The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Arizona State University a $445,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The award will support research at Arizona State University to develop a novel approach for simultaneously applying an electric field and quantitatively measuring its effect on single molecules during chemical processes using combined single-molecule Raman and conductance...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) a $472,456 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct precision spectroscopy research on single polyatomic molecules. The goal of this 3-year project is to develop techniques that can precisely measure the quantum mechanical properties of individual polyatomic molecules, rather than an ensemble average. This will enable future applications in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $660,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). The grant, awarded on January 1, 2025, supports the development of new theoretical methods for simulating photoreactions in biological environments. Specifically, the project aims to develop reduced scaling multi-reference perturbation theory (MSPT2) methods and classical embedding approaches using polarizable...
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $870,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The 3-year grant, starting on September 1, 2023 and ending on August 31, 2026, is funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop an advanced instrument combining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance...
This $550,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the role of non-covalent interactions in the excited state dynamics of heterocyclic compounds. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor de Vries at the University of California, Santa Barbara will experimentally study how such compounds respond to ultraviolet radiation using gas phase spectroscopy. Computational chemists will model the results to compare quantum...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Professor Markus Raschke of the University of Colorado Boulder. The grant supports research combining nano-scale imaging and spectroscopy with optical nano-cavity concepts to study electronic and vibrational excitations in chemical systems. The project aims to increase quantum yield and control exciton emission of quantum dots, as well as...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2022 to complete work by August 31, 2025. The grant funds research led by Professor Ke Xu at UC Berkeley to develop ultrahigh-throughput approaches for single-molecule spectroscopy and multidimensional super-resolution microscopy. Specifically, the team aims to expand the...
This $650,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry supports the research of Dr. Raphael Florentino Ribeiro of Emory University. The award, effective December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2028, aims to develop new theoretical approaches and computational methods for investigating chemical phenomena in microenvironments that confine light and interact strongly with matter. The research will computationally explore strategies to achieve...
This is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) totaling $799,915. The project, titled "EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: INTEGRATING SINGLE MOLECULES TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS TOWARD QUANTUM DEVICES," aims to develop scalable and controllable single-molecule field effect transistors using advanced 2D materials and atomic force microscopy nanolithography techniques. The overarching goal is to create...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $692,351 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop and characterize new techniques using lasers to measure and control the quantum mechanical state of individual trapped and isolated molecules. The three-year grant, awarded on July 15, 2023, will support Professor David Leibrandt and his research group in constructing a new...