The University of Miami received a three-year $449,544 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to develop bio-inspired catalysts for hydrolysis through theoretical studies from June 2021 to May 2024. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through projects promoting progress in mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, the...
This NSF Project Grant award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $252,193 to the University of New Mexico Office of Sponsored Projects Division to develop new strategies for manipulating the interactions of organic molecules and polymers in nanoscale architectures. The research group of Dr. Jean-Hubert Olivier at the University of Miami aims to understand how to precisely control assembly pathways to reconfigure the structure of organic...
The University of Miami and North Carolina State University will collaborate on research to develop a new class of synthetic fluorescent dyes for bioimaging applications under a three-year, $401,929 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the universities will work to engineer...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research supports the development of antibody-mimicking polymeric nanoparticles for site-specific protein labeling and protein-binding applications. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Yan Zhao at Iowa State University will pursue two aims - site-specific labeling of proteins with single or multiple tags using the nanoparticles, and developing nanoparticle...
The University of Florida, as prime grantee, was awarded a three-year $281,184 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research between the University of Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute to examine the connections between structure, dynamics, and catalysis of reactions with oxygen on bimetallic and single atom alloy...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $182,589 to support collaborative research between Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The researchers will examine the connections between the structure, dynamics, and catalysis of reactions with...
This $250,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award will support a research project led by Professor Michael B. Ross at the University of Massachusetts Lowell focused on manipulating noble metal nanoparticles through alloying with post-transition metals. The key objectives are to advance fundamental understanding of phase nucleation and plasmonic optical properties in...
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 $288,229 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports theory, computation, and education to advance the engineering of nanoparticle-based materials. The project aims to develop a comprehensive computational framework to predict the structure and properties of functional nanomaterials, which will be made available to the broader research community. The work will be conducted at Iowa State University and involve collaborative...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $157,487 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of New Hampshire to develop new classes of graphene-supported nanocomposite materials for electrocatalytic applications. The research aims to construct innovative electrocatalysts from metal nanoclusters (MNCs) and pristine graphene to improve the fundamental understanding of...