Project Grant 2202928
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will provide $334,727 to the University of South Carolina to investigate the surface reactivity of semiconductor and magnetic nanocrystals. The project, led by Professor Andrew Greytak, aims to achieve selective modification of nanocrystal surfaces to enable new applications in electronic displays, sensing, quantum technologies, and biomarker detection. Key activities...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $334,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of South Carolina (USC) to develop theoretical and computational methods incorporating quantum mechanics for studying the properties and behaviors of molecular systems and nanomaterials. The project, led by Professor Sophya Garashchuk, aims to gain a fundamental understanding of chemical reactivity, charge and energy...
- The University of South Carolina received a $443,292 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 15, 2021 to fund research titled "LIGAND EXCHANGE EQUILIBRIUM AT QUANTUM DOT SURFACES IN POLAR AND AQUEOUS SOLVENT ENVIRONMENTS." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge...
- This $539,895 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research Solid State and Materials Chemistry Program supports research to develop well-defined, stimuli-responsive materials with fast and reversible photophysical properties. The 3-year project, running from 09/01/2025 to 08/31/2028, aims to advance fundamental understanding of synthesis approaches that enable orthogonal or cooperative control over material properties in response to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), has awarded $353,549 to the University of Southern California (USC) for a project titled "Quantifying the Nature of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Gold Nanoparticle Interactions." The project, led by Professor Richard Brutchey, in collaboration with Professors Elad Gross and Uri Banin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, aims to investigate new strategies to enhance...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $555,000 Project Grant to Yale University to examine fundamental redox reactivity at the surfaces of nanoparticles. Over a 3-year period from September 2024 to August 2027, the project led by Professor James Mayer will investigate how hydrogen atoms and other species bind to and transfer from the irregular surfaces of nanoparticles made of materials like tungsten oxide, iron carbide, and cobalt phosphide. The research aims...
- The University of South Carolina received a three-year $491,394 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) beginning November 1, 2023 through October 31, 2026. The grant supports research by Professor Ken Shimizu and his team to study and quantify weak non-covalent interactions in solution through computational analyses and experimental design of molecular balances and rotors. The research aims to...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $470,150 to Professor Linda Shimizu of the University of South Carolina from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research to precisely engineer self-assembling nanotube structures from 3 to 150 monomers of bis-urea macrocycles for applications in photochemistry, molecular electronics, and photodynamic therapy. Specific...
- The National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program awarded a $681,168 project grant to the University of South Carolina to develop methods for controlling the assembly of bis-urea macrocycle molecules into nanotube structures. Professor Linda Shimizu's research team will study the supramolecular polymerization mechanisms to regulate the size, dispersity, and dynamics of the macrocycle assemblies. They will also develop templates to stabilize specific nanostructure sizes...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Professor Andrea R. Tao at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop new methods and tools for understanding how molecules interact with and arrange on the surfaces of nanoscale particles. The $552,380 award, effective from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, will allow Professor Tao to use liquid-phase and in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $487,098 to the University of South Carolina from August 2022 through July 2025. The award will support research into ligand dynamics and chemistry on locally curved metallic nanoparticle surfaces. Principal Investigator Dr. Hui Wang and their research team will utilize surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to quantitatively study the interfacial behavior and chemical/photochemical reactivity of various surface-bound ligand molecules on metal nanoparticles under different conditions. Density functional theory calculations will be used to corroborate experimental findings and elucidate the influence of nanoparticle-ligand interactions and surface curvature. In addition to advancing fundamental understanding, insights gained from this research are intended to guide rational optimization of nanoparticle surface functionalities for applications in catalysis, photocatalysis, photonics, sensing, and biomedicine. The award also supports related educational and outreach activities involving students at multiple levels.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $487.1k | 5/6/22 |