1. Where Materials Begin & Society Benefits
NSF Division of Materials Research (DMR) 45 and Looking Forward
Dr. Linda Sapochak, Division Director
Division of Materials Research
National Science Foundation
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2. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Director
National Science Board
France Córdova
Office of Diversity & Inclusion
Office of the General Counsel
Office of the
Inspector General
> $7 B/ FY17
Office of Integrative Activities
Office of International Science & Engineering
Biological
Sciences
Computer &
Information
Sci &Eng
Engineering
Geosciences
Office of Legislative & Public Affairs
Numbers acquired from EIS BEP module (NSF Official Data)
Mathematical
& Physical
Sciences
Social,
Behavioral,
& Economic
Sciences
Education
& Human
Resources
Budget, Finance, & Award Management
Information
& Resource
Management
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3. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Acting Assistant Director
James S. Ulvestad
Mathematical Sciences
Acting Director
Tie Lui
Physics
Director
C. Denise Caldwell
Materials Research
Linda S. Sapochak
Chemistry
Angela Wilson
Astronomical Sciences
Richard Green
Office of Multidisciplinary Activities
$ M $ M $ M
$ M
$ M
$35 M
$1.36B
(FY 17 budget)
Updated
ONE OF THE LARGEST & DIVERSE DIVISIONS in all of NSF
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4. DIVISION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH (DMR)
Topical Materials Research Programs (TMRPs)
National Facilities & Instrumentation Program
Centers & Teams
Biomaterials
Ceramics
Electronic & Photonic Materials
Metals and Metallic Nanostructures
Polymers
Condensed Matter & Materials Theory
Condensed Matter Physics
Solid State and Materials Chemistry
Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL)
Center for High Resolution
Neutron Scattering (CHRNS)
National Nanotechnology
Coordination Network (NNCI)
Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
Partnerships in Research & Education in Materials (PREM)
Cross-Cutting Activities
Diversity
International
Education
Designing Materials to Revolutionize & Engineer our Future (DMREF)
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6. Where Materials Begin & Society Benefits
FY15 $307M
FY16 $310M
FY17 $314M
FY18R $283M
DMR Budget Distribution
12% other
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7. DMR Solicitations for “Unsolicited” Proposals for TMRP
Biomaterials (BMAT)
Electronic & Photonic Materials (EPM)
Metals and Metallic Nanostructures (MMN)
Polymers (POL)
Condensed Matter Physics (CMP)
Solid State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC)
“unsolicited” proposals are proposals reflecting the best ideas from the research community that are aligned with DMR’s mission
Submission Deadline: Nov 1
Open Window – No Deadlines
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8. Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
CLASS of 2014
12 Awards, 32 IRGs: Brandeis, Chicago, Colorado, Columbia, Harvard, Minnesota, MIT, Nebraska, NYU, Ohio State, Penn State, Princeton.
CLASS of 2017
8 Awards, 19 IRGs: Cornell, Northwestern, UC Santa Barbara, U Penn, U Wisconsin, U Texas-Austin, U Washington, U of Illinois.
Princeton MRSEC: 3D Topological Dirac Insulator with a Quantum Spin Hall Phase
Mohan Srinivasaroa
Susan Dexheimer
FY17 awards announced September 14, 2017
Received 80 MRSEC preliminary proposals including 221 IRGs by July 1, preliminary proposals were Returned Without Review (RWR): research not aligned with DMR
The 75 MRSEC preliminary center proposals included 206 IRGs and were separated into 7 interdisciplinary topical panels (25-35 IRGs per panel) and reviewed by a total of 100 panelists. Overall a total 885 reviews were received corresponding to an average of 4.3 reviews per IRG.
The MRSEC Program recommended inviting 18 Full Proposal Submissions including 43 of 206 IRGs.
U Penn MRSEC: Self-assembly of Janus-dendrimers into Uniform Dendrimersomes
Dan Finotello
Birgit Schwenzer
Miriam Deutsch
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9. Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Program
-PREM-
Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Program
$6M+
… to address the pipeline of under-represented minority materials scientists…
DMR seeks to broaden participation in materials research and education by stimulating the development of long-term, collaborative partnerships between minority serving institutions and DMR-supported groups, centers, institutes, and facilities. MRSEC major partner!
