This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The research program brings together teams from Duke University with expertise in material synthesis, quantum property characterization, theory, and computational materials simulations. By systematically studying...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $430,413 CAREER grant to Wayne State University for a project titled "COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF FLUORESCENT PROTEINS WITH MULTISCALE EXCITED STATE QM/MM METHODS." The project, funded under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to advance the understanding and rational design of new fluorescent protein sensors. The research will use classical molecular dynamics, excited state quantum...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) $1,000,000 project grant award to North Carolina State University aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The research program brings together four teams with expertise in material synthesis, quantum property characterization, first principles theory, and computational materials simulations to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $605,020 to Professor Byron Purse of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Diego State University to study the design and properties of fluorescent nucleobase analogues (FBAs). The research aims to investigate the mechanisms of fluorescence turn-on in response to base pairing and stacking, improve the photostability of pyrimidine analogue FBAs, and explore...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort led by New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. The project aims to enhance the design of fluorinated protein fibers and hydrogels for medical applications. Key objectives include: 1) generating coiled-coil fluorinated fibers for controlled drug delivery, 2) developing temperature-responsive fluorinated hydrogels,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $740,797 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop and test new methodologies for the rational design of minimalistic light-switchable single-domain proteins. The goal is to engineer these proteins to bind specifically to target proteins in only one photoswitchable chromophore state, allowing for precise spatial and temporal control...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $300,000 to New York University (NYU) to enhance the design of fluorinated protein fibers and hydrogels for medical applications. The key objectives are: 1) generating coiled-coil fluorinated fibers for controlled drug delivery, 2) developing fluorinated coiled-coil hydrogels that change with temperature, and 3) assessing the potential of these materials as...
The $209,101 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds a collaborative research project between North Carolina State University and the University of Miami from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop a new class of synthetic dyes with photoactivatable fluorescence for bioimaging applications through the synthesis, characterization, and single-molecule spectroscopic analysis of four series of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,999 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). This 4-year grant aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The project brings together UNC researchers with expertise in materials synthesis, quantum property characterization, computational materials...
This Project Grant award, valued at $555,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on developing advanced hybrid J-aggregate nanostructures. The primary objectives are to: Investigate how silica matrices influence the brightness, stability, and excitonic behavior of J-aggregate fluorophores, and explore solvent tunability through surface...