National Science Foundation Awards Slide-Ring Materials Project

The Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) program in the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced award #2023179 to our proposal entitled “Mechanics of Active Slide-Ring Networks: from Molecular Motors to Molecular Machine“ , with Franck Vernerey as PI and Carson Bruns as Co-PI. The project provides almost $0.5M to support the development of a statistical mechanics theory (Vernerey), validated by experiment (Bruns), that can explain and predict the mechanics of slide-ring gels and actuators.