Project Grant 2203499
- Federal Grant Award Summary Grant Details: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), with a performance period from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Dr. Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy is developing advanced synthetic methods to produce nitrogen-rich polymeric materials through ring-opening metathesis polymerization...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Division of Chemistry within the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded $675,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a three-year project (September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028). Led by Professors Erik Alexanian and Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy, the project delivers fundamental research and development of cobalt-catalyzed photochemical carbonylation platforms that utilize...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on raft step-growth polymerization from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The university will perform research to increase understanding of major polymerization...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded $560,760 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for a project grant effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2029. Under the Chemical Catalysis Program, Professor Jeffrey Johnson is leading research on catalyzed dearomatization reactions using earth-abundant metals such as iron, copper, and nickel to develop new...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Chicago a $669,999 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new synthetic methodologies for interlocked polymers from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2027. Professor Stuart J. Rowan and his team will design and synthesize polycatenanes and polyrotaxanes, which are macromolecular architectures containing mechanical bonds within the polymer backbone. This research aims to access new interlocked...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $515,013 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study the reaction chemistry of aromatic building blocks. The grant, which runs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, supports Professor Jeffrey Johnson's research team as they seek to develop new chemical reactions that generate highly functionalized and useful products from simpler and abundant feedstock chemicals. The research aims to convert achiral...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $652,777 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Through this 4-year grant, Professor Erik J. Alexanian is developing chemical reagents to enable the selective diversification of polyolefin plastics, such as polyethylene and polypropylene, through C-H bond functionalization. This approach aims to "upcycle" post-consumer...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $900,000 Project Grant to Stanford University from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The grant supports research titled "Diverse Degradable Polymers from Versatile Ring-Opening Metathesis (CO)polymerization of Electron-Rich Cyclic Olefins" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This Project Grant will fund the development of new degradable polymer materials through ring-opening...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $496,696 Project Grant to Iowa State University to develop new classes of polymeric systems with tailored properties such as antimicrobial surfaces and cell-penetrating agents. The three-year grant, awarded from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund research to identify factors impacting the polymerization of sulfur-containing monomers, develop methods for post-polymerization installation of functional groups, and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $570,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. Under the direction of Professor Alexander Miller, this research initiative focuses on developing switchable catalysts with cation-responsive ligands that utilize supramolecular receptor sites...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $465,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research into carbodiimide ring-opening metathesis polymerization for the precise synthesis of nitrogen-rich polymer backbones from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The university, working with Principal Investigator Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy, will utilize iridium metal catalysts to conduct ring-opening polymerization of various carbodiimides and develop controlled and living polymerization techniques to synthesize block copolymers. Researchers will also derive libraries of other nitrogen-rich polymer backbones through derivatization of main-chain polycarbodiimides. The project aims to advance understanding of reaction mechanisms and develop this methodology for academically and industrially relevant applications while also training students in related fields of chemistry.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $310.0k | 8/6/22 | ||
| Not listed | $155.0k | 4/27/22 |