Cooperative Agreement 70NANB18H187

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,195,792 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to Mississippi State University and the University of Central Florida. The grant supports the development of an optical spectrometer capable of multimodal linearly polarized, circularly polarized, and integrating-sphere-assisted spectroscopic measurements. This advanced instrument will enhance research and education in fields such as chemistry, chemical engineering,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $1,815,774 project grant to Florida State University (FSU) to acquire a state-of-the-art pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometer operating at 9 and 34 gigahertz frequencies. This advanced instrument will enable research and education in a wide range of fields, including chemistry, biochemistry, physics, materials science, and quantum information science. The spectrometer...

The National Science Foundation awarded $599,900 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Boston University to acquire an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer. The spectrometer will support research in chemistry, engineering, and physics being conducted by Professor Xi Ling and colleagues. It will also enhance the educational, research, and teaching efforts of students from diverse backgrounds in multiple departments. The spectrometer facilitates...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, with the CFDA program title "Mathematical and Physical Sciences", provides $342,588 to Yale University and Pennsylvania State University to collaboratively develop metasurface-enabled broadband circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and imaging systems. The goal is to significantly simplify CD spectrometers and facilitate CD spectroscopy and imaging experiments with high sensitivity and throughput. The...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a new spectroscopic tool called Chiroptical Second-Harmonic Light Scattering on Nanostructured Particles (CHIRON). The primary awardee, the Regents of the University of Michigan, will collaborate with researchers from the University of Bath to create this label-free, high-throughput analytical method for detecting and analyzing large biological structures...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $238,688 Project Grant to the Missouri University of Science and Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a new type of biomolecule sensing platform enhanced by infrared chiral metasurfaces. The university will design and analyze various mid-infrared chiral metasurfaces with high circular dichroism for biomolecule sensing. Nanofabrication processes will be developed to fabricate the chiral metasurfaces and integrate...

This $373,344 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project led by Professors Julie Biteen of the University of Michigan and David Masiello of the University of Washington. The project aims to develop a multifunctional, high-sensitivity instrument to measure plasmon-enhanced chirality and enable the sensing of subtle, heterogeneous...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Professor Shumaker-Parry's group at the University of Utah to develop plasmon-enhanced vibrational circular dichroism (PE-VCD) spectroscopy for improved analysis of chiral molecules. The $495,000 award will fund studies to: 1) enhance the VCD instrument for solid substrate measurements, 2) investigate the coupling of chiral molecules with...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $468,564 to support the acquisition of a next-generation Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope (NeaSNom) at the University of Central Florida. The instrument, custom-built by NeaSpec, will enable simultaneous Atomic Force Microscopy and nanoscale (10 nm spatial resolution) Fourier Transform Infrared and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. It...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) provides $320,463 to West Chester University of Pennsylvania to acquire a tunable ultrafast spectroscopy system. This highly versatile instrument enables advanced research and hands-on training opportunities for undergraduate students across STEM disciplines, including physics, biomedical engineering, materials engineering, chemistry, and molecular biology. The spectrometer allows...