Federal Agencies:

National Science Foundation

• DMR/IMR Development of an Atomic Force Microscope and Nano-Indenter with a Magnetically Levitated Tip (completed)
• CTS/NER: Microscopic Modeling of the Surfactant Mediated Reactive Assembly of Nanostructured Materials (completed)
• EDU/NUE: Creating Baccalaureate Level Nanotechnology Minors with Pathways from Existing Associate Degree Programs in Nanofabrication (completed)
• EDU/IGERT: Concortium for Education in Many-Body Applications (CEMBA) (completed)
• ENG/NER: Controlling Transport of Nanosized Objects by Surface-Grafted Polymeric Engines (completed)
• DMR/MRSEC: IRG1, Chemically Advanced Nanolithography (completed)
• DMR/MWN: Temperature and Chemical Responsive Polymer Surfaces: Towards the Molecular Design of Intelligent Materials (completed)

National Institute of Standards & Technology (Building and Fire Research)

• Synthesis and Flammability Studies of Novel High-Temperature syndio-PS/Silicate Nanocomposites (completed)
• Fundamental Studies of High-Temperature Nanocomposites (completed)

Department of Defense through the Office of Naval Research

• Design of Combinatorial Polymeric Substrates for Adsorption, Separation and Functional Assay of Biological Macromolecules (completed)

Department of Energy

• Novell high-Temperature Polymer Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications (completed)

ACS/PRF   (Petroleum Research Fund)

• PRF/G: AFM Investigations of Filler-Induced Polymer Crystallization in Polymer/Clay Hybrids (completed)

National Research Council & The National Academies

• NRC/SFFP (AFOSR): Fundamentals of E-field alignment of clays in organic matrices (completed)
• NRC/CoBaSE: Dielectric AFM studies of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) materials for fuel cells (completed)

Industrial Projects:   Completed Projects:   Eaton, through EATON-Cooper Technologies [1 UIRC and 1 ind. projects] Mondelez [previously, Kraft Foods Global, 2 projects] Kraft Foods Global [6 projects] Oscar Mayer [2 projects] Saint Gobain BAYER MaterialScience [3 projects: Aura; PC/glassfiber; PC/PET blends]] BAYER Nanotechnology [PC nanocomposites] Coca-Cola Air Products and Chemicals Inc. [2 projects: PVA; epoxies] UTC International Fuel Cells Sumitomo Chemical, Japan BAYER Polymers (now Bayer MaterialScience) Kulicke and Soffa Polyset Plastics Samsung Cheil Industries, Korea Exxon (now ExxonMobil)   Industrial and Other Gifts: PolyK Technologies LLC RESTEK Corp Southern Clay Products Nanocor

Student Fellowships & Visiting Scientists:

• Sumitomo Chemical [Japan]
• Samsung Corporation [Korea]
• Penn State IGERT [NSF]
• Penn State ARL [DoD/ONR]
• Royal Thai Government [Thailand]
• Chinese State Scholarship Fund [China]
• General Secretariat Sci & Tehnol [Greece/MWN]
• PolyK Technologies LLC
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [incl. faculty award]

Penn State Funding:

• NSF/sub PSU-MRSEC IRG-I
• EMS College/ Wilson Research Initiation Award
• EMS College/ Gladys Snyder Teaching Award
• EMS College/ "Virginia S. and Phillip Jr. Walker" Endowement
• DoD/sub Applied Research Lab
• NSF/sub IGERT Concortium for Many-Body Problems
• Department of Materials Science & Engineering
• PSU Materials Research Institute
• NSF/sub PSU-MRSEC seed grand