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NSF program ELECTRONIC/PHOTONIC MATERIALS (177500): 251 awards, $107.3M to 104 organizations
251 NSF awards ($107.3M) under the program element ELECTRONIC/PHOTONIC MATERIALS (177500) to 104 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMREF: GOALI: Tetrahedral Ferroelectrics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $1,854,968 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Geoff L Brennecka | nsf.gov |
| QuSeC-TAQS: Quantum Sensor Networks for Metrology, Chemistry and Astrophysics | NSF | MPS - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,750,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Susanne F Yelin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF-DFG: NeuroTronics: Designer Doped Semiconductors for Neuromorphic Bioelectronics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $1,640,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Aram Amassian | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Hybrid Materials for Superfluorescent Quantum Emitters | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $1,000,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Kenan Gundogdu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Informed Design of Epitaxial Organic Electronics and Photonics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $990,450 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Noa Marom | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF: DFG: Incorporating Disorder and Defects in the Design of Ferroelectric Nitrides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $944,728 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Geoff L Brennecka | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Nanomaterials Using Distributed Self-Driving Labs | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $920,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Milad Abolhasani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Study of Electronic and Magnetic Topological Phenomena in Two Dimensional Quantum Materials with Scanning Probe Microscopy | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $828,923 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Yongtao Cui | nsf.gov |
| Magneto-optical quantum excitations and spintronics effects in chiral (CH)x | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $825,000 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Zeev Valy Z Vardeny | nsf.gov |
| Self-Assembling Volumetric Optical Metamaterials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $799,859 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Grigory Tikhomirov | nsf.gov |
| Exploring the Functional Behavior of Domain Walls in Wurtzite Ferroelectrics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $780,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Alexei Gruverman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Probing exciton-exciton correlations and phase transitions for spin-polarized excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $779,225 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Xiao-Xiao Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Understanding and Controlling the Factors that Affect Carrier Mobility in Doped Conjugated Polymers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $775,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Benjamin J Schwartz | nsf.gov |
| Revealing the Influence of Electrolyte Solvents and Ions on Electronic and Ionic Transport in Electrochemically Doped Conjugated Polymers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $767,503 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Kenneth R Graham | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $750,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Yongmin Liu | nsf.gov |
| Optical Study of Electron Correlation in Graphene-Based Moire Superlattices | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $719,846 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Long Ju | nsf.gov |
| Phase-controlled hybrid magnonics enabled by synergistic interfacial spin-spin interactions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $712,999 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Wei Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FuSe: R3AP: Retunable, Reconfigurable, Racetrack-Memory Acceleration Platform | NSF | Software & Systems Foundations | 2023 | $703,656 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Jingtong Hu | nsf.gov |
| Two-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon with Tunable Atomic Structures As A Novel Dielectric Material for Advanced Electronic Applications | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $700,485 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Qing Cao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Designer Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals with Controlled Light-Matter Interactions for On-Demand Quantum Light Sources | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $699,414 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Farnaz Niroui | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards room-temperature quantum simulators enabled by halide perovskites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $693,187 | January 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Wei Bao | nsf.gov |
| Heavy-Atom-Free Sensitizers for NIR-to-Visible Solar Photon Upconversion | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $685,998 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Cody W Schlenker | nsf.gov |
| Renewal: Overcoming Energy Loss in Organic Bulk Heterojunctions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $666,555 | July 1, 2022 | April 25, 2025 | Stephen R Forrest | nsf.gov |
| Static and Dynamic Properties of Magnetic Skyrmions and Their Applications | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $651,300 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Gang Xiao | nsf.gov |
| Triple Halide Ultrawide Bandgap Metal Halide Perovskites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $650,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Michael D McGehee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Atomic scale understanding of the doping incorporation and transport properties in ultrawide band gap semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $642,450 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Baishakhi Mazumder | nsf.gov |
| Establishing design principles for efficient doping in organic semiconductors through the combination of advanced optical spectroscopy and transport measurements | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $640,024 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Oana D Jurchescu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Exploring Nonlinear Electrodynamics from Topology and Correlation in Layered Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $631,652 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Qiong Ma | nsf.gov |
| Unraveling Tunable Piezoelectricity in Hafnia-based Ferroelectrics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $620,097 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Alexei Gruverman | nsf.gov |
| Magnonic Straintronics: Strain Engineering of Magnonic Hybrid Systems | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $600,024 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Xi Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Crystalizing electrons in coupled atomically thin semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $600,000 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | You Zhou | nsf.gov |
