The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on raft step-growth polymerization from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The university will perform research to increase understanding of major polymerization...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant supports the "COOPERATIVITY DRIVEN COMMUNICATION THROUGH NONCOVALENT NETWORKS IN BIOMIMETIC SYSTEMS" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct research exploring cooperativity and noncovalent interactions in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $455,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The grant supports research to develop two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials for potential use in solar cells by enabling long-range electron transport. Specifically, the grant recipients will incorporate...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $300,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 15, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Probing Coordination Specificity of Metalloprotein Domains with Peptide-Polymer Amphiphile Self Assembly." The award has a completion date of July 31, 2024. The research is being conducted under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049) to advance...
This $530,000 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award will fund a research project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to develop new chiral two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials with tunable circular dichroism properties. The project aims to (1) synthesize and characterize new chiral hybrid perovskites...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $409,933 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant will fund research to reframe modeling approaches for multiphase chemistry, specifically for isoprene and related compounds. This work supports the goals of the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of Earth's integrated system through basic research in...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $518,632 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the project "CATION-CONTROLLED CATALYSIS WITH PINCER-CROWN ETHER COMPLEXES" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2025. The funding will support research exploring cation-controlled catalysis using pincer-crown ether complexes, with the goal of advancing understanding of major problems in the...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will provide research and education services under a $161,232 National Science Foundation Project Grant for the "Engineering" federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the University will operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award titled "Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives -- Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems." Over a three-year period from September 2021...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, received a $529,988 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). This 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, supports the development of new biomimetic model systems that imitate the complex behavior of proteins. Professor Marcey Waters at UNC-CH will lead research to determine the molecular features...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $474,387 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on March 1, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Organosulfate Multiphase Chemistry and Physicochemical Properties--Oxidation and Sulfate Recycling in Aerosols and Cloud Droplets." This research, to be completed by February 29, 2024, will investigate organosulfate multiphase chemistry and...