Federal Agencies:
| National Science Foundation |
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* 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/MWN: Temperature and Chemical Responsive Polymer Surfaces: Towards the Molecular Design of Intelligent Materials |
| National Institute of Standards & Technology (Building and Fire Research) |
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* Synthesis and Flammability Studies of Novel
High-Temperature syndio-PS/Silicate Nanocomposites (completed)
* Fundamental Studies of High-Temperature Nanocomposites (completed) |
| Department of Defense Office of Naval Research |
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* Design of Combinatorial Polymeric Substrates for Adsorption, Separation and Functional Assay of Biological Macromolecules |
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* Novell high-Temperature Polymer Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications (completed) |
| ACS/PRF (Petroleum Research Fund) |
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* 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 Support:
| Active: | Kraft foods |
| BAYER Polymers / BAYER Material Science | |
| BAYER Nanotechnology / Fundamental Projects | |
| Completed: | Kulicke and Soffa |
| Polyset Plastics | |
| Coca-Cola | |
| Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (2 SAMCOM projects) | |
| UTC International Fuel Cells | |
| Sumitomo Chemical, Japan | |
| Gifts: | RESTEK Corp |
| Southern Clay Products | |
| Nanocor |
Penn State Funding:
EMS College/ Wilson Research Initiation Award
EMS College/ Gladys Snyder Teaching Award
EMS College/ "Virginia S. and Phillip Jr. Walker" Endowement
DoD/Applied Research Lab
NSF/IGERT Concortium for Many-Body Problems
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
PSU Materials Research Institute
NSF/PSU-MRSEC seed grand