The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Columbia University a $442,564 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new microscopy techniques for imaging ultrafast chemical transformations between molecules separated by large distances. Principal Investigator Milan Delor and his research group will leverage polaritons, which are part-light part-matter particles, to significantly increase the sensitivity of optical...
This $423,650 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of Quantitative Scattering Microscopy (QSCAT) for nanoscale imaging of ion insertion chemistry. Led by researchers at Colorado State University, the project aims to leverage how inserted ions change light propagation through materials to create a light scattering-based measurement technique that can selectively and...
This $373,344 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project led by Professors Julie Biteen of the University of Michigan and David Masiello of the University of Washington. The project aims to develop a multifunctional, high-sensitivity instrument to measure plasmon-enhanced chirality and enable the sensing of subtle, heterogeneous...
This Project Grant award, valued at $1,039,146 and issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), supports research to develop fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) methods for investigating organic reaction mechanisms and processes. The key objectives are to use FLIM to characterize reaction intermediates, understand catalyst behavior, and create predictive reaction models for two...
This $650,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research into lanthanide complexes displaying upconversion emission. Principal Investigator Anne E.V. Gordon of Texas Tech University will collaborate with Ana De Bettencourt-Dias of the University of Nevada, Reno and Jorge Monteiro of California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt to develop new lanthanide complexes with the potential for efficient...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $430,413 CAREER grant to Wayne State University for a project titled "COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF FLUORESCENT PROTEINS WITH MULTISCALE EXCITED STATE QM/MM METHODS." The project, funded under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to advance the understanding and rational design of new fluorescent protein sensors. The research will use classical molecular dynamics, excited state quantum...
This Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, Grant No. 47.049, supports research by Professor Lei Zhu of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. The goal is to understand the factors, both structural and environmental, that control the photophysical and photochemical properties of two categories of organic fluorescent dyes. The first category will have the capability of excited...
This $388,983 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry's Chemical Measurement & Imaging Program and Chemistry of Life Processes Program supports the development of a new optical microscope by Professor Eric Potma at the University of California, Irvine. The instrument leverages chiral sum-frequency generation (SFG) microscopy to visualize protein structures in cells and tissues without the need for chemical labeling. This label-free imaging...
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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $213,504 to develop new tools for nanoscale chemical and biochemical sensing and imaging. Professor Lane Baker at Texas A&M University will construct new instruments using advanced signal processing and selective chemical and biological sensors to measure very small concentrations of ions, molecules, and proteins at subcellular scales....