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In FY 2002, NSF provided 99 awards totaling approximately $14 million to 6 institutions in the State of Delaware.

Institutions in Delaware that received NSF support in FY 2002 include the University of Delaware, Delaware State Department of Public Instruction, Delaware State University, and Bartol Research Institute.

Projects currently funded by the NSF In the State of Delaware include:

  • Enhancing the Properties of Nanoscale Electrospun Polymer Fibers Through Chemical Architecture, Surface Texturing Optimization Processing Protocols — A Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Team at the University of Delaware will use genetically directed synthetic methods to permit exact control of the placement of reactive chemical groups along a polypeptide backbone. These reactive groups will be both biologically active and electroactive, providing novel materials for processing into fibers via electrospinning. The results of these investigations will provide molecular design rules for future biomaterial constructs and will lead to a new generation of tissue scaffold materials for wound repair. The hybrid bio-electronic materials that result will address some of the lifetime and brightness issues for next generation panel computer displays. The integration of this research and education through externship experiences at DuPont and the development of new courses on nanomaterials design and processing will provide knowledge and an experience base that will equip students with the work force ready skills critically needed by industry.


  • Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to Compact Membrane Systems will optimize and scale up a nonporous perfluoromembrane system for harsh gas separations. Nonporous perfluoromembrane systems will for the first time provide industry a system composed totally of perfluorocomponents that has good gas transport rates and separation capabilities. In laboratory testing and economic evaluations, these membranes showed they could economically remove hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and key non-condensable gases from chlor-alkali tail gases and in so doing dramatically enhance the recovery of chlorine.


  • Expanding Delaware's Science Education Reform Initiative into High School — The Delaware Science Coalition is a systemic partnership consisting of higher education, business, the Delaware Department of Education, and local school districts. This pilot project focuses on improving the science program in the 9th and 10th grades. Ten schools representing the statewide range of geographic distribution, demographic characteristics, and student body size will participate in developing models of successful classroom practice. Common features of these models for the selection of instructional materials and teacher professional development will serve to scale up to a comprehensive statewide project.


  • Elasticity Grand Challenge of the COMPRESS Initiative — Elasticity measurements on minerals are the bridge between the observed seismic velocity structure of the Earth and properties of the Earth at depth., such as chemical composition and temperature. A project at Delaware State University will undertake a coordinated, multi-institutional effort to develop advanced experimental and theoretical techniques for determining sound velocities and elastic moduli on Earth materials. Using multiple techniques the project will focus its efforts on determining the elastic properties of olivine and its high-pressure polymorphs under high pressure-temperature conditions. The accuracy of each technique will be improved through inter-laboratory crosschecks and comparison with theory.

For more information on Delaware and NSF, please contact the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at 703-292-8070.

Useful Links:

Delaware's Home Page

Delaware Governor's Office

Advanced Technology Center


 
 
     
 

 
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