The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $446,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, for a research project titled "Ultrafast Affinity Extraction - Fundamental Studies and Use in Environmental Applications". This 3-year project aims to develop new high-performance separation methods based on ultrafast affinity extraction to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $375,969 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Nebraska Lincoln. This 3-year award, effective June 1, 2025, supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program that trains 10 students annually over 10 weeks during the summers of 2025-2027. The program offers undergraduate participants the opportunity to conduct original research projects in biochemistry, organic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a $292,458 Project Grant to the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. This grant supports the acquisition of a size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) and field-flow fractionation (FFF) instrument coupled with multi-angle light scattering (MALS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) detection. This instrumentation will facilitate research in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical/biomolecular...
The University of Nebraska was awarded a $450,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: ACCELERATED DISCOVERY OF ARTIFICIAL MULTIFERROICS WITH ENHANCED MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING." The grant period runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. Under this award, the University of Nebraska will conduct collaborative research to accelerate the discovery of artificial multiferroic...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $387,249 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to operate a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in Chemical Assembly. The goal of the NSF's REU Sites program under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences CFDA number 47.049 is to support active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the foundation. Through...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $422,345 Project Grant to the University of Nevada, Reno under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research comparing vibrational coupling and energy transfer mechanisms between probe pairs in different molecular scaffolds to capture dynamic structures via 2D IR spectroscopy. The three-year project period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The University of Nevada,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $349,047 Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop innovative, cost-effective approaches for rapidly analyzing complex mixtures like blood and urine. The research project, led by Professor Robert Dunn, will focus on advancing planar capillary electrophoresis (PCE) techniques that leverage ultra-thin capillaries to enhance...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $675,000 Project Grant to Stony Brook University for collaborative research titled "Understanding Ultrafast Observables." The three-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support efforts to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Funds will enable Stony...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $544,138 to the University of Nevada, Reno from July 2021 through June 2024. The funding supports research on "SINGLE NANOPARTICLE PHOTOELECTROCHEMISTRY: EFFECT OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND METAL CONTACT ON HOLE TRANSFER RATES." Specifically, the university researchers will investigate how the electronic structure and...
The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...