Project Grant 2155010
- This $630,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research project led by Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The project aims to explore the remarkable control of chemical reactivity that can occur when molecules are designed to break and make bonds upon the absorption of light. Specifically, the...
- The University of Colorado Boulder received a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to develop enhanced nano-cavity spectroscopy and imaging techniques. Led by Professor Markus Raschke, the research aims to study the fundamental electronic and vibrational excitations in chemical systems by leveraging nano-scale imaging, spectroscopy, and optical nano-cavity concepts. The project will investigate how light...
- This $600,000 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports research into elucidating exciton transport in hierarchical organic materials through time-resolved electronic and vibrational spectroscopy/microscopy. Led by researchers at Montana State University and the University of Miami, the award will fund investigation of energy transport in light-harvesting superstructures comprised of stacked aromatic dyes covalently bonded together with molecular tethers. By...
- The University of Colorado Boulder received a $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop 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 principal investigator, Andrés Montoya-Castillo, and his team will focus on describing the quantum mechanical motion of atoms and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $629,867 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The funding supports research by Dr. Doran Bennett to develop new computational methods for simulating excited-state dynamics and nonlinear spectroscopy of molecular materials at the mesoscale (10nm - 1μm). The project aims to establish how specific materials absorb and deploy energy from light, providing essential...
- This $597,560 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Stephen Bradforth of the University of Southern California, along with his collaborators from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, in studying light-driven chemical reactions that generate radical ion pairs. The research aims to develop ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the role of quantum entanglement in these...
- Professor Kutateladze of the University of Denver will use a $575,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to further develop photoassisted approaches for the synthesis of complex heterocyclic molecules with potentially useful therapeutic properties. Over a three-year period from September 2023 through August 2026, his research aims to expand the synthetic photochemistry toolbox, specifically excited state intramolecular...
- 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 (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 $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 $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 whether relationships between absorption and emission spectra from two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy can retrieve these thermodynamic properties within noise limits. The research has the potential to enable more efficient formation of fuels from sunlight by providing accurate measurements of thermodynamic limitations on light-driven chemical reactions. Students will gain skills in femtosecond laser techniques, molecular spectroscopy, data analysis, and numerical modeling. This award falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through support of basic research in these fields.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $550.0k | 7/20/22 |