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Find similar grantsMaterials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research (DMR). MIP is a mid-scale infrastructure program that supports transdisciplinary research and training, cutting-edge tools, and knowledge sharing to advance materials discovery and development.
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Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) Important information for proposers and award recipients All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in the funding opportunity and in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and its supplements .
All NSF grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the applicable set of NSF award terms and conditions . NSF has updated its research security policies for NSF funded projects. Supports mid-scale infrastructure to advance materials discovery and development through integrated materials synthesis, characterization and modeling while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and access to state-of-the-art tools.
Supports mid-scale infrastructure to advance materials discovery and development through integrated materials synthesis, characterization and modeling while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and access to state-of-the-art tools. 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 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. The scientific focus of the MIP program is subject to change from competition to competition.
Information about the existing MIPs, from two previous competitions in 2015 and 2019, can be found at mip. org. The third MIP competition, in 2025, will accept proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials.
Given that the second MIP competition included an emphasis on biomaterials and polymer research, proposals mainly on these topics will not be considered in the third MIP competition.
Lead MIP Program Director January 14, 2025 - Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) Webinar Funded as part of this Program Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) Additional program resources Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) 2025 Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) Webinar 2025 MIP Solicitation NSF 25-521 webinar slides 2022 Employing Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Development and Implementation of Materials and Manufacturing Innovations 2021 Data Analytics and What It Means to the Materials Community 2020 Enabling Transformative Advances through Development of Novel Approaches to Electron Microscopy 2019 NRC Report: Frontiers of Materials Research (A Decadal Survey) 2010 NRC Report: Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences 2009 NRC Report: Frontiers in Crystalline Matter: From Discovery to Technology 2008 NRC Report: Inspired by Biology: From Molecules to Materials to Machines 2006 NRC Report: Midsize Facilities: The Infrastructure for Materials Research Renewal of the Inaugural Class of MIPs in 2021 New MIPs in 2020 to Accelerate Discovery and Development of New Synthetic Biomaterials Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program Map of recent awards made through this program Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1) BioFoundries to Enable Access to Infrastructure and Resources for Advancing Modern Biology and Biotechnology (BioFoundries) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (MPS/DMR)
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