Project Grant 2303085
- The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a three-year $527,186 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct collaborative research quantifying the coarsening kinetics of supported metal nanoparticles. The research will use time-resolved electron microscopy, data analytics and simulations performed by graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University. Undergraduate students from the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Northwestern University for a 3-year research project on the "Transient Physicochemical Properties of Nanomaterials." The grant supports experimental studies by Professor Richard Schaller to investigate the crystal lattices, surfaces, and surface ligand behavior of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. The research aims to elucidate the...
- Northwestern University was awarded a three-year $338,133 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research on mean field spin glass models and first-passage percolation models to analyze complex disordered systems where interactions have high-dimensional dependence structures and where extremes play a significant role. Key products include quantifying the low-temperature structure of mean field spin...
- This $381,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Northwestern University to develop an accurate hierarchical modeling approach for understanding the structural and mechanical properties of polymer grafted nanoparticle materials. The research will employ molecular simulations, theory, and machine learning to explain how variability in nanoparticle and polymer graft size, known as dispersity,...
- This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $259,999, will support research into dynamical evolutions in complex, high-dimensional energy landscapes. Specifically, the awardee, Northwestern University, will investigate Markov chain dynamics arising from spin systems in statistical physics, which serve as prototypical examples for protein folding, evolutionary dynamics, out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, and neural...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
- This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support a collaborative research project between the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) to investigate the molten salt synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles. The research team, led by Yuanbing Mao of IIT and Tao Li of NIU, will use advanced in situ X-ray scattering and spectroscopy techniques at Argonne National...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $506,268 project grant to the University of Michigan to study photochemical transformations on metal nanoparticles through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports Professor Suljo Linic and his team's research on using solar energy to drive "plasmonic catalysis" - a process where light-absorbing metal nanoparticles can efficiently drive desirable chemical reactions. The central hypothesis is...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $300,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant to the University of Pittsburgh. The objective of this 2-year project is to develop new methods that leverage the advantages of light in the chemical synthesis of nanomaterials. Specifically, the project aims to use catalytic, photoredox-mediated nanoparticle synthesis to elucidate how the nucleation of bimetallic nanoparticles impacts their size,...
- Northwestern University received a $330,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant supports research titled "Collaborative Research: Design and Demonstration of Persistent Spin Textures in Ferroelectric Oxide Thin Film" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award funds research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the...
Northwestern University received a three-year $360,773 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct collaborative research quantifying the coarsening kinetics of supported metal nanoparticles. Through tightly coupled experimental observations using time-resolved electron microscopy at the University of Pennsylvania and large-scale simulations at Northwestern, the project aims to advance fundamental understanding of how surface roughness, particle size and placement, and surface energy anisotropy affect nanoparticle evolution dynamics and growth over time in catalysis applications. Involving graduate students at both institutions alongside undergraduates, the research outcomes seek to provide insight toward stabilizing heterogeneous catalysts during reactions to potentially reduce costs and energy usage.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $360.8k | 4/18/23 |