The University of Chicago received a $360,114 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: LIVING BIOTIC-ABIOTIC MATERIALS WITH TEMPORALLY PROGRAMMABLE ACTUATION" through September 30, 2025. The award is being administered under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
This $650,001 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by the University of Chicago on the periplasmic biomineralization of semiconductors and semiconductor alloys for living photosensitive biomaterials. The goal is to establish a robust protocol for incorporating light-harvesting semiconductor nanoclusters into the periplasmic space of bacteria, which can enhance the efficiency of chemical...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research using multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory for spectroscopy and photochemistry from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. As part of the NSF's mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, this award will fund the development and application of...
The University of Chicago received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research to support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: DESIGNER 3D MESOSCALE MATERIALS SYNTHESIZED IN THE SELF-ASSEMBLY FOUNDRY." The award period is from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $522,673 Project Grant to the University of Chicago from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The grant supports research titled "Optically-Controlled Neuromodulation with Silicon Carbide-Based Nanostructures" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant aims to develop optically-controlled neuromodulation technologies using silicon carbide...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $2,021,603 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Chicago for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the development of a dynamic picoprobe for multi-modal, multi-dimensional hyperspectral imaging of soft/hard matter and interfaces in environmental media. Specifically, the University of Chicago will design and fabricate phase plates and diffractive optics for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $187,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research on new challenges in the derivation and dynamics of quantum systems. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in mathematics and the physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. This award supports the...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $238,603 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research at the intersection of conformal field theory, cryo-electron microscopy, and neural networks from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. Through this funding, the University...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Chicago a $480,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds research on "Frontiers of Coarse-Graining" to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences through increasing the store of scientific knowledge. Specifically, the University of Chicago will utilize the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $361,277 Project Grant to the University of Chicago on January 15, 2021 to complete work by January 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research focusing a quantitative lens on synthetic phototrophic communities under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing...