Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major issues. Under the grant, Carnegie Mellon University will develop data-driven, automated methodologies to analyze and control light-driven catalytic processes. The university...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $370,605 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on May 15, 2021 for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: STRUCTURE SENSITIVE SURFACE CHEMISTRY - SMALL MOLECULE ACTIVATION AND SPILLOVER." The research is being conducted 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....
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a three-year, $448,235 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research to design, synthesize and study the supramolecular assembly of novel furan-based macrocycles to better understand intra- and intermolecular conjugation effects. By gaining insights into macrocycle conjugation, the grantee aims to advance the development of new...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Stefan Bernhard of Carnegie Mellon University in developing data-driven, automated methodologies to study and control light-driven catalytic processes. The $575,000 award, spanning September 2024 to August 2027, aims to advance sustainable chemistry through new approaches to photocatalytic hydrogen generation from bio-based feedstocks like...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: POLAR-POLYOLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS VIA MILRAD FUNCTIONALIZATION: A PLATFORM FOR AMPHIPHILIC NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIAL SYNTHESIS" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). The research aims to advance the synthesis of amphiphilic...
This $273,000 project grant, awarded on June 15, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, and Kansas State University. The research team is investigating how the structure of metal nanoclusters impacts their electronic and vibrational properties, with the goal of understanding energy transfer dynamics at the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded $199,252 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Carnegie Mellon University to support collaborative research between Professors Jian Lin and Shih-Kang Chao of the University of Missouri-Columbia and Olexandr Isayev of Carnegie Mellon University. The researchers will develop and apply a novel data-driven architecture to design new molecules with desired physical and chemical properties,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $550,000 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The award will support research at the University of Pennsylvania aimed at developing new base metal complexes capable of efficiently activating aliphatic C-H bonds through two complementary objectives. First, ligand scaffolds will be created to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $424,350 to Duquesne University from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to design and discover energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective metal-free catalysts for the activation and conversion of small molecules, such as converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals and fuels. The research approach combines...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $303,034 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on August 1, 2021 to complete the project by June 30, 2024. The grant funds NEW APPROACHES TO QUESTIONS IN SAMPLING, COUNTING, AND OPTIMIZATION under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The grant will support...