Project Grant 1764315

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) provides $124,862 to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division to advance the applications of organic photocatalysts in organic synthesis. Professor Lorenzo Mosca and his research group at URI will design and study fluorous (fluorine-containing) photocatalysts with improved resistance to photodegradation and enhanced recovery, enabling more...

This $225,560 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports the production of highly reactive metal-oxo species with molecular oxygen and visible light for selective oxidative catalysis at Western Kentucky University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Professor Rui Zhang and students will study the reaction of organic compounds with atmospheric oxygen using photocatalysts to activate and incorporate oxygen into inexpensive materials for producing commodity...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Abigail G. Doyle at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in developing novel synthetic reactions that use visible light and photocatalysts to access high-energy, polar reactive intermediates. The $630,000 award will fund the development of several key transformations, including a desaturation...

This three-year, $219,632 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of new base-free ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reactions. Principal Investigator Steven Kalman of Stockton University is working to design catalysts that can add hydrogen to organic compounds under milder conditions without the need for specialized equipment or hydrogen gas storage. The goal is to simplify and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,988 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new photocatalysts for green oxidation processes. Professor Shabnam Hematian and her research team will study catalytic processes using light and oxygen to generate value-added chemicals from hydrocarbons. Specifically, the team will develop oxo-bridged heterobinuclear systems containing different metal...

This $575,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry will support Purdue University's research into photoactive iron and cobalt organometallic compounds. Led by Professor Tong Ren, the team will investigate a new family of macrocycle-supported metal complexes to extend the lifetimes of excited states and improve the efficiency of solar energy utilization. Key objectives include synthesizing Fe(II)-TIM and Fe(III)-TIM complexes as new...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $499,842 awarded on February 1, 2022 will support research into understanding and exploiting the favorable role of non-stoichiometric oxygen in bulk metal oxide catalyzed partial oxidation of light alkanes. The University of Houston will conduct the research under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) through January 31, 2025. The project aims to develop a novel catalytic approach for enhancing ethene production from ethane while decreasing...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) awarded a $1,619,426 Cooperative Agreement to RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies Research Center to advance the technology readiness level of an electrochemically activated oxygen sorbent and reactor system. The project aims to develop a scalable, efficient, and durable electrochemical oxygen separation technology to enable high-quality syngas production and carbon capture for hydrogen production...

This $481,040 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry is supporting research at the University of Virginia (UVA) to improve the activity of manganese-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. The research aims to develop design principles for more effective manganese catalysts that can match the performance of other transition metals for this reaction, which is critical for renewable energy technologies like fuel cells. The key focus...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems supports $422,695 in research at the University of Virginia from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award aims to characterize and predict changes in catalytic active sites in metal-containing zeolites under dynamic reaction conditions through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the university will develop methodologies to quantify...