The University of Chicago received a $360,114 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: LIVING BIOTIC-ABIOTIC MATERIALS WITH TEMPORALLY PROGRAMMABLE ACTUATION" through September 30, 2025. 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 national scientific...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $238,603 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research at the intersection of conformal field theory, cryo-electron microscopy, and neural networks from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under 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. Through this funding, the University...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Chicago a $480,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds research on "Frontiers of Coarse-Graining" to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences through increasing the store of scientific knowledge. Specifically, the University of Chicago will utilize the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $187,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research on new challenges in the derivation and dynamics of quantum systems. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in mathematics and the physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. This award supports the...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research using multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory for spectroscopy and photochemistry from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. As part of the NSF's mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, this award will fund the development and application of...
The University of Chicago received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to fund research titled "LADDER OLIGOMERS AND POLYMERS: SELF-ASSEMBLIES AND OPTO-ELECTRIC PROPERTIES" through April 30, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's 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 $2,021,603 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Chicago for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the development of a dynamic picoprobe for multi-modal, multi-dimensional hyperspectral imaging of soft/hard matter and interfaces in environmental media. Specifically, the University of Chicago will design and fabricate phase plates and diffractive optics for...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to develop multifunctional metal-organic frameworks for cooperative catalysis. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The funding supports research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,940 Project Grant to the University of Chicago under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: GOALI: HIGH-AFFINITY SUPRAMOLECULAR PEPTIDE MATERIALS FOR SELECTIVE CAPTURE AND RECOVERY OF PROTEINS." The four-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will support the development of new high-affinity supramolecular peptide materials for selective capture and recovery of...
This Project Grant award of $421,781 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the University of Chicago in developing advanced polymer materials with unprecedented mechanical properties and self-healing capabilities. The research aims to create an integrated database of adaptive polymer networks that are highly stretchable, resilient, and self-healing through the use of novel double-threaded slide-ring polymers and dynamic...