Project Grant 2154629
Award Date
9/1/22
Completion Date
8/31/24
Dollars Obligated
$383K
Federal Agency
Division of Chemistry
Federal Grant Program
47.049
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Similar Awards
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program. Under this 3-year award, the UC Berkeley research team led by Professor Daniel Neumark will use time-resolved extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photoelectron spectroscopy to study the relaxation and dissociation dynamics of photoexcited anionic and neutral solutes in liquid jets. The experiments aim...
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...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2022 to complete work by August 31, 2025. The grant funds research led by Professor Ke Xu at UC Berkeley to develop ultrahigh-throughput approaches for single-molecule spectroscopy and multidimensional super-resolution microscopy. Specifically, the team aims to expand the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of California, Los Angeles a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate spin, exciton, and chemical dynamics in crystalline solids for applications in quantum information science. Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and his research group will use pulsed lasers on nano-crystals of selected ketones suspended in water to detect the absorption spectra and decay...
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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded $950,000 to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on the chemistry and physics of charged aqueous nanodrops and their applications in mass spectrometry. Professor Evan Williams and his group will investigate how the size and shape of electrospray ionization emitters affect initial droplet size and mass spectrometry performance. They...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $480,000 in funding to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to investigate the ultrafast molecular dynamics of conformational isomers. The researchers, Professors Katharine Tibbetts and Ka Un Lao, will use advanced laser techniques and molecular-level simulations to study the rapid interconversion between different...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $1,715,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on ultrafast strong-field control of coherence and entanglement in atoms and molecules. The research focuses on investigating and controlling the rapid motion of electrons and atoms within molecules using precise external forces from high-intensity, ultrafast laser...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $598,414 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on May 1, 2025 to develop advanced neural network-based atomistic models that predict the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals with chiral ligands. The project, led by Dr. Eran Rabani, aims to address computational challenges in understanding and forecasting the chiroptical properties of these nanomaterials, which are...