| Repurposing low-dimensional hybrid perovskites for the detection of low-energy photons | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $600,000 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Peijun Guo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Nanomaterials Using Distributed Self-Driving Labs | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $600,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Ou Chen | nsf.gov |
| Cross-interface polaritons with mixed dimensions and reduced symmetry | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $600,000 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Siyuan Dai | nsf.gov |
| Chemical Interface Damping at Metal-Semiconductor Junctions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $600,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Stephan Link | nsf.gov |
| Designer Photonic Lattices and Multilayer Structures that support Bound Optical Modes and Electrically-driven Excitation | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $599,046 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Teri W Odom | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Realizing next generation light-material interactions via directional, collective photoluminescence and energy transport of surface-sensitive nanocrystals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $595,430 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Carissa N Eisler | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: Probing Atomic-Scale Quantum Light Sources in Two-Dimensional Semiconductor/Metal Hybrid Platforms (SPARK) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $592,663 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Joshua A Robinson | nsf.gov |
| Molecular Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic Chalcogenide Perovskites for Electronic Applications | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $591,947 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Suzanne C Bart | nsf.gov |
| Tunable Ferroelectricity in Group IV Monochalcogenide Van der Waals Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $587,083 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Peter W Sutter | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Nonlinear THz electrodynamics of spin quasiparticles | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $586,725 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Fahad Mahmood | nsf.gov |
| Charge transfer exciton dynamics at diamond-hBN interface | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $585,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Parag Deotare | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Revealing the potential of bismides as efficient midwave infrared optical materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $583,391 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Fatima Toor | nsf.gov |
| Hydrogen-Mediated Phase & Property Control in Rutile Oxides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $580,800 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Jiang Wei | nsf.gov |
| High Mobility Binary and Ternary Germanate Films and Heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $579,601 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Bharat Jalan | nsf.gov |
| Molecular color centers in a carbon host for spin qubits | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $570,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Xuedan Ma | nsf.gov |
| Phonon-Engineered Topological Conductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $570,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Md Shafayat Hossain | nsf.gov |
| Control of Excitons in AlGaN-Based Ultrawide Bandgap Heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $570,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Zetian Mi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: vdW isotope heterostructuring showcased in phononic light-matter interactions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $569,747 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Siyuan Dai | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards Novel Twist Polaritonics in 2D Crystals and Devices | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $569,601 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Guangxin Ni | nsf.gov |
| Broadband and tunable enhanced chiral light-matter interactions at the visible with new ultrathin helical metamaterials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $567,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Eva B Schubert | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF: DFG: Incorporating Disorder and Defects in the Design of Ferroelectric Nitrides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $564,997 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Elizabeth C Dickey | nsf.gov |
| Heteromolecular Interface Design for Better Multiferroic Molecular Spintronics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $563,690 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Peter A Dowben | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unlocking Spin Topological States in 1D Molecular Systems for Highly Efficient, Tunable Long-Range Quantum Transport | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $562,442 | April 1, 2026 | March 31, 2031 | Kun Wang | nsf.gov |
| Thomson cooling during thermally induced phase transition | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $557,060 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Mona Zebarjadi | nsf.gov |
| CMOS+X: Novel Gate-Stack Engineering for 2D Materials-Based FETs | NSF | Electrical, Communications, & Cyber Systems | 2024 | $556,066 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Kaustav Banerjee | nsf.gov |
| Low-Energy Spectroscopy of Moire Quantum Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $554,000 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2028 | Xiaoyang Zhu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Revolutionizing Functional and Quantum Materials with Atomic Control of Order and Disorder | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $552,469 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Megan E Holtz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Magnetism and Spintronics in Quasi-two-dimensional Magnetic Hybrid Metal Halides: From Bulk to 2D limit | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $550,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Dali Sun | nsf.gov |
| Infrared photonics using ferroelectric scandium-aluminum nitride semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $550,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Oana A Malis | nsf.gov |
| Near-infrared Luminescence of Quantum-sized Gold Nanoclusters with Atomic Precision | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $550,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Rongchao Jin | nsf.gov |
| Exciton Dynamics in Proximitized Chiral Heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $550,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Wanyi Nie | nsf.gov |
| Enhancing Concentration and Activity of Magnetic Dopants in Hybrid Layered Semiconductors for Quantum Spintronics and Photonics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $550,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Seokhyoung Kim | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Tailoring Light-Matter Interactions in Perovskite-Based Molecular Metamaterials for Quantum-Informed Photonic Technologies. | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $549,725 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Sui Yang | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Photon Emission from Lanthanide Impurities in Layered Magnetic Thiophosphates | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $545,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Daniel R Gamelin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unlocking New Properties of MXenes: From Optical Response to Novel Electronic Phenomena | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $542,001 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Alexandra Boltasseva | nsf.gov |