Eva Campo
Alfredo Caro
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PREM Program History
5 Competitions to date: 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015
30 Awards to date, 12 currently active
~ 600k/year for 5 years
Co-funding from CREST, HBCU-UP, EPSCoR, OMA, DMS
New competition opened 09/2017; deadline Jan. 29, 2018
Significantly revised solicitation
$300,000 to $700,000/year for up to a period of 6 years
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11. FY17 PREM Program Demographics Under-represented minorities
Total *
(affiliated)
Women %
Under-represented minorities
PREM faculty at MSI
108(28)
31%
22%
Faculty at Partner Inst.
64(37)
20%
16%
Post-docs
18(5)
30% 7%
Graduate students
95(48)
39%
Undergraduates
224(41)
48%
42%
* Total = NSF PREM supported + affiliated (non-PREM support)
Data from 2017 Annual Reports for the Class of 2012 & 2015 PREMs
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12. WEBINAR in November on changes to the FY18 PREM Solicitation 17-599
The PREM Framework, by virtue of the Partnership provides opportunities to all participants to contribute to some/all components of the PREM Pathway, focusing on different Elements according to their initial starting point and research capacities.
WEBINAR in November on changes to the FY18 PREM Solicitation
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Ways in which MRSEC can help increase diversity at Post-doc and Faculty level?
Leverage proposal submission with new faculty lines for URGs.
Support more mentoring activities like the Future Faculty Development Workshop.
Develop a Postdoctoral Fellow-to-Faculty program.
FFW 2016
FFW 2014
FFW 2012
FFW 2011
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14. Designing Materials to Revolutionize & Engineer our Future (DMREF)
$16M DMR
FY12: 14 awards, $13.6 M
FY13: 20 awards, $22.2 M
FY14: 29 awards, $34.5 M
FY15: 26 awards, $33.9 M
FY16: 24 awards, $30.3 M
FY17: 25 awards, $34.4 M
Going biennial, next competition, FY19
*‘Other’ funding from directorates is from GOALI & OMA.
Cumulative
138 Projects, $171 M total investment
528 PIs, 81 women, 52 EPSCoR
878 Publications, 6697 Citations, 235 pubs w/ 2+ PIs, 49 w/ 3+ PIs
FY17
80% of Projects received co-funding.
OAC co-funded 8 projects due to significant data component.
John Schlueter
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15. Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
MIP Concept: Combine a focused research effort in an interactive feedback loop together with a mid-scale user facility open to the community in order to accelerate advancement of a materials research topic of national importance.
Focus: 2-dimensional chalcogenide materials for future electronics
e.g., Can theory model growth kinetics and guide materials synthesis?
Focus: interfacial materials, combining oxides & 2D materials, for valleytronics & spintronics
e.g., Can we design and create new interfacial materials by “breaking” Gibbs’ & Pauling’s rules?
Current Status:
Accept user proposals; samples provided to users
World’s first 300-atm floating-zone furnace at Paradim-JHU
Integrated MBE, CVD, ARPES & STM/AFM later in 2017
Access to computational, TEM & other capabilities
Webinars and summer schools
Research
MIPs are centered around a focused research team of at least 3 senior investigators addressing a targeted materials grand challenge and/or technological outcome of national impact.
Achievable only through the acquisition and development of unique, state-of-the-art, mid-scale instrumentation – national need for equipment.
New materials and materials phenomena are discovered where synthesis, characterization, and theory/modeling are done in an iterative and “closed-loop” manner. (MGI)
2D Crystal Consortium (2DCC) is located at Pennsylvania State University.
Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, & Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM) is located at Cornell University (thin-film growth and characterization, including TEM, and in-house research), Johns Hopkins University (bulk crystal growth and characterization), Clark Atlantic University (computational), and Princeton University (in-house research only).
Gibbs free energy controls thermodynamics and leads to a reaction towards a lower Gibbs free energy. When interface energy, strain energy, and surface energy are also considered, interfacial materials that would not be stable in a bulk form become thermodynamically stable.
There are several Pualing's rules regarding cation and anion radii, valance, coordination, etc. See, for example, . New interfacial materials are possible by "breaking" these rules.
