The Regents of the University of Colorado was awarded a $390,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop mechanically entwined double helical covalent polymers from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The funding will allow University of Colorado researchers to advance the scientific understanding of major problems in chemistry through the creation of...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $372,783 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Specifically, the University of Colorado will utilize...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $460,657 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "IONOELASTOMER HETEROJUNCTIONS AT THE MICRO- AND NANO-SCALE." The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support the University's development of ionoelastomer heterojunctions and investigation of their properties at the micro- and nano- scales. As part of its mission to strengthen the...
The Regents of the University of Colorado was awarded a $400,000 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 towards subcritical phase transitions in liquid crystalline elastomers from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the Nation's...
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...
The University of Colorado Boulder was awarded a $151,677 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports the development of accurate and efficient theories to predict and control light-induced currents and reactivity in materials that can convert sunlight into electricity and chemical fuels. The project, led by Dr. Andrés Montoya-Castillo, aims to advance the fundamental understanding of polaron formation...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a three-year, $510,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research exploring multiexciton dynamics for triplet upconversion in structurally well-defined covalent dimers. The award, issued on May 1, 2021 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder through April 30, 2024. The goal of the research is to promote...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs campus, received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Hydrogel Formulations for the Single Chirality Purification of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes." The research, which will be conducted from July 2021 through June 2024, aims to develop new hydrogel formulations to purify single-walled carbon nanotubes by...
Colorado State University was awarded a $490,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance understanding of dynamic speciation and complex reaction pathways to inform the rational synthesis of ternary semiconductor nanoparticles. Funding will allow CSU researchers to gain molecular-level insights that can...
The University of Colorado received a three-year $120,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical studies of ultrafast electron dynamics in molecules interacting with intense laser pulses. The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 exploring major problems in understanding the behavior of electrons at extremely fast timescales when molecules are...