The NASA Glenn Faculty Fellowships (NGFFP) is a 10-week residential research program that is open to full-time science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty members from U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, Permanent Resident Aliens (PRA), or Green Card Holders, currently teaching at accredited US universities and colleges. An NGFFP award is for one summer residency at Glenn Research Center (GRC) during which fellowship engagements align with one or more of the Glenn Areas of Expertise, cross-cutting engineering disciplines, or focused research areas to advance NASA’s mission. The Fellowship Project will focus on the development of polymeric aerogel material with fire retardant properties in high oxygen environments. The project will use thermodynamic techniques to measure essential thermodynamic properties such as fusion enthalpies and entropies, liquidus and solidus temperatures, and heat capacities combined in thermodynamic functions to compute temperature-dependent Gibbs free energies. It will also explore material properties to revolutionize aircraft aircraft performance in flight and advance the understanding of ultra-high temperature materials. The fellowship project will also focus on rare-earth (RE) mono silicate and phosphates, particularly Xenotime-type (REPO), which are emerging as advanced Environmental Barrier Coating materials for high-temperature aerospace applications.