| Revealing the Nanomorphology and Excited State Dynamics Behind the Ternary Advantage in Organic Photovoltaics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $541,971 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Brian Collins | nsf.gov |
| What Controls Kinetics in Organic Mixed Conductors for Neuromorphic Computing and Beyond? | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $540,712 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | David S Ginger | nsf.gov |
| Domain Dynamics and Ultrafast Switching in Magnetic Weyl Semimetals | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $539,083 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Liang Wu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mapping and Manipulating Lattice Relaxation in Moire Superlattices of Group VI Transition Metal Dichalcogenides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $534,209 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Daniel K Bediako | nsf.gov |
| Methods to Mitigate Dopant-Induced Disorder in Organic Electronic Materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $530,996 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Dhandapani Venkataraman | nsf.gov |
| Chirality Transfer in Mixed Cation Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $530,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Liang Yan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization of Material Defects Using Broadband Two-Level-System Spectroscopy | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $530,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Mattias V Fitzpatrick | nsf.gov |
| Hybrid systems of atoms and van der Waal materials for quantum sensing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $530,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Javier D Sanchez-Yamagishi | nsf.gov |
| Understanding topological excitons via ultrafast and helicity-dependent photocurrent microscopy | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $526,989 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Dong Yu | nsf.gov |
| Solving the Mystery of Bi Phase Formation at 2D Interfaces | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $525,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jing Kong | nsf.gov |
| A Route to Pure Optical Rotation through Nano-Engineered Chirality | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $525,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2030 | Richard D Robinson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Probing Quantum Materials Modified by Terahertz Quantum Fluctuations | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $521,259 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Hanyu Zhu | nsf.gov |
| Charge Transport and Carrier-Phonon Interactions in Soft Lattice Metal Halide Perovskites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $520,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Xiangfeng Duan | nsf.gov |
| Compositional and Structural Dependence of Photosensitivity in Photoexcitable Storage Phosphors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $515,820 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Federico Rabuffetti | nsf.gov |
| Chemically Functionalized van der Waals Opto-Spintronic Quantum Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $510,000 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Mark C Hersam | nsf.gov |
| Understanding and Controlling Magnetic Two-Dimensional Crystals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $509,725 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Cheng Gong | nsf.gov |
| Magnetism, Spin Texture and Magnetotransport Phenomena in Covalent 2D Magnets | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $504,816 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Hao Zeng | nsf.gov |
| Realizing High Temperature Exciton Condensates at Molecule/2D van der Waals Interfaces | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $503,486 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Wai-Lun Chan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Hybrid Materials for Superfluorescent Quantum Emitters | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $500,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Volker Blum | nsf.gov |
| New Intermetallics: from Semiconductors to Semimetals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $500,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Susan M Kauzlarich | nsf.gov |
| Filamentary charge transport and recombination in organic semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $500,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Noel C Giebink | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Hybrid Materials for Superfluorescent Quantum Emitters | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $499,999 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Yosuke Kanai | nsf.gov |
| LEAPS-MPS: Multipole-Engineered Mie-Resonance Metasurfaces | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $499,980 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Viktoriia Babicheva | nsf.gov |
| Low-Dimensional Si-Sn and Si-Ge-Sn Nanoalloys as High-Efficiency, Direct-gap Nanostructures for Visible to Infrared Optoelectronics. | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $499,912 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Indika U Arachchige | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Informed Design of Epitaxial Organic Electronics and Photonics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $499,892 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Noel C Giebink | nsf.gov |
| Unlocking organic polariton lasers with systematic molecular design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $499,394 | September 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Andrew J Musser | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tailoring Electron and Spin Transport in Single Molecule Junctions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $496,317 | March 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Oliver L Monti | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Photonics in the Lowest Symmetry Crystals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $496,119 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Thomas G Folland | nsf.gov |
| Understanding Facet-dependent Exciton Dynamics in Strongly Confined Perovskite Quantum Dots | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $495,371 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Yitong Dong | nsf.gov |
| Submicron-Thick Bright White Coatings by Controlling Disorder in Photonic Structures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $495,261 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Sang Eon Han | nsf.gov |
| DMR:TMRP: Transient Photonics in Optically Actuated Soft-Matter | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $492,489 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Shima Fardad | nsf.gov |
| Spatially, Temporally, and Spectrally Resolved Electrical Probing of Optical Excitations | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $491,285 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Keji Lai | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF: DFG: Incorporating Disorder and Defects in the Design of Ferroelectric Nitrides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $490,272 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Prashun Gorai | nsf.gov |
