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1 Division of Material Research (DMR) Dr. Mary Galvin, Division Director Dr. Janice Hicks, Deputy Division Director Dr. Sean L. Jones Program Director MRSEC, PREM on detail to OSTP

2 Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Office of Multidisciplinary Activities Clark Cooper Astronomy (AST) Jim Ulvestad Office of the Assistant Director F. Fleming Crim, Assistant Director Celeste Rohlfing, Deputy Assistant Director Materials Research (DMR) Mary Galvin Physics (PHY) Denise Caldwell Chemistry (CHE) Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Sastry Pantula

3 Nano Ctrs 4.88 FY11: $287 M S&T Ctrs 6.66 Centers 57 Facilities/In str Education CAREER FY12: $295M S&T Ctrs, Nano Ctrs, Centers, Fac/Instr Individuals and Groups Education & Workforce, Individuals and Groups, DMR Budget Nano Ctrs, FY13: $ M Centers, Facilities/Instr, S&T Ctrs, 4 CAREER, 23.8 Education and Workforce, Individuals and Groups, % to 55.6% -Individual Investigators 18.9% to 20.8% - Facilities 19.8 % to 19.8 % - Centers MRSEC, Nano, STC These charts do not include Foundation-wide programs such as IGERT, MRI and CAREER, GRF

5 EPM DMR IIA Program: Materials Type PD: Charles Ying Haiyan Wang (Texas A&M) MMN CER BMAT PDs: David Brant, Joseph Akkara Mohan Srinivasarao (Ga Tech) POL PD: Lynnette Madsen PD: Diana Farkas (Va Tech) PD: Andrew Lovinger

6 SSMC PD: Michael Scott CMMT DMR IIA Program: Discipline CMP PD: Paul Sokol (Indiana Univ.) Guebre X. Tessema (Tess) CDMR PDs: Daryl Hess Andrey Dobrynin (U Conn) Under CMMT

Health and Environment Stealth Vectors -Schematic

nanoparticles (NPs), PI: Liangfang Zhang, UCSD

for water purification: Hsiao (StonyBrook) POL

living cell Rubner and Cohen have designed a

mucopolysaccharides prevent mucous penetration and

7 Health and Environment Stealth Vectors -Schematic for the preparation of RBCmembrane-coated PLGA nanoparticles (NPs), PI: Liangfang Zhang, UCSD Highly permeable membranes with directed channels for water purification: Hsiao (StonyBrook) POL BMAT polymer backpack attached to a migrating living cell Rubner and Cohen have designed a polymer that attached to a macrophage but is not consumed by it. MRSEC Rubenstein, UNC, shown how dense mucopolysaccharides prevent mucous penetration and allow lungs to clear infectious and toxic agents. CMMT Gogotsi (Drexel) porous nanocarbon for sepsis treatment CER

Future Electronics/Photonics Structural Variability of

5 TiO 3 Thin Films Yayoi Takamura, UC Davis,

size to exhibit quantum behavior absorb energy in

once. Cleland, UCSB, CMP Slow magnetic relaxation in a

anisotropy, J. Zadrozny et al., Chem. Comm.

distributed feedback lasers and terabyte optical data

power, ultrahigh storage density, high speed, and

8 Future Electronics/Photonics Structural Variability of La 0.5 Sr 0.5 TiO 3 Thin Films Yayoi Takamura, UC Davis, Oxidizing/reducing environment changes phase separation and resistivity. CER STC Layered Polymeric Systems First device of this size to exhibit quantum behavior absorb energy in discrete units, always moving and be in two places at once. Cleland, UCSB, CMP Slow magnetic relaxation in a pseudotetrahedral cobalt(ii) complex with easy-plane anisotropy, J. Zadrozny et al., Chem. Comm. (2012) NHMFL Company just spun off: Multilayer distributed feedback lasers and terabyte optical data storage Chen (PSU), design of an ultraefficient MRAM device. 45nm channel length. Nature Communications, the device design has ultralow power, ultrahigh storage density, high speed, and nearly zero cross talk. CMMT Flexible transistors based on DGU graphene operate at frequencies that are 1000x faster than competing flexible organic electronic materials. Hersam, Northwestern, EPM

Exciton Condensation and Perfect Coulomb Drag James P.

Ni nanowire, Eric E Fullerton, UC San Diego CER Complex

Atomic-Scale Sandwiches, Cornell MRSEC LaMnO 3 and SrMnO

single Dirac cone Topological Insulator - Bulk insulator

9 Exciton Condensation and Perfect Coulomb Drag James P. Eisenstein (Caltech), CMP Chiral magnetic arrangement in Ni nanowire, Eric E Fullerton, UC San Diego CER Complex Phenomena Controlling and Imaging Electron Motions in Atomic-Scale Sandwiches, Cornell MRSEC LaMnO 3 and SrMnO 3 E. J. Monkman, C. Adamo, et al. Nature Materials Ni-Mn-Ga alloy foam. Magnetic shape memory alloys exhibit strains of ~ 9% compared to 0.1 %, Mullner, Boise State, MMN Topological Insulator - single Dirac cone Topological Insulator - Bulk insulator covered by robust metallic surface states, Kane (PENN) and Zhang (Stanford) CMMT and first ARPES image Bi 2 Se 3 Cava and Hasan Princeton MRSEC

