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Stephen L Craig

William T. Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Box 90346, Durham, NC 27708-0346
3221 French Family Science Cen, 124 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


NSF-BSF: Emergent Rheology of Blends Containing Supramolecular Polymers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

Covalent Polymer Mechanochemistry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2027

Multi-State Catalysts Modulated by Mechanical Force

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2017 - 2027

University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 1994 - 2027

NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026

Hummink NAZCA High-Precision Capillary Flow Printer

EquipmentMinor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2026

Collaborative Research: Mechanochemistry of Metallocenes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2025

LUMICKS C-TRAP

EquipmentMinor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Augmenting Mucosal Gels with Associating Brush Polymers to Prevent COVID19 Infection

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2023

A high speed imaging system for research on ultrafast, repeated-use materials and systems

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2022 - 2023

Integrated Design, Additive Manufacturing, and Mechanoresponsive Materials

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2017 - 2022

Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2022

Discovery and Manipulation of Biomolecular-Noble Gas Interactions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Threat Reduction Agency · 2018 - 2022

Covalent Polymer Mechanochemistry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2021

Mapping the Fundamentals of Coordination Chemistry onto Mechanically Activated Pathways

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Chemical Society · 2017 - 2020

Sponsored Research Agreement - Michelin

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation · 2015 - 2020

GAANN - Department of Chemistry

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by Department of Education · 2015 - 2019

Covalent Polymer Mechanochemistry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2019

URAP Proposal for Award W911NF-15-1-0143

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2016 - 2019

Stress-strengthening Synthetic Polymers by Covalent Mechanochemistry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2015 - 2019

Deployable Brain Strain Sensing Gels

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · 2017 - 2018

MRI: Acquisition of a Triple Quadrupole LC/MS System

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2018

Mechanochroism Elastomers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · 2016 - 2017

Fifth International Conference on Self-Healing Materials (ICSHM)

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2016

REU Site: Chemistry and Applications of Smart Molecules and Materials at Duke University

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2016

High sensitivity multi-purpose electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for biotechnological and biomedical research

EquipmentCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2014 - 2015

International Collaboration in Chemistry: Mechanochemical Probes for Supramolecular Polymer Networks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2014

Fluxional Mechanocatalysis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by U.S. Army Research, Development & Engineering Command · 2011 - 2014

Mechanism and Mechanics in Supramolecular Polymer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2011

Purchase of a Q-TOF LC/MS System

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2011

MRS Symposium II: Mechanochemistry in Materials Science. MRS Fall Mtg-Boston, MA

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2010 - 2011

Modular Reversibly Polymerized Materials

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2010

Harnessing Macroscopic Forces in Catalysis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2008 - 2009

SGER: Single-Molecule Studies of Hidden Reactions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2006

Development and Construction of Single Molecule Spectrometers for Research and Student Training

EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2003

External Relationships


  • Beckman Foundation
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Hokkaido
  • Virginia Tech

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