| Epitaxial Film Growth and Characterization of Stable and Metastable Gallium-Aluminum-Oxide Polymorphs | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $488,607 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Lisa M Porter | nsf.gov |
| Electrically Controlled Quantum Light Emission in Atomically Thin Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $488,251 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Edward T Yu | nsf.gov |
| EPM: Engineering Transparent Conducting Superlattices from Liquid Metal Printed 2D Oxides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $487,727 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | William J Scheideler | nsf.gov |
| Persistent Optical Phenomena in Oxide Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $485,958 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Matthew D McCluskey | nsf.gov |
| Superior Nonlinear Optical Single Crystals and An Open-Source Modeling Package for Classical and Quantum Light Generation | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $485,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Venkatraman Gopalan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Informed Design of Epitaxial Organic Electronics and Photonics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $480,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Barry P Rand | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Nanomaterials Using Distributed Self-Driving Labs | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $480,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2029 | Kristofer-Roy G Reyes | nsf.gov |
| Investigating Surfaces and Interfaces in Thin-Film Topological Materials and Heterostructures Using Spin-Momentum Locking | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $479,765 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Dustin A Gilbert | nsf.gov |
| Understanding and Controlling Structure in Metal Ion-Linked Multilayer Upconversion Solar Cells | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $479,016 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Kenneth G Hanson | nsf.gov |
| Foundational Synthesis and Structure-Optical Property Relations of Linear Quantum Dot Heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $476,170 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Moonsub Shim | nsf.gov |
| Thermal mapping of current density in filamentary switching devices | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $475,609 | July 1, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Marek Skowronski | nsf.gov |
| Toward Technologically Relevant Single-Molecule Junctions: New Metals, New Interfaces, New Functionality | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $472,641 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Michael S Inkpen | nsf.gov |
| Understanding highly mobile excitons in halide perovskites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $471,028 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Dong Yu | nsf.gov |
| N-Doping of Organic Semiconductor Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $468,983 | March 15, 2025 | December 31, 2026 | Natalie Stingelin | 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 |
| Band Engineering of High Mobility Pentagonal 2D Semiconductor via Layer, Strain, and Moire | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $458,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Chun Ning Lau | nsf.gov |
| Rydberg Exciton in Atomically Thin Semiconductor for On-chip Quantum Optoelectronics | NSF | Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems | 2022 | $455,881 | August 1, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Sufei Shi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Organic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared (MARVEL-IR) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $453,737 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Jason Azoulay | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Novel silicon-based optoelectronic materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $453,489 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2026 | Timothy Strobel | nsf.gov |
| Paired Radical States in Molecular Wires: 1D Topological Insulators and Beyond | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $450,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Latha Venkataraman | nsf.gov |
| Optically-accessible nuclear spin memories in direct band gap semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $450,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Kai-Mei Fu | nsf.gov |
| Understanding Quantum Defects in GaN | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $446,173 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Gregory D Fuchs | nsf.gov |
| Probing moire flat bands with optical spectroscopy | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $444,056 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Jun Yan | nsf.gov |
| Achieving Ultra-High Thermal Conductivity in Cubic BAs Through Synergistic Impurity Control, Advanced Growth Techniques, and Rapid Non-Destructive Characterization | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $439,664 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Jiming Bao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unraveling Chirality-Induced Anisotropic Spin Transport in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $437,999 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Jun Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mitigating Detrimental Vibrational Effects in Organic Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $435,451 | October 15, 2023 | November 30, 2026 | Michael T Ruggiero | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Controlling Photoinduced Spin Processes through Polymer Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $430,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Luis M Campos | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding and Quantifying Ion Migration and Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Heterostructures | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $427,950 | June 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Letian Dou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Collective motion of ferroelecitric polarization in van der Waals dihalides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $425,696 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Aaron Sternbach | nsf.gov |
| Chiral Strain Engineering of Polar Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $425,174 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Jian Shi | nsf.gov |
| Developing doped ferroelectrics for ultracompact and energy-efficient photonic applications | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $420,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Charles Ahn | nsf.gov |
| Stable and Efficient Electroluminescent Devices Based on 3D / 0D Perovskite Bulk/Nanocrystal Emission Layers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $420,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Jason Slinker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Structural dynamics and optoelectronics of anharmonic soft semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $419,877 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Yinsheng Guo | nsf.gov |
| Kinetics of Thin Film Growth on van der Waals Surfaces | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $417,779 | June 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Suneel Kumar Kodambaka | nsf.gov |
