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Activities | Connections | Reports | R&D Info | Education |
NSE/NER Awards
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Prop ID |
Institution Name |
PI Name |
Proposal Title (key words) |
NSF |
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Awards with focus on Biosystems at the Nanoscale (7 awards; $585,390) |
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1 |
Univ of Arizona |
Raymond Goldstein |
NER: Dynamics of Flagellar Polymorphism |
$99,911 |
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2 |
PA St Univ University Park |
William Hancock |
NER: Oligonucleotide-directed alignment of cytoskeletal filaments for nanoscale assembly |
$95,000 |
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3 |
Virginia Commonwealth Univ |
Jae-Hoon Jun |
NER: Nanoengineering and Characterization of Electrospun Collagen Matrix |
$90,479 |
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4 |
Oregon State University |
Gregory Rorrer |
NER: Biosynthesis of Germanium Oxide Nanoparticles |
$100,000 |
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5 |
Iowa State University |
Vladimir Tsukruk |
NER: Multi-nanolayered bio-inspired membranes |
$10,000 |
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6 |
North Carolina State Univ |
Orlin Velev |
NER: Bioelectronic interfacing of living cells via self-assembled microwires |
$90,000 |
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7 |
Johns Hopkins University |
Michael Yu |
NER: Biotemplate Directed Assembly of Nanocrystal Arrays |
$100,000 |
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Awards with focus on Nanoscale Structures,
Novel Phenomena, |
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8 |
SUNY Buffalo |
Paschlis Alexandridis |
NER: Manipulation and 3D Organization of Nanoparticles Using Dielectrophoresis |
$100,000 |
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9 |
Univ of Houston |
Chengzhi Cai |
NER: The First Rational Approach to the Preparation of Single Molecule AFM Tips |
$60,000 |
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10 |
PA St Univ University Park |
Elizabeth Dickey |
NER: Optically Active Rare Earth Doped Carbon Nanotubes |
$100,000 |
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11 |
SUNY Albany |
Katharine Dovidenko (518) 437-4550 |
NER: FIB Micromachining and Advanced Characterization of Carbon Nanotube-Metal Junctions |
$96,436 |
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12 |
University of Michigan |
Rachel Goldman |
NER: Role of Elastic Anisotropy in Semiconductor Nanopatterning |
$100,000 |
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13 |
Univ of Oklahoma |
Brian Grady |
NER: Polymer Nanowires Synthesized on a Flat Surface Via a Surfactant Template |
$99,987 |
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14 |
University of Akron |
Jun Hu |
NER: Bioengineering of Implantable Nanosize Optical Sensing Elements by Controlled Radical Polymerization |
$100,000 |
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15 |
Georgia Tech |
Christopher Jones |
NER: Molecular Design of Magnetic Nanocatalysts |
$98,951 |
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16 |
Illinois Inst of Tech |
M.I. Khan |
NER: Novel Nanostructured Solids: Potential DeNOx Catalysts |
$98,000 |
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17 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Nikhil Koratkar |
NER: Light-Weight Minimally-Intrusive Damping Films Featuring Carbon Nanotubes |
$100,000 |
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18 |
Univ of Texas Austin |
Michael Krische |
NER: Orthogonal Molecular Recognition Motifs for Nanoscale Assembly |
$90,000 |
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19 |
Univ of Washington |
Vipin Kumar |
NER: Creation of Polymeric Nanofoams based on Retrograde Vitrification |
$99,910 |
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20 |
Georgia Tech |
Carson Meredith |
NER: Engineering Stable Nanoscale Conducting / Insulating Polymer Interfaces: Combinatorial Exploratory Research |
$99,938 |
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21 |
University of Utah |
Jan Miller |
NER: In-Situ Second Harmonic Generation Studies to Describe Nanoscale Phenomena at the Surfaces of Microparticles |
$90,000 |
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22 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
James Schneider |
NER: Chemical Probing of Biosensor Nano-environments using Dynamic AFM |
$100,000 |
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23 |
Texas Tech University |
Sindee Simon |
NER: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction Process for Forming Nanoporous Materials for Low-k and Biosensor Applications |
$99,986 |
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24 |
Univ of Georgia |
John Stickney |
NER: Electrodeposition of Nanostructured Compound Semiconductors |
$99,832 |
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25 |
Ohio State Univ |
Vish Subramaniam |
NER: Coulomb Crystals of Carbon Single-Walled Nanotubes (SWNTs); Manipulation, Separation, and Synthesis |
$95,000 |
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26 |
Rensselaer Polytechic Institute |
Gwo-Ching |
NER: Exploring The Mechanical and Thermoelectric Properties of Composite Nano-Rods and Nano-Springs |
$100,000 |
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27 |
Univ of Nebraska Lincoln |
Xinwei Wang |
NER: Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer in Individual Nanowires/Tubes |
$76,764 |
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28 |
VA Polytechnic Inst & State Univ |
Gordon Yee |
NER: A Different Strategy for the Production of Molecule-Based Nanomagnets |
$91,000 |
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Awards with focus on Device and System Architecture (31 awards, $2,690,607) |
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29 |
Univ of Cal Riverside |
Alexander Balandin |
