Project Grant 2154609
- This $545,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, specifically the Division of Chemistry, will fund research into ultrafast dynamics occurring in the ground states of transition metal complexes being conducted by Professor Clifford Kubiak of the University of California, San Diego from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research aims to develop new assemblies of metal complexes that undergo fast electron transfer reactions through...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research combining single-molecule Raman and conductance spectroscopies. Led by Joshua Hihath, the team will develop a novel approach using their recently developed system for simultaneous single-molecule Raman spectroscopy and conductance measurements. This will allow them to quantitatively track the effects of...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded UC San Diego a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. Under the direction of Professor Clifford P. Kubiak in the Department of Chemistry, the research group is conducting fundamental investigations into the effects of electric fields on electron transfer (ET) at molecular interfaces, with the goal of developing...
- This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project to understand and control interfacial mass, charge, and energy transfer processes in hybrid nanomaterials composed of metal nanoparticles with conductive polymer coatings. The goal is to utilize charge transfer plasmons to optically transduce nanoscale details about the interfacial...
- Professor Franz Geiger of Northwestern University was awarded a $537,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study electrostatic structure and dynamics at electrode-electrolyte interfaces using nonlinear optics techniques. The three-year award, issued on May 1, 2022, supports the use of laser methods like heterodyne-detected second harmonic generation to directly observe the arrangement of water molecules and ions...
- This $222,559 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of new computational tools for characterizing charge transport processes at the quantum level by Professors Erik Hoy of Rowan University and Andrew Sand of Butler University. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, this three-year award will see the joint research team create multi-configurational methods based on multi-configuration pair density functional theory combined with non-equilibrium...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $560,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will support a research project led by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen to develop a new class of sustainable carbon-based semiconductors called conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs). The project aims to enhance the fundamental understanding...
- This $550,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the role of non-covalent interactions in the excited state dynamics of heterocyclic compounds. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor de Vries at the University of California, Santa Barbara will experimentally study how such compounds respond to ultraviolet radiation using gas phase spectroscopy. Computational chemists will model the results to compare quantum...
- This three-year Project Grant, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports fundamental research into semiconducting coacervates composed of conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs). Awarded to the University of California, Santa Cruz on September 1, 2025, with a total obligation of $452,422, the project will deliver foundational scientific knowledge regarding the molecular characteristics governing...
Professor Valentine Vullev of the University of California, Riverside will use a $952,262 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to develop new approaches for improving the efficiency of desired charge-transfer processes. Over a three-year period ending August 2025, Professor Vullev and their research team will work to better understand how intrinsic electric dipoles affect charge transfer at the nanoscale. They will develop optical spectroscopic methods to probe and map localized electric fields around molecular dipoles, allowing experimental quantification of dipole effects on donor and acceptor potentials and charge transfer kinetics. Bio-inspired molecular electrets composed of anthranilamide residues will be key to studying how dipole magnitude and orientation influence charge transfer rates and processes with different thermodynamic driving forces. Ultimately, this research aims to establish structure-function relationships to optimize charge transfer processes of interest and suppress unwanted events like charge recombination, benefiting fields such as energy conversion, bioenergetics, and molecular electronics.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $476.1k | 6/21/22 |