THE RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL RESULT IN A CONSIDERABLY BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE OF DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION AND STRUCTURE-PROPERTYPROCESSING CORRELATIONS IN TWO SOLVENT SYSTEMS: WATER AND TBA-WATERS. BY CONTRIBUTING RAW AND ANALYZED DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO THE NASA PHYSICAL SCIENCES INFORMATICS WE WILL MAKE THE DATA ACCESSIBLE TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IN SUPPORT OF THE MATERIALS GENOME INITIATIVE AND TO HELP TRANSLATE FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH INTO APPLICATION FOR AN ACCELERATED PACE OF ADVANCEDMATERIALS DISCOVERY INNOVATION MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCIALIZATION. HAVING GAINED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FREEZE CASTING PROCESS THE MATERIAL SCIENCE COMMUNITY WILL BE PROVIDED WITH NEW AND ADDITIONAL STRATEGIES FOR THE CUSTOM DESIGN OF MATERIALS WITH UNPRECEDENTED COMBINATIONS OBTAINED THROUGH THE CONTROL OF THEIR HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURE. EXAMPLES ARE LIGHTWEIGHT YET STRONG AND TOUGH MATERIALS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR A GREAT RANGE OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS IN SPACE SYSTEMS AND ON EARTH IN DIVERSE STRATEGIC FIELDS THAT RANGE FROM BIOMEDICAL TO BUILDINGS TRANSPORTATION AND ENERGY GENERATION OR STORAGE. A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE OF DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION AND ITS ENGINEERING APPLICATION MIGHT ALSO ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR USE IN ENVIRONMENTS OTHER THAN EARTH SUCH AS ON MARS FOR EXAMPLE POSSIBLY USING LOCAL RESOURCES.