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16. Accelerating Materials Discovery, Innovation and Deployment
Discovery Property Certification Deployment
optimization
Development system Manufacturing
design and integrations
FY 18 Activities:
2-D Materials, DMREF, MIP & EFRI 2DARE- Data Science Workshop, Penn State, Nov , 2017
NSF-DOE PI meeting January 2018
FY18 Supplements for DMR PIs to use DOE/EERE Energy Material Network (EMN)
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17. Where Materials Begin & Society Benefits
National Facilities and Instrumentation (NaFI) Program
Stewardship: NaFI provides high cost and unique experimental capabilities to the DMR community:
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL)
Partnership: National Facilities program partners:
NIST: The Center For High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) at the NIST Center for Neutron Research
NSF/CHE: ChemMatCARS Beamline at the Advanced Photon Source
NSF/ENG: National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)
Upgrade to CHESS-U in progress
NSB approves renewal
Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
Anticipate a competition in FY19
Tessema Guebre
Leonard Spinu
Charles Ying
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19. QUANTUM LEAP Leading the Next Quantum Revolution
NSF would support research that addresses the manipulation of quantum states and the control of material light interactions involving physicists, chemists, materials researchers, mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers. There will be strong connections to industry, other federal agencies, and international partnerships.
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20. QUANTUM LEAP FY17 NSF/DOE Quantum Science Summer School
Summer School, FY17
Sources of funding
NSF: $700k
DOE/BES: $300k
Organizing Team
Joe Checkelsky (MIT)
Natalia Drichko (JHU)
Liang Fu (MIT)
Kyle Shen (Cornell)
Jun Zhu (Penn State)
qs3.mit.edu
Locations and Dates
Tentative Location and Dates
JHU: June 5-16, 2017
Cornell : June 18-30, 2018
Penn State: June 9-21, 2019
University of Colorado: 2020
Rationale
Train transdisciplinary workforce for the second quantum revolution driven by convergence of multiple disciplines
Participants
50 Graduate Students and early-career Postdocs
Convergence of Fundamental, Applied, and Societal aspects of Quantum Science. At the nexus of these is the education of a New Quantum Workforce. Two weeks of intensive program include two talks in the morning and interactive activities in the afternoons.
Managing program: CMP Program, DMR/NSF (T. Durakiewicz)
Updated: October, 2017

21. Convergence QL - Workshop Series: Cross- Sector Connections in Quantum
Generation of Ready-to-Hire Cadre of Workers for the Second Quantum Revolution
Triplets: Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISC-NET)
Convergence QL - Workshop Series:
Cross- Sector Connections in Quantum
Leap;
PI: David Awschalom, U. of Chicago
Budget: $1.6M
Our latest project - rolling out NOW. Note participation of Social Sciences in funding this initiative!
Also, will go LIVE in second week of Oct, open for applications Nov 6. Triplets will apply for 3-year funding, with report-out workshops in –between. Covered disciplines include: Materials Science, Chemistry, Device Engineering, Physics, Industrial Research and Computer Science. Majority of budget goes directly to support the students, who travel to industrial sites and collaborate, providing the bridge between academic cutting edge research and industrial environment, working on research projects, preparing thesis and publications. The ready-to-hire cadre of workers for the second quantum revolution will be generated.
Cross-NSF effort:
Managing program: CMP Program, DMR/NSF (Tomasz Durakiewicz)
Grad. STUDENT
University PI
Industry
Partner
TRIPLET:
Applications: Nov 6, 2017 – Jan 5, 2018

22. Work at the Human-Technology Frontier – Shaping the Future
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23. Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure
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24. Where Materials Begin & Society Benefits
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Request for Information on Mid-scale Research Infrastructure
October 6, 2017
Overview
This Request for Information (RFI) is issued in response to the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA, Public Law No ), Section 109. NSF seeks information on existing and future needs for mid-scale research infrastructure projects from the US-based NSF science and engineering community.
Definitions
For the purposes of this RFI, NSF defines Research Infrastructure (RI) as any combination of facilities, equipment, instrumentation, computational hardware and software, and the necessary human capital in support of the same. This includes upgrades to existing major research facilities. Mid-scale RI requires an investment that falls between the maximum award funded by NSF's Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI; $4 million) and that of a major multi-user research facility project ($100 million or more), as defined in AICA.
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25. Where Materials Begin & Society Benefits
Pay more attention to diversity…… be more forward looking (high risk/high impact), and leverage the MRSEC/PREM community.
THANK YOU!
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