NSF Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)

Anyone who is planning to submit a proposal to this program must provide the information requested below to[email protected] by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, November 19. “NSF MIP” should appear in the subject line. No internal proposal is required at this time.

Please provide the following:

  1. PI – Name, department, and contact information
  2. Co-PI(s) – Name, department, and institution
  3. Participating Organizations
  4. Project Title

Questions should be sent to [email protected]

Program URL: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19526/nsf19526.htm

Synopsis
The focus of the 2019 MIP competition is the convergence of materials research with biological sciences for developing new materials

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 respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. These tools in a user facility benefit both a user program and in-house research, which focus on addressing grand challenges of fundamental science and meet national needs. 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 contributors 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 education/training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment.