Project Grant 2046363
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $875,747.65 in funding to the University of Rhode Island to conduct research on "Probing the Chemistry of the Liquid/Vapor Interface by Infrared Action Spectroscopy of Solvent-Ion Nanoclusters." The research project aims to advance scientific understanding of fundamental physical, chemical, and environmental processes related to liquid-vapor interfaces....
- Under a $464,964 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Jason Dwyer and his research team at the University of Rhode Island will develop new tools and approaches to better understand how to fabricate and use a powerful new class of nanopore sensors. The work will focus on elucidating the fundamental molecular-level mechanisms of how the chemical properties of nanopore surface coatings affect nanopore performance,...
- The University of Rhode Island was awarded a $875,005.45 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on August 1, 2025. The funding will support research to leverage noncovalent interactions to modulate multimetallic actinide structures. This fundamental scientific research aims to advance understanding of complex physical, biological, and environmental systems, which is a key focus area for the DOE Office of Science program....
- The University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office, doing business as URI - Research, received a $456,973 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award on February 15, 2024. The award will fund research to design a novel class of "telechelic triblock copolymers" that can create colloidal gels with independent elasticity and viscosity properties. This flexibility will enable more efficient and cost-effective materials for battery technology,...
- The University of Rhode Island received a three-year, $358,391 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research into thermally functional and reversible thermal conductivity switching in nanoporous molecular frameworks from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The Engineering program aims to improve engineering research and education to foster...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $551,496 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Professor Mark C. Lipke at Rutgers University. The grant supports a 3-year research project to examine and control the effects of hydration on nanoscale proton and electron transfer processes. The research aims to provide fundamental knowledge that may aid the design of catalysts, sensors, and other functional materials. Graduate students, undergraduates,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Project Grant award in the amount of $184,994 provides funding to the University of Rhode Island Research Office, doing business as URI - Research, from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The award supports a collaborative research project to advance Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), a non-invasive medical imaging technique similar to Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The project involves...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $249,990 will support research into innovative structural characterization of biomolecular ions through mass spectrometry and infrared action spectroscopy. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Daniel Thomas and students at the University of Rhode Island will study peptide and RNA chain folding properties by cooling samples in helium nanodroplets and analyzing infrared light absorption. Outreach...
- The University of Rhode Island (URI) was awarded a $3,935,884 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) on July 15, 2025. The multi-year E-RISE RII: Socio-Ecological Impact of Microplastics in Coastal Ecosystems project will build Rhode Island's research capacity to monitor, characterize, and model the transport and fate of nano and micro scale plastics (NMPs) in coastal ecosystems. The project unites four Rhode Island educational...
- This $198,173 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Rhode Island. The award supports collaborative research to explore the properties, behaviors, and applications of stochastic functional differential equations and functional stochastic approximation algorithms across disciplines including ecology, infectious disease modeling, control engineering, neural networks, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $607,500 Project Grant to the University of Rhode Island under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on May 1, 2021 for the project "CAREER: MULTIMODAL SINGLE ENTITY ELECTROCHEMISTRY AT NANOSCALE LIQUID/LIQUID INTERFACES." This five-year grant will support research into multimodal single entity electrochemistry at nanoscale liquid/liquid interfaces, with the goal of increasing scientific understanding of major problems in chemistry as outlined by the NSF program. The University of Rhode Island will serve as the primary awardee, conducting the research and delivering any resulting scientific knowledge, data or publications to advance this area over the grant period concluding on April 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $120.0k | 5/16/22 | ||
| Not listed | $120.0k | 7/27/21 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 5/20/21 | ||
| Not listed | $367.5k | 2/19/21 |