North Carolina State University received a $315,105 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant funds a collaborative research project to probe coordination specificity of metalloprotein domains with peptide-polymer amphiphile self assembly. This work will be conducted under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific...
North Carolina State University will synthesize functional biomolecules from tunable N-aryl peptide precursors under a $976,087 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant was awarded on May 1, 2021 for a five-year period concluding on April 30, 2026. The grant supports work 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 enterprise....
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina State University $525,836 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for a three-year project grant completing July 2025. The university will research self-organizing nucleic acid supramolecular assemblies with stimuli-responsive properties. Specifically, the project aims to develop a toolkit for constructing responsive nanoparticle-based materials using rationally designed RNAs as modular building blocks. Researchers...
North Carolina State University was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on organized nanochannel materials from biomolecular magnetic organic frameworks. Over a three-year period from September 2023 through August 2026, NC State will leverage multi-scale modeling, machine learning, and experimental verification to develop technology-specific rules for designing and...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $495,000 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research into designing artificial enzymes from June 2022 to May 2025. Dr. Albert Bowers and his team will develop a generalizable strategy for separating substrate binding and catalysis functions into distinct domains for peptide-based enzymes. They will use computational protein design with Rosetta to create...
North Carolina State University received a $293,835 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CAS: GRAPHITE-CONJUGATED MACROCYCLE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR NITRATE REDUCTION." The award will fund research through May 31, 2024 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....
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $300,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 15, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Probing Coordination Specificity of Metalloprotein Domains with Peptide-Polymer Amphiphile Self Assembly." The award has a completion date of July 31, 2024. The research is being conducted under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049) to advance...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,991 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to develop an innovative dual signal amplification method and investigate the signal transduction mechanism for enhanced DNA sensing. The project aims to strengthen signal readouts and build field-friendly DNA sensors with ultrasensitivity for applications such as medical diagnosis, biowarfare...
North Carolina State University received a $106,893 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on August 15, 2021 to complete the project by July 31, 2024. The grant funds multiscale simulations and imaging of viscoelastic media within a reduced order model framework. This aligns with the goals of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through mathematical and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant supports the "COOPERATIVITY DRIVEN COMMUNICATION THROUGH NONCOVALENT NETWORKS IN BIOMIMETIC SYSTEMS" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct research exploring cooperativity and noncovalent interactions in...