| Kinetics of Thin Film Growth on van der Waals Surfaces | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $417,779 | October 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Suneel Kumar Kodambaka | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:Tailoring Phase Change Materials for Nonvolatile Reconfigurable Optical Phenomena | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $417,130 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Carlos A Rios Ocampo | nsf.gov |
| Understanding electronic transport and dynamics of quantum-dot-doped-semiconductor solids for infrared optoelectronics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $417,058 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Mengxia Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: First-Principle Control of Novel Resonances in Non-Hermitian Photonic Media | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $416,059 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Liang Feng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Nonreciprocal Transport in Hybrid Chiral Crystals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $414,094 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Hanwei Gao | nsf.gov |
| Direct Interfacial Charge Separation in Plasmonic Heterostructures Revealed by Single-Particle Spectroscopy | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $408,624 | July 1, 2024 | August 31, 2026 | Stephan Link | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Emergent quantum phenomena in epitaxial thin films of topological Dirac semimetal and its heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $401,826 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | JYOTI KATOCH | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Optically Active Ensemble Defects in Monolayer Semiconductors for Magnetic Quantum Sensing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $401,476 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2031 | Chitraeema Chakraborty | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Organic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared (MARVEL-IR) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $400,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Bryan M Wong | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Organic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared (MARVEL-IR) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $399,996 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Tse Nga Ng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Organic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared (MARVEL-IR) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $399,985 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Matthew Sfeir | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Design and synthesis of functional van der Waals magnets | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $398,896 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Tai Kong | nsf.gov |
| Active antiferromagnetic materials for hosting hybrid magnonic functionalities | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $395,192 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Joseph Sklenar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Effects of Interfacial Properties on Charge Transport in Conducting Organic/Inorganic Composites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $394,402 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Nelson E Coates | nsf.gov |
| DX Centers and their mitigation in transition metal dichalcogenides | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $393,391 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2025 | Junqiao Wu | nsf.gov |
| Modified Moire Materials: Beyond Twist and Periodicity | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $379,280 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Lianfeng Zhao | nsf.gov |
| Semiconductor electron-nuclear spin qubits with optical access | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $378,797 | September 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Kai-Mei Fu | nsf.gov |
| Ultrafast Electroluminescence Spectroscopy for Transient Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Halide Perovskites and Heterojunctions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $377,053 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Lianfeng Zhao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $375,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Wenshan Cai | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $375,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Alexandra Boltasseva | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Two-dimensional Perovskite Templated Organic Semiconductor Crystallization for Highly Tunable Exciton and Charge Transfer and Conversion | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $371,847 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Arthur Bragg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unlocking Programmable Doping in Wide-Bandgap Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $369,607 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Mona ebrish | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Atomically-Precise Single Photon Emitters | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $368,603 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Matthew Rosenberger | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manipulating Photon Energy by Perovskite-Sensitized Solid-State Upconversion | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $367,223 | March 1, 2025 | May 31, 2028 | Lea Nienhaus | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: One-Pot Synthesis and Optical Spectroscopy of 2D Heterobilayers | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $363,799 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2030 | Ana Laura Elias Arriaga | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Overcoming the trade-off between thermopower and conductivity in transition metal oxides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $363,745 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Dongkyu Lee | nsf.gov |
| Establishing and using variable energy ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and gas cluster ion beam etching for probing electronic defect states in organic semiconductor | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $360,156 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Kenneth R Graham | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Remote epitaxy on van der Waals materials: unveiling adatom interaction, growing single-crystal membranes, and producing unconventional heterostructures | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $360,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Jeehwan Kim | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Epitaxial spin heterostructures for energy efficient magnetic memory | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $360,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Jing Shi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Epitaxial spin heterostructures for energy efficient magnetic memory | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $360,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Seongshik Oh | nsf.gov |
