Project Grant 2108111
- North Carolina State University received a $315,105 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant funds a collaborative research project to probe coordination specificity of metalloprotein domains with peptide-polymer amphiphile self assembly. This work will be conducted under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant supports the "COOPERATIVITY DRIVEN COMMUNICATION THROUGH NONCOVALENT NETWORKS IN BIOMIMETIC SYSTEMS" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct research exploring cooperativity and noncovalent interactions in...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on raft step-growth polymerization from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The university will perform research to increase understanding of major polymerization...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, received a $529,988 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). This 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, supports the development of new biomimetic model systems that imitate the complex behavior of proteins. Professor Marcey Waters at UNC-CH will lead research to determine the molecular features...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $495,000 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research into designing artificial enzymes from June 2022 to May 2025. Dr. Albert Bowers and his team will develop a generalizable strategy for separating substrate binding and catalysis functions into distinct domains for peptide-based enzymes. They will use computational protein design with Rosetta to create...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $518,632 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the project "CATION-CONTROLLED CATALYSIS WITH PINCER-CROWN ETHER COMPLEXES" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2025. The funding will support research exploring cation-controlled catalysis using pincer-crown ether complexes, with the goal of advancing understanding of major problems in the...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Hybrid Perovskite Amino-Deliquescence and Efflorescence." The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will fund research into the thermodynamic and kinetic processes involved when hybrid perovskite materials deliquesce and effloresce in the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $675,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Under the direction of Professors Erik Alexanian and Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy, the institution is developing a photochemical carbonylation platform utilizing earth-abundant cobalt catalysts to enable...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) for a 3-year project. The objective is to establish light-activated reactions that form transition metal hydride complexes, which are critical for producing fuels and commodity chemicals. The research activities will study the electronic structure and photochemistry of...
- The National Science Foundation, through its Division of Chemistry and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a $577,690 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2027. The grant supports research to characterize the biosynthetic pathways of dehydroamino acids in nonribosomal peptides, which are biologically and industrially important natural products. The research aims to understand the molecular details of...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $300,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 15, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Probing Coordination Specificity of Metalloprotein Domains with Peptide-Polymer Amphiphile Self Assembly." The award has a completion date of July 31, 2024. The research is being conducted under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049) to advance understanding of major problems in these scientific fields. Specifically, the University will investigate the coordination specificity of metalloprotein domains through self-assembly techniques using peptide-polymer amphiphiles. Insights gained from this work have the potential to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing fundamental knowledge of protein structure and function at the molecular level.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.1k | 5/24/21 |