Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are seeking to accelerate the technology transfer process -- perhaps by as much as 50 percent -- through a new cyber-infrastructure grant funded by the National Science Foundation. The $1.5 million project, funded under the NSF Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program, will transform materials-to-device processes by creating new data infrastructure that would enable researchers to better collect, curate and correlate scientific data generated during material creation and device fabrication processes.