The University of Houston was awarded a three-year, $479,959 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research titled "Interfacial Control Through Adsorbate Design Offers Fundamental Insights and Practical Utility" to be conducted in Houston, Texas from November 2021 through October 2024. The grant supports the University's efforts to advance understanding of major...
The University of Houston was awarded a $231,999 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "Tuning Hydrogen Mobility on Au/Spinel Catalysts to Develop the Isotopic Kinetic Resolution of H2 and D2" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in the physical...
The University of Houston received a three-year Project Grant award of $752,202 from the National Science Foundation to develop stochastic models for nonlinear and many-body dynamics in molecular semiconductors. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), this award will support research into increasing understanding of major problems in the progress of mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, the University of Houston will utilize the funding to...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 to support collaborative research on hydrogen atom transfer Lewis base catalysis. The NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Under this award, the University will leverage its expertise in chemistry to further the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $539,999 Project Grant to the University of Houston under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to carry out computational quantum chemistry research. The purpose of the research is to explore, test, and validate molecular-level design principles for functional carbon-rich materials, such as light-responsive polymers, nanotubes, and organic electronics. The expected outcomes include the development of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: POLAR-POLYOLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS VIA MILRAD FUNCTIONALIZATION: A PLATFORM FOR AMPHIPHILIC NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIAL SYNTHESIS," provides $372,752 to the University of Houston from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The funding supports research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $381,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston. The grant will fund a collaborative research project between Naihao Chiang from the University of Houston and Lindsey Madison from Colby College to study heterogeneous electrochemical systems using advances in hyperspectral imaging and simulation tools....
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $266,748 Project Grant to the University of Houston under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research from September 2023 through August 2026 related to establishing recovery guarantees for sparse signal reconstruction from noisy measurements when the signals are generated using structured sparsity and dictionaries with geometric conditions. The research aims to develop machine learning...
This $454,547 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports research at the University of Houston to map surface chemistry and correlate it with underlying crystallography to advance understanding of heterogeneous electrocatalysis. Professor Steven Baldelli and students will use in situ sum frequency generation vibration spectroscopy/microscopy and second harmonic generation microscopy to generate correlated maps of surface chemistry and crystallography for...