10 Hydrogen storage MgAl alloys Ebrahimi/ Univ of Florida 3D Imaging of Fuel Cell Cathodes CER Barnett (Northwestern) Thornton (Univ Michigan) Adler (Univ Washington) New battery cathode materials for implantable cardioverter difribrillators SSMC Ag 4 V 2 O 6 F 2 Energy Research in DMR MMN Poeppelmeier / Northwestern Fabrication of thermoelectric nanowires (EPM) Penner / UC Irvine Understanding High Tc Superconductivity 45 mev 0 mev Hoffman / Harvard Univ Simulation of battery electrolyte structure Li 2 PO 2 N Bi 2 Sr 2 CuO 6+d CMMT CMP 10 nm Hozwarth / Wake Forest Univ Flexible silicon solar cell Block copolymer Gyroid structure, a solid-state dyesensitized solar cell POL Wiesner / Cornell University Renewable Energy Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Craig Taylor, Colorado School of Mines Roof-top Solar Panels Understanding structure of Solar Cells CuInSe 2 EPM/M WN Angus Rockett / U of Illinois - UC New emiiters for Solid State Lighting LnKNaMO5 MRSEC PV Power Plant Alamosa, CO SSMC Zur Loye / U of South Carolina

11 Complementary Group/Infrastructure programs

12 National Science Foundation National Science Foundation DMR Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs): High Impact - High Visibility 23 MRSECs in Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) Data for 27 Centers 901 Faculty participants 224 Ph.D.s awarded 129 Post-docs completed 1500 publications 76 patents issued

13 MRSEC Infrastructure Users of MRSEC Facilities > 2000/yr Academic > 550/yr Industry >100/yr National Labs Over 500 Publications annually Shared Facilities Workshop in Technical Staff in SEFs 31 Other Technicians 70 Administrative Staff 28 Education Staff

14 Brandeis new 1 Chicago 4 Colorado 1 Colorado School of Mines new Harvard 3 Georgia Tech new 1 U. Mass Amherst 2 MIT 3 Minnesota 4 Nebraska 2 New York University new Ohio State University new Penn State University FY08 Princeton MRSEC awards Institution UC Santa Barbara FY11 IRGs Cornell U 3 Duke U - new 2 U. Michigan - new Northwestern U 3 U Pennsylvania 4 U Wisconsin 3 U. Utah - new 2 Yale U. 2 New competition started with preproposals on Aug 26,

15 The Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Program to address the pipeline of under-represented minority materials scientists broaden participation in materials research and education stimulate the development of long-term, collaborative partnerships between minority serving institutions and DMR-supported groups, centers, and facilities.

16 Opportunities to use Multidisciplinary Facilities DMR as Steward: high cost and unique experimental capabilities for the DMR community Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source National High Magnetic Field Laboratory DMR as Partner: partner with others to provide resources for the DMR community. With NIST: The Center For High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) at the NIST Center for Neutron Research With NSF/ENG: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) DMR provided instrumentation infrastructure: MRSEC shared experimental facilities provide access to standard tools, specialized instrumentation, and expertise for growth and characterization. Materials Research Facilities Network -

17 Materials 2022 a Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee Sub-committee Develop a network of centers to provide a characterization suite of instrumentation to the external community or to fulfill a specific need/expertise (i.e. X-ray, microscopy, crystal growth). Support professional staffing to manage instrumentation and train students. Increase co-funding for MRI proposals - acquisition and stewardship of equipment $100,000-$500,000. Funding for instrument developers, to keep a pipeline of new instrumentation. Materials Innovation Platforms DMR Response: November 2012

18 NSF Initiatives

19 FLEXIBILITY! Career-Life Balance NSF no-cost extensions or temporary suspensions of NSF awards due to family leave flexible start dates for NSF awards supplements for additional personnel to sustain research when principal investigators are on family leave CAREER and NSF postdoc programs options for remote panel participation local child care recommendations for panelists instructions for panelists describing familyfriendly practices.

20 CAREER Program NSF's most prestigious awards for junior faculty. Awardees are selected based on a plan of outstanding research and education, and the integration of research and education. CAREER awards are a priority for DMR FY12 DMR made 50 CAREER awards, which is 12% of the total number of IIA awards About $24M per year

21 Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer the Future DMREF In Response to the national Materials Genome Initiative Discovery to Deployment - Twice as Fast, a fraction of the cost Extremely ambitious goal! - So how do we start? Dear Colleague Letter NSF MPS: DMR, CHE, DMS ENG: CMMI, CBET, ECCS CISE $20 million spent in FY 2013

22 Successful DMREF proposals Proposals due: check the NSF website (tentatively Jan 15 th Feb 15 th, but subject to change in response to the government shutdown) Must go beyond simple collaborations. Focused research groups (3-5 faculty) encouraged. Must accelerate materials discovery. Data must drive theory/simulation and theory/simulation must drive experiments: Iterative process. Want significant advances in all components of the project (making materials, experimental characterization and structure determination, simulation/theory, data). Must provide open access to algorithms and data. Must go beyond: Simply including theoretical and computational research. Simply comparing theory/simulation and experiment. Collaborations already funded in DMR.

