Duke University was awarded an $840,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on de novo protein constructs for photosynthetic energy transduction from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. The award is being administered under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
Duke University was awarded a $160,944 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the REU Site: Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives -- Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems project at Duke University. The project supports undergraduate students in conducting research to better understand the structure and dynamics of hybrid perovskite...
The National Science Foundation awarded Duke University a $462,316 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: DESIGN OF SUPERIONIC CONDUCTORS BY TUNING LATTICE DYNAMICS" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant will support Duke University's research efforts to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing understanding of major problems through design of...
The University of Colorado was awarded a three-year, $174,852 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research on amorphous-crystalline switching in organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductors. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in materials science by increasing the scientific knowledge around phase transitions in hybrid...
Duke University was awarded a three-year $230,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research on dynamics, singularities, and variational structure in models of fluids and clustering from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. As part of its mission to strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through advancing mathematical and physical...
Duke University was awarded a $510,420 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2021 for work concluding on August 31, 2024. The grant supports the development of NEXT-GENERATION OPTICAL CONTRASTS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE, HARD MATTER, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OBJECTS. This work aligns with the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific...
Duke University was awarded a $506,310 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences on May 1, 2022 to complete an undergraduate research program by April 30, 2025. The grant supports Duke University's REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear and Particle Physics at TUNL/Duke University. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Duke University a $200,000 project grant under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the "Accelerated Design, Discovery, and Deployment of Electronic Phase Transitions (ADEPT)" research project. The goal of this 4-year effort is to develop integrated protocols that transform the standard sequential materials discovery process into a closed-loop, iterative approach. This will enable the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a $545,613 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from August 2021 through July 2024 on optical bound states and non-linearity in geometrically-modulated dielectric nanowires. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields...