The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University a $420,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Quantum Control of Nanochemistry" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant aims to advance scientific understanding of major problems confronting the nation through research promoting progress in the mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $404,999 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Nonlinear Dynamics of Colloidal Rotors: Chaos and Order" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will fund research into the nonlinear dynamics exhibited by colloidal particles that rotate when subjected to an external torque. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University a $300,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support the EAGER: ADAPT: OPTIMIZING CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS WITH AI project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The funding will allow Northwestern University researchers to advance the development of artificial intelligence techniques to optimize chemical reaction networks, with the goal...
This $495,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Professor Richard Schaller of Northwestern University in investigating the transient structural evolution and dissipation in organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The project aims to use sophisticated time-resolved spectroscopies and X-ray methods to quantify the photoinduced structural changes, such as in bond angles,...
This four-year Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research supports collaborative research at Northwestern University to develop high-affinity supramolecular peptide materials for selective capture and recovery of proteins. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems. As the prime awardee, Northwestern...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $355,745 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds research on combinatorial and algebraic structures in dynamics, advancing the program's goal of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. The university will utilize the three-year funding period to investigate major open...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $349,929.00 on June 1, 2024 to Northwestern University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports a 3-year research program focused on advancing the structural understanding of measurable and topological dynamical systems. The research aims to gain deeper insights into the interactions among different dynamical properties, using a combinatorial and symbolic approach. The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is providing $300,000 to Northwestern University to conduct research aimed at improving the understanding of ion transport in spatially-confined, electrically-charged environments. The research team will develop theoretical, numerical, and computational approaches to design and analyze externally driven and surface-induced ionic flows in confined systems, with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University $603,682 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to develop photogenerated multi-spin systems as qubits for quantum information science applications. Professor Michael Wasielewski of Northwestern University's Department of Chemistry and his research group will work to control charge and spin transport through organic molecules, tailoring their quantum properties using...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Northwestern University for a 3-year research project on the "Transient Physicochemical Properties of Nanomaterials." The grant supports experimental studies by Professor Richard Schaller to investigate the crystal lattices, surfaces, and surface ligand behavior of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. The research aims to elucidate the...