The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, Solid State and Materials Chemistry Program, under the CFDA program "Mathematical and Physical Sciences." The award, titled "EAGER: CET: Functionalized Graphene for Sustainable Rare Earth Metal Separation," supports fundamental research to develop innovative hybrid nanomaterials that can effectively extract and separate...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $316,336 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on "NEW OXYSULFIDE PEROVSKITES FOR PHOTOCATALYTIC AND PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant aims to advance the University's work developing new oxy sulfide perovskite materials with applications in photocatalysis and photovoltaics. The funding will support the...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 to support collaborative research on hydrogen atom transfer Lewis base catalysis. The NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Under this award, the University will leverage its expertise in chemistry to further the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year, $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Under this grant, Professor Sherri McFarland and her team will examine the redox and excited state properties of oligothiophene-containing ruthenium(II) complexes, which have important applications as photosensitizers in fields ranging from solar energy conversion to photomedicine. The primary...
The University of Texas at San Antonio will develop new photocatalytic systems for efficient organic synthesis under a $475,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Over a three-year period from July 2021 through June 2024, UTSA researchers will work to advance the store of scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems in chemistry through progressing photocatalytic technologies for organic...
The University of Texas at San Antonio received a $483,119 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 1, 2021 to support catalytic cycloaddition reaction research and applications through July 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Under the award, UTSA researchers will conduct work exploring catalytic cycloaddition...
The University of Texas at Austin received a three-year, $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 15, 2021 to support research titled "SCAFFOLD-BASED BIOMIMETICS OF FE-HYDROGENASE AND NITROGENASE (FEMOCO): INTERROGATING DYNAMICS, PROTEIN MATRIX EFFECTS, AND CARBIDE MOTIFS." The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1.116 million Project Grant to The University of Texas at Arlington under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a compact and portable on-chip gas chromatography system with a photonic integrated circuit for rapid and comprehensive volatile organic compound gas analysis. The University of Texas at Arlington will work to miniaturize gas chromatography technology and integrate optical detection...
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) received a three-year $190,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a new computational framework for superior image reconstruction in limited data quantitative photoacoustic tomography. UTA will build novel reconstruction schemes using game theory and statistical sensitivity analysis to tackle challenges in quantitative photoacoustic tomography, such as limited...
The University of Texas at Arlington will use a $440,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to study the excited state behavior of ruthenium (II) photodrugs. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on July 31, 2024. The grant is being funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. As the place...
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was awarded a three-year, $655k Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program. The grant funds the development of new tools for the chemical analysis of internal surfaces of porous materials using positron annihilation gamma spectroscopy.
Specifically, Professor Alexander Weiss and colleagues at UTA are working to demonstrate that positron annihilation gamma spectroscopy can reveal chemical changes to hidden internal surfaces in nanoporous metals caused by catalysis or gas exposure. This will provide a non-destructive method to analyze the top atomic layer of inaccessible internal surfaces with elemental sensitivity as low as 1% without interference from bulk signals. The team is combining the surface selectivity of positron spectroscopy with the ability of 511 keV gamma radiation to exit samples to develop an in operando characterization tool. Results have potential impact in catalysis, energy storage, gas separation, carbon capture, and dilute alloy design. The award also supports STEM education and workforce development.