The University of California Irvine received a $339,247 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on July 15, 2021 to fund research titled "Understanding and Engineering the Nucleation of Enzyme Metal-Organic Frameworks." The project aims to improve understanding of how enzymes interact with and are incorporated into metal-organic frameworks to catalyze chemical reactions. The research is...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,995 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) to conduct research and development on the holistic manufacturing of 3D architected electrodes for high volumetric conversion. The goal is to advance an innovative manufacturing process to mass-produce customized 3D electrodes from abundant natural resources, enabling unprecedented volumetric capacity compared to traditional planar...
This $1,000,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) supports fundamental research on dynamic ferroelectric catalysis to transform hydrogen electrocatalysis. The 3-year project aims to advance the scientific knowledge and enable the development of new, potentially precious-metal-free, electrocatalysts for hydrogen production through water splitting. The research will integrate computational...
The University of California, Davis will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research expanding the scope of group 13 chemistry with redox-active ligands from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The award will fund research at UC Davis exploring the use of ligands containing main group elements beyond carbon in coordination complexes of boron and aluminum. The work will aim to develop new...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $473,251 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research into developing new electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. Professor Pingyun Feng and her research group will synthesize and characterize metal chalcogenide frameworks incorporating transition metal (oxy)hydroxide nanoparticles to function as efficient and sustainable...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $528,664 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct fundamental research on the thermodynamics and reaction-transport kinetics of copper-based catalysts for electrochemical transformation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and chemicals. The 5-year research project aims to develop a novel reaction-transport model for CO2 electrocatalysis that can enable the rational...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $180,000 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW ANODIC CATALYSTS FOR WATER OXYGEN EVOLUTION USING HYBRID SOLID-STATE MATERIALS" to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, will fund research to develop new carbon-supported catalytic materials for efficient electrochemical water oxidation. The goal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $203,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of South Carolina (USC) on April 15, 2024. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: Resolving the Contributions of Lattice Oxygen, Dioxygen, Acid Sites, Base Sites, and Redox Sites during the Oxidative Scission of Ketones on Metal Oxides," aims to address sustainable chemical manufacturing based on the catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived platform...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to The Curators of the University of Missouri, doing business as the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports collaborative research between Professors Farnaz Shakib (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Mohammad Momeni (UMKC) to investigate the design and application of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $189,724 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Florida for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CROSSING THE PERCOLATION THRESHOLD FOR SELECTIVE GAS TRANSPORT USING INTERCONNECTED CRYSTALS OF METAL–ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS IN POLYMER-BASED HYBRID MEMBRANES." The three-year grant will support research from July 2021 to June 2024 to develop hybrid membrane materials combining metal–organic...