Our group was recently awarded two grants respectively from NASA and ONR.
The NASA project will be focused on soft electronics for space structures that can enable thermal actuation, control, and monitoring of ultrathin morphable composite tiles/joints. The ONR grant (DURIP) will provide funding for us to purchase advanced multi-material processing machines (both additive and ablative processing) for education and research on bio-inspired aerospace materials and structures.
Collectively, these two grants will provide resources to us to advance intelligent/multifunctional aerospace structures.
Recent grants from NASA and ONR to advance intelligent/multifunctional structures