The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $354,871 Project Grant to the Long Beach Research Foundation at California State University, Long Beach to acquire a single crystal x-ray diffractometer from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. This award supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $375,801 Project Grant to the University of Utah to develop new synthetic routes and self-assembly strategies for fabricating large-area, defect-free 2D coordination polymers (2DCPs). This research, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to identify the kinetic bottlenecks leading to defect formation in 2DCPs and unlock their potential as topological materials for quantum...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $299,998 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The two-year grant will support research titled "EAGER: SUPERLATTICE-INDUCED POLYCRYSTALLINE AND SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES IN CONJUGATED POLYMERS" from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The grant funding will enable Stanford University researchers to advance understanding of major problems in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a CAREER grant of $156,611 to The Washington University Office of Sponsored Research Services Division in St. Louis, Missouri under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. This grant supports the development of a new family of highly ordered, chemically stable, and elastic porous organic materials through a novel synthesis approach. The key goals are to achieve high adsorption capacity and selectivity for applications in areas like...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,596 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a framework for modeling the mechanical behavior of living building materials for structural applications from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. Specifically, the award will support research to develop a new multiscale cellular and granular material poroelastic formulation for a microbial precipitation-based living...
This $602,701 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research program led by Principal Investigator Prof. Natalia Shustova at the University of South Carolina. The program focuses on developing stimuli-responsive metal-organic framework (MOF) materials with directed photophysical properties, enabling potential applications in areas such as optoelectronics, drug delivery, artificial muscles, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Lehigh University for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research to accelerate data-driven discovery of ion-conducting materials through mentoring of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Louisiana State University was provided a $44,403 subaward over three years to support expertise in sintering and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research by Rowan University to investigate the behavior of foreign species during crystal growth processes. The $232,441 project, awarded on February 1, 2024, aims to study how impurities or dopants interact with and incorporate into organic molecular crystals. Key research activities include using transport theory and laser interferometry to understand...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $322,809 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct collaborative research on designing and manufacturing ultrahigh temperature ceramics. The overarching goal is to develop ceramics with improved toughness and deformation resistance at both low and high temperatures, enabling their use in extreme environment applications like hypersonic flight,...