NSF Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
| To: | Chairs and Administrators, Departments in the Biological and Physical Sciences; Associate Deans for Research; College/School Research Administrators |
| From: | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research |
| Date: | January 07, 2025 |
| Subject: | NSF 25-521: Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) |
Deadline
| Deadline for Internal Review: | February 11, 2025 |
Project Description
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 https://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.
Each proposed project must be directed by a team of at least three Senior/Key Personnel with complementary expertise on materials synthesis/processing, characterization, theory/modeling/simulation, etc.
Amount per award: $18,000,000 to $30,000,000
Duration of award: 6 Years
Number of awards: 1 to 3
Eligibility
Individuals may be designated as Senior/Key Personnel (Principal Investigator/Project Director, co-PI, and other faculty or equivalent) on only one MIP proposal.
UW-Madison may submit one proposal as lead institution.
Website
The following link contains additional information on the program and specific application instructions:
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mip-materials-innovation-platforms/nsf25-521/solicitation
Internal Competition Application Instructions
Applications for Internal Review
To submit your application, attach a single PDF to an email to: grants@research.wisc.edu
Please include the following:
- Cover page including the project title; name and department of PI, Co-PIs, Other Senior/Key Personnel; and partner organizations
- CVs or NSF Biosketches of PI and Co-PIs
- Research project summary of no more than six pages providing a description of how the proposed project meets the goals of the solicitation
Sponsor Deadlines
Applications are due to NSF by May 15, 2025.
Questions?
Contact grants@research.wisc.edu.