Cooperative Agreement 70NANB19H077

This Project Grant award of $450,000 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) will support research and development at the University of Michigan and the University of Bath to create a new spectroscopic tool called Chiroptical Second-Harmonic Light Scattering on Nanostructured Particles (CHIRON). This transformative tool will enable high-throughput, label-free analysis of large biological...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Tau Optics Inc. supports the development of a compact, high-precision volume grating-based spectrometer prototype. The project aims to enhance the performance of rotated chirped Bragg gratings (R-CBGs) to enable a spectrometer design that is smaller, less complex, and more affordable than traditional spectrometers, while maintaining high precision. The anticipated...

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 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 $388,983 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry's Chemical Measurement & Imaging Program and Chemistry of Life Processes Program supports the development of a new optical microscope by Professor Eric Potma at the University of California, Irvine. The instrument leverages chiral sum-frequency generation (SFG) microscopy to visualize protein structures in cells and tissues without the need for chemical labeling. This label-free imaging...

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 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program totaling $315,000 will fund the acquisition of a confocal Raman microscope by Oakland University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The confocal Raman spectrometer will support multidisciplinary research across chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and more conducted by Oakland University researchers. It will also provide hands-on research training and education for undergraduate...

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 three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $231,636 supports research at Stony Brook University to develop new biomolecule sensing techniques using infrared chiral metasurfaces. The researchers aim to design and analyze mid-infrared chiral metasurfaces with high circular dichroism for biosensing applications. They will fabricate the chiral metasurfaces and integrate microfluidic cells to characterize the sensing platform using infrared chiroptical measurements. The goal is to...