This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports a collaborative research project between the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The $240,000 award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will investigate the design and application of electrically conductive metal-organic frameworks (EC-MOFs) as cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries. The project aims...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, awarded a $301,463 project grant to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology. The grant supports computational chemistry research conducted by Professor Greg Tschumper's group to study non-covalent molecular interactions and their applications for organic semiconductor devices. The project will employ high-accuracy quantum mechanics-based methods...
The University of Missouri received a three-year, $537,725 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to understand interphase layer formation at the cathode/solid-electrolyte junction in lithium-ion batteries. The University will work to isolate and understand the individual contributions of reactive species to failure behavior using species-selective membrane coatings, electron microscopy, and electrochemical characterization. This research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $449,996 Project Grant to the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) to conduct collaborative research with Southern Methodist University (SMU) on porous polymers for selective gold retrieval from waste streams. The project aims to develop advanced adsorbents for the effective and efficient recovery of gold and other critical metal ions essential for rechargeable...
Kansas State University was awarded a $386,375 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to explore electrocatalysis to improve cathode performance in lithium-sulfur batteries. The research aims to foster innovation in engineering through improving battery technology by studying how electrocatalysis can enhance cathode reactions in lithium-sulfur batteries....
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort between Johns Hopkins University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The goal is to design and develop novel metal-organic framework (MOF) catalysts for electrochemical synthesis of commercially valuable organonitrogen compounds like urea, acetamide, and N-methylamines. The project has three key objectives: (1)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $144,179 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) for a 3-year collaborative research project focused on improving the performance and stability of sodium-ion battery cathodes. The project, jointly supported by NSF's Divisions of Materials Research and Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, aims to identify desirable properties of artificial surface...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $277,556 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Texas A&M University. This 3-year collaborative research project aims to design and synthesize hybrid anode materials composed of carbon nanotubes chemically bonded to copper. The goal is to develop more efficient and robust pathways for electron transport, which could lead to improvements in lithium-ion...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Clemson University a 3-year, $369,806 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop novel electrically conductive two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs). The project aims to promote efficient charge transport in these materials by incorporating alternating electron-rich and electron-deficient stacks, enabling improvements in both in-plane and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $649,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "DESIGNING 3-DIMENSIONAL ACTIVE SITE ENVIRONMENTS IN METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR OXYGEN ELECTROCHEMISTRY." The five-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will fund research developing three-dimensional active site environments in metal-organic frameworks to advance oxygen electrochemistry. Specifically,...