Project Grant 2117380
- William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $425,741 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on February 15, 2021 to develop novel mammalian cell-based devices that sense and respond. The award has a completion date of January 31, 2024. The funding is provided through the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through...
- Rice University received a $165,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate strain and strain relaxation mechanisms in complex two-dimensional materials. Through this five-year award running from May 2023 to April 2028, Rice University will conduct research using scanning transmission electron microscopy techniques to map lattice strain and deformations in two-dimensional...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program awarded a $275,989 Project Grant to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, TX. The grant, with a project period from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2030, aims to develop advanced tools to visualize, quantify, and correlate DNA dynamics, organization, and gene activity in human cells with unprecedented resolution. The project will apply innovative labeling strategies, 3D nanoscale imaging, and...
- The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a $255,850 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to acquire a universal optical tweezer platform. The platform will be used to probe nanoscale structure and function of single polymers using force and optical spectroscopy from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds will support the acquisition of equipment to optically trap and manipulate individual...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Engineering (ENG) program (CFDA 47.041), awarded a $442,649 Project Grant to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. The award period runs from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant supports research to develop and study electrically driven plasmonic light emitters that are strongly coupled to excitons and dielectric resonators. The goal is to create extremely small light-emitting devices with potential applications in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems award for $330,155 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will enable William Marsh Rice University in Houston, TX to develop nanostructured topological insulators and Weyl semimetals as highly sensitive and low-noise platforms for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensing of biochemical molecules. The project aims to leverage the unique topologically-protected surface states of...
- William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $588,816 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics on July 15, 2021, with a completion date of June 30, 2024. The grant is being used to support the "RYDBERG SYNTHETIC DIMENSIONS: A NEW SIMULATOR FOR QUANTUM MATTER" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to develop a new quantum simulator using Rydberg atoms to model quantum systems and advance understanding of...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $392,541 awarded to Rice University on October 1, 2022 will support research into multiplexed and selective molecular sensing using two-dimensional materials through August 31, 2025. The award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to foster innovation in engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant will fund the development of new fundamental understanding of Raman signal enhancement when organic analyte...
- William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $431,778 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and will support research on knot and link concordance from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. Under this award, Rice University researchers will advance the store of scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems in mathematics through investigations of...
- This Project Grant award of $1 was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF-SUNY), doing business as Rf-Suny At The University At Albany. The funds will be used to acquire a LUMICKS C-TRAP correlative force and fluorescence optical tweezer system. This instrument will enable real-time observation, monitoring, and quantification of interactions between...
William Marsh Rice University received a $1,043,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to acquire a Lumicks C-Trap ultra-high-resolution optical tweezer system. The award is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. The Lumicks system will enable Rice University researchers to manipulate and study biological molecules and cells with unprecedented precision through August 31, 2024. The system's optical tweezers technology uses laser light to apply microscopic forces, allowing researchers to stretch, pull, rotate and twist individual biomolecules or cells. This will support further innovation in biomedical engineering and other fields requiring manipulation and analysis of biological systems at the nanoscale.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 9/7/22 | ||
| Not listed | $1.0m | 8/24/21 |