The University of California, San Diego will deliver a project titled "Responsive Materials from Self-Assembling Nucleic Acid Nanoshapes" through a $535,012 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award running from July 2021 to June 2024 will support research into developing responsive materials using self-assembling nucleic acid nanostructures. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $456,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to develop high-performing nanoplasmonic biosensors with novel thin films and metasurfaces. The project aims to advance progress in the mathematical and physical sciences through the creation of new sensing technologies under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). By leveraging nanophotonics and nanofabrication...
The University of California Irvine received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on May 31, 2023. 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. Specifically, the funding will enable UC Irvine researchers to develop light-directed synthesis techniques for creating metal...
The University of California, San Diego was awarded a $413,262 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research to engineer, image, and control three-dimensional topological magnetic materials from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support of research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $414,704 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. This grant supports UCSD's research project titled "A Component-Wise Model for Understanding Spin-Charge Interactions in Nanoparticle Solids Using Targeted Synthesis, Magnetometry, and Magnetoresistance." The project explores a novel nanoscale approach to investigate magnetoresistance (MR), a...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $501,641 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) program to develop novel plasmonic chiral superstructures using magnetic assembly of hybrid magnetic/plasmonic nanoparticles. Professor Yin and his team will explore how to create inherent chirality, or handedness, in nanostructures by assembling hybrid nanoparticles containing magnetic oxides and noble metals in magnetic...
The University of California, Merced will receive $543,733 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to explore how the size, shape, and composition of semiconductor nanocrystals influence their interactions with light. Professors Anne Kelley and David Kelley and their research group will synthesize nanocrystals with various shapes and compositions to examine how shape and surface imperfections affect...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $587,425 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop the first dual-modality super-resolution microscopy system, termed Dual-Modality Localized Plasmonic Structured Illumination Microscopy (DM-LPSIM). This new imaging technology will enable simultaneous high-speed super-resolution fluorescence and label-free scattering imaging at the 50-nanometer scale. The DM-LPSIM system...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California, Merced. The grant, titled "LEAPS-MPS: EXPANDING THE PEPTIDE ASSEMBLY LANDSCAPE USING MULTIVALENT PEPTIDE MACROCYCLES WITH DESIGNABLE INTERMOLECULAR INTERFACES", supports research led by Professor Merg and his students aimed at developing new approaches for designing and constructing peptide-based nanomaterials....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,236 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The five-year award will support the development of a portable nanosensor for the ultrasensitive optical detection of airborne agents. Key deliverables include the creation of a novel sensor featuring nanomaterials that can be activated with light to selectively capture and detect volatile organic compounds. The sensor is designed for...