Cooperative Agreement W911NF1720131

This five-year, $616,685 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Arizona State University to elucidate the synergistic effects of composition, porosity, and structural rigidity on the mechanics of metallic organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are porous hybrid materials consisting of metallic ions connected by organic linkers to form a vast reinforced network with potential for industrial CO2 capture, separation, and storage applications. The grant will support an integrated...

Numat Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $199,966 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research on the continuous synthesis of metal-organic frameworks for xenon capture. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, Numat Technologies...

This $600,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into the diffusion of water confined in patterned hydrophilic-hydrophobic nanopores within metal-organic frameworks. Professors Laura Gagliardi of the University of Chicago and Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley will lead teams performing quantum mechanical calculations and nuclear magnetic resonance...

The University of California, San Diego will develop new classes of solid, tunable catalytic materials for important chemical transformations under a $525,000 National Science Foundation project grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Seth Cohen and his research team will create metal-organic frameworks using phosphorus-derived ligands linked to palladium, rhodium, and iridium metal centers. They will modify these materials to promote cross-coupling and...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research by Prof. Thomas Kempa and his group at Johns Hopkins University to develop new quantum material platforms based on two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with 2D semiconductor materials. The $307,752 award will fund efforts to chemically design 2D MOF structures and assemble them into van der Waals heterostructures with...

This three-year, $274,094 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research between Duke University and the University of South Carolina to develop metal-containing polymers that respond chemically to mechanical stress. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the researchers aim to establish structure-activity relationships and reaction mechanisms for mechanochemical cleavage of metal-cyclopentadienyl bonds. They will synthesize...

This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports Professor Frieder Jäkle of Rutgers University-Newark in developing novel boron-containing polymers and supramolecular materials. The research aims to exploit the reversible electron-deficient properties of boron compounds to create "smart" polymeric materials with interesting photophysical, electronic, and stimuli-responsive characteristics. This includes...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $498,722 to Clark Atlanta University to advance insights into mechanochemical synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs). The research plan includes the mechanosynthesis of COFs through multicomponent reactions, development of COF-based composites, application of COFs for radionuclide sequestration, and elucidation of mechanochemical COF formation mechanisms....

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $450,000 project grant to the University of Oregon to support research titled "Synthetic Control Over MOF Particle Growth and Surface Chemistry" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant funds research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote advancement in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the...

This $165,123 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of new computational methods and software tools for predicting polymorphic crystal structures of organic molecules and elucidating phase transition mechanisms. Mark Tuckerman of New York University and Jerome Delhommelle of the University of North Dakota will create a topological theory for crystal structure generation based solely on molecular order...