Project Grant 2204190
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $407,000 project grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF ENERGY TRANSFER IN ATOMICALLY PRECISE NANOCLUSTERS" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project led by professors at Pennsylvania State University, Kansas State University, and Carnegie Mellon University. The project aims to study how the structure of metal nanoclusters impacts their...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $270,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to a research team at Kansas State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University. The grant supports collaborative research to study how the structural properties of metal nanoclusters impact their electronic and vibrational energy transfer dynamics. The team is using advanced laser techniques, theoretical modeling, and precision...
- This $273,000 project grant, awarded on June 15, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, and Kansas State University. The research team is investigating how the structure of metal nanoclusters impacts their electronic and vibrational properties, with the goal of understanding energy transfer dynamics at the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $406,230 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a framework for controlling the electronic structure of metallic nanoparticles. Led by Dr. Benjamin Lear, Penn State researchers will synthesize metallic nanoparticles, apply ligand coatings to their surfaces, and measure changes in magnetic properties to understand how ligands influence the nanoparticles' electronic...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $541,779 to the University of Central Florida to conduct research on spin quantum dynamics in molecular magnets. The key products and services funded under this award include: Experimental and educational efforts to study and disseminate knowledge on the quantum magnetic properties of single-molecule magnets, which have potential applications in quantum...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $539,083 Project Grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds experimental research and education related to magnetic topological metals, which are materials with unique properties and potential applications in advanced technologies. Specifically, the investigators will use scanning and...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research on January 15, 2022 to support research titled "EXACT MODEL FOR EXTREMELY CORRELATED ELECTRONS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD." The two-year project will advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences through developing an exact model to describe strongly correlated electron behavior under an applied magnetic field. The...
- This $525,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the influence of electron spin on the excited-state dynamics of transition metal complexes. Principal Investigator James K. McCusker of Michigan State University will synthesize and characterize a range of chemical systems to establish clear correlations between spin properties and photo-induced behaviors. The research aims to provide new insights into how the fundamental property of electron spin can be leveraged...
- This $545,491 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research by The Pennsylvania State University on "Exploring Emergent Phenomena at the Interface of Topological Semimetals, Magnetism, and Superconductivity." The project aims to develop and study new "hybrid topological semimetal heterostructures" where the material's topological properties can be electrically tuned. Using advanced synthesis and...
- This $236,727 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical and computational research on quantum phases of matter. The awardee, The Pennsylvania State University, will conduct numerical simulations and develop new computational algorithms to study magnetism and strongly correlated electron systems. Additional projects include investigating quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional spin models and quantum...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $458,519 supports research at The Pennsylvania State University from June 2022 to May 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Knappenberger and his students will study how the structure of metal nanoclusters and the vibrational motion of their atoms affects electron spin dynamics. They will correlate electron spin lifetimes with specific vibrational modes using iterative magnetic field laser spectroscopy and metal nanocluster synthesis. Additionally, they will characterize transient electronic spin states using variable-temperature magneto-photoluminescence spectroscopy and develop Fourier transform magneto-photoluminescence to measure spin lifetimes and spin-vibrational coupling. Experiments on nanoclusters ranging from a few atoms to several hundred will provide insight into how spin properties evolve from the molecular to metallic levels. Structural analysis using various spectroscopic and diffraction techniques aims to establish accurate structure-property correlations for spin dynamics in nanoscale metals. This research could benefit quantum technologies and catalyst design.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $458.5k | 5/6/22 |