Our team is part of a multi-university collaboration with UIC and MIT which has been awarded the recent $2 million NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) 2-DARE grant to study thermal properties of 2-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. Read more about it from the UMass press release:
http://ece.umass.edu/news/multi-university-team-receives-2-million-nsf-grant
Or check out the NSF summary/abstract of the award here:
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?WD_ID=1542864&HistoricalAwards=false