Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$398,521.00

Award Date

6/15/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This research project integrates experiments and modeling to develop physics-based predictive models for the problem of room temperature creep in nanocrystalline metallic films. The novel experiments aim at extracting directly the grain-boundary (GB) slid