The National Science Foundation awarded a $649,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "DESIGNING 3-DIMENSIONAL ACTIVE SITE ENVIRONMENTS IN METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR OXYGEN ELECTROCHEMISTRY." The five-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will fund research developing three-dimensional active site environments in metal-organic frameworks to advance oxygen electrochemistry. Specifically,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems awarded a $240,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports collaborative research to develop unnatural cofactors that can be deployed as stronger-than-nature thermodynamic driving forces in biomanufacturing processes. This is...
The University of California Irvine received a $250,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund research to discover precipitation pathways in reactive magnesium oxide cements via nanoscale interfacial engineering. This research aims to develop durable structural composites through understanding cement reactions at the nanoscale level. The...
Regents of the University of California at Riverside was awarded $540,000 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into developing new biomimetic chemical structures that can mimic the behavior of large biomolecules like enzymes. Specifically, Professor Richard Hooley and his team will work to create self-assembled cage complexes containing rigidly or flexibly positioned...
The University of California Irvine received a $500,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support strategy-guided syntheses of complex natural products from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award is funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. Under the award, UC Irvine will apply strategic methods to synthesize complex...
The University of California Irvine received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on May 31, 2023. The grant falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the funding will enable UC Irvine researchers to develop light-directed synthesis techniques for creating metal...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $574,200 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from April 2023 through March 2028. Through this award, UC Irvine will develop a framework to optimize material composition design under uncertainty at small length scales, quantifying effects on component properties. The university will convert the design problem into a statistical learning problem leveraging machine learning to enable...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $475,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to design solid-state nanopore systems whose local pore openings are subjected to controllable fluctuations. The research aims to reproduce the fluctuations of biological channels in model systems to understand transport properties on the nanoscale and harness new transport properties that result from these dynamic systems. The...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will support research on electrochemical technologies for a carbon-free economy from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Specifically, the University will conduct research at its Irvine, California location to develop electrochemical...
The University of California Irvine received a $525,782 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on July 1, 2021 to support research activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) through June 30, 2024. The grant funds borylative heterocyclization reactions research to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in chemistry. As the awardee, UC Irvine will conduct the proposed chemistry research and deliver related products or...