The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $470,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science to fund research activities under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. Specifically, the grant funding will support Caltech's work to enhance the durability of photoelectrodes for solar fuel production through fundamental science. As the Nation's largest federal supporter of basic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $180,000 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW ANODIC CATALYSTS FOR WATER OXYGEN EVOLUTION USING HYBRID SOLID-STATE MATERIALS" to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, will fund research to develop new carbon-supported catalytic materials for efficient electrochemical water oxidation. The goal...
This Project Grant award of $550,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Sarah Reisman of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in developing new catalytic reactions for the chemical synthesis of natural products. The research aims to advance the state-of-the-art in catalytic carbon-carbon bond formation and demonstrate how modern synthetic methods can...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $315,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year grant will support Caltech's collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FAST SPECTRALLY-ENCODED PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY FOR MULTI-PARAMETER BIOENERGETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CANCER CELLS." The research aims to develop fast spectrally-encoded photoacoustic...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $422,441 project grant to the California Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of October 1, 2021 through March 31, 2025. The grant funds research titled "CAREER: ENGINEERING INTERPHASES FOR LI-MEDIATED NITROGEN REDUCTION AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS." The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $193,590 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on December 15, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on November 30, 2022. The grant funding will support Caltech's project "Probing the Mechanical Properties of the Crust and Upper Mantle Using Geodetic, Remote Sensing and Seismological Observations" under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050). The Geosciences program aims...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop advanced spectroscopic measurement techniques for studying catalytic reactions of carbon dioxide. Led by Professors Wilson Ho and Ruqian Wu from September 2022 through August 2025, key products include combining chemical imaging and measurement at the atomic scale with...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $139,554 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, Caltech will conduct a collaborative research project on particle scavenging controls on trace element distributions. The three-year project beginning September 1, 2021 will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $528,664 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct fundamental research on the thermodynamics and reaction-transport kinetics of copper-based catalysts for electrochemical transformation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and chemicals. The 5-year research project aims to develop a novel reaction-transport model for CO2 electrocatalysis that can enable the rational...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $327,228 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on December 1, 2021 to develop a paired kerogen-pyrite sulfur isotope proxy for organic remineralization. The award is being used to fund research under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050) through November 30, 2023. The Geosciences program supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system, including the oceans....