The University of Notre Dame received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Under the three-year award beginning in August 2021, the University will conduct research toward iron olefin metathesis, synthesizing and studying the reactivity of iron carbenes. The project aims...
The University of Notre Dame received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Through this three-year award beginning December 2021, the University will conduct research to create metastable clusters and assemblies of molecules and characterize their intermolecular interactions. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $390,000 in funding to the University of Notre Dame and the University of Tennessee for a collaborative research project. The goal is to rationally design new N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands to improve the robustness and expand the applicability of NHC-functionalized noble metal nanoparticles. The researchers will perform isotope labeling experiments to...
The University of Notre Dame received a three-year, $377,179 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research to characterize and optimize nanoparticle systems functionalized with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. As part of its mission to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise, the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to increase...
The University of Notre Dame received a three-year, $449,973 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 efforts to tailor the nanophotonic and nanolectronic properties of nanometals using oxide-directed syntheses from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, which aims to promote progress in these fields and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $685,000 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the research project "FORMATION AND REDOX CHEMISTRY OF METAL POLYSULFANIDO COMPLEXES FOR SULFUR TRANSFER REACTIONS" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2026. The University of Notre Dame will conduct research on the formation and redox chemistry of metal polysulfanido complexes and their application to sulfur...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $595,000 to Professor Seth Brown and his research team at the University of Notre Dame to develop synthetic approaches for producing rare terminal oxo and nitrido complexes of late transition metals like iridium. The research aims to investigate the factors enabling the preparation and stabilization of these metal-ligand multiple bonds, which are unusual and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, totaling $499,660, will support research into elucidating the electron transfer pathways involved in photo-catalytic hydrogen generation using semiconductor nanocrystals and hydrogenase enzymes. Principal Investigator Professor Gordana Dukovic of the University of Colorado Boulder will examine how properties of quantum dot nanocrystals, such as composition, diameter, and surface chemistry, impact binding with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $539,987 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program to the University of Notre Dame. The grant will support Professor Svetlana Neretina's research to establish new photochemical routes for the synthesis of ultrathin, large-area, single-crystal gold nanoplates on amorphous surfaces. The project aims to provide a mechanistic understanding of this novel growth modality, which distinguishes itself...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,988 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new photocatalysts for green oxidation processes. Professor Shabnam Hematian and her research team will study catalytic processes using light and oxygen to generate value-added chemicals from hydrocarbons. Specifically, the team will develop oxo-bridged heterobinuclear systems containing different metal...