The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $510,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new polymer modification chemistries. Johns Hopkins will utilize borane-substituted polyolefins as precursors to synthesize copolymers of allyl alcohol, allyl chloride, and alpha-olefins that cannot currently be accessed directly from polymerization of allylic monomers. Specifically, Rebekka Klausen will employ...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on developing high-affinity supramolecular peptide materials for the selective capture and recovery of proteins. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $425,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to support research titled "FIELD MEDIATED ASSEMBLY OF ANISOTROPIC COLLOIDS ON SURFACES" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. Under this award, The Johns Hopkins University will conduct research focused on controlling the assembly of anisotropic colloidal particles on surfaces using external fields. This work...
This Project Grant award of $494,018.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports research on molecular doping of semiconducting polymers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The research, which is jointly funded under the NSF's Solid State and Materials Chemistry Program and Polymers Program (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences), aims to investigate the structural and electronic changes in electronic polymers during...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research on August 15, 2021 to support research efforts concluding January 31, 2023. The grant funds research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to understand the molecular determinants of mucus penetrating zwitterionic bottlebrushes. The program aims to advance mathematical and physical sciences knowledge and address major problems...
The University of Southern California will reimagine the platform for semiconducting polymers under a $464,024 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry. The grant falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Through this three-year award...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $497,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics: Dynamical Consistency Across Scales" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant supports research into developing multiscale molecular dynamics simulation methods to model nonequilibrium systems with dynamical consistency across different time and length scales. The work will advance...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research on understanding and controlling the factors that affect carrier mobility in doped conjugated polymers. The $775,000 award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) aims to elucidate the connections between dopant counterion size and shape, polymer crystallinity, and the electrical properties of doped conjugated polymer...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $498,500 project grant to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to develop a new type of material that can produce electrical energy from differences in temperature. Researchers from the Departments of Materials Science, Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at JHU are leading this 3-year project under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The project aims to synthesize and characterize cationic...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The purpose of this 2-year award, which began on October 1, 2023, is to conduct fundamental research on convergent electrochemistry and metabolic engineering approaches to enable carbon-neutral production of ammonia, a critical component of nitrogen-based fertilizers. The research aims to merge the...