| Effect of lattice distortion in electronic properties of kagome metals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $355,615 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Madhab Neupane | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Controlling the Deformability of Quantum Dots Solids for Wearable NIR Optoelectronics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $354,528 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Xiwen Gong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:Electrically Tunable van der Waals Optical Nanoantennas Photodetectors and Metasurfaces | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $353,615 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Yin Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Manipulating the Thermal Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials Through Interface Structure and Chemistry | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $352,829 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Kevin A Brenner | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Proposal: Harvesting electronic flat bands and strong spin-orbit coupling for novel functionalities in metal monochalcogenides | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $352,366 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Chun Ning Lau | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Novel Interface Driven Designs for Advanced Resistive Switching Schemes | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $350,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Haiyan Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Developing Platforms for Protected Qubits Using a Scanning Resonator Microscope | NSF | Physics Section | 2026 | $349,565 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Angela Kou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Photo-thermoelectric Phenomena in Bulk and Nanomaterials for Better Optical Sensing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $349,414 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Heng Wang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Organic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared (MARVEL-IR) | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $346,256 | February 15, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Guoxiang Hu | nsf.gov |
| Investigating Multiferroic Interface for Scalable and Energy-Efficient Control of Magnetic Skyrmions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $342,980 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Yingying Wu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Two-dimensional Perovskite Templated Organic Semiconductor Crystallization for Highly Tunable Exciton and Charge Transfer and Conversion | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $328,153 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Charles W Machan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Co-doping of ultra/wide-bandgap III-nitride semiconductors for achieving conductive p-type | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $323,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Autonomous, Rapid Self-Healing and Ultra-Stretchable Electronic Polymer Research & Education for Outreach and Student Success in STEM | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $320,580 | June 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Evan K Wujcik | nsf.gov |
| Controlling Electron, Magnon, and Phonon States in Quasi-2D Antiferromagnetic Semiconductors for Enabling Novel Device Functionalities | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $319,745 | July 1, 2024 | October 31, 2026 | Fariborz Kargar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ferrimagnetic Insulator Based Bilayers for Interface-Driven Topological Spin Textures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $318,712 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Xiaoqin E Li | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Highly Ordered Nanoscale Patterns Produced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces: Theory and Experiment | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $315,033 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Karl F Ludwig | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Co-doping of ultra/wide-bandgap III-nitride semiconductors for achieving conductive p-type | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $315,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Michael A Reshchikov | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research: Structure and Dynamics of Exciplexes in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2022 | $314,911 | August 1, 2022 | November 30, 2026 | Seyhan Salman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: In-plane Epitaxial Two-Dimensional Chalcogenide Quantum Dots for Tunable Quantum Photonics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $310,520 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Joan M Redwing | nsf.gov |
| Computational and Experimental Studies Towards Ideal Organic Semiconductors for Perovskite Solar Cells | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $309,827 | June 15, 2023 | May 31, 2025 | Zhonghua Peng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: First-Principle Control of Novel Resonances in Non-Hermitian Photonic Media | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $308,145 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Li Ge | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating unconventional superconductivity with reconfigurable graphene heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $303,710 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2030 | Yuan Cao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: In-plane Epitaxial Two-Dimensional Chalcogenide Quantum Dots for Tunable Quantum Photonics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $301,595 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Deep M Jariwala | nsf.gov |
| Flexible Nonlinear Plasmonic Metasurfaces with Multiresonant Composite Enhancement | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $300,097 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Wei Zhou | nsf.gov |
| Ferroelectricity Emerging from Antisite Defects in Complex Oxides | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $300,000 | February 1, 2022 | November 30, 2023 | Caroline Ross | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Harvesting electronic flat bands and strong spin-orbit coupling for novel functionalities in metal monochalcogenides | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $298,890 | September 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Dragana Popovic | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: IMPRESS-U: Novel Approach to New Semiconductor (Si)GeSn for Infrared Detection | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2024 | $298,088 | June 15, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Shui-Qing Yu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Symmetry designed spin currents: broadening the spintronics materials palette | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $292,836 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Lucas Caretta | nsf.gov |
