Project Grant 2303936
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, San Diego received an $800,000 CAREER Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry (Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049) for a five-year period extending from May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2031. Under the direction of Professor Shaowei Li, the research team will investigate the control of single-molecule chemical reactivity through nanoscale environmental engineering. The project...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $617,885 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) for a project titled "Nanoscale Imaging of Quantum Scarring, Electron Guiding, and Steering in Two-Dimensional Material Heterostructures." The project aims to enhance the fundamental understanding of quantum chaotic behavior in two-dimensional (2D) material devices through the visualization,...
- 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 Division of Chemistry awarded Columbia University a $442,564 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new microscopy techniques for imaging ultrafast chemical transformations between molecules separated by large distances. Principal Investigator Milan Delor and his research group will leverage polaritons, which are part-light part-matter particles, to significantly increase the sensitivity of optical...
- This $388,983 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry's Chemical Measurement & Imaging Program and Chemistry of Life Processes Program supports the development of a new optical microscope by Professor Eric Potma at the University of California, Irvine. The instrument leverages chiral sum-frequency generation (SFG) microscopy to visualize protein structures in cells and tissues without the need for chemical labeling. This label-free imaging...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research combining single-molecule Raman and conductance spectroscopies. Led by Joshua Hihath, the team will develop a novel approach using their recently developed system for simultaneous single-molecule Raman spectroscopy and conductance measurements. This will allow them to quantitatively track the effects of...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of California, San Diego received a $552,380 Project Grant award effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. Professor Andrea R. Tao will develop new methodologies and analytical tools to investigate how ligand molecules interact with and direct the shape of nanocrystal particles. The research employs liquid-phase and in situ atomic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded Stanford University a $500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. Professors Andrew J. Mannix and Felipe Homrich da Jornada will develop advanced photo-induced force microscopy (PIFM) tools and quantum simulation capabilities to enable direct visualization of atomic-scale structural changes in molecules and...
- The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2022 to complete work by August 31, 2025. The grant funds research led by Professor Ke Xu at UC Berkeley to develop ultrahigh-throughput approaches for single-molecule spectroscopy and multidimensional super-resolution microscopy. Specifically, the team aims to expand the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year $435,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to explore correlated electron states in single-layer field-effect transistors. Through October 2022 to September 2025, the university will characterize the local electronic structure of highly correlated two-dimensional materials using a combination of gate-tunable field effect transistors and scanning...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry has awarded a $375,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the "Design and Implementation of Hyperdimensional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" project. Dr. Shaowei Li and his team are developing a new microscopy technique called Hyperdimensional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (HD-STM) to study the ultrafast dynamics of electrons and molecular vibrations in low-dimensional materials at the nanoscale. This HD-STM approach combines scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with visible-infrared pump, terahertz probe, and optical/photoluminescence spectroscopy to observe chemical structure and reactivity at the single-atom and single-bond level over space, time, and frequency domains. The project will also support a five-week summer research program for high school and undergraduate students to increase their interest in science. This award reflects the NSF's mission to promote scientific progress and enhance understanding of major problems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $125.0k | 8/8/23 | ||
| Not listed | $250.0k | 4/26/23 |