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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant awarded to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $450,000 in funding over a period of 5 years, from January 15, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The grant supports research to develop a novel paradigm for single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors that can detect light at the quantum limit and operate at room temperature without cooling. Specifically, the project will focus on establishing a...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
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...
This $375,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to accelerate the design and development of engineered photonic materials using a data-driven deep learning approach. The project aims to establish deep learning frameworks to construct photonic metamaterials with tailored optical properties, integrate material composition and structural information into the deep learning...
This $375,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to accelerate the discovery, design, and implementation of new engineered photonic materials using a data-driven deep learning approach. The interdisciplinary project seamlessly integrates materials science, photonics, engineering, physics, and artificial intelligence to develop artificial photonic materials with user-defined optical...
This $333,850 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Principal Investigator Jain at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at Humboldt University and Helmholtz-Zentrum in Berlin. The goal is to use advanced characterization methods to image in real-time the atomic structures of light-absorbing metal nanoparticle catalysts during their operation. This will provide...
This $297,402 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project between professors at Boston University and Northeastern University. The research aims to investigate charge and energy transfer between metal nanostructures and semiconductor nanocrystals through single particle spectroscopy. Specifically, the project will analyze the scattering spectra of individual hybrid...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on the near-infrared luminescence of quantum-sized gold nanoclusters. This 3-year project, funded under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, aims to develop an atomically precise approach for gold nanoclusters and enhance their near-infrared luminescence properties. The research will map the fundamental mechanisms behind...