The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $799,799 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Rutgers University-Newark. The grant, awarded on March 1, 2025, will support research led by Dr. Prokopchuk to design redox-active organic and organometallic systems capable of efficiently transferring protons, electrons, and hydrogen atoms. The key objectives are to: (1) measure C(SP3)-H bond thermochemistries of diamondoid pincer complexes...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $470,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct mechanistic studies of organic reactivity under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Over a three-year period from July 2021 through June 2024, Rutgers researchers will leverage this funding to increase understanding of major problems in chemistry through advancing the store of scientific knowledge on organic reaction mechanisms. Specifically,...
Rutgers, The State University received a $111,522 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CDS & E: THEORY AND METHODS FOR IMPLICIT MOLECULAR SOLVATION IN LIGAND AND ION BINDING" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The award supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the...
Rutgers, The State University received a $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to develop new methods for tailored nanomaterials synthesis. Specifically, the three-year award funds research using reactive microdroplets in confined 2D microflows to produce high-quality nanoparticles with controlled size, composition, crystallinity and other properties. The project aims to address current gaps...
This $664,755 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports a research project at Rutgers, The State University titled "ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN CATALYSIS WITH SUPERCHARGED REDUCING AGENTS". The project, conducted at Rutgers' Newark, NJ campus, will run from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in the areas of quantum...
Rutgers University, Newark was awarded a $556,878 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate boron-functionalized pi-conjugated materials with tailored properties. Under this award effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026, Professor Frieder Jäkle of Rutgers University-Newark's Department of Chemistry will synthesize and analyze conjugated organic materials functionalized with boron-nitrogen Lewis pairs to alter...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $524,725 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Rutgers, The State University for a research project titled "Probing Redox and Photoredox Activity in Metal-Organic Frameworks." The research aims to gain fundamental insights into the electronic properties and charge transfer processes of metal-organic frameworks, which are a class of porous materials with diverse energy and environmental...
This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort between professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University. The research team is studying new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules, which are useful in polymers and agriculture. The project aims to develop...
This $180,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project on electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling. The project, led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Colorado State University, and NSF, aims to develop new analytical and computational tools to understand the fundamental principles underlying these...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $1,265,946 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research titled "Machine Learning and Robotics for the Data-Driven Design of Protein-Polymer Hybrid Materials." The research appears aimed at advancing the use of machine learning and robotics...