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 University of California Irvine received a $500,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support strategy-guided syntheses of complex natural products from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award is funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. Under the award, UC Irvine will apply strategic methods to synthesize complex...
The University of California Irvine will receive $450,000 from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry through July 2025 to develop new chemical and biosensor concepts utilizing metal nanowires and nanogaps. Specifically, the award will support research to define the capabilities of solid gold nanowires and gold nanowires containing single nanogaps as sensors for analytes including iron(III) ions, thrombin binding proteins, and pH levels. The project aims to elucidate the...
The University of California Irvine will use this $640,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct computational studies of frustrated and doped systems from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports research aimed at increasing understanding of major problems in these fields. Specifically, the university will leverage density matrix renormalization group...
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 was awarded a $389,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into computational methods for learning and generating stochastic particle representations of mathematical models in physics and biology. Specifically, the university will develop a new class of computational tools integrating particle...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $456,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to develop high-performing nanoplasmonic biosensors with novel thin films and metasurfaces. The project aims to advance progress in the mathematical and physical sciences through the creation of new sensing technologies under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). By leveraging nanophotonics and nanofabrication...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will support research on electrochemical technologies for a carbon-free economy from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Specifically, the University will conduct research at its Irvine, California location to develop electrochemical...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $389,764 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The grant will fund research into model theory, quantum complexity, and embedding problems in operator algebras from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The University will...
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...