The University of California Irvine received a $475,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research activities under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant funds the "Innovating New Strategies for Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction" project, which aims to advance understanding of major problems in catalysis science through development of new approaches for selective electrocatalytic...
The University of California Irvine received a $525,782 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on July 1, 2021 to support research activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) through June 30, 2024. The grant funds borylative heterocyclization reactions research to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in chemistry. As the awardee, UC Irvine will conduct the proposed chemistry research and deliver related products or...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $574,200 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from April 2023 through March 2028. Through this award, UC Irvine will develop a framework to optimize material composition design under uncertainty at small length scales, quantifying effects on component properties. The university will convert the design problem into a statistical learning problem leveraging machine learning to enable...
This federal Project Grant award of $883,545 from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) will fund research at the University of California, Irvine to explore "HYDRODYNAMICS AS A PLATFORM TO HARNESS EMERGENT PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM MATERIALS". The award period runs from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2025. As a premier public research university, UC Irvine will leverage its specialized facilities and diverse faculty expertise in areas like...
The University of California Irvine received a $400,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will support collaborative research on exploiting new degrees-of-freedom in wireless networks with reprogrammable intelligent metagratings. The research is being conducted from July 2021 through June 2025 in Irvine, California. The goal...
The University of California Irvine received a $670,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will support research into the "Dynamics and Perceptions of Ultrahazardous Flooding Across the Wildland Urban Interface" from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant funding will enable UC Irvine researchers to study how flooding risks are understood...
The University of California Irvine received a $299,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for work on "HYPERDIMENSIONAL NEURAL COMPUTATION FOR REAL-TIME COGNITIVE LEARNING." The grant period runs from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024 in Irvine, California. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
This $809,466 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to improve representations of carbon export and its climate sensitivity in the E3SM-MARBL Earth system model. The award, which runs from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026, will enable UC Irvine to advance scientific understanding of carbon cycling and climate dynamics through this modeling...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $540,000 project grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Interactions of Interlayered Nanoporous Graphene with Surrounding Water Molecules." The three-year award beginning August 1, 2021 will support research examining the interactions between nanoscale porous graphene structures and surrounding water molecules. The Engineering program aims to...
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $875,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for the project "BROAD-SPECTRUM LIGHT-HARVESTING AND ENERGY TRANSFER IN BIOINSPIRED NANOCLUSTER ASSEMBLIES". The project aims to advance fundamental scientific research in the areas of quantum information science, materials research, and emerging technologies with transformative potential for U.S....