CAREER award funds research on carbon nanotube interactions

Matt Maschmann, an assistant professor in MU’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his proposal, “CAREER: In-Situ Process-Structure-Property Evaluation of CNT Forests.” Photo by Jennifer Hollis.

Understanding the properties of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon nanotube forests has been the main focus of Matt Maschmann’s research career. And now, they’re the focus of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Maschmann, an assistant professor in MU’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his proposal, “CAREER: In-Situ Process-Structure-Property Evaluation of CNT Forests.” The NSF CAREER Award program is the organization’s most notable award for outstanding tenure-track faculty early in their careers.

“This is one of the rare opportunities where they want you to talk in first person and say, ‘This fits into my career, and in five years’ time…’” Maschmann said. “In this five years, I’ll accomplish this step, and this small step is very crucial to my career.”

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