The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $977,451 Project Grant to The Washington University's Office of Sponsored Research Services from June 2021 through May 2026. The grant supports research titled "CAREER: DIRECT INTERROGATION OF PROTON-COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTION DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS WITH CRYOGENIC ION AND ULTRAFAST VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIES" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to advance...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 project grant to Marquette University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROBING UNDISCOVERED REACTION PATHWAYS IN THE DECOMPOSITION OF HIGHLY ENERGIZED MOLECULES: ISOMERIZATION, ROAMING, AND PROTON COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funding will allow Marquette University researchers to investigate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program, provides $551,717 in funding to the University of Washington for a 3-year project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project, led by Professor Frantisek Turecek, focuses on developing new chemical reactions for crosslinking biomolecular ions representing components of proteins and nucleic acids. The research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemistry Division Project Grant, awarded to Duke University, provides $800,000 over 4 years (from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027) to study how mechanical forces can accelerate and control chemical reactions in polymeric materials. The primary objective is to establish a quantitative foundation for understanding "mechanochemistry" - the impact of mechanical forces on covalent chemical reactions along polymer backbones. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Texas A & M University a $500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "D3SC: DYNAMIC EFFECTS IN ORDINARY ORGANIC REACTIONS IN SOLUTION" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funds research investigating dynamic effects in ordinary organic reactions occurring in solution. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $550,461 will fund research at the University of California, Davis from July 2022 to June 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Tantillo of the UC Davis Department of Chemistry will use computational chemistry methods to advance the fundamental understanding of reaction mechanisms and reactivity principles in organic chemistry. Specifically, the research will construct new mechanistic models to explain...
This $650,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry supports the research of Dr. Raphael Florentino Ribeiro of Emory University. The award, effective December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2028, aims to develop new theoretical approaches and computational methods for investigating chemical phenomena in microenvironments that confine light and interact strongly with matter. The research will computationally explore strategies to achieve...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support research titled "CAREER:CAS: MECHANISTIC INVESTIGATION OF PHOTOREDOX REACTIONS" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026. The funding supports mechanistic investigation of photoredox reactions under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $301,463 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) for a computational chemistry study of non-covalent interactions. The research group of Professor Greg Tschumper will use quantum mechanics-based computational methods to investigate fundamental aspects of non-covalent interactions and their practical...
Washington State University received a $470,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support collaborative research between Washington State University and Illinois State University to investigate cooperative binding events at the single molecule level using scanning tunneling microscopy imaging and computational modeling methods. The researchers...