This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, supported through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $530,000 in funding to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Queens College to investigate the impact of confining electrochemical reactions within nanoscale cavities. The principal investigators, Professors Michael Mirkin and Daniel Mandler, aim to unravel the complex electrochemistry of confined systems through a...
This $600,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into the diffusion of water confined in patterned hydrophilic-hydrophobic nanopores within metal-organic frameworks. Professors Laura Gagliardi of the University of Chicago and Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley will lead teams performing quantum mechanical calculations and nuclear magnetic resonance...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $899,956 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York to support research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The funding will support Professor Meriles at the City College of New York in developing new nanoscale sensing and imaging techniques leveraging the physical properties of select light emitters in diamond. Specifically, the grant aims to enhance the information...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $520,000 to Brown University for a 3-year research project investigating the thermodynamics of water in isolated single-digit nanopores. The principal investigator, Professor Matthias Kuehne, will use a combination of advanced optical, electrical, and spectroscopy techniques to precisely determine the phase transition temperatures, mass densities, and heat capacities of...
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York was awarded a $495,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support work on "Nanoelectrochemistry with Carbon Nanoprobes" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funding will enable researchers at Queens College to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences through progressing...
Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RF CUNY), doing business as RF CUNY - Advanced Science Research Center, received a three-year $173,091 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award supports collaborative research between professors at New York University and CUNY to develop water-responsive, shape-shifting supramolecular protein assemblies. Specifically, the researchers aim to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $298,911 Project Grant to New York University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on water-responsive, shape-shifting supramolecular protein assemblies. Over a three-year period from August 2023 to July 2026, NYU will work with professors from New York University, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, and CUNY City College to develop protein polymers that can respond to...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $514,668 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced to develop new theoretical methods for simulating quantum effects in protonated water clusters. The project, titled "State-Resolved Vibrational Spectra of Fluxional Protonated Water Clusters via Tensor Network States", aims to enable efficient and accurate simulation of these clusters, which are key to understanding the fundamental properties of water. The...
This $230,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to advance the understanding of how soft, deformable particles such as oil droplets and cells move through complex environments. The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) at the City College campus is leading this collaborative research project, which combines carefully designed experiments with advanced computer simulations. The goal is to develop...
This three-year $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into quantifying the role of interfaces in liquid separation membranes based on carbon molecular sieves. The goal is to develop fundamental knowledge of how interfaces impact liquid transport across carbon molecular sieve membranes at length scales below and above one micrometer. Investigators will combine advanced diffusion...