Mississippi State University was awarded a $190,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support collaborative research on new approaches to narrow-band electrochromics. The three-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will allow the university to advance scientific understanding of major problems in these fields through increased knowledge and enhanced study of electrochromic materials and technologies from May...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $482,663 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Florida. The funding supports Professor Chenjie Zeng's research on developing generalizable methodologies for the synthesis of atomically precise II-VI semiconductor nanoclusters. The project aims to enable atomic-level control over the structures and properties of these nanomaterials, which have promising applications in electronics and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $414,664 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund collaborative research between the University of Delaware, Arizona State University, and Washington University in St. Louis to investigate how the presence of halides influences the crystal structure of certain classes of metal and lanthanide chalcogenide nanoparticles during synthesis. The researchers...
This federal Project Grant award of $114,166, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to discover new ternary chalcogenide semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. The project leverages computational modeling and experimental synthesis to understand and design new approaches for accessing these materials, which have potential applications in solar cells, energy-efficient electronics, and batteries. The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $178,596 to Colorado State University to discover new ternary chalcogenide semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. The project aims to leverage alternative entropy sources to enable the synthesis of these promising materials, which have been computationally predicted to have excellent properties for solar cells, energy-efficient electronics,...
Iowa State University received a $489,533 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund research from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 to study emerging multinary semiconductors comprised of multiple elements through solution-phase chemistry synthesis. Specifically, the university will (1) study the evolution of perovskite chalcogenide nanocrystals for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $479,016 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Florida State University (FSU) to conduct research on understanding and controlling the molecular-level structure of metal ion-linked multilayer materials for applications in solar cells, catalysis, and other devices. The goal is to use techniques like polarized spectroscopy and vibrational analysis to elucidate the relationship between the structure of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $774,759 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for collaborative research on quasi-direct semiconductors. The four-year award beginning October 2021 will support the development of new materials for semiconductor applications through collaborative research on direct bandgap semiconductors. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's...
Arizona State University was awarded a three-year $198,705 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research between ASU, the University of Delaware, Arizona State University, and Washington University in St. Louis to investigate how the presence of halides influences the crystal structure formation of certain classes of metal and lanthanide...