This five-year $343,613 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into realizing next-generation light-material interactions via directional, collective photoluminescence and energy transport of surface-sensitive nanocrystals. The University of California, Los Angeles will investigate the photophysics of cesium lead halide nanocrystals to correlate their tunable, directional photoluminescence to superfluorescence and...
This two-year, $498,428 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into utilizing interband transitions in metallic nanoparticles for photocatalysis. Professor Son Nguyen and researchers at the University of California, Merced will investigate how metallic nanoparticles absorb photons and accelerate chemical reactions. They will vary photon energy, observe corresponding chemical products, and correlate...
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...
This $413,975 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports Professor Susan M. Kauzlarich of the University of California, Davis in advancing the chemistry of germanium semiconductor nanocrystals. Through this 3-year project, the research team will utilize microwave heating to synthesize doped and alloyed germanium nanoparticles with controlled size, shape, and surface properties. The goal is to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides funding of $151,584 to The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge to support collaborative research on developing new ligands for the synthesis of noble metal nanocrystals with controlled surface structures. The project aims to expand the synthetic toolbox for nanocrystal chemistry by incorporating designed N-heterocyclic carbenes as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Northwestern University for a 3-year research project on the "Transient Physicochemical Properties of Nanomaterials." The grant supports experimental studies by Professor Richard Schaller to investigate the crystal lattices, surfaces, and surface ligand behavior of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. The research aims to elucidate the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a 3-year, $598,414 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to develop advanced neural network-based atomistic models that predict the optical properties of chiral semiconductor nanocrystals. These materials have applications in next-generation technologies like filters, sensors, and displays. The project, led by Dr. Eran Rabani, aims to overcome challenges in understanding and predicting chiroptical properties at...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a 5-year, $267,179 CAREER grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to support research on the synthesis and characterization of one-dimensional van der Waals nanocrystals for use in energy-efficient electronic and photonic devices. The project aims to elucidate the chemical mechanisms that control the assembly and properties of these nanoscale materials, with...
This $656,061 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research effort to develop new nanochemistry synthesis techniques using functional carbene ligands. The University of Virginia, California State University Northridge, and other partners will work to advance the fundamental understanding of how N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands can be used to precisely control the...
The University of California, San Diego received a $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research to develop fractal plasmonic biomaterials for sensing and education applications. The grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research to understand the mechanism by which defined peptide sequences direct the hierarchical self-assembly of silver nanoparticles into complex fractal structures with...