The University of California Irvine received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on May 31, 2023. The grant falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the funding will enable UC Irvine researchers to develop light-directed synthesis techniques for creating metal...
The University of California Irvine received a $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on January 15, 2022 to fund the development of The Aptamer Bioresistor. The project aims to create a broadly applicable protein biosensor with simplified dip-and-read functionality for point-of-care diagnostics. The funding supports research under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will allow the...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $456,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to develop high-performing nanoplasmonic biosensors with novel thin films and metasurfaces. The project aims to advance progress in the mathematical and physical sciences through the creation of new sensing technologies under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). By leveraging nanophotonics and nanofabrication...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,236 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The five-year award will support the development of a portable nanosensor for the ultrasensitive optical detection of airborne agents. Key deliverables include the creation of a novel sensor featuring nanomaterials that can be activated with light to selectively capture and detect volatile organic compounds. The sensor is designed for...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $450,000 will fund the development of an engineered electronic nose with single molecule sensitivity and single atom resolution. Awarded on July 1, 2022 to the University of California Irvine under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three year project aims to attach odorant receptors from biological noses to tiny electrical sensors using nanowire and nanotube networks. This work lays the groundwork for high precision chemical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $475,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to design solid-state nanopore systems whose local pore openings are subjected to controllable fluctuations. The research aims to reproduce the fluctuations of biological channels in model systems to understand transport properties on the nanoscale and harness new transport properties that result from these dynamic systems. The...
The University of California Irvine received a $500,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support strategy-guided syntheses of complex natural products from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award is funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. Under the award, UC Irvine will apply strategic methods to synthesize complex...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $401,980 to the University of Cincinnati from January 1, 2023 to February 28, 2025. The funding supports analytical studies using ionic liquids, GUMBOS, and nanomaterials conducted by Professors Isiah Warner, Jin-Woo Choi, and Kevin McCarter of Louisiana State University. Their research groups are developing new chemical sensors for medically relevant analytes based on...
The University of California Irvine received a $339,247 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on July 15, 2021 to fund research titled "Understanding and Engineering the Nucleation of Enzyme Metal-Organic Frameworks." The project aims to improve understanding of how enzymes interact with and are incorporated into metal-organic frameworks to catalyze chemical reactions. The research is...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $540,000 project grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Interactions of Interlayered Nanoporous Graphene with Surrounding Water Molecules." The three-year award beginning August 1, 2021 will support research examining the interactions between nanoscale porous graphene structures and surrounding water molecules. The Engineering program aims to...
The University of California Irvine will receive $450,000 from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry through July 2025 to develop new chemical and biosensor concepts utilizing metal nanowires and nanogaps. Specifically, the award will support research to define the capabilities of solid gold nanowires and gold nanowires containing single nanogaps as sensors for analytes including iron(III) ions, thrombin binding proteins, and pH levels. The project aims to elucidate the fundamental performance of these two metal nanowire architectures and produce practical nanowire-based sensors through the use of through-wire electrical impedance spectroscopy signal transduction. This work aligns with the goals of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to strengthen the scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge of major problems.