NER: Enhancement of the Efficiency of Thermoelectric Devices via Engineering of the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Quantum Dot Superlattices |
$79,999 |
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30 |
Virginia Commonwealth Univ |
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay |
NER: Novel Electrochemically Self Assembled Nanowire Infrared Photodetectors |
$88,502 |
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31 |
Univ of Ill Urbana Champaign |
Paul Carney |
NER: Investigation of carbon nanotube nano-optics |
$87,250 |
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32 |
Univ of Colorado Boulder |
Steven Cundiff |
NER: Terahertz Detection of Electron Spin Precession |
$95,000 |
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33 |
Georgia Tech |
Levent Degertekin |
NER: Acoustic radiation pressure driven atomic force microscope for fast imaging and parallel sensing of biological and chemical processes at the nanoscale |
$90,000 |
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34 |
Univ of Ill Urbana Champaign |
Russell Giannetta |
NER: Fabrication of MgB2 quantum devices |
$90,000 |
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35 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
David Greve |
NER: Silicide Quantum Dots for Nanoelectronics |
$90,000 |
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36 |
PA St Univ University Park |
Craig Grimes |
NER: Magnetically Activated Nanoporous Structures for Biomedical Applications |
$90,000 |
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37 |
University of Michigan |
Lingjie Guo |
NER: Field Effect Transistor Using Long Conjugated Semiconducting Molecular Wires |
$80,000 |
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38 |
Univ of Cal Santa Barbara |
Elisabeth Gwinn |
NER: Hybrid Organic-inorganic devices for future spintronics applications |
$90,000 |
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39 |
Univ of Colorado Denver |
Martin Huber |
NER: High-Bandwidth Scanning DC SQUID Susceptometer for Characterization of Nanomagnetic Structures and Phenomena |
$99,883 |
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40 |
Georgia Tech |
William Hunt |
NER: Electron Beam Emitter SPR for Biosensor Applications Nanoscale Exploratory Research |
$80,000 |
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41 |
Univ of Connecticut |
Faquir Jain |
NER: Nanochannel FETs and Quantum Dot Based Nonvolatile Memory Cells using Site-Specific and Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly Techniques |
$93,609 |
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42 |
Cornell University |
Edwin Kan |
NER: Novel Applications Based on Attractive and Repulsive Electrostatic Forces in Nanoscale |
$80,000 |
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43 |
Univ of Colorado Boulder |
Stephen Leone |
NER: Femtosecond Pump-Probe Confocal Microscopy of ZnO Nanowire Lasers |
$80,000 |
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44 |
Univ of Minnesota Twin Cities |
David Lilja |
NER: Designing Reliable Computers Using Molecular Nanotechnology |
$70,000 |
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45 |
Univ of Tennessee Knoxville |
Bruce MacLennan |
NER: Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter |
$64,117 |
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46 |
Oregon Health Sciences Univ |
Jack McCarthy |
NER: Massively Parallel electron Photoemitter Micro-arrays for Nanoscale Lithography, Imaging, and Inspection Applicaitons |
$99,999 |
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47 |
SUNY Albany |
Serge Oktyabrsky |
NER: Engineering of InAs Quantum Dot Ensembles Using Interference of Optical Surface Waves |
$90,344 |
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48 |
Univ of Washington |
Mark Oskin |
NER: Computer Aided Design of Silicon-based Quantum Computers |
$90,761 |
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49 |
University of Notre Dame |
Wolfgang Porod |
NER: Computing Architectures for Coupled Nanomagnets |
$87,552 |
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50 |
University of Florida |
Andrew Rinzler |
NER: Optical modulation by field gated transparency |
$82,750 |
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51 |
Brown University |
John Savage |
NER: Exploring the Computational Limits Imposed by Nanotechnologies |
$97,828 |
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52 |
University of Utah |
Jing Shij |
NER: Nanoscale Molecular Spintronic Materials and Devices |
$85,000 |
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53 |
Univ of Cincinnati |
Raj Singh |
NER: Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes for Nanoelectronics |
$80,000 |
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54 |
Univ of MD College Park |
Igor Smolyaninov |
NER: Nanofabricated Optical Devices Based On Single Photon Tunneling |
$85,000 |
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55 |
Louisiana State U & A&M College |
Phillip Sprunger |
NER: Spin Injector for Nanomagnetics and Spintronics Research |
$85,000 |
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56 |
New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Leonid Tsybeskov |
NER: Efficient Light Emitters Based on Three-Dimensional GeSi Nanostructures |
$74,998 |
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57 |
Ohio University |
Paul Van Patten |
NER: AlGaN Quantum Dots for Short Wavelength Luminescent Devices |
$85,000 |
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58 |
Texas Tech University |
Mark Vaughn |
NER: Developing a nanoscale strain gauge |
$98,015 |
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59 |
Purdue University |
Steve Wereley |
NER: Explorations in Biomedical Microdevices: Brownian Motion and Education |
$100,000 |
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Awards with focus on Multi-scale,
Multi-phenomena Theory, Modeling |
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60 |
University of Michigan |
Sharon Glotzers |
NER: Simulation Strategies for Biomolecular Assembly of Nanoscale Building Blocks |
