The University of Notre Dame received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Through this three-year award beginning December 2021, the University will conduct research to create metastable clusters and assemblies of molecules and characterize their intermolecular interactions. The...
The University of Notre Dame received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Under the three-year award beginning in August 2021, the University will conduct research toward iron olefin metathesis, synthesizing and studying the reactivity of iron carbenes. The project aims...
The University of Notre Dame received a $460,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on July 1, 2021 for research concluding on June 30, 2024. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major issues. Specifically, the funding will support the University's "BACKBONE N-HETEROATOM PROTEIN ORTHOTICS" research project. While further details...
The University of Notre Dame received a three-year, $449,973 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research efforts to tailor the nanophotonic and nanolectronic properties of nanometals using oxide-directed syntheses from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, which aims to promote progress in these fields and...
The University of Notre Dame received a three-year, $377,179 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research to characterize and optimize nanoparticle systems functionalized with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. As part of its mission to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise, the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to increase...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry has awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame DU Lac under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). The three-year grant supports Professor Paul Bohn and his research group in studying the design, behavior, and potential applications of new artificial materials inspired by nature, particularly multi-layered structures with varying pore sizes. The research aims to develop an improved...
The University of Notre Dame received a $250,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the development of 5-minute protein analyses from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The grant funding will allow the University to develop new techniques for rapidly analyzing protein compositions, with the goal of improving industrial biomanufacturing processes. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $555,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Notre Dame. The grant supports Professor Bradley Smith's research to develop a new approach for the controlled release of valuable molecular payloads from hydrogels, which are soft biocompatible materials that hold large amounts of water. The fundamental chemistry research aims to gain a deeper understanding of multivalent binding versus...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $685,000 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the research project "FORMATION AND REDOX CHEMISTRY OF METAL POLYSULFANIDO COMPLEXES FOR SULFUR TRANSFER REACTIONS" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2026. The University of Notre Dame will conduct research on the formation and redox chemistry of metal polysulfanido complexes and their application to sulfur...
The University of Notre Dame received a $284,276 project grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the project "Geometric Variational Problems and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. Under this award, the University of Notre Dame will conduct research on geometric variational problems and nonlinear...