Project Grant 2054497
- This $574,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program will support a study led by Professor Jonathan S. Lindsey of North Carolina State University on synthesizing the key pigments involved in photosynthesis - chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls. The objectives are to streamline a recently developed synthetic route, explore a dehydrogenation approach to access different photosynthetic tetrapyrroles, and demonstrate...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) for a 3-year project. The objective is to establish light-activated reactions that form transition metal hydride complexes, which are critical for producing fuels and commodity chemicals. The research activities will study the electronic structure and photochemistry of...
- Duke University was awarded an $840,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on de novo protein constructs for photosynthetic energy transduction from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. The award is being administered under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
- North Carolina State University will synthesize functional biomolecules from tunable N-aryl peptide precursors under a $976,087 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant was awarded on May 1, 2021 for a five-year period concluding on April 30, 2026. The grant supports work under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise....
- North Carolina State University received a $315,105 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant funds a collaborative research project to probe coordination specificity of metalloprotein domains with peptide-polymer amphiphile self assembly. This work will be conducted under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific...
- North Carolina State University will receive $574,051 in funding from the National Science Foundation over a three-year period to conduct research on vitamin B1 limitation and advantageous use of B1-related compounds by marine bacterioplankton. This Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The funding supports basic research within the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $249,965 Project Grant to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The funding will support a 2-year research project led by Professor Bangle and her students that aims to improve the efficiency of photocatalysis through the integration of upconverting supramolecular assemblies into plasmonic nanocavities. The project...
- The $209,101 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds a collaborative research project between North Carolina State University and the University of Miami from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop a new class of synthetic dyes with photoactivatable fluorescence for bioimaging applications through the synthesis, characterization, and single-molecule spectroscopic analysis of four series of...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $426,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct collaborative research on developing novel protein-based materials for photosynthetic energy transduction. The multi-year project, led by Professors Michael Therien and David Beratan of Duke University and William DeGrado of UCSF, aims to design and construct protein-based...
- 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...
North Carolina State University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research entitled "Versatile Synthesis of Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls for Fundamental Studies in Photosynthesis" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Through this funding, North Carolina State University will conduct research developing new synthetic routes to chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll pigments to enable fundamental studies of their photophysical properties and roles in photosynthesis. Results from this research could enhance scientific understanding of light capture and energy transfer processes in photosynthetic organisms.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 5/19/21 |