| RUI: Unraveling Novel Nanophotonic Effects in Mid-Index Micro-Sized Dielectric Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $288,202 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Uttam Manna | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Controlling Photoinduced Spin Processes through Polymer Design | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $285,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Matthew Sfeir | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Tailoring van der Waals Ferroelectricity in 2D Layered Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $284,687 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | Andrew J Mannix | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Realizing ultrahigh mobility semiconductors through light-matter interactions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $283,100 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Milan Delor | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ferrimagnetic Insulator Based Bilayers for Interface-Driven Topological Spin Textures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $279,854 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Fengyuan Yang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Highly Ordered Nanoscale Patterns Produced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces: Theory and Experiment | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $275,041 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Richard M Bradley | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unraveling Chirality-Induced Anisotropic Spin Transport in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $272,000 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Mengxia Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SiGeSn-based heterostructures for intersubband photonic materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $271,852 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Wei Du | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Effects of Interfacial Properties on Charge Transport in Conducting Organic/Inorganic Composites | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2022 | $265,767 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Jennifer T Heath | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Novel Interface Driven Designs for Advanced Resistive Switching Schemes | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $265,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Ye Cao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SiGeSn-based heterostructures for intersubband photonic materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $257,500 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Benjamin S Williams | nsf.gov |
| Mechanical control of the electronic properties of 2D ferroelectrics | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $252,000 | September 15, 2022 | February 28, 2025 | Alexei Gruverman | nsf.gov |
| Excitonic electroabsorption effects in macroscopically aligned carbon nanotubes | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $250,657 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Weilu Gao | nsf.gov |
| LEAPS-MPS: Controlling polarization of resonant flat optics using symmetries | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $250,000 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Adam C Overvig | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Spin-Correlated Excitons in van der Waals Magnets | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $245,906 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2030 | Edoardo Baldini | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding and Quantifying Ion Migration and Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Heterostructures | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $242,085 | July 1, 2025 | May 31, 2027 | Letian Dou | nsf.gov |
| LEAPS-MPS: Solution Processed 2D Tellurene with Outstanding Thermoelectric Properties | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $236,824 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Heng Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Atomic Precise Engineering of MXenes Toward the Intrinsic Properties | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $234,020 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Haozhe Wang | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Low energy Ion Irradiation as a Universal Approach to Dope 2D Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $209,999 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2027 | Petra Reinke | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:Light-Matter Interaction in Van der Waals Heterostructures of Atomically Thin Semiconductors | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $208,120 | August 1, 2024 | May 31, 2026 | Sufei Shi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Nonreciprocal Transport in Hybrid Chiral Crystals | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $200,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Letian Dou | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: DMREF: Organic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared (MARVEL-IR) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $196,256 | October 1, 2023 | March 31, 2024 | Guoxiang Hu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tailoring Electron and Spin Transport in Single Molecule Junctions | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $195,000 | March 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Manuel Smeu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unlocking New Properties of MXenes: From Optical Response to Novel Electronic Phenomena | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $180,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Yury Gogotsi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Generation and manipulation of spatially entangled states of structured photon pairs with 2D material quantum holograms | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $169,826 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Jie Gao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Generation and manipulation of spatially entangled states of structured photon pairs with 2D material quantum holograms | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $169,535 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Xiaodong Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Light-induced Polarization in Halide Perovskites for Responsive Ferroelectrics | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $166,258 | January 1, 2026 | March 31, 2030 | Lina Quan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Revealing the potential of bismides as efficient midwave infrared optical materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $153,495 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Irena Knezevic | nsf.gov |
| Controlling Electron, Magnon, and Phonon States in Quasi-2D Antiferromagnetic Semiconductors for Enabling Novel Device Functionalities | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $153,255 | March 1, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Fariborz Kargar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Novel silicon-based optoelectronic materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $152,147 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2025 | Li Zhu | nsf.gov |
| Conference: NSF FuSe and FuSe2 Awardees Meeting | NSF | Engineering Education Centers | 2026 | $138,360 | August 15, 2026 | January 31, 2027 | Carlos A Rios Ocampo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Development of Dimeric Molecular n- and p-Dopants and their Application in Organic Light-emitting Diodes | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $131,977 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2023 | Seth R Marder | nsf.gov |
| Singlet Fission, Triplet Upconversion, and Thermally-Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Controlling Exciton Dynamics with Metal-Organic Frameworks | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $115,248 | August 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Mircea Dinca | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manipulating Photon Energy by Perovskite-Sensitized Solid-State Upconversion | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $112,743 | June 1, 2023 | March 31, 2025 | Lea Nienhaus | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Light-induced Polarization in Halide Perovskites for Responsive Ferroelectrics | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $101,250 | April 1, 2025 | August 31, 2026 | Lina Quan | nsf.gov |
