The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,762 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to a research team led by Erik Grumstrup at Montana State University and Jean-Hubert Olivier at the University of Miami. The grant supports collaborative research to elucidate exciton transport in hierarchical organic materials through time-resolved electronic and vibrational spectroscopy/microscopy. The researchers aim to provide fundamental understanding...
This $550,000 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 aimed at enabling the measurement of thermodynamic energies for molecules excited by light. Professor David Jonas and his research group will use multidimensional femtosecond laser techniques and molecular spectroscopy to measure thermodynamic standard free energies for excited states relative to ground states. They will test...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $530,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new computer simulation models for studying light-driven chemical processes. The three-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, will enable the Neuscamman research group to create advanced tools for accurately simulating the movement of electrons and molecules in response to light...
This $650,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry supports the research of Dr. Raphael Florentino Ribeiro of Emory University. The award, effective December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2028, aims to develop new theoretical approaches and computational methods for investigating chemical phenomena in microenvironments that confine light and interact strongly with matter. The research will computationally explore strategies to achieve...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Columbia University a $442,564 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new microscopy techniques for imaging ultrafast chemical transformations between molecules separated by large distances. Principal Investigator Milan Delor and his research group will leverage polaritons, which are part-light part-matter particles, to significantly increase the sensitivity of optical...
This Project Grant award of $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Dr. Andrés Montoya-Castillo of the University of Colorado Boulder in developing 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 award will enable Montoya-Castillo and his team to develop scalable and accurate dynamical theories...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $785,000 to Professor Pier Alexandre Champagne at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to advance the chemical understanding of reactive sulfur species. The key objectives are to: Develop new synthetic donors of reactive sulfur species and use them to probe the behavior of these biochemically important but poorly understood compounds. Apply...
This $267,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports computational research and education focused on understanding the interaction of light with ordered assemblies of carbon-based organic molecules. The goal is to realize advanced solar energy conversion materials by providing new design rules to efficiently direct optical excitations along molecular assemblies. The research integrates education and outreach, including...
This $250,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program on August 1, 2024, supports research by Professor Agatemor and students at the University of Miami to develop and investigate photoluminophores that emit light in an aqueous environment using biocompatible and eco-friendly deep eutectic solvents (DES). The key objectives of this 2-year project are to elucidate the mechanism behind the photoluminescence of DES,...
This Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, Grant No. 47.049, supports research by Professor Lei Zhu of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. The goal is to understand the factors, both structural and environmental, that control the photophysical and photochemical properties of two categories of organic fluorescent dyes. The first category will have the capability of excited...