049 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.049 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.049 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.049 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.049 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 274 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.