Negar Kalantar’s Research Featured on National Science Foundation

EAGER: Interaction of Smart Materials for Transparent, Self-regulating Building Skins

NSF Grant #1548243 

Awarded: July 31, 2015

Awardee: Texas A & M University

Using smart materials to design active and multifunctional building skins that react to the environment.

From NSF:  https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showA…

With support from NSF, a multidisciplinary team of material scientists, engineers, and architects are using nature-inspired design and new materials to create smart building skins. A smart skin enables a building to function much like elements of some living systems. It allows a building to "breathe," but independent of centralized control. This Texas A&M University team is exploring the use of smart materials, such as shape memory alloys and stimuli-responsive polymers, in a variety of approaches to produce building systems that function in concert with the environment. NSF supports fundamental research that will shape the future of the nation's constructed civil infrastructure in the context of the natural environment, technological innovations, and societal needs.

The research team includes the following scientists and engineers:

•  Zofia Rybkowski

• Negar Kalantar

• Ergun Akleman

• Tahir Cagin

•  Terry Creasy

Students:

•  Ruaa Al-Mezrakchi

•  Nikita Bhagat

• Diya Dhannoon

•  Daniel Hirsch

• Hyoungsub Kim

•  Maryam Mansoori

•  William Palmer

•  Saied Zarrinmehr