The University of Texas at Austin received a $561,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on November 15, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the university will conduct research to modulate metalloprotein activities through fine-tuning reduction...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to study how the secondary coordination sphere (SCS) affects the activity of copper enzymes. The $594,870 award from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027 employs a novel biosynthetic approach to modulate copper enzyme activity, with potential applications in areas like...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to support research on Computational Methods for Modeling Reaction Dynamics in Batteries and Catalysts from June 2021 through May 2024. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research investigations of monometallic, bimetallic and dual-anion transition metal hydroxide water oxidation electrocatalysts. The three-year award, issued on August 15, 2021 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2024, will fund the University's work exploring the catalytic properties and mechanisms of...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 to support collaborative research on hydrogen atom transfer Lewis base catalysis. The NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Under this award, the University will leverage its expertise in chemistry to further the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a three-year Project Grant of $495,000 to the University of Texas at San Antonio to support research investigating protein-derived cofactors containing a cysteine-tyrosine crosslink. This work falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the award will fund graduate and undergraduate students to elucidate the...
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 University of Texas at Austin was awarded a three-year, $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into boron dipyrromethane photocages for mild and selective light-driven polymer chemistry from September 2021 through August 2024. The funding will enable the development of photolabile protecting groups to enable light-triggered reactions for polymer synthesis and modification,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $463,709 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The funding supports an international collaboration between UTSA Professors Oleg Larionov and Michael Doyle, and French Professors Nicolas Blanchard and Jean-François Brière, to develop new catalytic methods for constructing important chemical building blocks used in drugs, agrochemicals, and...
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...