Project Grant 1956198

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $520,000 to Brown University for a 3-year research project investigating the thermodynamics of water in isolated single-digit nanopores. The principal investigator, Professor Matthias Kuehne, will use a combination of advanced optical, electrical, and spectroscopy techniques to precisely determine the phase transition temperatures, mass densities, and heat capacities of...

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...

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research into spin-probe-enabled sensing of fluids in confined geometries and interfaces. Carlos Meriles of the City College of New York and Nicolas Giovambattista of Brooklyn College will use atomic defects near the surface of a host crystal to characterize the structure and motion of water molecules confined at...

This award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $296,970 to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct collaborative research on understanding and designing hydrophobic interactions. The 3-year project aims to integrate simulations, experiments, and machine learning to study how the presence of specific polar groups next to nonpolar domains impacts the structure of water and the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) totalling $356,375 will support research at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY to understand and design hydrophobic interactions - the interactions between water and water-repelling materials. The research aims to use a combination of molecular simulations, experiments, and machine learning to establish new design rules for engineering hydrophobic interactions at the molecular and...

This $660,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Cornell University into block copolymer-based multicomponent self-assembly of porous nanostructures from non-equilibrium processes. Specifically, the grantee will study the formation of porous nanostructures using block copolymers and investigate asymmetric ultrafiltration membranes from chemically distinct block copolymers exposed to non-solvent-induced phase...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $514,668 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced to develop new theoretical methods for simulating quantum effects in protonated water clusters. The project, titled "State-Resolved Vibrational Spectra of Fluxional Protonated Water Clusters via Tensor Network States", aims to enable efficient and accurate simulation of these clusters, which are key to understanding the fundamental properties of water. The...

This $282,196 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research between George Washington University and the University of Maryland from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to better understand the nanoscale interactions that drive mineral scale formation on polymer surfaces through combined experimental characterization and theoretical analysis. Specifically, the investigators will examine the effect of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $259,655 to Ripon College and collaborators at Wesleyan University to study the stability and hydration dynamics of disaccharides in solution. The research team, led by Dr. Christina Othon, will integrate computational modeling, biophysical assays, and ultrafast spectroscopy to elucidate how disaccharides and their stereoisomers impact protein structure and stability....

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $199,702 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for the "CAREER: FUNDAMENTALS OF CONFORMATIONAL AND SURFACE WATER DYNAMICS IN SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOFIBERS" research project. Through this 16-month grant, Professor Julia Ortony at UCSD is studying the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules, which possess both water-loving and fat-loving properties, to create self-assembled nanostructures. The research...