Project Grant 2003454

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...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry aims to develop novel polymeric materials based on segmented polar-polyolefin copolymers with complex architectures. Professors Eva Harth at the University of Houston and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on this 3-year effort, which seeks to advance energy storage materials and plastic upcycling capabilities. The key products and services to be delivered...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $469,833 to the University of Florida to develop two-dimensional polymer membranes with precisely engineered gas-selective nanocavities. The goal is to create an energy-efficient, cost-competitive solution for separating gas molecules in industrial applications like carbon dioxide capture and petrochemical purification. The research will focus on designing macrocycle-based membranes that...

This $510,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. The funding supports a 3-year research project to develop a fundamental understanding of ion transport mechanisms in polymers, with the goal of designing new polymers and processing methods to optimize ion conductivity and selectivity for separation technologies and electrochemical device applications. The...

This $386,034 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of chemically resilient, fouling resistant polymer membranes for water separation applications. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the 24-month award to the University of Massachusetts Amherst enables fundamental research to manufacture porous polymer membranes using an all-aqueous process that eliminates toxic solvents currently used. The research aims to (1) develop a mechanistic understanding...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Arizona State University a $452,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support research to develop scalable synthesis methods for producing ultrathin two-dimensional covalent organic framework membranes with sub-1 nm pores. These membranes show potential for molecular separations in industrial processes related to fuels,...

This five-year, $434,475 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research at Case Western Reserve University into polymeric ligands with tunable affinities to enable selective f-element separations. The research aims to develop membrane materials that can selectively separate lanthanides and actinides through a molecular-level understanding of ion-ion selectivity in copolymer ligands used in...

This Project Grant award of $495,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Drexel University to systematically investigate the formation process of polymer crystalsomes. Polymer crystalsomes are a class of hollow polymer nanoparticles with single crystal shells, which offer unique properties and potential applications in electronics, photonics, biomedicine, and additive manufacturing. The research aims to...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort to investigate the use of CO2-H2O mixtures as a tunable media to improve the chemical recycling of poly(ethylene) terephthalate (PET) plastic waste. The primary objectives are to (1) elucidate the impact of CO2 on PET polymer morphology, phase behavior, and reagent transport during acid-catalyzed hydrolysis, and (2) understand the...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering), supports collaborative research by an international team of scientists from the U.S. and Germany. The $273,999 award, granted to The Trustees of Princeton University, aims to shed new light on the interfacial layer dynamics that occur during the chromatographic separation of nanomaterials. The research team...