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Posted on: 12/4/2012 12:00:00 AM... The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the second year of its national materials initiative, Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF). DMREF is NSF’s approach to participate in the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness.

NSF supports DMREF through coordinated activities involving the Directorates of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Engineering (ENG) and Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE).

For the second year of DMREF, NSF is interested in activities that accelerate materials discovery and development by building the fundamental knowledge base needed to progress towards designing and making a material with a specific and desired function or property from first principles. Also of interest to NSF is research that seeks to advance fundamental understanding of materials across length and time scales to elucidate the effects of microstructure, surfaces, and coatings on the properties and performance of engineering materials. The ultimate goal is to control material properties through design via the establishment of computational interrelationships between composition, processing, structure, properties, performance, and process control, validated and verified through measurement and experimentation.

DMREF proposals for FY2013 must be submitted within the submission window of January 15 to February 15.

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