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Learn more about each of the different Research Areas that PSI can help you perform and execute.

Biophysics
Combustion Science
Complex Fluids/Soft Matter
Fluid Physics
Fundamental Physics
Materials Science

Biophysics

Biological Macromolecules | Biomaterials/Biofilms | Biological Physics | Biofluids

Macromolecular Biophysics-1 – The Effect of Macromolecular Transport on Microgravity Protein Crystallization

Completion Status: In Process

ROSES Eligible: Yes

LMM-Biophysics 2,5 – Solution Convection and the Nucleation Precursors in Protein Crystallization

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Combustion Science

Spacecraft Fire Safety | Droplets | Gaseous – Premixed and Non-Premixed | High Pressure/Supercritical | Solid Fuels 

ACME BRE – Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments Burning Rate Emulator

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

ACME E-FIELD Flames – Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments Electric Field Flames

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

ACME S-Flames – Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments: Structure and Response of Spherical Diffusion Flames

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

BASS – Burning and Suppression of Solids

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

BASS-II – Burning and Suppression of Solids-II

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CFI – Cool Flames Investigation

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

DAFT – Dust and Aerosol Measurement Feasibility Test

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

DAFT-2 – Dust and Aerosol Measurement Feasibility Test-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

FLEX – Flame Extinguishment Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

FLEX-2 – Flame Extinguishment Experiment-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes​

Quantitative Studies of Cool Flame Transitions at Radiation/Stretch Extinction Using Counterflow Flames Complete

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

SAFFIRE-I – Spacecraft Fire Experiment-I

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SAFFIRE-II – Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SAFFIRE-III – Spacecraft Fire Experiment-III

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SAME – Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SAME-R – Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment Reflight

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SLICE – Structure and Liftoff in Combustion Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SPICE – Smoke Point in Coflow Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Utilization of the Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment Data for Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Smoke Generation in Micro-Gravity

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

Complex Fluids / Soft Matter

Colloids | Liquid Crystals | Foams | Ploymer Solutions | Granular Flows | Dusty Plasma

ACE-M1 – Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy 1

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

ACE-M2 – Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy 2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

ACE-M2R – Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy 2 Reflight

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

ACE-T7 – Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature 7

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

BCAT-3 – Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 3

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

BCAT-4 – Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 4

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

BCAT-5 – Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 5

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

BCAT-6 – Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 6

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

InSPACE – Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

InSPACE-2 – Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

InSPACE-3 – Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions–3

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

InSPACE-3+ – Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions–3+

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

OASIS – Observation and Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space

Completion Status: In Process

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PCS – Physics of Colloids in Space

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PHaSE – Physics of Hard Spheres Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PKE-Nefedov and PK-3+ – Plasma Kristall Experiment; Dusty Plasma

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SHERE – Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SHERE II – Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment II

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SHERE-R – Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment-Reflight

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Structure Evolution During Phase Separation in Colloids Under Microgravity

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

Fluid Physics

Adiabatic Two-phase Flow | Boiling and Condensation | Capillary Flow | Interfacial Phenomena | Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfe

ASETS II – Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader II

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CCF-CV EU1 – Capillary Channel Flow – Critical Velocities – Experiment Unit 1

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CCF-CV EU2– Capillary Channel Flow – Critical Velocities – Experiment Unit 2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CCF-PS EU2 – Capillary Channel Flow – Phase Separation – Experiment Unit 2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CFE – Capillary Flow Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CFE-2 – Capillary Flow Experiment-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Computational Framework for Capillary Flows

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

CVB – Constrained Vapor Bubble

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CVB-2 – Constrained Vapor Bubble-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

DECLIC-ALI – Device for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization – Alice Like Insert

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Development and Verification of a 3D Nucleate Pool Boiling Simulation Model Using PSI Data

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

GRADFLEX – Gradient Driven Fluctuation Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Gravity Scaling of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer: Numerical Simulations and Validation with MABE and NPBX

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

IVGEN – IntraVenous Fluid GENeration for Exploration Missions

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

MABE – Microheater Array Heater Boiling Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

NPBX – Nucleate Pool Boiling Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PBE – Pool Boiling Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PBRE – Packed Bed Reactor Experiment

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PBRE-2 – Packed Bed Reactor Experiment-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

STDCE-1 – Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment-1 – First United States Microgravity Payload on Columbia (USML-1)

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Fundamental Physics

Quantum Coherence and Entanglement | Quantum Interferometry and Precision Measurements | Quantum Matter | Many-Body Systems

Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) – Bose – Einstein Condensate Bubble Dynamics

Completion Status: In Process

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) – Consortium for Ultracold Atoms in Space

Completion Status: In Process

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) – Development of Atom Interferometry Experiments for the ISS

Completion Status: In Process

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) – Fundamental Interactions for Atom Interferometry with Ultracold Quantum Gases in a Microgravity Environment

Completion Status: In Process

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Materials Science

Glasses and Ceramics | Granular Materials | Metals | Polymers and Organics | Semiconductors 

CSLM – Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CSLM-2 – Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes 

CSLM-2R – Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2 Reflight

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CSLM-3 – Coarsening in Solid Liquid Mixtures-3

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

CSLM-4 – Coarsening in Solid Liquid Mixtures-4

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

DECLIC-DSI – Device for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization – Directional Solidification Insert

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

EML Batch 1 – TMERMOLAB – Electromagnetic Levitation Flight Support for Transient Observation of Nucleation Events

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Enhancement and Verification of Quantitative Phase-Field Crystal Modeling using NASA-PSI Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures Experiment Data

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

IDGE-STS-62 USMP-2 – Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE-STS-62) – Second United States Microgravity Payload on Columbia

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

IDGE-STS-75 USMP-3 – Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE-STS-75) – Third United States Microgravity Payload on Columbia

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

IDGE-STS-87 USMP-4 – Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE-STS-87) – Fourth United States Microgravity Payload on Columbia

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

ISSI – In-Space Soldering Investigation

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

MICAST/CSS – Microstructure Formation in Casting of Technical Alloys under Diffusive and Magnetically Controlled Convective Conditions/Comparison of Structure and Segregation in Alloys Directionally Solidified in Terrestrial and Microgravity Environments

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

MICS – Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

MICS-MVP – Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification – Multi-use Variable-gravity Platform

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

PFMI – Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

Pore-Mushy Zone Interaction During Directional Solidification of Alloys: Three Dimensional Simulation and Comparison with Experiments

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes*

Strata-1 – Strata-1

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

SUBSA – Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

TEMPUS – Tiegelfreies Elektromagnetisches Prozessieren Unter Schwerelosigkeit (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing in Microgravity)

Completion Status: Complete

ROSES Eligible: Yes

*Denotes ground-based investigations conducted using funding from PSI NRA or ROSES grants and based on data from microgravity datasets in the PSI system. Proposers planning to use the data from these investigations may want to consider combining this data with other, microgravity investigations.