Limited Submission Opportunity: NSF Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) 2025

URL: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mip-materials-innovation-platforms

OBJECTIVES:

Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs embrace the paradigm set forth by the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which strives to “discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost,” and conduct research through iterative “closed-loop” efforts among the areas of materials synthesis/processing, materials characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. In addition, they are expected to engage the emerging field of data science in materials research. Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other scientists who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how. The knowledge sharing is designed to strengthen collaborations among scientists and enable them to work in new ways, fostering new modalities of research and training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment.

This year’s MIP competition will accept proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials. Topics from prior years will not be considered in this competition.

NSF will hold an informational webinar over Zoom about the MIP competition on January 14, 2025 from 2:30-4:30 pm EST.

FUNDING INFORMATION:

Between $18 million and $30 million over a 6-year period. It is anticipated that there will be $16 million available in FY 2026.

ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:

BU may only forward one proposal as the lead institution.

INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:

Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 3/17/2025

  • Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application
  • 2-page Project Proposal describing the scope and targeted scientific outcome of the MIP, how a culture of knowledge sharing will be developed, and the major experimental and computational capabilities needed
  • A brief budget outline
  • Up-to-date CV or biosketch for lead PIPrincipal Investigator View Boston University's policy on...

As necessary, a faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review internal proposals and select a nominee. 

DEADLINES:

Internal Materials Due: Monday, March 17, 2025, 11:59 pm EST
External Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2025 by 5 pm

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