This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at the University of Pittsburgh to develop microfluidic platforms that harness energy from chemical reactions to perform sustained mechanical work and enable portable fluidic devices with autonomous biomimetic functionality. Over a three-year period from November 2022 to October 2025, the University of Pittsburgh team...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $537,317 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the development of activity-based probes for genome-modifying enzymes through an interdisciplinary research project led by Dr. Kabirul Islam. The project aims to uncover novel DNA-modifying enzymes that protect and control genetic information through organic...
This $570,548 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Professor David Waldeck of the University of Pittsburgh to study how the spin of electrons affects electrochemical reactions.
Waldeck's team will develop methods to deliver spin-filtered electron currents to catalysts and examine how electron spin impacts reaction selectivity and efficiency, especially for multi-electron redox and...
The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "CSD & E: EXPANDING EFFICIENT CONFORMER SAMPLING TO DIVERSE CHARGED AND NEUTRAL MOLECULES" from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant funding will support the University's research efforts to advance efficient conformational sampling techniques for...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $480,000 to the University of Pittsburgh from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The funding supports the development of new electrochemical methods by Professor Shigeru Amemiya and his research group to identify reactive intermediates and reaction pathways for hydrogen electrocatalysis. The goal is to gain an advanced understanding of hydrogen...
The University of Pittsburgh is conducting a $530,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, with a period of performance from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The project, titled "NSF-BSF: Does Spin Coherence Play a Role in Electrochemical Processes?", examines how electron spin coherence impacts the efficiency of multi-electron chemical reactions critical for clean energy production and redox biochemistry....
The University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education, doing business as The University of Pittsburgh, was awarded a $390,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the chemical reactivity and properties of calcium using advanced surface electronic spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy techniques. The project, led by Professor Hrvoje Petek, aims to elucidate the role of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Pittsburgh for the development of novel iridium-based catalysts for enantioselective C-H functionalization reactions of alkynes. The 3-year project, led by Professor Yiming Wang, aims to prepare new chiral iridium complexes to selectively form propargylic thioethers, silanes, germanes, stannanes, and fluorinated compounds from simple...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $575,000 in funding to support a collaborative research project between Professors Keary Engle at the Scripps Research Institute and Peng Liu at the University of Pittsburgh. The researchers are studying the development of new nickel-catalyzed chemical reactions to streamline the production of valuable compounds, including medicinally relevant molecules,...
The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a three-year, $620,000 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 using ultrafast coherent spectroscopy to study photocatalytic processes in titanium dioxide. Over the grant period, the University of Pittsburgh will conduct experiments to gain new insights into the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited electrons, holes, and...