Baylor University was awarded a $177,327 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences on September 1, 2021, with a completion date of August 31, 2024. The grant falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Under this award, Baylor University will conduct collaborative research exploring the Milky Way galaxy and its white...
Baylor University will receive $440,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate new methods for measuring and manipulating the electrostatic properties of proteins through September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Professor Bryan F. Shaw and his research team will use capillary electrophoresis to evaluate how the net charges of various proteins change during protein crowding and electron transfer processes. The team...
This Project Grant award of $285,919, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports research on the flux-mediated synthesis of Cu(I)-oxide semiconductors for clean energy applications. The key objectives are to advance capabilities in obtaining crystalline semiconductor materials with desirable properties, particularly for the efficient capture of solar energy and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $575,000 Project Grant to Baylor University under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program. The 3-year grant, which began on June 1, 2024, supports research by Professor Caleb Martin and his team to develop new classes of non-fluorine-based boron-centered Lewis acid catalysts using icosahedral carborane clusters. The goal is to obtain borane compounds with enhanced Lewis acidity compared to traditional fluoroarene-based catalysts, which...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $378,967 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Baylor University. The grant supports research on the L^p-approximation properties of von Neumann algebras and their applications in operator algebras, noncommutative analysis, and related fields. The project incorporates research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as training for postdoctoral researchers. Key focus areas include...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $181,657 Project Grant to Mississippi State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The funding supports research and educational activities from April 2023 through March 2028 focused on developing new synthetic approaches to emerging semiconductor nanomaterials with promising optoelectronic properties. Specifically, the awardee will study the structure and properties of nanocrystals from two classes...
Through a $249,132 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049), the University of Missouri System, Missouri University of Science & Technology campus, is conducting research to discover and characterize new families of magnetic Weyl semimetals. The project aims to unlock the key ingredients necessary for the design and discovery of these novel quantum materials, which have potential applications in areas like...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Texas A&M University focused on using high-pressure techniques to access new types of layered lanthanide materials with potential applications in information processing and storage. The $135,000 award, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2030, will fund a combined synthetic, computational, and spectroscopic approach to reveal design...
This National Science Foundation award provides $449,997 to Boston College under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to study exotic electronic properties in a new class of kagome metal materials. Specifically, the award will allow the grantee to explore phenomena such as electronic nematic phases, charge stripe origins, density wave evolution with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $299,998 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The two-year grant will support research titled "EAGER: SUPERLATTICE-INDUCED POLYCRYSTALLINE AND SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES IN CONJUGATED POLYMERS" from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The grant funding will enable Stanford University researchers to advance understanding of major problems in...