Advanced Materials Discovery and Development Research

NASA is soliciting proposals for research into improved material discovery through the leveraging of novel modeling and experimental approaches. This initiative aims to support NASA's wide-ranging material needs across various flight regimes and vehicle classes, including commercial transport, urban air mobility (UAM), and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. The research should focus on advancing materials for propulsion, structures, and electrification, as well as associated manufacturing processes. Proposals are encouraged to address gaps identified in NASA's "Vision 2040: A Roadmap for Integrated, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Materials and Systems." Key areas of interest include data management, data analytics, machine learning, integration across spatiotemporal scales, high-throughput experiments, and model parameter estimation. Specific material systems and technologies of interest include high-temperature alloys, GRX-810 and other ODS alloys, oxygen-sensitive alloys, shape memory alloys (including processing and additive manufacturing), nondestructive evaluation, structural composites, environmental barrier coatings, and multiphysics models. Emphasis will be placed on novel multiscale and multiphysics modeling, machine learning for surrogate models, AI for automating workflows, and materials informatics.