The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $545,912 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Zachariah A. Page at the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, awarded from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports the development of innovative approaches to synthesize durable and/or recyclable plastics using visible light as a renewable energy source. Specifically, the project aims to design and study boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $629,867 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The funding supports research by Dr. Doran Bennett to develop new computational methods for simulating excited-state dynamics and nonlinear spectroscopy of molecular materials at the mesoscale (10nm - 1μm). The project aims to establish how specific materials absorb and deploy energy from light, providing essential...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $689,017 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award supports a research project led by Professors Sean Roberts, Narayana Aluru, and Michael Cullinan that aims to develop a better understanding of how strain affects singlet fission and energy transport in layered molecular crystal heterostructures. The researchers will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Texas at Dallas a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop smart photochromic electronic devices. Professor Michael C. Biewer and students will synthesize novel light-activated organic semiconducting materials incorporating a bicyclic aziridine photochromic unit. They will attach this unit as a pendant group to donor-acceptor-donor small molecules based on...
The University of Texas at Dallas is developing novel synthetic organic chemistry methods under a $496,032 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded August 1, 2023 through the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Led by Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan, university researchers and students are working to establish mild, efficient, and selective reaction methodology for synthesizing organic molecules through carbon-hydrogen bond functionalization and single...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $800,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research to transform photonics and electronics through the development of digital alloy materials. The University of Texas at Austin will leverage the award over four years to advance scientific understanding and progress in major problems related to...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $548,423 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Under this award, UT Austin's Chemistry Department will develop new catalytic methods for converting abundant chemical feedstocks into value-added pharmaceutical and agrochemical products in an enantioselective manner. Graduate students will gain career development experience through internships...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year, $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Under this grant, Professor Sherri McFarland and her team will examine the redox and excited state properties of oligothiophene-containing ruthenium(II) complexes, which have important applications as photosensitizers in fields ranging from solar energy conversion to photomedicine. The primary...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station $570,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Spatially Defined Radical-Containing Polymers for Enhanced Charge Transfer" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The award will support the development of spatially defined radical-containing polymers to improve charge transfer, in line with the program's goals of...
The University of Texas at Austin received a three-year, $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 15, 2021 to support research titled "SCAFFOLD-BASED BIOMIMETICS OF FE-HYDROGENASE AND NITROGENASE (FEMOCO): INTERROGATING DYNAMICS, PROTEIN MATRIX EFFECTS, AND CARBIDE MOTIFS." The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the...