$100,000 |
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61 |
North Carolina State Univ |
Keith Gubbins |
NER: Molecular Modeling of Self-Assembled Nanostructures on Surfaces and in Narrow Pores |
$99,067 |
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62 |
Harvard University |
Dudley Herschbach |
NER: Mechanically "Tuning" and "Switching" the Dynamics of Molecular Motors |
$99,489 |
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63 |
Univ of Ill Urbana Champaign |
Harley Johnson |
NER: Coupled electronic and mechanical properties by conformational statistics tight-binding |
$95,000 |
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64 |
PA St Univ University Park |
Sanat Kumar |
NER: Microscopic Modeling of the Surfactant Mediated Reactive Assembly of Nanostructured Materials |
$75,000 |
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65 |
Vanderbilt University |
Greg Walker |
NER: Understanding thermal transport in nano-devices via molecular modification |
$95,535 |
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Awards with focus on Nanoscale Processes in the Environment (6 awards, $571,153) |
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66 |
Univ of Cal Davis |
William Casey |
NER: Can Aluminum Nanocluster Complexes Yield Rates of Ligand Exchange at Aluminous Mineral Surfaces? |
$93,930 |
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67 |
Michigan State University |
Lawrence Drzal |
NER: Biodegradable Green Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications |
$85,000 |
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68 |
University of Delaware |
Chin-Pao Huang |
NER: Separation of Nano-sized Aquatic Particles by Electrically Assisted Tangential Flow Filtration: System Evaluation and Metal Speciation |
$83,900 |
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69 |
University of Maryland College ParkUniversity of Guelph |
Steven Lower |
NER: Collaborative Research: Biologically inspired lithography |
$100,000 |
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70 |
Arizona State University |
Peggy O'Day |
NER: Molecular-To-Microscale Investigation Of Microbial Habitats: Exploratory Studies Using Molecular Probes and Microcomputed Tomography and Fluorescence |
$94,735 |
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71 |
University of New Mexico |
Huifang Xu |
NER: Mesogeochemistry ù Geochemical Reactions and Mass Transfers in Nano-scale Pore Space Confinement |
$99,425 |
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Awards with focus on Manufacturing Processing at the Nanoscale (15 awards, $1,390,081) |
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72 |
Rutgers Univ New Brunswick |
W. Roger Cannon |
NER: Hot Superplastic Powder Forging for Economic Nanocrystalline Ceramics |
$100,000 |
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73 |
Clarkson University |
Cetin Cetinkaya |
NER: Exploring the Limits of Nanoparticle Removal with Pulsed Lasers |
$100,000 |
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74 |
Duke University |
Daniel Cole |
NER: Torque Spectroscopy for Nanosystem Characterization and Fabrication |
$99,994 |
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75 |
University of Michigan |
Suman Das |
NER: Nanofabrication Using Sub-wavelength Near-Field Nano-optical Laser Processing |
$99,981 |
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76 |
Michigan State University |
Lawrence Drza |
NER: Biodegradable Green Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications |
$85,000 |
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77 |
Stevens Inst of Technology |
Henry Du |
NER: Fabrication of an Integrated Structure of 3D Macroporous Silica and Carbon Nanotubes |
$95,936 |
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78 |
Univ of Cal Berkeley |
Costas Grigoropoulos |
NER: Nanoscale Laser-assisted Deposition and Crystal Growth |
$99,516 |
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79 |
North Carolina State Univ |
Hans Hallen |
NER: Deposition |
$99,999 |
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80 |
Drexel University |
Richard Knight |
NER: Feasibility Study on High Yield Thermal Plasma Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and Other Nanocrystalline Forms of Carbon |
$100,000 |
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81 |
Univ of Tennessee Knoxville |
Philip Rack |
NER: Nanoscale Electron Beam Stimulated Processing |
$99,688 |
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82 |
Univ of Tennessee Knoxville |
J. Reece Roth |
NER: Increasing the Strength, Surface Energy, and Wickability of Polymeric Nanofabrics by Exposure to a One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP) |
$99,967 |
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83 |
Univ of Wisconsin Madison |
Mark Saffman |
NER: Atomic lithography of arbitrary two-dimensional nanostructures |
$70,000 |
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84 |
University of Florida |
Rajiv Singh |
NER: Novel, High Throughput Continuous Nanoparticle Classifier (CNC) |
$70,000 |
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85 |
Univ of Colorado Boulder |
Alan Weimer |
NER: Conformal Nanoencapsulation of Ultrafine Particles |
$70,000 |
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86 |
Purdue University |
Xianfan Xu |
NER: Development of a Novel Low Cost Nano-lithography Technique using a Nanometric High Transmission Optical Antenna |
$100,000 |
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Awards with focus on societal implications (2 awards; $280,000) |
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87 |
USC |
Davis Baird |
Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research: Developing a Rational Approach to a Newly Emerging Science and Technology |
$180,000 |
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University of Virginia |
Michael Gorman |
Social and Ethical Dimensions of Nanotechnology (Societal Implications theme) |
$100,000 |
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