23 DMR Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2 ) Expected to generate and nurture the interdisciplinary processes required to support the entire software lifecycle Envisions partnerships among academia, government labs, and industry, including international entities (1) Scientific Software Elements (SSE) small groups that create and deploy robust software elements (2) Scientific Software Integration (SSI) larger, interdisciplinary teams to develop and apply common software infrastructure SSE and SSI (NSF ) DMR focus on DMREF and SusChEM, deadline Feb each year (3) Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S 2 I 2 ) establish long-term hubs of excellence in software infrastructure NSF DMR focus on Materials Genome Initiative Contact Daryl - February 4, 2014 submission date

24 Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering and Materials (SusChEM) - part of Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) SusChEM proposals are expected to take a systems-based approach to understanding, predicting and facilitating advances towards global sustainability. One NSF APPROACH 5 Divisions MPS Chemistry (CHE), Materials (DMR) ENG Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) and Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation(CMMI) GEO Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) NSF for the DMR Dear Colleague Letter $49M spent in FY2013

SusChEM: DMR Scientific, Economic, & Environmental Significance Materials for the Preservation and Extension of Natural Resources: Improved material usage Development of non-petroleum based sources

25 SusChEM: DMR Scientific, Economic, & Environmental Significance Materials for the Preservation and Extension of Natural Resources: Improved material usage Development of non-petroleum based sources Replacement, substitution or elimination of toxic or critical materials/elements: Materials Designed for Zero Waste: Materials including materials in devices designed to be reclaimed, reused or repurposed New approaches to extend lifetime of a material or enhanced recyclability Discouraging energy related proposals (PV) for SUSChEM. Still allowed for other DMR programs. Contact Andrew Lovinger or Diana Farkas Guiyu, China electronic wastebasket of the world environmental calamity High Pd in children High miscarriage rate Soil so high in Pb, Cr &Sn water undrinkable Highest level of doixins in world

I-Corps: Testing the Commercial Validity of NSF-funded Research Team Based: Entrepreneurial Lead, PI and Mentor $50K to Get out of lab Flexible funding, but NO additional technology research 3-Month

26 I-Corps: Testing the Commercial Validity of NSF-funded Research Team Based: Entrepreneurial Lead, PI and Mentor $50K to Get out of lab Flexible funding, but NO additional technology research 3-Month Curriculum Serious Program Outcomes Functioning network of Mentors/Advisors Scientist and Engineers trained as Entrepreneurs Increased impact of NSF-funded basic research Credit: 2011 JupiterImages Corp. 30 Hours of Curriculum $50,000 per award F&A $5,000 maximum 25 awards in FY awards in FY awards in FY2013

27 Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Graduate Research Supplement (AGEP-GRS) AGEP supports projects focused on underrepresented minority grad students or postdocs MPS is piloting a graduate research supplement (AGEP-GRS, NSF ) Supplements support one (additional) PhD student in an ongoing MPS-funded research project. Student must not receive other government support. Eligibility: PI must be affiliated with an academic unit of an institution participating in an active AGEP project or a Legacy AGEP institution Award length: One-year supplements for a single student, renewable for up to three years, contingent on duration of active MPS award and satisfactory progress of student FY13 budget request is $2 million (~35 supplements) No submission deadline

28 Other Opportunities Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) Funds proposals submitted to disciplinary programs, and provides support for shared-use instrumentation Eligibility: 2-year, 4-year, masters-level, and small doctoral colleges and universities Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) NSF Promotes university-industry partnerships Funds available for fellowships/traineeships to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages NSF funds support only the academic institution Discuss your GOALI proposal with the cognizant program director before submission!

29 Questions

30 Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Formerly: Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) Supports high-risk, exploratory, and potentially transformative research Began Jan. 1, 2009 Up to $300K over two years May be submitted any time; contact program officer prior to proposal submission Also, Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) supports research of great urgency

31 INSPIRE Interdisciplinary! INSPIRE Track 1. This is essentially a continuation of the pilot CREATIV mechanism from FY 2013, which address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines INSPIRE Track 2. These are "mid-scale" research awards at a larger scale than Track 1, allowing for requests of up to $3,000,000 over a duration of up to five years. Expectations for cross-cutting advances and for broader impacts are greater than in Track 1, and the review process includes external review. Director's INSPIRE Awards. These are prestigious individual awards to single-investigator proposals that present ideas for interdisciplinary advances with unusually strong, exciting transformative potential. Before writing or submitting an INSPIRE proposal, PIs must make a formal inquiry by submitting a FastLane Letter of Intent (LOI).

Materials Research in the FY 2015 Budget

26 Materials Research in the FY 2015 Budget Ronald L. Kelley Materials Research Society HIGHLIGHTS In contrast to previous years, the Administration s budget would not continue to place physical science