| Direct Interfacial Charge Separation in Plasmonic Heterostructures Revealed by Single-Particle Spectroscopy | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $90,992 | September 1, 2022 | July 31, 2024 | Stephan Link | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Remote epitaxy on van der Waals materials: unveiling adatom interaction, growing single-crystal membranes, and producing unconventional heterostructures | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $90,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Sang-Hoon Bae | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards room-temperature quantum simulators enabled by halide perovskites | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $63,526 | July 1, 2022 | January 31, 2024 | Wei Bao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Design and Discovery of Entropy-Stabilized Perovskite Halide Materials for Optoelectronics | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $63,004 | July 15, 2023 | July 31, 2025 | Feng Yan | nsf.gov |
| Synthesis of Controlled III-Nitride Nanostructures | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $62,597 | November 15, 2021 | September 30, 2022 | Jonathan J Wierer | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Manipulating the Thermal Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials Through Interface Structure and Chemistry | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $60,443 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Alexander F Goncharov | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Workshop on the Dual Nature of F Electrons, Idaho National Labs, Idaho Falls, May 19th-23rd 2025 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $49,175 | April 15, 2025 | March 31, 2026 | Peter S Riseborough | nsf.gov |
| Conference: International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors 2024 | NSF | Division of Engineering Education and Centers | 2024 | $30,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Ramon R Collazo | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Workshop on Quantum Engineering Infrastructure II | NSF | Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems | 2024 | $20,000 | January 1, 2024 | September 30, 2024 | Steven J Koester | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 10th International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $20,000 | May 15, 2024 | April 25, 2025 | Eva B Schubert | nsf.gov |
| Travel Grant- Conference: Compound Semiconductor Week (CSW) 2025 | NSF | Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems | 2025 | $20,000 | April 15, 2025 | March 31, 2026 | Zetian Mi | nsf.gov |
| N-Doping of Organic Semiconductor Materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $19,160 | March 15, 2023 | March 31, 2025 | Antonio Facchetti | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2025 Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) Awardees Workshop | NSF | Division of Engineering Education and Centers | 2025 | $15,000 | August 15, 2025 | January 31, 2026 | Cheng Gong | 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 |
| Travel Support for International Conference on Molecular Vapor Phase Epitaxy (ICMOVPE XXI) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $12,000 | June 15, 2024 | May 31, 2025 | Mallory R Starr | 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 |
| 2022 Unconventional Semiconductors and Their Applications GRC | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $10,000 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2023 | Jinsong Huang | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Promoting Student Participation in the 15th International Symposium on Functional Pi Electron Systems | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $10,000 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2023 | Daniel B Dougherty | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Support for Student Participation at the 16th International Conference on Mid-infrared Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices | NSF | Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems | 2023 | $10,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2024 | Michael B Santos | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2026 Defects in Semiconductors GRC | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2026 | $10,000 | August 1, 2026 | January 31, 2027 | Joel B Varley | nsf.gov |
| Broadening Participation in the Compound Semiconductor Week 2022 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $9,990 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2023 | Pei-Cheng Ku | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRC/GRS, Research and Development of Novel Materials for Catalysis, Energy Conversion and Sensing | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $8,400 | May 15, 2024 | October 31, 2024 | Gregory V Hartland | nsf.gov |
| 2022 Vibrational Spectroscopy: Unravelling Chemical Heterogeneity | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2022 | $8,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | Aaron M Massari | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Strong Coupling with Organic Molecules (SCOM-23) | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $5,000 | July 1, 2023 | January 31, 2024 | Wei Xiong | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Defects in Semiconductors GRC/GRS | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $5,000 | May 15, 2024 | April 30, 2025 | Kai-Mei Fu | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 46 | $18,309,996 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 80 | $26,666,139 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 95 | $21,251,053 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 77 | $23,651,477 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 56 | $16,622,665 |
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 235 awards here |
| Topology | PD-22-1267 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 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 235 awards here |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants | 22-624 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 awards here |
| Applied Mathematics | PD-16-1266 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 awards here |
| Plasma Physics | PD-23-1242 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 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 235 awards here |
| Computational Mathematics | PD-16-1271 | NSF | 47.049 | December 1, 2026 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 awards here |
| Statistics | PD-18-1269 | NSF | 47.049 | December 15, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 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 235 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 235 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 235 awards here |
| Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program | PD-20-1260 | NSF | 47.049 | February 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 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 235 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 235 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.049 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 235 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 235 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 235 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.